This may be a bit memey, but it seems to me that the biggest weakness of q followers is so many of them think the "white hats"are some secret canal of patriots working from the inside to bring down the governmeant corruption, so all patriots have to do is sit back and let the "white hats" do all the work...
Besides being backward as all hell, this idea is antithetical to American values and First Principles. Simply put, the founders didn't sir around waiting for someone else to save then from British tyranny, they took up arms and secured their own freedom.
And that's what patriots across the loose coalition misidentified as "the right" are doing, securing elections, running for office, primarying weak, RINO candidates, getting the real news out there on sites like this, etc.
So you wanna meet a white hat for real? Go look in the mirror.
I know, I know, "maybe the real Q was inside us all along," meme goes here, but think about it a minute and tell me it doesn't make a little bit of sense.
Or maybe I'm contradicting the holy scriptures of your Lord and savior Q somehow, I dunno, lol. (Poking fun, not being malicious)
I had almost this exact conversation yesterday, or one very similar!
I explained to my friend (who incidentally knew something surrounding the whole Covid19 was not right before we had talked about it) that there is no real way of explaining the whole topic surrounding Q you had to be there at or near the start. A bit like a fashion or a time before, if you weren't part of it, the conversations or researching as it went along, it is incredibly difficult to articulate it to someone reasonably new. You can try, but everything from the use of language, topics covered, incidents that happened all tie in together albeit sometimes in a looser way other times it can't be discounted by coincidence.
He said "so what's all this QAnon thing then". I literally had to go over the history of 4 chan, 8 chan then 8 Kun, pointing out how they referred to each other as anons. The Q drops with the trip codes and salt rotations, the anonymous way image boards work, the timings in with Trump's tweets and much more.
Once he understood that I could then explain that this whole "QAnon" was just a made up construct by the media, because again none of them were there at the time living it every day. So they needed a label, hence QAnon. It's why the so called QAnon Shaman is a laughable character which was invented. There are no leaders, sure many look up to Trump but again as I explained to the friend Trump was asked to do the job, he's even said "I had a nice life, I never needed to do it, but I wanted to help save my country"
No multi billionaire would go through what Trump and his family went through unless they were asked, not a chance. So as I explained to him, I'm not blindly following Trump because I see him as a living deity, it's because I know there's something or some people driving all of this. I believe humanity would fight back.
2016 was the turning point, Hilary honestly never thought she would lose! And ever since who ever or what ever was behind that have been slowly dismantling the evil working all over the world.
It seems (at least feels) to me that everything has been accelerated, and their plan to bring in a one world Government treating us like cattle, is being or has been destroyed! Personally I think many of us who have been around from near the start are here to not only try and wake others up but also to help explain to anyone with an open mind what else might be going on. Slowly over time the world's population is in fact waking up, it's slow but will accelerate. Only last night on a fairly mainstream news channel they were openly discussing how the jabs are clearly not working, and people are being hurt by the coerced jabs! And no I don't think we can go through all of this without sadly losing some people, there's no way around this fact.
There will be casualties, but this isn't simply about the USA, it's about the entire world, I fully expect us to get to a point where the threat of nuclear weapons or a dirty bomb could be used, the precipice imo. There will be a time when people turn, it will be violent, nasty, riots etc, but that won't last for long. How else can people help themselves if they are not woken up to the evil that's gone on in the world? I expect this Winter to be tough. People and countries will rise up, it has to be this way but controlled. Think of the Truckers in Canada, or now the farmers in Holland. Sri Lanka has already risen up against their Government.
Then again if I am wrong, well it'll likely be a blinding flash followed by a storm force wind and heat blast as my body and soul turns into ashes on the floor! Hope I'm wrong.
Nice commentary.
Just two points... First, while your body will most assuredly turn to ash in a heat blast, your soul will not. You're safe there. ;)
Second, I'm one of those people you describe who was not in this from the beginning, found GAW-Q at the tail end of 2020. To that point, can you give me a general idea of what "salt rotation" connotes?
Salt Rotation - There is a computer language "Equation" that will encode/decode your password using a random number. That number is the Salt (or Seed).
You are Salting the equation with a number. It could also be called "Seeding" and equation. A given password will yield access and also give a TripCode. A TripCode is literally a visible UserID that proves the writer knew the right password.
Rotating the Salt, gives a new starting point for the equation, and will end with a new TripCode for the old password.
8Kun experienced this. Someone rotated the salt (or easier yet, the equation) until it yielded the known Q TripCode. They left a few Q-crumbs which did not look right. Then Anons figured out that the Salt had been rotated because other people's TripCodes had changed, yet the Q TripCode did not change. Then it got changed back to the original Salt. Other TripCodes returned to normal and there were no more Q-crumbs.
It was a sham. Most Anons did not fall for the ploy, although a few did. The Zero-Delta proofs were backwards. First Trump, then "Q". Not valid. Should be first Q, then Trump within a minute.
And the Q post should have a TripCode. Q's TripCode. The Zero-Deltas that did match Trump posts had no TripCode. Not valid. Then the Fake Q cried like a baby, insisting that it was illegal to use a TripCode. That's why the new drops had no trip code. Very lame. Never saw Q cry like a baby trying to prove identity. It was really sad and noticeable.
Therefore, the recent Q-posts are all faked at worst, extremely suspect at best. Hope that helps.
Okay, so a poser ran some kind of algorithm/program which rotated the salt/seed to produce a new TripCode and kept doing so until it showed as the old/valid TripCode, albeit leaving some issues/problems in it's wake. The hyper-cognizant (in a good way) anons who pay keen attention to such things noticed the anomalies and called the fake-Q out on it. Said fake-Q tried doubling down on the fraud using lame excuses, but anons weren't buying it. (Mine may be more of an analogy than a translation, but I think I get the gist).
Thank you so much for the explanation.
A year-and-a-half in and there are still loads of things I'm unclear on or plain unaware of.
Yes. Good summary. That is exactly what happened.
Of note: It would be easier to rewrite the algo to produce the result than to try new salts.
Of course, this would require the poser had root access to the underlying server. (Entirely possible.) Which would point the finger at Jim Watkins or some tech at the Hosting Service.