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Drop 885 (Mar 8 2018)
Everything has meaning.

This is not a game.

Learn to play the game.

SAPPORO, JAPAN
NOVEMBER 2019

Anywhere you want to sit.

I know it's hard to get beer
off tatami floors, but...

No, no, please. Feel...
Make yourself at home totally.

I got five emails this morning.

New York Times,
BBC, NPR, and FOX.

For me, those are the enemy.

What are these people
are accusing you of?

- Have you heard of QAnon?
- Yes.

What do you know
about QAnon?

A type of movement
that's shrouded in secrecy.

And I have heard of it,
but I have no idea what it is.

I see.
This is how the story goes.

I believe one of Donald Trump's
most trusted people,

who has a Q level
security clearance,

is dropping like these little tidbits
of information anonymously online.

So, this is the second Q drop.

It really sets the stage
for everything else.

Mockingbird.
HRC detained, not arrested yet.

Where's Huma?
Follow Huma.

This has nothing to do
with Russia yet.

What is military intelligence?

Why go around
the three-letter agencies?

God bless fellow patriots.

This information
was dropped anonymously

by someone
with a pseudonym QAnon.

- This is QAnon?
- Yeah.

He rarely states specific facts
with a period.

Basically, this is the very beginning
of these drops

that have captivated
the minds of...

- Millions.
- Yeah.

And people are attacking me
to get this shut down

because I provide
a place for him to talk.

Or, her. Or, whatever it is.

I'm not going out of my way
to host QAnon.

QAnon's just another user
of my website.

- QAnon picked your website.
- Correct.

Because every other website
banned him.

Reddit banned him.
4chan banned him.

What about 8chan?
Is there eight... Isn't there...

Yeah, that's my website.
We have not banned him.

- You're 8chan?
- Yeah.

- I'm your neighbor.
- Oh. Wow.

You are a user?

No, but I know it.

What do you think? Like I've been
your neighbor for two years now.

What'd you think I did?

I thought you were
a Chinese translator.

Everybody likes free speech,

but there's a tipping point
for everybody.

When is free speech
too much?

The storming of the Capitol.

The Storm.

It was an event that Q had promised
its followers for nearly three years.

The persona
behind this movement,

an anonymous figure
known only as Q,

had somehow risen from
the darkest reaches of the Internet

to the seat of the Capitol.

And while a shocked nation
searched for answers,

to me, it seemed
like an inevitable conclusion

to an absurd
and almost unbelievable story.

A story of how a website
changed the world

all with the help
of a single letter.

And we're gonna win big.
Q just watch.

Q: INTO THE STORM

Have you ever wondered
why we go to war

or why you never seem
to be able to get out of debt?

Why there is poverty,
division, and crime?

What if I told you there was
a reason for it all?

What if I told you
it was done on purpose?

OCALA, FLORIDA
SEPTEMBER 2018

Q. The media's trying to label it
as a conspiracy theory.

It's interesting how they use that.
The conspiracy word.

How they relate conspiracy
with Trump's audience.

Conspiring against what?
What is it?

Did anybody ever ask that question?
What did we conspired against?

The deep state? What is it?

What are we after?
We just want information.

What are we a threat to?

We're a threat to the organizations
that control the information.

That's all it is.

Good patriots in the US military
and their global partners

asked Trump to run for president

so they could take back control
of America legitimately

without alarming the public.

Trump was a good choice
obviously

because he overcame the voter fraud
and won.

But he was a patriot, and he was
loved and admired by the public.

Even when he won, the cabal still
had no idea what he was a part of,

and the sophisticated plan that was
about to unfold against them.

The Plan.
Now, in the normal world,

the word plan, it wouldn't have had
any special meaning to me.

But in the Q universe, it takes
on a totally different meaning.

Because whenever I hear plan,
I think trust the plan.

And when I see the number 17,
I think Q.

When I see an owl,
I think Moloch.

The Nike slogan,
Just Do It. Q.

I can't hear the name Clinton
without thinking body count,

and it doesn't matter if you trust
the plan or want to unravel it,

QAnon creeps
into your thoughts.

It changes the lens
through which you see the world.

And maybe
that was Q's true purpose,

to lure in people
with a question

then slowly change
how they think.

- So, what is Q?
- What is QAnon?

I am Q.

