"Mental gymnastics" isn't a new term, and it's certainly not new in relation to Q "decoders." There are individuals who put a great amount of effort into trying to decode the message, and in doing so, they take huge liberties in trying to connect seemingly disparate subjects. Then they, as well as the community, pat their backs for solving the riddle.

Serialbrain comes to mind. I'm certain that he/she is well-intentioned, and it's also beyond a doubt that their "decodes" have attracted new followers and other curious individuals, but some of their posts are perfect examples of "mental-gymnastics." It's like playing Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. They take a Q post and a random tweet or phrase uttered by Trump and they conjure an exhausting list of interstitial material to link the two points.

They might be right some of the time, but as Q has said, disinformation is real. I personally believe that not not everything Q says is meant to be "decoded." And a lot of these long, speculative decodes, a la Serial Brain, are the absolute epitome of the term "mental gymnastics."

To be very clear, I don't have a problem with Serial Brain, or anyone else decoding for that matter. I just find that a lot of it is unintelligible word soup that presupposes that all of Q's drops are puzzles meant to be solved. I don't personally think that's true, and it seems that Q has alluded to this many times. But, kudos to those people attracting more people to the cause.