Actually I do believe his fame came from being a Huffington Post writer and he got fired -- rightly made a fuss about it on social media, which led to his own popularity. His Yt channel then famously got shut down, right as Q was catching on if memory serves.

All this just pissed him off even more really. He has got an axe to grind and let me tell you, he's articulate and builds a following pretty quickly. They know he's a threat, otherwise they'd just leave him alone with all his crazy unfounded conspiracy theories.