>but actual q messages came through without a "q" signature.
As far as I can remember only the early ones and those didn't have a user set either.
Last year tons of posts were deleted by the old admin because they were similar in the broadest sense to Q posts. Tons were archived on /qrb/ including several that were just location dumps for whatever reason.
There were also a few that were authenticated later by the Rusty yt channel, which of course also no one really knows if it was compromised, or not.
My personal opinion is that Rusty is military, but I can be wrong of course. And I think these Rusty yt drops are also real, again, I could be wrong.
We also had pic related in 2020, once again could be fake or not. Information war.