The Q: Into The Storm series provided enough information to uncover what happened in December 2017 to early January 2018 with regards to Q's moves on 8chan.
What happened revolves primarily around one guy, Paul Furber (BaruchTheScribe) & his board (CBTS).
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Before we can discuss this episode, we need to discuss Q's move from 4chan to 8chan, starting on November 25.
Q's first post (230) on 8chan appears on /pol/, following an increase in claims of Q being a LARPer on 4chan.
posts 2 more times consecutively (231, 232) & then returns to 8chan /pol/ to confirm that the key is secured.
Q then migrates to the CBTS board on 8chan & returns to 4chan to post one final time (#240) to confirm the move.
In all instances, Q posts with the proper tripcode.
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Q establishes a pattern of activity to confirm this move, relying on 8chan /pol/ as a temporary transition point and making sure to post on the old board (4chan here) and new board (8chan pol/8chan cbts) to confirm the move on each end.
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From post #241 and onward into December 2017, Q would post exclusively on the CBTS board on 8chan (Furber's board).
On Dec 12, 2017, Q post #334 contains the pen that will be used to verify Q's identity later. This also appeared on the CBTS board.
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A few days later is when the trouble begins. As covered in the HBO series, Paul Furber disables the tripcode, thus making it impossible for Q to verify themselves on his board. Q doesn't seem to know that, but does assume that the board is compromised somehow.
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In the third screenshot above, we find that in the attached image, the field where the tripcode would be entered is completely missing. Q literally cannot verify themselves.
So, Q switches to 8chan /pol/ and notifies the board of the problem, as seen in screenshot #4 above.
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Q then issues the following promise/threat on the CBTS board, while linking back to the post on /pol/:
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As seen above, there is no problem with entering the tripcode on /pol/. The problem only exists on Furber's board.
While Q can surely only guess why that is, Q may be thinking that someone is trying to shut them down. Whether that be a hack or a bribed board owner or
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any other number of possible explanations that may be running through Q's mind. Q had previously indicated that they thought they'd be targeted, and this sudden and unexpected change to the board certainly would appear to confirm that belief.
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Q decided to change their tripcode in response to this development on CBTS, which will come into play later.
And Q used an interesting pattern to confirm the change, which was similar to how Q confirmed the board change. Q announced the change, then alternated between
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the new tripcode, then switched back to the old code to confirm, then switched back to the new tripcode to confirm again. This is much like how Q switched back and forth between 4chan and 8chan to confirm the move.
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The CBTS tripcode field eventually does get restored, but Q is now on high alert.
This is the context which applies to both the choice of updated password and the following message to the Board Owner (Furber) & mods. And they know the proper context, as seen in the reply.
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Q seems to have guessed that the board owner or the mods tried to shut them down and it wasn't a hack of any sort. There surely would have been an announcement of a hack by that point.
This is why Q is saying, "My apologies" there. Q figures that they must be feeling a bit
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unappreciated & perhaps overburdened due to Q's presence on the board. And Q's essentially saying "I will make it worth your while," which seemingly did not convince Furber that it would be worth his while.
Because a few days later, there were more tripcode issues on CBTS.
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Early the next day, the problem was resolved. Now if the first incident didn't have Q on high alert, this second one surely did. Especially since Q gave assurances that it would be worth their while but it happened again, anyways.
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In the documentary, we find that Furber was trying to convince various folks that Q had been replaced by a fraud. He convinced Corsi briefly & he apparently convinced Coleman Rogers (Pamphlet Anon) of that for a little while. He is the primary point of origin for that claim.
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I do not have the exact timing of when he started pushing that, but it had to have been during the period where he was trying to prevent Q from being able to post, whether before or after this post that he put out.
Read it over carefully. He is clearly trying to hijack Q.
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Furber disabled all CBTS users ability to post with a tripcode on Jan 1st, 2018 and then claimed that if Q had more information to pass along, it would be relayed by Furber. He even tried to write like Q.
But Q already had a plan, using their "Future proves past" trick.
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On the 4th of January, Q posted anonymously on the CBTS board with their unhashed tripcode. "Matlock."
Q then issued a vague post on /pol/, using their trip.
Q returned to the CBTS board, linked to the post on /pol/ & announced that their routed IP would now be fixed to CA
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This is why Q's IP address stopped changing, because it would now act as an additional way for Q to be verified.
And this is why Q updated their unhashed tripcode from Matlock to M@tlock! after the first tripcode lockout in mid-December. See: "Previous pw was let go" above.
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Furber had tried to set it up so that he could seize Q's identity, by blocking Q from using a tripcode. The only one who could resolve this was CodeMonkey, because he was the only one further up the chain who could dispute Furber's claims.
"I suggest the /cbts/ board owner
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re-enable trip codes . . ." as seen in the series.
There were only two real options. Either CodeMonkey lets Furber hijack the Q persona or he confirms that the poster is Q, by referring to the IP address and verifying that it is now fixed as described by Q.
