QAnon uses multiple puzzle-game activities to ferret out meaning from both mundane information and outright nonsense.
1⃣Gematria
2⃣Anagrams
3⃣"Think Mirror"
4⃣Amateur Etymology
5⃣Blending two or more languages together
1⃣Gematria is a form of numerology that assigns a value to each letter of the alphabet, allowing you to turn a word or phrase into a number.
Then you match it with other phrases with the same number, and discover "meaning."
2⃣Anagrams are just anagrams, making new words or phrases by rearranging the letters of a current word or phrase.
3⃣"Think Mirror" was used in 3 Q Drops, starting as early as Drop 128.
Anons are "thinking mirror" when they reverse numbers to find secret meaning.
For example, if they see the number 71, and "think mirror" then it is actually 17, and 17 = Q.
4⃣&5⃣Amateur Etymology & Blending Languages Together are used to find meaning in the origins or definitions of words.
If meaning isn't found in Greek, they'll also check in Chinese, for example.
They're not good at this, but "close enough" is a viable QAnon strategy.
These methods are often used TOGETHER.
If "Chao" produces no Gematria result you like, try the translation "Nest," and then flip the numerical result by Thinking Mirror, and then it matches to Q Drop of that number where Q uses the word "traitor."
Anything can mean anything.
Someone pointed this out to me.
"Think Mirror" is not exclusively about flipping numbers around. It's a general call to look at something and believe the opposite is happening.
They got some background stuff wrong, but (so far) most of their foundational info seems okay. 2/
The second part I'm now reading is most about showing the efficacy of the programs they've used to analyze the stylometry of the Drops. The program was designed to match known and unknown writing samples, so this isn't a perfect tool for this job and they seem to know that. 3/
I'm going to get back to doing what I'm doing in a minute, but.
If you think anyone can uncover everything they need to know to explain QAnon in 2 weeks without starting at a conclusion and working backwards, you're indulging in a fantasy that plays to what you want to hear.
What I'm saying is that if you look at a result, and then try to construct a theory of its origin by using that result as evidence, you run the risk of giving people magic powers.
You end up arguing that Coca-Cola made New Coke bad on purpose to get people to buy Coke Classic.
For the record, I find many theories about present-day QAnon to be highly likely. If you've been around with me, I have advocated for many of these theories myself.
But then to say, "clearly it was ALWAYS designed to achieve these results" is magical thinking.
It might interest them to know that
"CodeMonkeyZ" = "My Coked Zone"
Well, QAnon has absorbed other conspiracy groups into it, so there are Flat Earthers, Hollow Earthers, and UFOlogists (who all have their own ideas about Antarctica), as well as Anons who just think that the Cabal just has a big base there.
Secondly, this "there is no QAnon" thing they've been pushing for the last couple months is hilarious.
It's based on this Drop from October, where Q laid down the new law.
Which built on this Drop from the month before, where Q told everyone to stop using searchable terms and "deploy camouflage," lest they be discovered and banned.
I assume by the time the 18th rolls around, they will have workshopped this new narrative that Mike Pence will look at both the real elector vote and the Trump "alternative elector" vote and decide to give everything to Trump.
As people who fancy themselves social hackers have become more involved with QAnon, they've brought with them the kinds of internet antics that have worked for them in the past on chan boards, forums and other platforms on social media.
The most annoying of these is sockpuppets.
For those who might not know, sockpuppets are non-genuine accounts that are created with the purpose of deceiving others. The usual tactic is to create the impression that an idea or person has more support than they really do, a single user controlling many accounts.
They're used to steer threads, rig polls, harass dissenters, and create the appearance of consensus.
And it might seem like a waste of time to you, and I might agree, but there are folks out there for whom this is their online entertainment.