QAnon yes, pizzagate no. There are a couple of reasons why I believe this.
1. There were videos on youtube at the time which were 5 or 6 years old of someone in the neighborhood taping screams coming from comet pingpong and going to town meeting to complain. There were also videos a little later of a journalist harassing him and following him (filmed by the journalist). It reminded me more of the way scientology follows/harasses certain ex members and less of say a nasty paperazzi. The latter is trying to provoke, but this was more purely aggressive. Really wished I had saved those videos.
2. The idea of "pizzagate is a diversion" was first made by alex jones. However there was a particularly bad actor who had witnessed the shooting at comet pingpong and his appearance on alex jones' show was unbelievable. Besides his official story being obvious nonsense, (ie never having been to comet ping pong before, having heard about the child rape allegations and then for a first time taking his kids there in the midst of that... and bizarely going on and on about how great the pizza was, which is a weird focus considering the circumstance of having been witness to a deranged shooter).
This video I have saved and I can upload it if anyone is interested in it.
My theory is that it was used as a place to abuse kids, that it was a very significant leak to come out and that the big guns were pulled out with a false flag done by an actor (he had a IMDB page before it was scrubbed) who owed a favor which gave them time to scrub the evidence. They also used this to push "fake news" term into everyone's consciousness (just look at googletrends history for pizzagate and fake news). The fact that you heard the term "fake news" is because pizzagate needed a cover. I think they even knew it would bite them back in the ass with it being turned on the media; I think it was a tactical retreat, much like giving up Weinstein was a tactical retreat for hollywood that kept many of their practices relatively unexamined, considering the closets overfilling with proverbial skeletons.
There were people doing livestreams and then being threatened effectively on stream and then you didn't hear from them (presumably just scared shitless like the cops at the dutroux case). It seemed to me to be very organic investigation originally, but effectively thwarted.
I envy people who haven't seen as much evidence as I have, or who blindly dismiss it, because learning about this has taken a toll on my soul. Though on the other hand, maybe looking away after I knew sufficient, would probably have taken a larger toll.