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Once this took place, Q migrated to /TheStorm/ board & then revealed that the unhashed tripcode had already been posted. It was "anticipated."
"Matlock meant to become PUBLIC." And this is why Q went from Matlock to M@tlock! because the leak surreptitiously confirmed both.
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Q would also reconfirm with the pen.
And when things didn't go according to Furber's plan, he started trying to get thestorm nuked. Hard to write his planned book about the supposed original Q if original Q is still on 8chan, refusing to be nuked.
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The tripcode is rather ornamental by this point. The fixed IP address is now Q's hidden tripcode, so even if someone tried to impersonate Q, it wouldn't matter, because they wouldn't know the exact IP address.
The tripcode is helpful for those who can't see the hashed IP, though
Addendum: If I'm being extremely generous, Q is reacting to what looks like a hostile takeover but only seems like one, due to multiple suspicious tripcode disabling instances plus a very poorly worded post by Furber on January 1st, combined with Furber's conspiracist mindset.
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A synopsis of Q's points of alignment with the Kremlin
- Attacking the GEC, which fights Russian meddling
- citing Russia Today
- reproducing content that first appeared on USA Really (an IRA operation)
- citing headline from New Eastern Outlook (Russian propaganda outlet)
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- citing Your News Wire, a known Kremlin proxy outlet
- citing headline from Veterans Today, which regularly traffics Russian disinfo and is reported to be run by the Russian govt
- pushing claim that John McCain created ISIS (IRA talking point)
- pushing Seth Rich conspiracy
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- pushing link to NabuLeaks YouTube channel before it trended, thus becoming a key reason it went viral
- using known Kremlin tactic of fabricating claims of sexual perversion to target Americans
- undermining reports on Russian trolls
- pushing bogus smears about Ukraine
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Today seems like a good day to do another case study. A Twitter user pointed out this acct to me.
Typically, when I find anonymous accts that are trying to baselessly smear various Americans like John Cusack or Jane Fonda by calling them pedos, such accts are pro-Kremlin.
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And while some may be inclined to focus on the MAGA costume, sometimes it is just a costume. They may tepidly support someone like Trump due to the damage he causes to the West, rather than any other reason.
America ain't rootin for Putin, troll.
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Of course, this acct has promoted QAnon. Very unsurprising.
Thread: If you're hunting for something to call BlueAnon, this thread's for you. You could call it Mirror-Q, because instead of being sold to Trump supporters, this is being sold to those who oppose Trump.
This is the biggest Intelligence Operation in History, of course.
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There's a worldwide house cleaning on the horizon which encompasses the Vatican, the US govt and the Royal Family. This is a battle between Good and Evil.
There's a "World Wide Cabal" to be taken down. A Luciferian Cabal. A storm is coming, you see.
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And Mueller is on a secret mission to take the cabal down. This is way bigger than Trump. This is WAY BIGGER than US. Trump is just small potatoes here.
There are sealed indictments. Hundreds of them. There will be mass worldwide arrests. People are in full panic mode.
I thought I'd put together a case study for progressive Democrats and progressive Independents. I hope it will be useful.
Anonymous accts have been hijacking our language and then using it to advance their agenda for years. I've been studying this activity for some time.
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I will be highlighting one such account. There are layers of deception that such accounts use which most people on Twitter do not have the time to uncover.
I first noticed this acct due to a long thread that was targeting Ana Kasparian. The operator was backing Jimmy Dore.
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*Note: the above is just the opening sequence of a much longer thread.
Let's start with the very beginning of this thread, "Nurse here, Ana!"
How is that deceptive? Well, earlier in 2020, this acct tweeted, "I'd quit if I were a nurse."
This tweet is how a troll army tries to trick people. Elon Musk liking someone's tweet doesn't result in them accumulating nearly 950K followers as of right now.
How can you tell? It's simple. Look through Musk's likes and find rando accts and check their follower counts.
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You can then compare their follower count to archive records to see what the follower count was before Musk liked their tweet.
But really, there are plenty of examples where you don't need to go thru that extra effort. Like this acct, which only has 401 followers at present.
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What is additionally suspicious about this WSB Chairman acct is this 👇, which makes it seem like maybe this acct is a repurposed QAnon acct in disguise.
Moreover, this acct was created in May 2017 & deleted all tweets from before when it changed the handle to the current one.
In October 2015, the NYT wrote about how Trump came to dominate Twitter, with one section describing how "hundreds of thousands of strangers defend him."
But it was the section about "Gary Forbes" that I found most curious of all.
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It was not just the coordinated activity which I found notable. It was also the careful language they used regarding "Gary Forbes."
"A man identifying himself as Gary Forbes" sounds like a very careful way to say that they weren't able to independently verify his identity.
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Further, "Gary Forbes" referred the NYT to the Trump campaign and Hope Hicks said "Forbes" was not affiliated with the campaign. So, someone was being misleading there.
The biggest reason that this "Gary Forbes" caught my eye is because I had previously come across a
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