So it appears that Q has replaced most of the original images from this morning. The original images contained metadata, specifically a photoshop creation timestamp. I missed an image this morning and re-downloaded the entire set, just to be safe. Upon comparing the first image set and the second image set, I notice that most of the files had changed, most noticeably the file sizes, but further exploration showed missing metadata and modified image data.

What does this mean?

1 - the bossman and his team have access to the 8chan CDN and can replace files as needed

2 - The metadata was never meant to be released

3 - There might be something good hiding in the original version of the images.

4 - being that multiple images have changed change and Q stated the sequence was important, information might be fragmented across multiple images.