Q's method of reaching the masses

seemed like something pulled
from the pages of a Sci-Fi novel.

They wore shirts and signs
emblazoned with only the letter Q.

An anonymous character
who shares cryptic messages

through an online forum
in order to reveal a secret plan

and save the world
from an evil global cabal.

- Hillary Clinton's a pedophile?
- Worse.

What's worse
than a pedophile?

Human sacrifice, child sacrifice,
newborn babies.

QAnon also told its followers
to question everything.

It was part interactive game,

part religion,
part political movement.

More traction
after some famous faces,

Roseanne Barr, Curt Schilling,
the former major leaguer.

Followers shared a desire
for revolution,

that all of the ills of the world were
on the brink of being cured.

You could even get
inside access to this plan.

You could even help.

- We voted for Obama each time.
- Twice.

I bought into the media,
the first black president.

Sure, let's check it out. Let's give
him a shot. That's how I felt.

We always voted democrat.

We were in a democrat state.

We had a very busy lifestyle.
We never really researched.

And now, with Q,
our eyes are open.

That's why they call it
The Great Awakening

'cause we're like, holy crap,
there was a lot of stuff going on

that it was only our fault
for not paying attention.

Jenn and Jaime
had been redpilled in 2018.

And this concept of redpilling comes
from that scene in The Matrix

where Keanu Reeves' character
chooses to take the red pill,

which reveals a hidden reality.

All I'm offering is the truth.
Nothing more.

This is how followers see Q,
as the ultimate red pill.

That's one thing about Q.
He's positive, he's patriotic.

Whoever the Q is, they want
everybody to come together.

They want you to do
your own individual research.

The media, everything,
everybody's just lying to you.

We know the corruption is bad.

We just didn't realize
how bad it was.

Q gives us an insight.

Millions of people were following

this supposed government
insider's every message,

also known as Q drops,

waiting for the moment
that justice would be served.

From October of 2017 and continuing
through the 2020 election,

Q wrote
nearly five thousand drops.

Sometimes there would be
more than 10 drops in a single day.

Sometimes 10 days would go by
without a single message.

Q's drops were numbered in sequence,
interpreted by followers,

then translated into memes

and fired like ammo across
the battlefield of the Internet

before eventually landing
on your grandma's Facebook page.

And on more than one occasion,

they found their way
to the President's Twitter feed,

the resolute desk of the Internet.

We don't believe Q
is just one specific person.

We believe it's a team of what
some people say is military people.

Back in October of 2017,
before Q got started,

President Trump met
with a number of military officials

and foreign dignitaries,
as a president often will do.

But it's what he said
in the press conference after

that caught people's attention.

Do you guys know
what this represents?

Tell us, sir.

Maybe it's the calm
before the storm.

What's the storm?
What does that mean?

The calm before the storm.

Trump likes to troll the media,

and admittedly, this was
a pretty fucking weird thing to say,

even for Trump.
But once Q started posting,

the anticipation of the storm
became a key part of the Q-lore.

Waiting for the moment
that martial law would be triggered,

the evil global cabal rounded up,

and then for the military tribunals
that would follow.

Some of these politicians are gonna
be arrested and swooped up and...

I'm still waiting for all the arrests.

There's over 55 thousand
sealed indictments right now.

They're all probably people that have
stuff to do with trafficking, drugs.

I think there's just gonna be
this big bust

that goes down
for a whole bunch of stuff.

What the storm involves is
elite military units going in,

arresting specific individuals.

It's not to be used
against the people long term,

it's to temporarily restore order.

What storm, Mr. President?

We have the world's
great military people in this room,

I will tell you that.

Q understood how to turn attacks
into ammunition.

The more the mainstream media
tried to debunk Qanon...

Like unfortunately, a lot more people
believe in this than you think they do.

The more they became
a part of the conspiracy against it.

And eventually, it was estimated
that tens of millions believed in Q.

But the campaign to derail QAnon
started gaining steam in 2018

when Reddit, a popular
Internet forum, banned QAnon,

and that's
when I picked up a camera.

I had spent much of the last decade
talking to audiences

about why digital privacy mattered.

And now, it seemed that QAnon was
on the front lines of a new debate.

Just how free speech online
should actually be.

And even though I don't believe
Hillary Clinton eats babies,

I also wasn't convinced

that silencing Q's followers
was the right idea either.

