Well if Trumps Tweets today are a warm up. The mentalmedia will say at 4 am that he has embraced the qanon conspiracy and is nuts and should resign.
Conceptually, we see the same types of posting/behavior patterns here @ FR. Paid, professional trolls and disruptors patiently ply their trade craft without any seeming concern from push back & criticism. Unlike "real" posters who engage when the moment(s) strike them, the pros show up every day as if reporting for work. Which is exactly what it is, a job.
So, let's consider the notion of Q. Does Q strike anyone as a creative person, someone subject to the classic ebb & flow of creative thought & energy? Or, does his consistency reflect the induction that this is merely a job, one that is to be performed on a consistent and methodical basis?
The point I'm trying to make is if Q was a larp, there would be no way he could maintain his creative interest. Where's the margin in it? Someone that good would be trying to make bank in the creative/entertainment industries. Kid in the basement? That suggests mental stability suspect, which means lapses in attention and dedication, or tendency to abandon projects altogether. (Classic psych profile of high IQ underachievers.)
The longer this goes on, the more it seems it's way too much work to continue if only a game. For one, there's no pay off - what, the great reveal as a hoax? For two, it's only serving to rally Trump supporters - even if it was revealed as a hoax, who's to say it's simply another false flag, only the form of 'outing' a fake Q?
You see, once you reach this many levels of intrigue, either fiction or fact still becomec fact. So it's a lose lose proposition for a larp. QED
They dare not take that approach. Trump might tell them that Q is real, and then all of a sudden, millions more people will start reading what Q is saying. Then, the press would have to attack Trump for what Q is saying (”Do you mean to say you agree with the notion that there are pedophile rings involving top leaders of the US”, “Do you mean to say that a missile was launched to create a false flag and was shot down”) and then Trump would have to reveal the truth.
No, the 4am mockingbirds would not be told to follow up on that subject, instead to ridicule it from afar.