WWG1WGA

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Etymology[edit]

From a phrase read from a ship's bell by a character in the 1996 movie White Squall. The phrase itself means "Where one of us goes, we will go together," or "We will go together with any one of our members."

Phrase[edit]

WWG1WGA

  1. (US politics) Initialism of Where we go one, we go all. (QAnon believers supporting each other or having unquestioning loyalty.)
    • 2020 August 18, Kaitlyn Tiffany, “The Women Making Conspiracy Theories Beautiful”, in The Atlantic[1]:
      But this particular image, posted in March by the Utah-based fashion, beauty, and parenting influencer Jalynn Schroeder to more than 50,000 followers, is accompanied by a series of hashtags that includes the initialism WWG1WGA—“Where we go one, we go all”—a motto used by adherents of the QAnon conspiracy theory.
    • 2021, CBS News[2]:
      Their rallying cry is "where we go one, we go all," a line from the 1996 Jeff Bridges sailing adventure "White Squall" that they misattribute to President Kennedy. The phrase is frequently abbreviated to "WWG1WGA," which Roseanne Barr — one of several celebrity QAnon supporters — tweeted in June 2018.