Sean Donnelly’s mom became addicted to QAnon conspiracy theories. So he used an unexpected tool to convince her they were fake…
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00:00$100 on each one.
00:02$100 on each one. So what is bet number one?
00:05Bet number one is by April 1st, Biden will not be in office.
00:19Bet number two is that Obama and Hillary and Nancy Pelosi will all be arrested.
00:26I believe that FEMA and the military are in control.
00:31Why there's all this.
00:33Is this a separate bet?
00:34Yeah.
00:39Alright mother, so what do you got in your hand there?
00:41Seven Benjamins that I'm not very happy to depart with.
00:46I feel like I easily won the election fraud.
00:51If it wasn't for these fax checkers.
00:56Well, it's really scary because I think that I think that my mom is not really into all the things that she's really into right now.
01:21And now a lot of these ideas she thinks like are her own ideas.
01:26She's kind of like, I didn't even see a video about that.
01:28I just thought that.
01:29So I think that's a really scary thing because it is like a cult.
01:34And you're going to probably call your mother and say, I can't believe all the crazy crap that you showed me all these years is really true.
01:43OMG, you were right, mom.
01:46So this is the fantasy that you live in?
01:50No, I think it's going to happen.
02:01She doesn't believe any of the fact checkers.
02:03She says the fact checkers are all, you know, bought and paid and they're protecting the criminals.
02:07My hope was that by making a bet with her and holding her accountable and then her losing that bet that she would at least have to like second guess how much she believes in these things.
02:20I don't think she voted in like hardly any of the elections.
02:25She never really paid attention to that stuff.
02:27She just was really into her own kind of health stuff and alternative types of new age stories.
02:33And so then I think that she started reading more sort of online conspiracies about cell phones and cell phone towers.
02:39I think that might have been part of the gateway drug that kind of pulled her in to these other conspiracy theories.
02:49I still believe they're all true.
03:11You can't think that all these people were arrested.
03:14They should have been.
03:16Since I finished the video, I don't think she's had any major changes.
03:21But, you know, I never was expecting that.
03:24But I would say, you know, don't give up on people and like don't hold it against them personally.
03:29You know, how did she get into this stuff?
03:31Gradually over years.
03:33So how is she going to get out of this stuff?
03:35Probably gradually over years, hopefully.