If you're not across QAnon, but keep hearing it pop up more and more in news stories and conversations online, Trevor Noah is here to help enlighten you.
The Daily Show host unpacked the swampiest fringe internet origins and wildly unfounded beliefs of the extremely strange far-right, pro-Trump conspiracy theory in his explainer segment, "If You Don't Know, Now You Know."
"The truth is it's more like a political cult built around a conspiracy theory and then crossed with a big book of wordsearch puzzles," Noah says. "There's no way this conspiracy theory is actually true. And look, I believe in a lot of crazy shit, OK? I believe the TSA confiscates all our lotion in order to secretly sell it back to us at Walgreens. I believe possums are just dogs without makeup. I believe no one has actually ever broken up with me, they've just all been abducted by aliens. But this conspiracy theory is crazy even for conspiracy theories."
QAnon went mainstream in August, and while it's a lot to get your head around, it's quite a journey to watch Noah break down the claims.
"If Hillary and Oprah were eating children to live longer I would be horrified because that is such a waste of magic blood," jokes Noah. "You feed those kids to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, priorities!"
It's a wild ride — including a terrifying Momo moment.
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