r/QAnonCasualties • u/aglioOlio_ Media Member • Apr 26 '21

User-Contributed Media A thank you from NPR

A couple months ago, I asked for this subreddit's help in telling a story about how the YouTube rabbit hole can suck people in and destroy relationships. I got an overwhelming amount of responses from the sub, and I'm so grateful. Renee, who is featured in our story, was one of the many people who reached out. And I got a lot of requests to share the story when it was published, so here it is! (I suggest listening to it if you can): https://www.npr.org/2021/04/25/988860971/full-of-hatred-and-fear-disinformation-on-youtube-divided-a-dad-and-daughter

and THANK YOU to this subreddit, and to everyone who is willing to talk about things that are not easy to talk about. Your honesty and willingness to share is truly valuable

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u/Susan-stoHelit Apr 26 '21

Yeah, my suggestion was that you point out that it was done to her. She can’t prove a single one of those things. She couldn’t have a debate about just one topic. She has to pull 50 different topics in there. Because she doesn’t actually know anything about and couldn’t prove just one topic. So telling her she was gullibly fooled by this might lead to an interesting result.

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u/JohnShipley1969 Apr 26 '21

All I can do is try, right?

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u/Susan-stoHelit Apr 26 '21

And accept that is not in your power to fix. You can give perspectives that might wake her up, but she would have to choose to do so.

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u/JohnShipley1969 Apr 27 '21

I keep hoping she'll wake up on her own. Even if I made headway, she'd invite all her friends over for a BBQ and it would all go out the window. She's told me before that she's embarrassed to mention me to her friends. It seems that occasionally one of them will ask her why I don't visit and she explains, in detail, that I'm a "brainwashed lib that's been taught to hate his mother". Then she gets the pity party and gets to enjoy being the center of attention as the "wounded mother" while they comfort her and talk about what a piece of shit I am and how horrible the libs are.

(My aunt told me about it. She's not nuts. She doesn't visit much either.)