But, if he is posing as a leader, where is he leading?

I'll start by saying that I have no idea if he's a bad actor.

That being said, his initial exposure to the world as he self-doxxed himself was being revealed on Alex Jones. That is potentially a red flag.

The fear is that he gathers a following, then does something stupid to the detriment of the Q community.

There's many examples of this.

Jack Posobiec was often quoted by this community. Eventually, he came out and said "Oh, by the way, I know who Q is. It was a friend of mine named Microchip. It was a hoax we perpetrated on you all. Ooops, my bad."

The method, in psychology, is called pace and lead. The person who is attempting to influence you starts by mimicking you, or "pacing" you. Then, after you say to yourself "this person thinks the same things I do, I believe the things he says", that is when they switch to the "lead" part, which is to lead you away from what you used to believe, in the above instance that Q is actually legit.

A second example. In the days of Q being on reddit, there was a guy named SerialBrain2 (or SB2). One day he gained fame in the Q community when Q directly referenced one of his posts, that a certain individual was grifting on the Q community. His popularity rose, his posts became more popular. Then he got very weird.

He got hung up on gematria, and started weaving together wild narratives of things going on behind the scenes with Q and Trump based on wild leaps of logic based on counting letters in Trump posts. Quite frankly, he was an idiot, and he tarnished all Q followers simply by association.

Third example, NeonRevolt. This guy was a "decoder" and worked hard building a following. Long story short, by the end he was scolding Q, scolding Trump, encouraging everyone to abandon the community because things weren't going exactly the way he wanted to.

Fourth example, Ron Watkins, aka CodeMonkeyZ. He went out of his way to position himself at the top of the Q community. Whether cognizant or not, he ended up going to HBO to be mocked and derided, and suddenly all the flaws of Ron Watkins became the flaws of the entire Q movement.

I could go on and on, but the gist of it is this: there's a huge downside to having someone attempt to become a leader/influencer in the Q community. There's ZERO upside.

What would have happened if Clandestine went to 4chan/8chan/other boards frequented by anons and presented the data without seeking fame and recognition? He would have accomplished the exact same thing, without any of the drama.

But, if he is posing as a leader, where is he leading?

I'll start by saying that I have no idea if he's a bad actor.

That being said, his initial exposure to the world as he self-doxxed himself was being revealed on Alex Jones. That is potentially a red flag.

The fear is that he gathers a following, then does something stupid to the detriment of the Q community.

There's many examples of this.

Alex Posobiec was often quoted by this community. Eventually, he came out and said "Oh, by the way, I know who Q is. It was a friend of mine named Microchip. It was a hoax we perpetrated on you all. Ooops, my bad."

The method, in psychology, is called pace and lead. The person who is attempting to influence you starts by mimicking you, or "pacing" you. Then, after you say to yourself "this person thinks the same things I do, I believe the things he says", that is when they switch to the "lead" part, which is to lead you away from what you used to believe, in the above instance that Q is actually legit.

A second example. In the days of Q being on reddit, there was a guy named SerialBrain2 (or SB2). One day he gained fame in the Q community when Q directly referenced one of his posts, that a certain individual was grifting on the Q community. His popularity rose, his posts became more popular. Then he got very weird.

He got hung up on gematria, and started weaving together wild narratives of things going on behind the scenes with Q and Trump based on wild leaps of logic based on counting letters in Trump posts. Quite frankly, he was an idiot, and he tarnished all Q followers simply by association.

Third example, NeonRevolt. This guy was a "decoder" and worked hard building a following. Long story short, by the end he was scolding Q, scolding Trump, encouraging everyone to abandon the community because things weren't going exactly the way he wanted to.

Fourth example, Ron Watkins, aka CodeMonkeyZ. He went out of his way to position himself at the top of the Q community. Whether cognizant or not, he ended up going to HBO to be mocked and derided, and suddenly all the flaws of Ron Watkins became the flaws of the entire Q movement.

I could go on and on, but the gist of it is this: there's a huge downside to having someone attempt to become a leader/influencer in the Q community. There's ZERO upside.

What would have happened if Clandestine went to 4chan/8chan/other boards frequented by anons and presented the data without seeking fame and recognition? He would have accomplished the exact same thing, without any of the drama.