An interesting but little-remarked-upon feature of @CullenHoback's documentary is that it *very carefully does not claim* that Ron Watkins wrote every single drop after the 1/5/18 coup, & with good reason: he didn't.

Ron was EXTREMELY online. We can compare his activity to Q's.
"That's weird," alert readers are saying, "why is the 2nd graph labeled 'Q Replies within 15 minutes?'"

Because I wanna answer a common objection: you can schedule posts in advance on 8chan/8kun.

It's true! You can. But scheduling REPLIES to anons hours in advance? Not feasible
So we're using "Q replies within 15 minutes" to let us examine the times that someone was almost certainly sitting behind the keyboard posting as Q -- because this is the subset of Q drops where Q is engaged in a thread, responding to other anons' posts soon after they're made.
So! Let's look at those graphs again.

Like I said, Ron is VERY online. You can sorta... suss out his sleep pattern just by looking at when he ISN'T tweeting.

But Q posts while Ron sleeps -- a lot!

(chart credit: the one, the only, the incomparable @kunstderfuge1)
And because the 2nd picture is drawn from times when someone was sitting at the keyboard acting as Q, we can immediately see that Ron *can't* be the only person with the keys to the Q account.

At least one other person was posting as Q.

So there WAS a Q team after all!😃

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3 Apr
MEGATHREAD: DROPS 34-44 -- PART I: Q SETS THE STAGE FOR THE GREAT DISAPPOINTMENT

This is part I of a megathread on Q drops 34-44; it cpvers drops 34-35, which form a single message, & anons' response.

Parts II & beyond will be MUCH shorter, but these drops are key to Q's myth.
But first: a bit of context.

This takes place in the first Calm Before the Storm thread, which itself is a continuation of an earlier thread (linked) that called Q “Info Dump Anon” and “LARPer Guy” (but, y’know, in a friendly way).

archive.4plebs.org/pol/post/14750…
Given the way Q was referred to in that last thread, you can see *why* they’d make sure that their debut in THIS one featured much, much stronger branding.

Hence the first words of their first post: “Q Clearance Patriot.”
Read 27 tweets
2 Apr
SMALL UPDATE FROM Q TELEGRAM:

Everything about this post -- that it was made on Gab by a QAnon promoter who uses Honest Abe as his avatar -- makes my head a'splode.
But it ALSO is an excuse to remind you: QAnon is a reality inversion field. It always has been and it always will be.
P.S. Lest you think he is somehow sincere, here he is soon afterwards describing vaccine passports:
Read 4 tweets
30 Mar
LIN WOOD TELEGRAM UPDATE

You know how I put out periodic reminders that "linked to" and "tied to" are bullshit phrases beloved of conspiracy theorists?

PRIME example right here.

Let's break it down, along with a note on why Lin *absolutely does* know better. 1/5
Lin starts by saying that the "election fraud" in Georgia is being revealed more and more these days.

He then pivots to claiming that a personal enemy of his -- a law-school dean who, IIRC, took his name off a building or plaza or something & has incurred his eternal wrath --
has "direct ties" to two voting-machine companies.

What ties? DIRECT ONES. WHY DO YOU ASK SUCH IRRITATING QUESTIONS? DIRECT! TIES!

Anyway the REAL question is: on whose *behalf* were she and her boss *acting* when she persecuted Lin Wood so savagely? 🙄
Read 5 tweets
29 Mar
My final-for-NOW thought on the Bannon stuff:

The gold standard for assessing whether Ron's claims about Bannon hold water would be to take the unedited, unblurred footage of Ron's evidence and sit down with an independent technical expert to review.

This, we can't yet do. BUT:
We can weigh up the other evidence we have so far (e.g. Ron was neck-deep in the 1/5/18 coup; Ron allegedly sent a hail-Mary plea to Bannon for a lawyer and one materialized -- but also Jim Watkins is wealthy and could afford a lawyer, it doesn't have to be a conspiracy) & go:
OK, which of these fragments of evidence point to X, and which point to Y, and how confident am I of both their authenticity and the strength of my conclusions?

This is the way! You'll almost never have perfectly sourced info but you can start working on the stuff you DO have.
Read 4 tweets
29 Mar
Early reactions to episodes 3 and 4 of the HBO doc from QAnon Telegram: almost universally negative.

One lady who was filmed for the doc wanted to sue (good luck), but most were just bored or mad that QAnon didn't come off looking so hot.

More reactions in the next few tweets. ImageImageImageImage
I love the lady who's like "DOES RON EVER CHANGE CLOTHES?" ImageImageImageImage
Two notable things here: 1. The 4th image is like "hey now, Ron is CodemonkeyZ! Trump retweeted him!"

2. Another anon is like "but why are you showing the BAD QAnon followers? Why not Praying Medic?" Not sure Praying Medic would come off much better, but 🤷‍♂️ ImageImageImageImage
Read 5 tweets
28 Mar
IT'S GRAPH O'CLOCK, CHILDREN!

Gather 'round for a graph of the "normieficiation" of QAnon (what a GREAT phrase, btw!).

By "normiefication," the authors mean: the spread of QAnon from a small, 4chan-savvy audience to the wider Internet.

Next: analysis!
firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/…
As you can see on the FULL graph (click in to expand, naturally), there was a tiny bit of Q-related content leaking onto the wider Internet almost from the start.

Reddit content was at first largely confined to r/conspiracy, and there were a few YouTubers covering Q early on.
So at the VERY beginning -- the period I'm mostly concerned with -- Q was largely a 4chan phenomenon. The data makes it *look* like YouTube, rather than Reddit, was the key driver of QAnon reaching a wider audience.

This is possible, but we don't have info on *views.*
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