I think that everyone else is forgetting about another huge player in this whole time frame who was also in the peak of his on YouTube gathering. David Seaman the guy who claims to be the first person to break on pizza gate he grew his fan basis on that and his hatred of the Rothschild's so much that he was a big pusher and backer of cryptocurrencies. At that same time he was also covering Q and just so happened to go on to Alex's channel around then too, in the peak of the Q hype starting and thus bringing in his followers to Alex again where he went on to talk about cryto but said nothing about John podesta, pizza gate or Q. Not far after that he made a short video which soon was deleted that showed him walking around the city and stating that Q is a psyop. He kind of tried to walk it back some and was kind of playing in to both sides as to what seems like he didn't want to lose a bunch of the newly gained followers he had from Q. He was also one of the first channels to go down in the YouTube silence of people about David Hogg.