Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America

by Will Sommer

In June 2020, a prominent QAnon leader who went by the name “The Amazing Polly” tweeted that she was suspicious of the online furniture retailer Wayfair. She noted that some cabinets on Wayfair were being sold at astronomical prices, roughly $15,000 each. The cabinets were often sold under female brand names like “Yaritza” or “Samiyah.” My spidey senses are tingling, she wrote. What’s with these “storage cabinets”? Extremely high prices, all listed with girls’ names. The Amazing Polly didn’t spell out her exact concerns, but other QAnon supporters stepped in to puzzle out the connection between the furniture names and their absurd prices. The conspiracy theory they created held that the furniture model names represented real children who had been abducted.