Everybody has excellent points. Basically Q started out on an anonymous board, I'm still debating whether it started as a LARP or not, BUT it was embraced by the Trump leadership. Through discreet communication and primitive encoding, they were able to validate to us that they were insiders AND they were able to communicate a "status report" of what was currently happening in the White House. You can see the gradual progression if you read the board yourself:

qanon.pub (scroll all the way to the bottom).

There was an introductory phase, then there was a teaching phase, where Q taught the audience how to decode messages. From there the communication continued and Q guided Patriots in understanding how the elites worked. How they earned their money, and how they operated.

On top of that, Q provided a 40000-foot view of the plan so that we as Patriots would know what to expect. The plan was vague enough, though, so that the Swamp couldn't counter it. The goal for this operation as defined by Q was to awaken the masses. The other goal was for the Patriots act as leaders who would explain to the masses what was happening when the plug was getting pulled. (I.E. multiple arrests). They would help keep peace.

I was first introduced to Q in 2017 and was intrigued especially with the Saudi Arabia notes, but I left after Hillary Clinton wasn't put in jail.

Regardless, the Q proofs are very convincing and the information is at least eye-opening.

I would start here: https://vimeo.com/451318920

And finally Q is not "MYSTICAL" like a prophet. Think of it like a deck of cards detailing the grand plan but they're shuffled so it's hard to figure out what the plan is. The Trump leadership would then throw signals and codes to the Patriots so that they would indicate what parts of the plan were executed.