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NOTES ON THE ORIGINS AND CONTEXT OF Q DROP 1

This will be the first in (hopefully) a series of threads that examine how the earliest Q drops fit in with --indeed, were an outgrowth from -- 4chan culture.

I& #39;ll also examine how Anons (board users) responded to the drops.

This project is feasible because Q& #39;s time on 4chan was brief -- roughly a month -- and well preserved. For instance, the thread in which Q made his first appearance is available here: https://tinyurl.com/qdebut

Now,">https://tinyurl.com/qdebut&qu... it IS 4chan, so... WARNING: vile, /vile/ stuff is is in that link.

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4plebs archives 4chan board /pol/ - Politically Incorrect

https://tinyurl.com/qdebut

The most surprising thing I found in that thread (I& #39;ll add screenshots as the discussion goes on) is that *many of the key ideas in the Q mythos were present in this very thread BEFORE Q came around.*

Far from breaking new ground, Q gave his audience what they already wanted.

With that introduction out of the way, let& #39;s turn to -- wait, what& #39;s that you say? I need to explain what 4chan is in case my readers don& #39;t know?

C& #39;mon, anyone who reads this already knows. But on the .004% chance that they DON& #39;T... sure! Read on. Otherwise, skip to "Part B."

PART A: 4CHAN AND ITS CULTURE -- HERE THERE BE NAZIS

By "Nazis" I mean literal, "gas-the-Jews" Nazis with swastika-flag icons who refer to /pol (where Q made his first month& #39;s worth of drops) as "a National Socialist board."

No, really; here are some screengrabs:

I should add that MOST other screenshots won& #39;t be as vile, but you do need to understand the waters Q is swimming in, here.

Note the timestamps on those posts -- they& #39;re from 11/30/17, at the very /end/ of the period we& #39;ll be studying. You may ask: was it different at the start?

Yes and no; pol always had a large, racist, Nazi-friendly contingent. That was certainly true in October 2017; if you can handle a few more ugly screenshots, here are some examples from the thread Q first posted in. (One of them was RIGHT ABOVE drop 1. Can you guess which, kids?)

But by the time Q left 4chan at the end of November & #39;17, the composition of the board had changed radically -- many boomers had been brought onto the boards by YouTuber tracybeanz, who I would describe as the first QAnon influencer. The Nazis didn& #39;t quite know how to feel abt it.

In short, I want to be clear that the amount of Nazi content you saw a few screenshots ago wasn& #39;t present *in the first thread with Q drops*, but also that it *absolutely* was a very well-known, very obvious feature of the pol board-- racist & Nazi talk was /4chan& #39;s whole deal/.

But it& #39;s not the ONLY part of 4chan culture. There were also hoaxes. Oh, the hoaxes! And that brings us to Part B.

PART B: 4CHAN& #39;S RICH LEGACY OF HOAXES, LARPERS, AND "ANONS"

This one, I& #39;m gonna keep short: Lord, 4chan had a LOT of people claiming to be "insiders" and leaking definitely-true-for-sure "intelligence" about forthcoming events:

FBIAnon, HLIAnon, Victory of the Light, CIAAnon.

I& #39;m probably leaving some out, but I think you get the point. The thing about being an anonymous message board is that it& #39;s very easy to write shitposts that you know other people will /want/ to believe; bask in their positive attention; and depart.

By 2017, Anons had seen this cycle play out many times. And in the thread where Q first came into being, they& #39;d see it play out *two more times* -- once with Q and once with "0-drop Q," the person who made the post Q was replying to in drop 1.

We& #39;ll come back to that, but here.

So, later on we& #39;re going to examine 0-drop Q& #39;s activities at length (he even interacts with Q!); we& #39;ll also show that the "passport flagged" bit originates in an earlier part of the thread.

But that& #39;s all in Part C, so come, children! Board the Learning Bus and trundle along!

PART C: Q& #39;S DEBUT THREAD -- THE IMMEDIATE CONTEXT FOR DROP 1

Again, you can view this thread yourself at http://tinyurl.com/qdebut ">https://tinyurl.com/qdebut&qu... -- please feel very free to check my work. I encourage it, in fact!

So, what kicked the thread off? What was Q /ultimately/ replying to? This:

PART C: Q& #39;S DEBUT THREAD -- THE IMMEDIATE CONTEXT FOR DROP 1Again, you can view this thread yourself at https://tinyurl.com/qdebut&qu... -- please feel very free to check my work. I encourage it, in fact!So, what kicked the thread off? What was Q /ultimately/ replying to? This:

The Anons /immediately/ understood this post to be a reference to the fact that (it was widely reported) Mueller& #39;s first public indictments would be made on 10/30/17 (which did in fact happen -- one of the very few times his outfit leaked). They discussed who might be indicted:

10/30/17 is, of course, a key date to keep in mind here-- it& #39;s the one referenced in "drop 0" and (as we& #39;ll see) confirmed by Q. So we already see how this thread& #39;s context is shaping the earliest Q drops: the date isn& #39;t plucked out of a hat, it& #39;s the central topic of the thread.

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