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18 Mar, 6 tweets, 2 min read
You know what? Let's livetweet some research!

I'll be reading through Calm Before The Storm thread #4, from 11/2/17.

For the perplexed: CBTS threads were created to talk about Q, though CBTS #4 is *so* early on there's plenty of talk about other LARPers.
archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/147…
First notable post:

"Okay, I read all four threads, it was either a god-tier larp or legit. I honestly think it was legit for maybe the first time in my life.

but I don't understand WHAT op-anon was saying was going to happen."

More on Op-Anon shortly (I read ahead; sue me.)
You might think that "Op-Anon" means OP Anon. You are wrong. There was an anon in an earlier thread claiming to be an "operator" in the Special Forces sense.

4chan LARPers *love* to say that. Highway Patrolman claimed to be a 6'7" Special Forces vet/SWAT cop w/15 combat tours.
He was ALSO a detective and a commander and he lived in a million-dollar house with his perfect Aryan wife and seven children, including four adopted South Africans who were fleeing white genocide (which was DEFINITELY as real as his military and police career, u guise). 🙄
Whoops! I broke the thread 'cause I r smrt.

It continues here.

Update: in fact it continued HERE, because I r smrt, and smorter, and smortest.

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18 Mar
Anyway, this anon summarizes Q's story:

"He was saying that the Antifa riots will be a catalyst for Trump to use his executive powers to send in the Marines & establish martial law. Which also means he can send the Marines into Langley and the FBI headquarters and take control."
You know a LARPer is makin' an impression when you're ten posts in and you've already seen two people go "Put me in screencaps, please. I want to be a part of history." (Screencaps are... I'll show you a sample and you'll see what's up. Primitive and ugly, no? Like /pol/ itself.)
But anons HAD to resort to this kind of device, early on, to track Q's posts (or the posts of any long-term LARPer). Eventually there were so many posts they created community-run spreadsheets (e.g. "STORM IS HERE" and "Q QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER")...
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16 Mar
MegaAnon was the most successful LARPer on 4chan when Q came around.

To be clear, I don't think she was Q. There are a TON of differences between them. But her basic story -- at least, the story she was telling a few days before Q popped into being -- was AWFULLY familiar. 1/12
If I had to choose one post from her oeuvre to show what her deal was (and I do, or this would be a million-tweet thread), this would be it.

In this post, Trump is a 5D chessmaster who knows *everything* about the swamp & his staff. And he has a plan. 2/

archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/146…
I encourage you to read that post closely -- it hits a *ton* of the same notes Q went on to hit starting a few days later.

Like Q, MegaAnon's theories, too, were spun off from Pizzagate -- they centered on child sex abuse & claimed that Trump was saving kids from the swamp. 3/
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15 Mar
This article is a good reminder that most QAnon conversation really IS driven by a small number of influencers. We don't just focus on them for convenience.

On Q-focused subreddits, for instance, 80% of the content came from 5% of users (see p. 10 below).
arxiv.org/pdf/2101.08750…
Of course, those 5% weren't all influencers. Many were more what you'd call superfans.

But the point is that *it's not hard to tell* who the most devoted spreaders-of-lies are on any given platform. Platforms COULD bring the banhammer down on them & leave the consumers alone.
But they don't, in general.

And I don't understand why.

I get being reluctant to ban LOTS of folks en masse, but I don't understand their reluctance to just... go after the relatively small number of superspreaders, and keep going after 'em on their ban evasion accounts.
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14 Mar
This is an INCREDIBLE find by @SethDaire.

Not only does it resolve (IMO) The Mystery of Drop 35™, but it has -- in one stroke -- forced me to change my opinion of whether Q was an evangelical: I now think it's unlikely.

How'd I get all that from just 👇? Come find out! 1/10
So, the mystery of drop 35 is: in the excerpt below, Q mashes together two famous verses (John 3:16 and a selection from 1 Corinthians 13) in a way that's COMPLETELY alien to how Christians use the Bible.

Why?

And Seth proposes an answer: because Q saw it on Bible Gateway. 2/
Now, that seems weirdly specific. How likely is it that Q even WENT to Bible Gateway?

Turns out it's *very* likely.

See, BG is the most popular site out there for Biblical text lookup (it's a top-1000 site OVERALL, per Alexa). Its only serious competition is Bible Hub. 3/
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13 Mar
Longtime readers will know that I'm not ridin' the "QAnon is Russia!" train -- but I like and respect @Dragnet_News, who IS riding the train but is a tenacious & knowledgeable passenger.

One part of this article is especially interesting.

dragnetnews.com/2021/03/12/who…
The article notes that Your News Wire (a fake news site described by an EU body as a "Russian proxy") made a claim that dovetailed VERY nicely with Q's predictions: it said that John Podesta was arrested on November 4, 2017 -- just like Q had claimed.

salon.com/2017/11/19/the…
This is indeed interesting!

What Dragnet News *doesn't* mention, but IMO probably should have, is that Your News Wire wasn't the only fake news site to publish that story on November 5.

A British site called Neon Nettle ran the same story...

snopes.com/fact-check/has…
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13 Mar
Q Telegram update: still bloodthirsty; fascist; deluded
Further update: also a little impatient
AND just weirdly obsessed with “proving” that world leaders are secretly the child of (INSERT VILLAIN HERE).

The classic case is, of course, claiming that Merkel is Hitler’s daughter; but here, the anon claims Justin Trudeau is Fidel Castro's son 🤷‍♂️
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