I wasn't there on the VERY first post but I was there the following day on October 29, 2017. Most people, including even TheDonald subreddit, were THRILLED about 11.3 and 11.4. We were all on the edge of our seats and even many of the TheDonald mods were open minded about it. I remember a Q thread or two was even stickied on the subreddit and people got excited. There were tons of trolls on the 4chan breads but many people were amped up. What had everyone on the edge of their seat was that they called to confirm that the NG was indeed on active duty in major cities that week, and also that POTUS left to go on his Asia tour, so many rationalized that it would make the most sense if he was somewhere safe on AF1 in an undisclosed part of the world while the arrests go down during his Asia tour. Not to mention POTUS' very cryptic "calm before the storm" statement and the photo-ops of him being surrounded by Generals had a LOT of us go 'wtf is going on?" Plus, we were primed on 4chan with other namedAnons like SenateAnon, FBIAnon and a couple others who seemed legitimate. So when this new mysterious Anon (later known as Q) popped up talking about the "Storm" we were pretty excited to say the least.

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But then when those dates came and went, and there wasn't a "habbening," most people got discouraged and moved on. When it turned out the real habbening was the Saudi arrests, that really SHOCKED a load of people who stuck around to see what would happen, and was considered the first official Q "proof." For me, it was that along with the fact that Trump's twitter was "hacked" by a twatter employee who attempted to shut down his account. That was one of Q's first promises of what would happen and when it did, I was pretty surprised as that is not something that any troll in their basement could possibly predict would happen. It was far too detailed a Q proof just to be a hand-waved as a "coincidence."

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Everyone that stuck around on 4chan was on the edge of their seat wondering when IT (whatever the ominous "it" was) was finally going to happen. The next BIG Q proof were the pictures taken on AF1, as well as cluing us anons in on the Kim Jong Un deal with POTUS many months in advance. The NK summit felt like a huge victory for us and an indication of the plan working. There were so many people on TheDonald who were infuriated with POTUS claiming that he was going to get us all killed because he doesn't know how to talk to NK, but us anons who were following the Q posts knew that it was all theater and that a deal was made well before the "angry tweets." Trump supporters that didn't follow Q legitimately thought we were going to go to war with North Korea lmao.

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But many were discouraged by the arrests never happening so anons kept demanding Q to provide proofs, hence why we were given deltas and camera pictures, zero deltas for Trump tweets, etc. etc. over the years. So many different proofs you could think of. We would request for POTUS to say a certain phrase during his SOTU speech for example, which he did. But those who wanted something to happen on 11/4/2017 were still bitter and they never really got over it ever since, which is why many continue to trash Q to this day, even when you point out all of the numerous proofs over the years. Some people did NOT take too kindly to being taken a "fool." It didn't matter how many coincidences and proofs we would point out, so many people were convinced it was either just another 4chan troll, or some deep state psyop. But for those of us who followed, we kept the faith. We made the jump to 8chan which we were happy with as it was known to have less of a shill problem than 4chan, and the forum wouldn't be clogged up with so many useless threads. We all liked that we had our own little subforum dedicated specifically for Q. I think even Q appreciated that as well, as sometimes the trolls would slide the Q threads down on 4chan. There was also an issue with 4chan mods deleting the Q threads (which were called the Calm Before the Storm breads). Q called out the mods for being shills themselves, hence the move. If I remember correctly, early 2018 was when we moved to 8chan.

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The next HUGE exciting event was August 2018 when Q first officially went "live." People were going to Trump rallies with Q shirts and signs but none of that was really covered until the summer of 2018. The news suddenly started posting about it in coordination and Trump started pointing at people in Q shirts and making air Q's. Q even told us we were about to become "famous" and to use this power wisely. Things became more intense ever since. False flags, censorship, more Q proofs, you name it.

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People were even more convinced by the YUGE Q proof on September 17, 2018. Q hinted at a "red carpet" event in one of their early posts, then all of a sudden we get a statement from POTUS demanding that FISA be declassified on September 17, which was also the same day as the Emmys aka the "red carpet premiere."

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I remember when the first "datefagging" was done. 11.11.18 was something that Q kept pushing, especially when at one point a "military parade" was scheduled for that day. So many of us expected the arrests to go down, and you could see the blackhats scrambling to try everything they could to cancel the military parade. It was also not long after the midterms, so we figured there would be a Red Wave and military tribunals, all coinciding with Kavanaugh's confirmation as SCOTUS. Not to mention we got the very cryptic and random questioning during his confirmation hearing when he was being asked about military tribunals and what happens to American citizens when they conspire with foreign powers to commit treason. Graham basically winked at the camera and said, "this is for future reference for those watching at home." It felt like the big foreshadowing moment in a movie. So it felt like everything was riding on both the Kavanaugh hearing and the midterms. Surely if we get through both of these events then it will finally be over!

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Kavanaugh being confirmed was a massive sigh of relief for the movement, though it also drove many normies to side with us when they saw how horribly he was treated by the crony politicians and media. But the election results were the first big moment of doubt for many anons. We were promised that the midterms were safe, and so when it turned out we only won the Senate, it let a lot of us down. But it quickly made sense for a lot of us when we realized how much more important it was to make sure we had a majority in the Senate, and that we needed the dems to control the House to show the country how insane they were. But when 11.11.18 passed by and nothing happened, people kept clinging on to other dates. December 2018! No, it's definitely January 2019 when the EO's become active! No, it will be February 2019 since the new Senate will be sworn in by then! Many anons started pulling dates out of their asses, and at one point even Q had to step in and say something to the effect of, "We don't provide the enemies dates, so stop obsessing over it." The datefagging never ended though, and many well-meaning anons would datefag as well as shills.

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Fast forward years later and I (and many others) are still here. Q's first big leave of absence was the summer of 2019 when 8chan was on the verge of being shut down because of some big false flag shooting that the deep state tried to link to 8chan. Many of us moved over to twatter, wastebook or Voat. The Q subreddits got taken down very quickly or comped somehow, but Q provided us with a link to a Voat page for Q months before 8chan was taken down, almost like they had foreseen this would happen. We were on Voat for a while and things were finally starting to turn around, this was right around the time the Russian investigation finally ended and found that Orange Man did nothing wrong, and Epstein got arrested then was found to not have killed himself a month later. More than ever we felt like we needed Q for answers.

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Eventually 8chan came back online, this time under the new name 8kun, and Q finally continued posting again. For a time we thought that Q was gone forever, but after 93 days the posts finally continued... for about another year before Q disappeared again. Now we're here, and many Q post deltas have come true in the year absence of Q.

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I am not in the camp that thinks that Q has stopped posting for good, I believe Q will in fact post again, right before TRUTH Social comes out in February. But just because Q and the whitehats are quiet, doesn't mean nothing is happening. After all, Epstein was arrested and killed while Q was gone the first time. Look at all that's happened during Q's second big disappearance?

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When did you first start following the Q posts and how long did it take for you to be convinced?