Early in the movement first drops people did go by qannon etc, however once media co-opted it, then Q told us in drop 4881 to basically disavow that term and separate the two.

Reason being they can attack the anon, and the nature of anon being anonymous you cannot control everyone ands there are purposeful bad actors injected to 'poison the well', we need to separate the info "Q" from the anon so the media cannot attack the Q info directly as they lump it in with the anon.