Q derives its power
from anonymity.

The faceless Anon could be anyone
in the minds of its followers.

A flawless patriot mobilizing an army
without fear of repercussion.

So, I set out to chart Q's origins,
and meet the players

in order to understand the underlying
motives and build a list of suspects.

It seemed unmasking Q
might bring an end

to what in 2018
was still mostly a game.

So, we don't really have a list
of plausible Qs at this point.

Things we think we know about
this guy: he's probably military,

high IQ, probably high psychopathy,
operating alone.

Definitely a homebody.

It reads almost like you're looking
at some kind of secret memo.

It really feels like somebody
who has probably

their whole life wanted
the spotlight shined on them.

This is the moment that they always
knew would come, and now it's here.

But to understand QAnon,

you have to start at the place
where Q posts, 8chan.

8chan is one
of many imageboard websites.

An imageboard is essentially
an Internet forum

where folks can share images
and discuss different topics.

On 8chan, there are hundreds of boards,
and each topic gets its own board.

They've got it all here, diaper porn,
white supremacy, the occult.

They've also got videogames
and Christianity.

Seriously, Christians is in their top
10 boards, and Islam isn't far behind.

If it's legal within the bounds
of US law, it's legal on 8chan.

And everybody who posts there
is anonymous.

And that's why users
call themselves Anons.

Or anonymous users.

And those who run the site

consider it to be the ultimate
expression of free speech.

And it's the website
that Q calls home.

It was originally created by Fredrick
Brennan when he was 19 years old.

Q is extremely genius

in how he is able to keep putting out
these breadcrumbs, as he calls them.

Or as the users call them
and keep everybody engaged.

Fred lives in the Philippines,

and has a rare genetic disorder
called brittle bone disease.

In 2018,
I reached out to him over Twitter.

He seemed hesitant at first,

though once we started talking
on Skype,

the conversation went on
for hours.

Q is whoever you want it to be.
You know what I mean?

I've talked
to different Q believers.

On one day
they'll think it's Steve Bannon,

on another day they'll think it's,
sometimes they'll even think it's me.

I have this one guy who asks me
all the time are you Q?

Are you Q?
And he won't believe it if I say no.

Fred also played a role
within the Q narrative.

One day, a mysterious giant blue Q
appeared at his apartment in Manila.

This is apparently a gift from Q,
as referenced in one of the drops.

Even my little thing
of receiving the Q,

if you will debate with a Q believer
why Q was real,

my post with the Q ironically is one
of the reasons that Q exists now.

I have the Q
if you wanna see it.

May, do you wanna go get that?
Go get the blue Q.

Now, being Q'd was one of the
most integral mechanics of QAnon.

Q had somehow taken
the banality of a retweet

and elevated the meaning
to be part of a higher plan

or purpose connected to Trump.

There was a sense that Q was always
watching, always making moves.

It was a powerful notion,

and it transformed followers
into true believers.

I asked a friend who else
do you know who's going to the rally?

And she said
well, I think Joy is going.

So she became famous for wearing
the MAGA dress to the Emmys.

So, I offered to pick Joy up
at the airport and bring her over.

We were invited VIP,
and we went in front of the VIP line.

I was the second or third
person in the door.

This is the Q. This is wood.
This is not cardboard.

And we were right pretty much
in the center a couple rows back,

right in front of President Trump.

Trump came out, and yeah,
first he pointed straight to me.

I instantly understood
the communication.

I whipped out my phone.

My son, Jordan,
he turned around to me

and goes I think President Trump
just pointed to it. To me.

He looks at me, and he gives me
a little finger wag. Fairly subtle.

Yeah, it just sort of happened.
It wasn't planned.

And someone said Q's looking
for whoever had a cutout.

Q's looking for you.

So, then, people behind me
started shouting

hey, guy in the red shirt,
you just made Q.

Q found me within six minutes, which
means that he had eyes on the rally.

Somehow, they knew my name.

Q don't reach out to anybody,
he just puts you in his drops.

And he said VIPs,
thank you patriots.

He was right with us.

Build the wall. Build the wall. And
he was chanting with us. It was funny.

I think Q is something that could
only happen in our current day,

where there are
just so many people

distrusting of all of
the mainstream sources.

So, the fact
that people are speaking out,

and that the holes in the system
are so clear

that it only takes
a five-minute YouTube video

to get people on your side,
that's the real problem.

