There’s nothing the QMamas love more than a popular culture scandal to prove that they are 100% correct in keeping their children removed from anything that could be remotely considered “worldly”. Most recently, it’s been Balenciaga, who went from “perpetuator of cancel culture” for dropping Ye from their runway show to “literally agents of Satan” after the QMama-verse picked up on their new photo campaign.
If you want to read a more in-depth article about the scandal, Elle Australia covers it pretty well. In short: the campaign featured photos of children holding plush teddy bear bags decked out in bondage gear. It’s pretty tasteless, imo, but the QMama reaction were…extreme
Here is one of my favorite QMamas, livelylexie, bringing in that most beloved of Satanic figures, Ba’al. QMamas looooove invoking Ba’al aka Beelzebub as a central figure in modern popular culture - at some point, I’ll talk about the Super Bowl = satanic ritual posts that really got my finsta going - and what better way to prove the evil of the fashion industry than by using an…extremely minor detail that may not even actually say what they think it does?
And here’s some posts from one of the most out-there QMamas I follow, arrowraiser. She’s a fervid Q believer and loooves to post numerology shit proving that The Great Awakening is still coming and everything is happening according to plan. She seems to have just realized that old companies might have *gasp* Nazi ties. Maybe if she’d gotten an education outside of her evangelical worldview, she’d have already realized that but w/e. The irony of someone dedicated to a Christian and white nationalist worldview claiming that a fashion company is the one using Nazi tactics is not lost on me (though it’s certainly lost on everyone featured here). I hope she mentions the kind of car she drives at some point so I can point out the probably Nazi ties to that company.
Never mind that these pictures aren’t even affiliated with Adidas; the Adidas connection comes in with an EARLIER campaign that apparently featured background papers containing a Supreme Court decision on punishments in cases involving CSAM.
Did Balenciaga fuck up here? Yes, they absolutely did. In the current social media age, there’s no way those pictures were going to be able to be passed off as “an artistic choice”. They’re ripe for the conspiracy truthers to pick up on and tear apart. Honestly though, it’s impossible to produce ANYTHING that isn’t able to be spun into something horrible and dark by these people. Campfire? Don’t you know that fire is associated with the worship of Ba’al! People dancing? That what witches do for their Sabbath!
In conclusion: all hail Ba’al!
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