Jacob Chansley. Photo: Johnny Silvercloud/shutterstock.com This morning, I met Jacob Chansley, who also goes by Jake Angeli. If you don't recognize those names, you probably know him as the "QAnon Shaman." As I was walking across the campus where I work, I spotted a man decked out in flag-covered clothes, wearing a large and colorful Native American headdress. He was holding a massive, hand-lettered sign that read: "TRUMP IS A RAPIST. TRUMP IS A PEDOPHILE. TRUMP IS ALL OVER THE EPSTEIN FILES." I immediately thought, is that who I think it is? I've studied him, as part of my academic research on QAnon and conspiracy theories more broadly, and have written about him many times here at Boing Boing — but could this possibly be happening in real life? I approached him and asked: "Are you Jacob Chansley?" He said that yes, he was. "Are you really him? The QAnon Shaman?" And he said, again, that he was.…