Ok. That's cool.

I'm pretty sure that by the time the r/GA came along, a LOT of us were using qanon to refer not to Q, but rather to the movement, to the collective body and community generated from the Q drops.

See the other example I posted of an anon using "qanon" in November 2017.

The etymology of where the term first started, is logically tracked back to the chan convention of XXX+anon when referring to specifically identifiable anons. (megaanon, fbianon, etc)

So the expression itself follows the common chan nomenclature, doesn't it? Whether the media picked up on that and began dropping hit pieces, or anons and qpatriots cheerfully used qanon to refer to ourselves, it does follow chan convention, and seems very likely to have been organically generated.

What is clear is that MANY q patriots adopted it and used it as the great awakening expanded during 2018. By q patriots, I draw a distinctyion between the anons who were primarily or only on the chans, and the rest of the great awakening, who used aggregated Q sites to research and follow, and who populated the wide internet outside the chans.

That wider collective of 'qpatriots' are what expanded the great awakening outward, even while the chan anons kept the kettle boiling with Q. And that wider collective most certainly adopted and used 'qanon', as shown by all the evidence on the q board. IMO.

Ok. That's cool.

I'm pretty sure that by the time the r/GA came along, a LOT of us were using qanon to refer not to Q, but rather to the movement, to the collective body and community generated from the Q drops.

See the other example I posted of an anon using "qanon" in November 2017.

The etymology of where the term first started, is logically tracked back to the chan convention of XXX+anon when referring to specifically identifiable anons. (megaanon, fbianon, etc)

Ok. That's cool. I was on reddit r/GreatAwakening by at the latest April 2018, several months after Q began posting. That's approximately 4.5 years ago.

I was on r/GA then voat, etc. So, I think that experience predates your experience here on GAW. The examples I am referring to in the post draw from that earlier era, mostly.

As I emphasize in the post, the majority of us anons and Q patriots did not refer to Q as "qanon" but rather to the movement, to the collective body and community generated from the Q drops. The etymology of where the term first started, is logically tracked back to the chan convention of XXX+anon when referring to specifically identifiable anons. (megaanon, fbianon, etc)