DROPS 6-13: Q HITS THE JACKPOT

In Q's first three threads, he toiled in obscurity. He drew very few replies, and some were skeptical.

In THIS thread, he broke out -- REALLY broke out, getting replies like this:

But why? Well, possibly the drops were seen as more compelling in this thread than in others. But here's the thing: drop 6, his first in this thread, was essentially drops 4 and 5 (which he had posted on the morning of the 29th to minimal response) just smashed together.

Incidentally, it's worth noting that Q posted drops 3-5 between 8:47 and 9:47 AM, then wandered away from 4chan and returned in a completely new thread 9 hours later.

The gap is interesting -- this is wild speculation, but it's enough time to work a 6-8 hr shift and come home.

("Shift" is relevant here because 10/29/17 was a Sunday -- office workers most likely wouldn't be putting in a full day but retail or emergency workers might.)

Of course, Q's identity isn't a central concern here, but it's still an interesting thought & we'll keep an eye open.

Before we move on to a detailed analysis of the drops and their responses, a word: our last few threads have left a *lot* of racist and antisemitic content on the cutting-room floor.

This runs the risk of misrepresenting the way the 4chan thread *really reads*, so here:

We left out a bunch of N bombs because, well, you got the idea from our last post, we're pretty sure. But rest assured, they're in there -- and are sometimes used to describe Obama, because of course they are.

The thread, incidentally, is here: https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/147146601/

PART A: THREAD CONTEXT

This time, we're not going to go into great detail about the original post. In fact, it barely matters.

In this thread, Q didn't bother responding to dominant themes in the conversation. He just mashed his last two posts together, posted, and waited.

However, it IS worth noting that in this thread -- as in all the others we've covered so far -- various conspiracy theories were floating around, usually with Q-adjacent themes.

For instance: "Trump is playing 4D chess and will clean the swamp w/help from Sessions or Mueller":

Another anon simply says: "I'd ship them all to Gitmo."

Another claims that "the DNC establishment is sick of the Clinton Cabal" (drawing the response: "you have a 75 IQ the democratic establishment IS the clinton cabal").

https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/147146601/#147151382 https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/147146601/#q147150020

Other anons expanded on that theme; it's easy (and correct) to note that these people were *profoundly* divorced from reality, but the point isn't whether their speculation is accurate.

Rather, the point is that this kind of thinking was remarkably popular on 4chan.

So the audience in this thread was *especially* thirsty for what he was selling, and by God, he sold.

PART A-1: THE INEVITABLE SECOND LARPER

Another anon (responding, ultimately, to the post linked below) claimed to have inside knowledge about the targets of Mueller's investigations.

This anon drew six responses, some supportive and some skeptical.

https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/147146601/#147147708

The most noteworthy response was: "The best part is, we've been outlining it all for months. They could have known all this time and been prepared, but they wouldn't listen."

So again: anons had been riding this train for a long, LONG time. https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/147146601/#147151100

Here's a doubleheader for the road:

PART B: THE DROPS AND THEIR RESPONSES

Drop 6 drew immediate positive responses, as you can see. The only negative response wasn't even directly to Q -- it was a reply to the anon who asked "how do I become someone with the knowledge you have?" and was essentially, "LARP."

But as you can see, there were far more positive responses than negative -- and other anons quickly got in on the act.

The red-highlighted screenshots are especially notable because they are, it seems, the first-ever appearance of a core part of Q culture: decoding the drops.

Drop 7 (complete with bonus conspiracy-theory talk one post below) was shorter and more to the point -- declarative statements instead of questions.

Notably, it drew less engagement (and the engagement it DID draw was more hostile).

In fact, one anon quoted the part about "indicting HRC would lead to indicting Obama & his cabinet etc which could never happen," and said: "I don't understand why. So if they all just betray the country together, no one gets punished?" https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/147146601/#147178510

Q immediately adjusted course with drop 8, shifting back to a subject that had gotten at least *some* interest from anons and also bombarding them with questions.

Still, this didn't get the same flood of positive responses that drop 6 did. So Q tried again with drop 9:

Several interesting things about drop 9: this is the first use of "the great awakening," and -- though it's in the form of a weird little semi-sentence -- it seems to refer narrowly & specifically to the idea that black voters will abandon the Democratic Party. Anons' responses:

As we examine these drops, it's important to remember that anons in this thread had no knowledge of Q's prior activity -- we'll see evidence of this in our next thread, on anons getting *really* into Q for the first time.

But for now, here's drop 10 -- note the Satanism theme:

The responses to drop 10 are SO amazingly on-brand for Q people that it's jaw-dropping: "Pizzagate is real, yo." and "THE JUNTA!!!! TIME FOR MILITARY OVERRIDE! All hail dictator Trump!"

The audience was pickin' up what Q was puttin' down...

... which makes the first response to drop 12 pretty unfortunate.

But note that even this response is in line with Q's later mythos: the "military tribunals" so beloved of Q people. But this is interesting: why is this belief emerging so quickly on 4chan, WITHOUT any "digging?"

If Q's message requires careful research and much thoughtful discussion to arrive at his intended meaning, why do we see anons in this thread -- without any of the detailed analysis that will be lavished on his later drops -- figuring out what will later become the Q metaplot?

The answer, of course -- once more for the people in the back -- is that *Q was telling them what they already believed*, and, moreover, they brought those beliefs to later threads about the Q drops.

In other words, their "analysis" was just confirmation bias running wild.

Whoops, skipped drop 11.

Gonna zip through this (though its reception is interesting because anons, again, start asking questions Q doesn't have answers for like: "what Supreme Court decision?" and "what article [of the Constitution] is it?"

Of course, there is no SCOTUS case about state secrets that says anything remotely like what Q is implying here -- to the extent we can tell what Q is implying.

It's remarkable that the key phrase of this drop ("impose MI take over investigations") is absolute word salad.

Drop 11 is also notable for "Commander and Chief," a real howler on Q's part -- if Q were really a military intelligence officer, he would know that POTUS is the Commander-in-Chief of the military.

Until 2002 (when Donald Rumsfeld ordered the DOD to change this practice), theater commanders were called "commanders-in-chief" as well.

So the phrase is well-known in the military & you wouldn't see a real military officer saying "AND chief."

https://archive.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=42568

This reminds us: we should also do a thread about Q's deliberately hazy use of "military intelligence." Does he mean the DIA? Is he referring to, say, a coalition of combat-unit intelligence officers?

Q doesn't seem to know what "MI" IS, or how it works.

Anyway, home stretch: we're now on drop 13, the final drop. And the replies are interesting.

First, drop 13 shows the first signs (in this thread, at least) of the LARP spiral -- Q is going to get sucked deeper and deeper into this spiral in the coming days.

What /is/ the LARP spiral? You'll see some concrete examples in our thread about adrenochrome (which is coming sometime in the next week), but briefly: the people who post LARPs (or hoaxes) typically escalate their claims to create drama & hold readers' attention.

These new, spiraling claims are often internally inconsistent (we can see a bit of this in drops 1 and 2, when Q goes from saying Hillary will be arrested 10/30 to saying she'd already been detained -- note how this escalates the drama and immediacy of Q's story).

In this case, we see Q dramatically declare: "I've said too much. God bless, patriots."

Then, gathering his cloak around himself, he flounced out of the thread.