Even if Q isn’t legit, it sure seems to rattle the evil ones. On some level, I don’t blame them for keeping it going if unbalanced the enemy. What they are probably really worried about is that the concept of Q unites a lot of people against their values: pedophilia, cannibalism, etc.

That being said, I’m in the same camp as you. I thought a lot of people were finding patterns in randomness, but this whole thing seems interesting.