One thing always stands out in these revelations: the authors probably have not read any Q 'drops'. They concentrate instead on the 4chan and 8chan - 8kun autists plus all the trolls that posted in order to discredit the whole phenomenon with antisemitic cartoons and trash talk, sexual perversions, wild conspiracy theories, whatnot.
Buzzfeed has searched out and documented a few followers of the Qanon threads who confess a complete betrayal and an ominous attraction to a cult.
Like many on this thread I have followed Q for a specific reason of my own and I have not yet encountered one critic that has come even close to identifying my reason nor understood the tremendous impact Q had in that theater.