I haven’t heard much about it being a coordinated group of individuals
I am doing a poor job of communicating effectively and tried to make this more clear in my edit on the second comment. The Allegation in my first comment is simply that there is a second angle, Discordian-esque would have been better to use than Discordianist.
Aside from that allegation, what I think happened is that this is a phenomenon that predates the Q label, and started as a Discordian-esque effort to do posting magic not even necessarilly at the scale Q turned out to be. That it is metastasized at a certain point as Q under the Watkins, but there are other smarter shittier posters that are out there that are more responsible for Q than the Watkins are despite their more apparently direct involvement.
It was probably a disconnected set of competing individuals for a while battling over tripcodes, then when it went to 8chan it was possibly one of those original posters, then at some point it became primarily Watkins or someone who worked for him. Any drop now though is 99% probably Jim Watkins himself writing it.
Basically this, I don't think the original competing individuals were primarily channers rather out of a more niche tech cult. Discordia being an example to illustrate this.
I am doing a poor job of communicating effectively and tried to make this more clear in my edit on the second comment. The Allegation in my first comment is simply that there is a second angle, Discordian-esque would have been better to use than Discordianist.
Aside from that allegation, what I think happened is that this is a phenomenon that predates the Q label, and started as a Discordian-esque effort to do posting magic not even necessarilly at the scale Q turned out to be. That it is metastasized at a certain point as Q under the Watkins, but there are other smarter shittier posters that are out there that are more responsible for Q than the Watkins are despite their more apparently direct involvement.
Basically this, I don't think the original competing individuals were primarily channers rather out of a more niche tech cult. Discordia being an example to illustrate this.