THE LOST DROPS: SIX Q DROPS (FIVE ALMOST-UNREPORTED, ONE ENTIRELY UNREPORTED) FROM 10/29/17

We're pleased to report the discovery of five almost-unreported Q drops (and one entirely-unreported, though also more tentatively-identified, drop) from 10/29/17.

The most interesting:

Eagle-eyed readers will note that the first two screenshots are, word-for-word, almost *exactly* identical to drops 4 and 5 (and therefore also almost exactly identical to drop 6, which was a mashup of 4 and 5).

The highlighted text in screenshot 2 is new; the rest is drops 4+5.

The other two screenshots are notable because (as we'll see in more detail later) Q acts, in this thread, much like a typical board user (or "anon"): he posts fast and furious, responding to the conversation with timely and specific content. http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/147096981/#147114662

This sort of behavior is EXTREMELY off-brand for Q, but very on-brand for anons in general.

We therefore suggest that it indicates Q, at least early on, wasn't fully "in character" every time he came to the board.

He blurred the lines between his LARPing persona (footnote: https://twitter.com/origins_q/status/1309729301315514368?s=20) and his regular-anon persona, which of course indicates that he DID have a regular-anon persona.

Naturally, the reader will have some questions: what did we mean by "almost-unreported?" How do we know these posts are from Q? And what, if anything, do they tell us about Q?

To the first question: only a handful of ppl have attributed these posts to Q.

https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/search/text/147114662/

The five posts identified by these anons are, in our view, rock-solid Q drops. We are virtually certain they're from Q, due to abundant textual evidence (covered more fully later in the thread, of course).

And one post is entirely unreported, meaning that no one (to the best of our knowledge) has ever tied it to Q.

This is the most weakly-identified drop, but we believe it IS a drop; here, too, we'll make our case later in the thread.

https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/147146154/#q147149759

As for what these posts say about Q: the most surprising revelation is that Q acts like a regular anon -- posting fast, furious, topical replies.

In general, Q's (previously known) early posts show little direct engagement with other anons.

An anon aptly described Q's style:

But we're getting ahead of ourselves.

Let's start at the beginning: let's establish that these posts really *are* from Q.

PART A: VALIDATING THE DROPS

Canonically (footnote: https://tinyurl.com/y5fxnszf ), Q's only known activity 10/29 was posting drops 3-5 in the AM and 6-13 in the PM (starting 6:48 Eastern).

(Footnotes are meant to provide context & a glossary for new readers, btw.)

One puzzling feature of the PM drops is that drop 6, the first in the sequence, is a mash-up of drops 4 and 5. Yet drop 6 (along with his later drops in that thread) was WILDLY successful with anons.

Why would he have expected that to *work*?

The newly discovered drops help explain it: he already *had* gotten a positive response to a mash-up of drops 4 and 5.

The first of our proposed new drops (let's call it Drop A, since the numbers are all taken) was, as we said, basically identical to drops 4, 5, and 6.

Drop A:

Drops 4 and 5:

Drop 6:

As you can see, they're virtually identical.

But does this prove that Q wrote Drop A? Could an impostor have done it?

In our view, an impostor is extremely unlikely.

Recall that Q didn't hit it big until drops 6-13. Drops 1-5 drew only a handful of responses.

Simply put, at the time drop A was made -- after drop 5 and before drop 6 -- Q wasn't popular enough to have any imitators.

But there's stronger evidence that Q made these posts: not only did he incorporate Drop A into Drop 6, but he incorporated the *other* drops from this thread into various drops between 7 and 13.

For instance, compare Drop B to Drop 9. Notice how "great awakening" is used:

As we've previously remarked: https://twitter.com/QOrigins/status/1307888281493798913?s=20

The phrase is, of course, used in *exactly* the same way here in Drop B. Interesting!

Even more interesting is that, in the thread with drops 6-13, we were puzzled to note that Q's drops *weren't* very closely related to the comments of other anons in the thread.

Since his earliest drops very much WERE based on what other anons were saying, we thought this was a new posting strategy for him.

But it wasn't. It was just a reworked version of things Q had posted in *this* thread -- a thread in which ALL of Q's posts were topical.

Here, for instance, is a post that went up 13 minutes (and only two posts!) before Q made Drop B.

Note the highlighted line at the end. Drop B is playing off of it.

Incidentally, here's the first response to Drop B -- realizing that it boiled down to "Dems are the real racists," an anon responded with:

This is why we can't have nice things, 4chan. We can't go ONE THREAD without a racist "joke" or a "totally ironic" approving comment about genocide (pictured in green; the comment in red is a response to Drop A linking to a blog post about how dangerous Somali refugees are).

Further evidence that Q in this thread is Q from drops 6-13: compare drop C to drops 6 and 8. Drop C starts: "Military intelligence / state secrets."

Drop 6 includes: "Focus on military intelligence / state secrets."

Drop 8 also mentions "military intelligence / state secrets."

With Drop C, by the way, we've come to the really interesting part about these drops: in the last three drops, Q starts posting rapidly and topically, responding to other anons and taking part in lengthy chains of comments.

It's a *dramatic* break from his usual habit of staying at a lofty remove from the discussion.

Let's look at drop C *and* the post right above it.

At 12:01, Q posts drop C. Immediately upon posting, he would have seen the red-highlighted post right above it.

Less than a minute after Q posted, someone replied to the LAST previous post about "old white women" voting for Trump.

(WARNING: screenshot has a truly incredible number of slurs. But Q responds directly to this; in our judgement it's important to present in full.)

A few minutes after after THAT, Q replies (highlighted in red; you can tell it's Q because of the user ID).

Here we pause to note that QAnon believers often claim Q isn't the slightest bit racist. Not even a little bit. Nope! In fact, Q is a great promoter of racial unity.

But look how he responded to that last anon! Q looked *right* at that hateful little screed and, instead of saying "HEY NOW, PATRIOT, ALL AMERICANS ARE EQUAL," he said: you know what's /important/ to talk about here? How fake the polls are.

(By the way, we should have mentioned this earlier: drop C was -- once again -- a response to an anon, because Q was a very active participant in this thread.

Here's the post Q was responding to, side-by-side with C. Note Q starts by addressing the anon's themes: leaks + secrecy

In any case, Q wasn't done with his posting spree. Because right after he posted Drop D, here's the post he would have seen (highlighted in red).

And apparently that made him pretty mad, because he responded with Drop E (2nd screenshot):

Drop E provides *even more* textual evidence that Q in this thread is the same poster as Q from drops 6-13.

Why? Because Drop E's themes are *all over* 6-13.

"State Secrets rule as upheld by the SC" (tho not a real thing, at least not in the way Q uses it) is in drop 11.

It's actually in slightly modified form ("State Secrets upheld under SC"), but it's there.

You'll also notice "who surrounds POTUS?" (Refer to "Why is POTUS surrounded by generals?" in Drop A.)

Note also Q's habit of using an underscore in a place that's just... not appropriate