As the QAnon community attacked vaccines, anti-vax figures saw allies
By the beginning of 2021, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and TikTok had finally announced crackdowns on QAnon. But it was not enough to extensively hamper the growth of QAnon. The QAnon community remained engaged throughout the year, in part because of the emergence of what they called “the death jab” — safe and effective coronavirus vaccines.
The QAnon community is notably anti-vax, with polling in July finding a significant percentage of the unvaccinated had QAnon beliefs. And when coronavirus vaccines were released to the American public in early 2021, the community turned its attacks on the shots.
It appears QAnon influencer intheMatrixxx is collaborating with a ministry to get people religious exemption documents to avoid getting vaccines. He's offering a referral code that also requires people to send $17 (referring to Q being the 17th letter of the alphabet). pic.twitter.com/oXP3LhhqUB
— Alex Kaplan (@AlKapDC) September 21, 2021
Meanwhile, anti-vax influencers saw the QAnon community as a friendly platform.