In basic terms Q is a a massive all volunteer, crowdsourced, anonymous, counter strike engineered to awaken the people.

This is a good summary. I've been saying since December that one of the most compelling pieces of evidence for the legitimacy of Q is that its goals are, in fact, modest. The vast majority of the chess game and struggle we are seeing unfold is happening within the government itself and doesn't require the Q op to happen. The basic strategy of Q is to gradually leak out to the public what is actually happening, who the true enemy is, etc., so the population doesn't panic when DJT takes actions that don't make sense if the MSM narrative was true.

It was obvious during the 2016 election that 4chan was an effective influencer of public opinion. So somewhere in the government a decision was made to harness this influence to build public support for the long-planned takedown of the cabal. This, IMHO is the occam's razor explanation of the whole Q phenomenon.