And did they then alert people?
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We read it on 4chan and laughed him off like a larp. Then he kept going and we mocked and mocked. Then he started making sense but we still called him a larp like FBIAnon and others before. Eventually it became too coincidental and then too causal.
For months it was background noise on the chans. Then it wasn’t and we realized it was real. I was there, made fun of Q as a larp in early threads.
Turning point for me and a lot of others was when we realized it didn’t matter if it was real because it was bringing together a research community that was making genuine and serious discoveries.
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As for alerting folks, teased them with what the news was going to start broadcasting and talking about in advance of the news. Not by predicting the future but by knowing the media would attack our findings because we were onto something. There was about a 2 week lag time between our discoveries and media reactions. As we’ve continued down this road, it’s reduced to where they are reacting almost in real time trying to stay ahead of the viral narrative.
It’s been years of watching them maneuver around the Anons trying to discredit the narrative and we’ve encircled them in their own lies by using their reaction against them.
Wasn't the q added much later too? At first there was no q signature right?
Correct. But you could tell the Q posts from the others and early on before we had tracker sites Anons put his posts together and assembled them into graphics. Q confirmed they were his posts and they became codified as the thread of posts.
There are actually some posts that are also Q that were missed in the early days. QAgg.news has a Q 0 post for that reason.
I was there, too, but I have never posted on a chan; I just lurk. I love watching the sway of the public opinions and the different ways different groups are trying to fight in subversive ways to get the group to think like they want them to.
Have you ever read “Forging consensus with a committed minority”?
It will bring your hobby to the next level as you see the dynamics at work.
It’s a math heavy research paper but it’s so spot on that it is worth the effort.
No I haven't, but sounds like something up my alley, thanks.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/51595379_Social_consensus_through_the_influence_of_committed_minorities
Got the title a little wrong.
Thanks for that info. I was wondering myself.
Within a month or two Q posts were leaking out to some of the special interest boards I frequented. Not a lot at first, but once a couple of Q proofs hit, there was a definite uptick.
At the time I was watching it with some skepticism - yeah, I'd like to believe this but... at the same time though, there were things that trip your spidey senses that you can't ignore...
Then someone posted links to PrayingMedic and X22. Checked them out and that was it, I was all in.
The more conservative of those boards got shutdown or bought up one after another. We were very quickly figuring out the MSM was fake - and proving it. Not that it was news to many of us, but in the mid-late 90's when a story would hit, inevitably one of us knew something. It was amazing how often someone lived nearby, or knew someone connected to the situation, etc. When you have thousands of people from all over the country with a common interest, and figure out most are generally fairly conservative... Even the liberals weren't that liberal.
One of my first political posts (in jest) was that I was convinced Chelsea is Hillary and Janet's love child.