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.
Intelligent Design is a truly great example of this (for more than one reason) and I am ashamed I didn't think to use it.

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17 Dec
Yesterday Vice had an article about a study which analyzed the language of Q Drops to discover whether there have been multiple authors.

I could have told them the answer has always been yes, but the study is interesting.

Read the white paper here: orphanalytics.com/en/news/whitep…
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They got some background stuff wrong, but (so far) most of their foundational info seems okay.
2/ Image
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/ Image
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16 Dec
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.
Read 7 tweets
16 Dec
QAnon actively encourages irrational 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.
Read 5 tweets
16 Dec
First off, great article.

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.
Read 5 tweets
14 Dec
Our prediction that QAnon was going to completely lose their minds today seems to be right on the money.

So here's some more upcoming dates and events they're going to push.
Later on tonight, they will refocus their energy to believing a report from DNI will be issued on the 18th which will overturn the election.

That's based on their complete misunderstanding of the 2018 Executive Order.
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.
Read 7 tweets
13 Dec
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.
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