“Long I pondered my king’s cryptic talk of victory.” – 300
Why is this relevant? Is this going to be on the quiz on Friday?
What if . . . there was a source deep inside the intelligence apparatus of the United States. What if . . . that source was in the inner circle of the President? What if . . . that source was communicating with the world, and providing “insider” information.
On 8chan.
(But he really started on 4chan.)
And what the heck is a “chan”?
I guess that’s a good enough place to start, even though that’s complicated, too. First, promise me you’ll never go there. I’ll explain below.
The chans (both 4chan and 8chan) are message boards. Originally 4chan was set up to be a message board where folks who spoke English would swap Japanese anime pictures. Yeah, not my cup of tea either. But gradually, the boards . . . evolved.
Ever hear of group Anonymous? These guys?
Yeah, they started on 4chan. And since there’s no real way to get a username on either of the chans, they started going by the name Anonymous. As I understand it, 4chan was where QAnon first posted, but now he posts at 8chan, since he believes that 4chan is less secure. Or something.
So why shouldn’t you go to the chans? 8chan has a (just the one) rule – don’t post or link to any content that’s illegal in the United States. That’s it. That leaves a LOT of room for things that you don’t want to see. And you can’t unsee them. Me? I take my own advice – just because it’s legal doesn’t mean my brain needs to know it exists. I’ve never gone there except one time when I clicked on a link and didn’t know it was to a chan. I immediately closed the window like my hand was being snapped at by Madonna© before she’d had her daily antibiotic shot. (Shudder)
Why? I’m far too young to see what unbridled libertarianism might post on the internet. Not that I think it should necessarily be illegal, but there are things decent people shouldn’t see, like any movie with Amy Schumer, except if she were going to play the role of a Death Star© in Star Wars™ Episode IX: Revolt of the Audience®.
So don’t go to the chans. Just don’t. (Really, don’t.)
But they are (maybe) an anonymous way to communicate. But an anonymous poster began posting what was (in theory) inside information on October 28, 2017. About sixty one posts in (on November 2) he (or she) began signing the posts “Q”.
Since then, the poster has been known as QAnon.
It’s assumed that this Q relates to the Department of Energy Q clearance – the type of clearance that people who work on nuclear bombs have. A friend of mine got this clearance once, and I was a reference. I said nice things to the FBI agent that showed up at my house when she asked about my friend, and my friend eventually got the clearance. I’m pretty sure that this friend isn’t QAnon, since my friend now teaches at a college and I’m pretty sure he isn’t in the Trump inner circle.
But QAnon is now about as popular as the Beatles™ – one particular website that posts regularly about Q, Neon Revolt (LINK), gets 100,000 hits per day – more viewers than CNN® has in a month. And that website started in February.
So what sort of things has QAnon posted?
More recently, this:
This may or may not be a missile launch from a military base aimed at Air Force One (QAnon version) or a medical helicopter on a night training flight (the one story I could find on this – linked HERE).
If you got further into the QAnon posts, he claims that Air Force One was defended by an F-16 with a classified weapon’s package:
Seems odd, right?
But when you look and see that QAnon might have predicted a post by the President:
As of this writing, QAnon has posted 1761 times – you can read them all here, but be warned, included in these posts are posts that look like this:
And this is what the chans love best. It’s cryptic. It has double meaning. It invites going back and re-reading all of the other 1761 posts to see what clues are used in them when and what they mean. SA, is that South American? Saudi Arabia? San Antonio? (I think the general conclusion is Saudi Arabia).
But seriously, the chans LOVE doing this stuff – they even have a name for it, “Weaponized Autism.” And they are amazing at it. My proof?
Shia LeBouf (pronounced Former Celebrity) did some sort of social protest back in 2017. Well, the chans took notice, and took time to mess with him. He had some sort of flag on a constant net stream. When the chans found the flag? They’d send someone to rip it down. So Shia got sneaky. He put up his flag and only pointed the webcam at the flag and sky.
17 hours later? The chans found it and took it down.
Yes. Given minimal clues, the chans found a flag in a random location in the United States.
Yeah, they’re that good. Do NOT be on their bad side. That being said, they love stuff like the QAnon posts – cryptic puzzles galore.
Oh, and check out the shirt below. Yup. That’s the President, pointing out a guy in a QAnon shirt.
Oh, and someone put together a huge list of proof that QAnon has some pretty big predictive power. That link is here (LINK) – and the person who put it together did an awesome job of connecting past posts with events that happened after QAnon posted them. There are some pretty significant coincidences in the list.
Is QAnon for real? That’s hard to say. The list of coincidences is long. But on the other hand, the list of incomprehensible items is large, too, and given the cryptic nature of the posts, it’s almost like reading a Chinese fortune cookie or horoscope – you read into it what you think might be there, and then when it shows up, your interpretation is confirmed. This most commonly happens to me
But don’t go to the chans. Really – it’s not for normies like you and me. Your brain will thank me for this advice.
You used the word PROOFS! The word PROOFS is not the plural of PROOF F F S!!!!
I was trying to tell people that QAnon will likely be found to be a Russian or a really dumb kid who did not pay attention in school because they were using proofs incorrectly.
(So which one are you…)
The plural of proof is proof, DAMMIT!!!! I was enjoying the article until that point, but my eyes started to roll soon after you wrote that… Sigh.
Fixed!
Nothing like a Grammar Nazi who is full of shit and doesn’t know what he is talking about. Ever hear of “Mathematical ProofSSSS”? If you have several problems that you want to solve, you don’t have proof general, you have proofs, on set of proof for each one. To go along with your asinine theory, maybe it turns out that QAnon instead of a English major (aka Grammar Nazi) instead is a mathematician.
I’m on the fence as to whether Q is a real source.
But weaponized autistes are real.
They are. Don’t ever mess with them.