First Q post on 4chan was October of 2017.
Trust Trump’s Plan!
Trust Sessions!
Who? The Looonies.
See the 1920’s communist Operation TRUST. They did the same thing: Gave people hope and told them to take no action and Trust the Plan.
So, who is Q? A communist operative, obviously.
I’m glad they’ve been exposed. About time.
I’ve never followed this stuff and then I started seeing it appearing on FR.
It was clearly flaky stuff, but some people here seemed to believe it. And they were very aggressive in attacking anyone who didn’t believe what they called “the plan.” So I wouldn’t be in the least surprised if Q, whatever it is, turned out to be a trap or disruptor set up by some agency.
Brian Cates, an admitted anti-Trumper, was one of the original people espousing these views on Twit.
My feeling is that it had to be an Anti Trump person in deep state. A fair amount of inside info was divulged/alluded to in order to establish some credibility but it was embellished with enough disinformation to the point of being manipulative psyops in order direct his supporters towards delusional expectations, and radicalism.
Who (might) Q actually be?
Frederick Brennan, the creator of 8chan, has been going to news outlets for months claiming that his former business partner Jim Watkins likely currently controls the Q account—claims that have led to the publication of two major investigations over the last week. In 2014, a year after founding 8chan, Brennan moved to the Philippines to work on the site with Watkins at his pig farm in Manila. Brennan ceded ownership of 8chan to Watkins in 2015. The two had a falling-out after 8chan was linked to several mass shootings, and Brennan tried to get Watkins to take it down. Watkins would eventually invoke a criminal libel law against Brennan, which forced him to flee the Philippines.
In an interview with the tech podcast Reply All, Brennan says he believes that a longtime conspiracy theorist from Johannesburg named Paul Furber is actually the first person who started posting as Q back in 2017. (Furber has denied this.) Furber publicly acted as Q’s interpreter and spokesperson on venues like 8chan and Infowars. According to Brennan’s telling, Watkins’ son Ron was able to wrestle control of the Q account away from Furber at the beginning of 2018 using his login privileges as the site’s administrator.
Jim and Ron Watkins have denied that they’re behind the account or that they have any direct contact with Q. However, Jim Watkins has been very outwardly supportive of Q; he’s founded a QAnon super PAC and wore a Q pin during his testimony before Congress about 8chan in 2019.
Why do people suspect the Watkins family is behind Q?
Nothing has surfaced definitively proving that the two Watkinses currently control the Q account, though Brennan has presented evidence that he says at the very least proves that they have an overwhelming amount of influence over it. Even before Brennan gave his most recent interviews to the media, people began suspecting that the Watkins family was linked to Q. When 8chan’s service providers forced it to go offline in August 2019, Q didn’t post any drops for months, not even on other platforms, seemingly waiting until the message board came back as 8kun in November.
Last month, anti-Q activists discovered the fact that 8kun shares an IP address with QMap, the most popular Q drop aggregator, suggesting that the Watkinses were behind both sites. Yet the developer of QMap, a man living in New Jersey, denies any connection to the Watkinses. Brennan has said that the shared IP strongly implies that the Watkinses have control over the two primary platforms through which Q disseminates drops, though again there is no definitive proof. If this were the case, though, the Watkinses could effectively become Q at any time by accessing the account on 8kun and spreading the message on QMap.
Brennan also points to the moment when Furber allegedly lost control over Q as further proof of the Watkinses’ influence. In the early days of QAnon, the main 8chan account wasn’t particularly secure, so people would often break in and post as Q. Furber took on the role of verifying who was or wasn’t the real Q because he ran the particular forum on 8chan where the drops were posted, and so he could see users’ IP addresses. In 2018, however, someone began posting as Q who Furber said was a fraud. According to this telling, Ron Watkins stepped in at that point and said that he can also identify who the real Q is because he’s 8chan’s administrator. Watkins ended up claiming that this supposedly fraudulent Q was actually the real deal. He also created a new forum for this Q to post outside of Furber’s purview. Watkins is now the only person who can verify who the real Q is, giving him even more control over the movement.
I never bought into “Q,” or whatever/whomever that person was. The entire thing about that phenomenon reeked to high heaven.
A Russian or Chinese psyop targeting the weak minded and those who put personality (and need for a Strong Leader) over actual country.
Show me someone who believes in a pedophile pizza ring and I’ll show you an useful idiot in service to our enemies.
None of you have actually read the Q posts, have you? Because the things you’re saying comprised the “essence” of the Q instructions, are in fact the direct OPPOSITE of the Q drops themselves.
Be careful! They’ll soon be here in full force insulting anyone not aligned with their beliefs. I’m genuinely surprised FR mods allow that stuff. I don’t mean allowing their questionable beliefs - free speech is a tenet - but rather the rampant insults. No dialogue ...just diatribe and childish insults. One was even insulting peoples’ mothers. I hope the reason they’re allowed to insult at will is not because FR leadership is also part of Q. That would be a shame.
The two Q groups Quidam 1997-1999 and this one Q-Clarence or the one you're aware of now "Q" for short both used guerrilla marketing to give out news. If they're wrong about something doesn't make it a lie(IE: Trust bad people.) As with the news media they do actually lie everyday(no evidence of ...)
Both did help with informing people just as the talking heads do but in a more interactive way.
There are some people who love to see how many people they can delude. And there are people who like to believe they have "secret knowledge" that others don't have. You hear your relative say they are depressed because Biden stole the election? You snicker to yourself and think "if they only knew what I know". I used to feel a bit that way when I believed in JFK assassination theories. With every new theory, I was getting "secret knowledge" that the masses didn't know. I eventually came to believe that Oswald killed JFK.
A lot of Q followers were deluded into thinking something wonderful was going to happen and Biden would be arrested during the inauguration. I wish it had come to pass. Would have been nice, but it was just a hoax. Somewhere, someone is laughing his or her ass off about how well the hoax worked.
It is funny how everyone seems to think the Q thing was to get people to NOT do anything. While I admittedly do not know anything about it, one thing is clear. It drove many normal citizens to start digging for truth on their own. And I do believe that normal people searching for the real truth on their own, not being reliant on the MSM to be the giver of truth, is probably not a bad thing.
If the deep state wanted people to do nothing, the last thing they should’ve done is speak in riddles and ask citizens to find the truth themselves.
Became aware at Thanksgiving 2017. Never bought into it a 100%. It sure has done much damage. Very sad.