Jake Rockatansky suggests that QAnon's rule-based structure allows followers to maintain their beliefs even when confronted with evidence that contradicts their reality.

“I mean, kind of baked into the theory, there's so many little rules kind of baked into QAnon that allow you to kind of opt out when you run up against a, you know, a piece of real information that that makes the entire Yeah. Yeah. that makes the entire mind pyramid collapse, you know, otherwise.”