Figures & data
Figure 1. Demonstrators in Magdeburg using the Wir sind das Volk (We are the people) to demand that Chancellor Schröder end the Hartz-IV reforms (Source: Der Spiegel, 10.08.2004).
Figure 2. Wir sind das Volk has crossed borders. Again recontextualized, during protests against COVID-restrictions in Vienna, Austria. (Source: Der Standard, 21.11.2021).
Figure 3. Google Trends search of Wir sind das Volk (We are the People) from 2004 to 2022.
Figure 4. A rally in Keene, New Hampshire, with a protester holding up a sign bearing the QAnon-related hashtag #Saveourchildren. (Source: New York Times, 28.09.2020).
Figure 5. QAnon demonstrators with signs reproducing the claims of ritualized sexual abuse that were common during the Satanic Panic of 1980-1990. (Source: WYSO/BBC World Service, 19.05.2021).
Figure 6. Google Trends comparative search of ‘Save the children’ and ‘wwg1wga’, or ‘where we go one, we go all’, a slogan associated with QAnon.
Figure 7. Wir sind das Volk (We are the people) offical postage stamp 1990. (Source: Wikimedia, 30.06.2006).
