Q playing games with my heart: Backstreet Boys divided over QAnon
The Guardian’s Matthew Cantor reports:
Fans fear that QAnon, the bonkers conspiracy theory involving Democrats drinking the blood of children, may be driving a wedge among the Backstreet Boys.
The concerns come after Kevin Richardson, the one with the goatee who has always looked more like a Backstreet Man, posted a Cosmopolitan article on Twitter titled I Lost a Best Friend to QAnon. He included a cryptic message saying only: “Interesting read …”
That post came shortly after his cousin and fellow Backstreet Boy Brian Littrell announced on Twitter that he’d joined Parler, a social network favored by the far right, just days after the storming of the US Capitol. Dismayed fans replied to Littrell with messages such as: “And we thought you were the nice one.”
Littrell, however, told TMZ in 2017 that he had faith in Trump’s character as well as “his balls”. Richardson did not say his post was directed at Littrell, but that’s how some fans took it, leading to speculation in the media.