Hello world,
Jordan Sather reporting for duty.

Hi. Thanks for joining me.

This is the video I have been wanting
to make forever.

And since Q's messages
were hard to understand,

followers would turn to YouTubers,
or Qtubers.

People who spent
every day analyzing Q's drops,

to tell them what it all meant.

Obviously today is a big day.

Yes, this is the real deal, guys.
This is it.

Guys, we have to be very careful
about what's about to happen.

The absolute biggest mindfuck
for truthers that we've ever seen.

I would just say you know what?
Sit back. Hey, pop some popcorn.

I mean, shit's gonna hit the fan.

YouTube directed normies to Q.

it's algorithms the mathematical
equivalent of a digital sociopath

with just one goal:
keeping your attention.

You have so much more
than you know. So much.

Satanic pedophile elites.

Looks like he's having a relationship
with a minor.

Deceptive and manipulative.

It looks suspicious.

Oh my god, this is so sick.

Again, thank you all for supporting
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Please check out
some of my other videos.

Keep up the fight.
You can follow me on Twitter.

Also, hit the like button
if you guys like this content,

and want to see me make more.

I was turned on to Q

probably about a month and a half
after it started.

I had seen on different websites
and YouTube channels

how a lot of people started talking
about this QAnon phenomenon.

I thought it was a great topic
for my channel.

What's interesting now is
that Q's talking more about...

Craig James is one
of the most popular QTubers.

When we first met, he'd been living
and breathing Q for months

and had built a career around it.

I got god above, right?

So, the crosses, I like to keep those
the highest 'cause god's first.

But then I got Trump looking
over our work.

It's his war face.
It's my favorite.

For home defense, obviously.

Don't keep that.

OCTOBER 2018

How long has it been
since there's been a Q drop?

It's been 10 days.
I'm checking my phone all day.

I'm checking the computer
all night.

So, as soon as a Q post is up, I'm
doing a breakdown video analysis of it.

It says freedom of the press
is vital to retain.

Trust the plan. There are
a lot more good than bad.

My channel on YouTube has around
166 thousand subscribers right now.

That's basically looking at about
two and a half million views a month.

So, the reach is there.
We're reaching millions of people.

Another guy that's doing great work
on the Q posts in my opinion

would be
somebody like Dustin Nemos.

He's got a pretty good channel.

This is a new movie from Disney
of all places,

and you guys know
how I feel about Disney.

It's filled with pedophiles and abuse.

I'm just saying, there it is.
You see it?

That big, beautiful brazen Q right
there on the chest of this guy's shirt.

My channel
has just grown so much.

It's unbelievable.
This Q thing. It's exponential.

They even dropped some
of the metrics on one of the boards,

and they went from early
a couple dozen thousand

to over a million
in a few months.

It's just exponential growth.

I can get on YouTube
and speak my piece.

I've been trying to tell people
the truth all my life.

Why not go
where someone might actually listen

instead of harassing
my family members?

Hi, everybody. I wanna do
a quick video and update you guys.

There's people out there
like Liz Crokin

who are just completely experts
in breaking this down.

President Trump can't just come out
and say, hey, guess what?

The world's being run
by satanic pedophiles

who rape and torture babies,
and drink their blood.

Q asked questions,
and followers conjured answers.

Almost any theory was welcome.

The most predominant theory was
that a group of global elites,

including Hollywood celebrities,

prominent politicians,
and billionaires,

were running a sex trafficking ring

and eating babies
for their rejuvenating powers.

Calling your enemy a baby eater
is an age-old strategy.

Atrocity stories were used
during the Crusades against Islam,

as British propaganda
against Germany during World War I,

and against the Jewish people
since, well, forever.

For many Q followers,

believing in this movement alienated
them from their friends, family,

and in some cases,
cost them their careers.

I actually got my first news job
when I was 16 or 17.

I've worked
on two presidential campaigns,

I've worked for many
different media companies.

I worked for the Tribune company

and I ran their gossip column
for seven years.

I had people
in the mainstream media tell me

we will not cover the child sex
trafficking, and I found it appalling.

So, I left the mainstream media,

but I was also blacklisted and
censored from other organizations.

So, I rely completely on donations.

I don't make enough money
to pay all of my bills.

They're all frauds.
They're all puppets.

