Thread by @QOrigins

Once upon a time someone asked me: before aggregators -- heck, before Q started using a tripcode -- how did anons keep track of Q's claims?

They did it by bodging together, slowly and laboriously, images that they THOUGHT contained all of Q's posts, and then iterating on it.

Interestingly enough, these images don't really match the canonical Q drops! They tend to leave a bunch of stuff out, either because early anons didn't know about them or because early anons thought they weren't by Q. Mostly the former.

These, for instance -- the second iteration of that chart -- start on 10/31/17, whereas NOW we would look at an aggregator site and go: "Oh, there were canonical drops on 10/28/17 and 10/29." (There were also lost drops on the 29th and 30th, but of course those aren't canonical.)

Anyway, the TL;DR here is that early on, Q's canon was fluid.

Only when Q 1) started using a tripcode and 2) started saying "Yes, that graphic is right!" did a canon BEGIN to emerge...

And it STILL didn't match what would *later* come to be seen as canonical!

But that's a story for another time, nerds. :)

UPDATE: Oh, goddammit, I forgot to include a close-up where I SAID I was gonna include a close-up.

Anyway, here it is: you can see that it does indeed start 10/31.