Here we go again. Brace yourselves, anons.
Hehehe. Old Ted win the win.
Hannity was being "endorsed" by Q, so of course they ran with that. It got the point anons started protesting by making Hannity memes. He was constantly steering conversation, and anons thought the message from those journos on Hannity's show was telling them it was going to be over by the time the election came around. Then Hannity's viewership dropped almost instantly as Fox started fucking around, again, the closer to the election we got.
WATN is a great idea. It keeps normies off the board, and allows them to find what anons/shills/bakers and others that frequent this place nominate as "notables". It used to have issues as an aggregate because folks would change the bakes up to fuck with their algorithm. I think the concern was "someone is trying to monetize the efforts we put forth, here", so everyone sort of assumed that was the case, and there was some growing hatred towards it.
There was a similar issue with qmap.pub, as you may or may not have noticed. Qmap.pub was always pushed here as the aggregate for qposts and research digs for proofs of their claims, even though qanon.pub had every Q post available without all the assumptive stuff that qmap.pub did, and literally has never gone down, ever.
Hotwheels' old twitter account, @HW_BEAT_THAT, did an entire thread proving who owned qmap.pub, which caused quite the fuss. Brennan also wiped his old twitter account, and moved to a new one so he could keep hanging out with his friends online; @fr_brennan.
Oh, but to answer your question, actually, the banner was like that for years, and then Q put out a post to show anons how the MSM crafted a solid "Qanon" (notice no underscore, there) moniker to attack the movement with a coordinated message. That created room for people to pounce and argue back and forth with bakers and anons alike over whether the banner should be kept or abandoned/changed. That's why every few bakes has a different banner because the real point isn't "We are under one banner" it's that the MSM moniker was adopted to create a central talking point.
The "smart ones" got it. When people say "Do you know about Qanon" you can speak truth and say "No, I don't" because Qanon doesn't even fucking exist. Q does. Anons exist, too. Qanon is no one; doesn't even exist. But getting that through the skulls of people that would rather fight over a Q post's real meaning in order to keep you distracted from what the play is "out in the real world".
Pay attention to how people ask/answer questions about Qanon vs just "Q".
One of these days, there's probably going to be a 17 part mini-series covering just the sheer amount of drama and craziness of this place alone, let along the movement in its entirety.
Joe M had a positive, digestible message for anyone that would listen. If you think about this movement in layers, he's near the top. A lot of the "hardened anons" over the years are more interested in learning about the more "difficult" stuff, and why/how it works. Any progress in that arena is what most, here, are tentatively paying attention to.
There is a lot of deeply disturbing stuff, out there, that never gets posted here. Which is weird, sort of, because it touches on the very reason most anons come here to begin with; finding the enemy and getting them put away.
Participating in the "Q" thing is great, and is an awesome way to get closer to the real truth hidden in every news story laden with lies. However, the really bad shit that should go straight to the FBI is never discussed/discovered and revealed here because there's not a soul that even trusts them anymore. With @POTUS "losing" the election, a lot of people got spooked because one would believe an anonymous report to the FBI is anonymous.
Anything anons find that is 100% absolutely criminal has to be a honeypot at this point. If it isn't, we've got problems. Big fucking problems.