A politics comment, guilded at 7k, linked at best of, got people daring them to post to conspiracy. Its mostly anti-Q. I guess Q followers are too dumb to even know how to use reddit.

    • AlfredNobel [comrade/them,any]
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      4 years ago

      I think Watkins just saw it was gaining popularity and stole it. I think it started on 4chan then moved to 8chan which Watkins owned.

        • abc [he/him, comrade/them]
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          4 years ago

          It absolutely goes

          1. Original Q on /pol/
          2. ??? [During this time there was the 8chan move and whatnot]
          3. Watkins

          I'm just not sure why the original poster even matters haha. Q's heyday on /pol/ was the same time as the RoguePotusStaff type accounts on twitter and High Level Insider /pol/ posters which were essentially just people exercising their creative writing skills and somehow actually getting people to believe that Trump watches The Gorilla Channel for eight hours each day.

            • abc [he/him, comrade/them]
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              4 years ago

              Oh yeah - it's absolutely mind boggling haha. 8chan and the Q subreddits were really the height of the boomers. I forget what the specific subreddit that I would occasionally look at was called (I'm too lazy to even google it real quick; I'm sure it was some obtuse dog whistle like The Storm Front or whatever lmao) but the boomer posts were incredible -- just a bunch of privileged white americans in their twilight years posting pictures of themselves in Q shirts at like a Wegmans with the caption "IN MY VERY LIBERAL NEIGHBORHOOD REPPING Q - DRAIN THE SWAMP!" :gui-better:

        • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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          4 years ago

          Given how 4chan normally works, I suspect the original QAnon was just a community-established running joke that metasticized into a real thing by way of gullible inertia.