QAnon Has a Wild Theory About the Cicada on Biden’s Neck

This week marks six months since the last—and possibly last ever—message posted by the anonymous creator of QAnon, known only as Q.

In the vacuum that’s left, QAnon believers and influencers have been coming up with a range of increasingly unhinged conspiracy theories, and on Thursday they may have reached a new low: They claimed that a cicada that landed on President Joe Biden’s neck was a sign that “the storm” was finally happening.

Biden was captured on video Wednesday on the tarmac of Joint Base Andrews swatting away a cicada as he waited to board Air Force One to fly to the U.K. for his first overseas trip as president.

Within hours, one of the biggest QAnon influencer channels on Telegram claimed breathlessly that the cicada was a secret sign that big things were about to happen.

In a post entitled, “Joe Biden bitten by cicada—comms?”, one of the administrators of the “We the Media” Telegram channel attempted to link the incident to QAnon conspiracy theories.

“Just so happens that Cicada nymphs emerge after a 17-year childhood underground!!! What? CHILD? UNDERGROUND? 17?” the admin wrote. The “We the Media” Telegram channel has over 225,000 followers and is operated by a group of the biggest QAnon influencers.

The post is referring to the fact that Q is the 17th letter of the alphabet and the core QAnon belief that Democrats, including Biden, are pedophiles operating an underground sex-trafficking ring.

The post had been viewed over 23,000 times as of Thursday morning and has been shared by a number of other prominent QAnon accounts, including QAnon John, the organizer of the massive QAnon conference held in Dallas in May.

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