A thought on the internet and weird extremism like QAnon

The internet has made it possible for mentally ill people with peculiar beliefs to find each other and band together. So if you think chickens are intelligent and working together to kill us all, in the past you would have been the ignored village crank, but now you can go on facebook and find the other 100 people in the U.S. who are convinced of the same thing. Together you can validate each other's thinking and pool your resources to buy weapons to launch a violent crusade against chickens and their dupes in supermarkets. Variations on this theme explain the success of self-evidently dopey theories like QAnon.