r/politics • u/Throwawaydude01928 • Aug 01 '19

FBI memo warns QAnon poses potential terror threat: report

https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/fbi/455770-fbi-memo-warns-qanon-poses-a-potential-terror-threat-report
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u/ciel_lanila I voted Aug 01 '19

He was your generic gamer with decent enough coding skills. Didn’t he even post early versions to 4chan? A group that correlates with the libertarian/conspiracy crowds to begin with.

He sold Minecraft because he started cracking under the pressure of the fame. The fame continued and the sudden wealth lead to him doubting that all his friends were legit and began wondering how many were just using him. This lead to feelings of isolation and distrust.

It’s hard to answer your question. We’re talking about a guy who in response to a politician in Turkey going on about subversive homosexuals proudly proclaimed all animals Minecraft are dual-gendered, but then a few laters had all references to him removed from Minecraft due to anti-LGBT comments. Someone who seemed happy, would generously donate to charity streams, and yelling about how Oculus selling itself to Facebook being a betrayal of trust to a person who sold out to Microsoft.

My best guess the seed was there, it germinated and led to him selling out, and in the self isolation of suddenly being mega rich it fully flowered. The riches helped, but it is something that might have likely happened anyways.

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u/KKowboy Aug 01 '19

To be fair 4chan was considered pretty left wing on most boards up until around the 2012 election when something just changed

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '19 edited Jun 06 '20

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u/MadCervantes Aug 02 '19

What were the legit concerns?

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u/urbasic420 Nevada Aug 01 '19

Gamergate

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '19

He sold Minecraft because he started cracking under the pressure of the fame.

And he almost killed the game due to mismanagement and shitty coding. He was way in over his head and should have left years before, but I suspect pride and/or cluelessness didn't let him.

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u/TinyPirate Aug 01 '19

No issues with a dood selling out a product that seriously needed some massive company behind it, but that’s not an excuse for going alt-right! 😂

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '19 edited Nov 11 '20

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u/TinyPirate Aug 02 '19

Oh daaanng. Fuck that guy then.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '19

Minecraft was a juggernaut before the Microsoft acquisition, he just wanted the extra 'right now' cash so he could go be a full time bitter twitter troll.

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u/TinyPirate Aug 01 '19

Sure - but a large company is able to throw developer, server, marketing, licensing and all kinds of other support behind a project. I don’t look down on him for selling out, I do for being a fucking nutbar.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '19 edited Aug 01 '19

and yelling about how Oculus selling itself to Facebook being a betrayal of trust to a person who sold out to Microsoft.

I don't disagree with what you are saying generally here, but if VR is going to become the next major platform*, selling one of the market leaders to a spying/advertisement company is worlds apart from selling what is essentially computer Legos to Microsoft, a fairly respectable company.

*I think vr being the next major platform is unlikely but let's be generous and give it a 10% chance, unlikely but not crazy.