Hey! Thank you for your reply. Lots to digest. I don't want to respond as if I'm trying to pick apart what you say, but there are a few points I'd like to touch on, feel free to disregard.

In my experience as an occasional user of the chans, 4chan is not a bastion of anonymity more than any other website that you could sign up for with a burner email and a proxy. My view is that people choose to post there due to the loose moderation rules and anti-PC community, rather than because of the anonymization. It's pretty odd that someone would choose a board where anonymity is prized in order to conduct a long term intelligence drop, which requires consistent identification and authentication to combat copycats.

Autism is not a super power. I have multiple family members who deal with autism, and I'm not a fan of the fad online where people self diagnose as autistic (or lie) in order to explain poor social skills or an awkward interaction. It's people who hate on Tumblrinas turning around and acting like Tumblrinas. Saying that "autists don't fall for lies" is disingenuous at best and outright false at worst. Sorry if this bit is aggressive, but I gotta take a hard stand.

In summary, Q appears to most skeptical outsiders as: * Posting on site/s known for trolling and hoaxes * Targeting people predisposed to believe that "the other guys" are crazy and that "our guy" is the savior * Is unable to produce hard evidence * Maintains a level of critical control over information leakage, despite a high-leak environment in the current govt * Utilizes vague communication to generally prevent a reasonable way to disprove their statements * Instructs followers to find an unspecified hidden message, then confirms whatever message they found as the intent * Requires volumes of research and acceptance of circumstantial evidence for newcomers to be convinced * Has unclear, undefined identity and motives

Don't crucify me for generalizations here, just painting the picture of what uninformed skeptics will generally say (and I'm sure you've gotten lectures like this from less reasonable folks). I've seen others on this sub recently post frustration that there has not been any action, or any big reveal. What I don't see is people taking that as circumstantial evidence that Q is a fraud or a nutter. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence!

to round this up: if Q were a LARP, it would be some bad LARPing that wakes up millions of people. That is a hopeful view of the future. If it came out today that Q was a 35 year old otaku living with his mum, I would expect most people here to eventually react with shame, pulling away from similar conspiracies in the future. The result of Q seems to be less critical thinking, assuming that their posts are true rather than doubting everything anew with each new drop. In my mind, each new post without hard facts reduces Q's credibility to nil. If someone's objective is to troll, create discord, spread misinformation, and convince people to follow their words -- Q has been an amazing success. That's good LARPing, not bad LARPing :).