According to reports, a 13-year-old girl has assumed leadership of the JFK-QAnon cult

 The QAnon cult, led by Michael Protzman, has seen a new leader emerge: a 13-year-old girl known as "Tiny Teflon," who uses her Telegram channel to communicate with her followers. Protzman appears to have groomed the girl as his protege, hosting her on his live chats on Telegram, where he had tens of thousands of followers. Many of Protzman's followers have permanently broken family relationships, emptied their bank accounts, and destroyed their lives to follow his wild conspiracy theories.

Tiny Teflon has created her own channel, conducted live streams with followers, and announced her plan to indoctrinate more children into the cult by teaching them how to decode real word events using the movement's bastardized form of Jewish numerology, gematria. She plans to have more kids involved in this project, possibly sharing more code with them. This move comes after Protzman's death, which was due to multiple blunt force injuries.

Protzman introduced Tiny Teflon in March 2022 by featuring her on a live chat in his Telegram channels. During the chat, the pair would use gematria to make links between everything from the 2011 movie The Smurfs and the timing of Trump's appearance in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York to conclude that Q's predictions about the mass execution of the child-trafficking cabal is about to come true. It is not known if there was any familial connection between Protzman or Tiny Teflon, or how they knew each other.

As a sign of her growing position within the group, Tiny Teflon was made an administrator of Protzman's main Telegram channel, though she posted very little over the last six months. Since his death, the teenager has re-emerged as a leading voice in the group. In late July, she showed up at a Trump rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, where she was photographed with multiple members of the JFK group.

In August 1, she shared a link to her new channel called ABC 123, which will contain "Tiny Teflon’s Decodes, Research and Much More!" and in all caps, adds: “CHANNEL MONITORED BY ADULT.” The description doesn’t mention who the adult is, but it is likely her mother, a Protzman devotee who has an account on Telegram as “Teflon Don.” Using this account, she has promoted her daughter's work and celebrated her birthday with a message posted in the main Negative 48 channel last year.

During one live chat, Tiny Teflon went into more detail about how she would use her position to recruit more children into the cult. She said she definitely want help out with kids and teaching gematria, it’d be so much fun. She plans to create a beginners’ guide for children on how to use gematria to decode real world events. Some listeners effusively praised Tiny Teflon, saying she inspires many adults and children.

Close watchers of the group view Tiny Telfon’s assertion that she wants to use her position to bring more children into the fold as deeply worrying. “I believe it’s too early to see where she will fit into the group dynamics right now, it’s definitely something I will be keeping a close eye on,” said open-source researcher “Karma” to VICE News.