They are all tools

that are used by and manipulated
by the deep state to distract.

To distract from what
is really going on in Hollywood,

and that is the rape, torture,

trafficking, and sacrificing
of children.

Literally nothing
would surprise me.

So, if you tell me
that aliens are real

and the earth's flat, or it's...
We're being...

The earth's flat
wouldn't surprise you?

- No.
- Really?

There is nothing that...

I expose people that literally rape
and eat babies.

To me, if that is able to exist
in this world,

I think anything is possible.

After Q dropped his first drop,

I just immediately knew
that this was legit.

I just knew it intuitively.

I started researching some
of the things that Q was posting,

and everything resonated with me,
and everything added up.

So, yeah, so I lost a ton of friends
from high school,

I've had strained relationships
with family members.

I became targeted, so I have been
followed and harassed

ever since I went public telling
the truth about Pizzagate.

PIZZAGATE IS REAL

So, QAnon is almost
sort of a mega conspiracy theory

that absorbs
so many conspiracy theories

both of our time
and decades ago.

We saw in the runup,
especially in the 2016 election,

a lot of conspiracy theories
gaining steam,

that have now been folded
into QAnon,

and are sort
the precursors to QAnon.

So, for example, Pizzagate...

Pizzagate is something
that started

with the release of John Podesta's
hacked emails on WikiLeaks.

People started going through,

and they're seeing
these references to pizza.

And these are mostly
innocuous references,

but they're like wow,
this guy's getting a lot of pizza.

And so,
someone who's going through it

and really is sort of looking
for nefarious explanations,

they see that John Podesta is going
to this Comet Ping Pong place,

which is a pizzeria
in Washington,

and these guys
are just screaming about

how John Podesta,
Hillary Clinton,

they're raping children
in this dungeon,

and pizza is the codeword for
essentially a child you wanna rape.

Q doesn't overtly mention Pizzagate
in the drops.

Right, and that's something

that I think a lot of researchers
get wrong about it.

They always say
that one grew out of the other,

and maybe,
but only in the methodology.

Getting people to pay attention
to you because of codes.

In Jack Posobiec's case,
he was relatively little known,

but he was in the DC area,

and so he went
to Comet Ping Pong

and livestreamed
himself sort of like,

okay, I'm going
into this child rape dungeon.

And I decided
that I wanted to go for some pizza.

Jack Posobiec actually took
this weird route where he claimed

that he went to Comet Ping Pong
to debunk Pizzagate.

Which is... If you play back
the footage from that night

is absolutely not what was going on.

We're gonna go in, and we're
gonna infiltrate Comet Pizza.

I thought why don't I just show people
that it's a regular restaurant?

I was making fun of people
who believe in this type of stuff.

And partially that's on me
because I didn't understand

that the IQ of the Internet
is below the average.

So, a lot of people have been
going into that back room.

So, a secret-secret door to get
into the bathroom. See that?

He's walking
around the restaurant

being like some creepy stuff in here,
guys. Like I think we're being watched.

See the the face
on the wall over there?

I mean, it did end up sort
of fanning the flames, right?

Like more people believed in it
after your video.

Inadvertently, yeah.

I understand that to you,
this is maybe like a game,

but considering that I myself or my
staff received death threats, it's...

I tried to explain to them, I said,
I'm not trying to push this thing.

I'm actually trying to go
in the other direction,

and then say said
well, we don't care.

We just want you to go.

Wow. Wow. Wow.

- It almost makes bigger news.
- Wow.

And then going on Infowars
and detailing your experience,

traveling to the pizza place,

just being like I don't know man, it
was really weird. That's not debunking.

Pizzagate.
It has been trending on Twitter.

Certainly, some weird stuff there.
We'll see if that trend continues.

The culmination of that
comes in December

when the man from North Carolina
comes up and fires some shots,

claims here's there
to rescue children.

28-year-old Edgar Madison Welch
was inspired by a lie spread online.

QAnon is almost a more palatable way
to look at something like Pizzagate

because Pizzagate
is so disprovable.

Okay, in the basement of
Comet Ping Pong they're saying

there's a rape dungeon.

Well, Comet Ping Pong
doesn't have a basement.

So, oh well.
But QAnon is much vaguer.

You can always say, your
interpretation of QAnon is wrong,

but that doesn't mean that
QAnon itself is wrong or fake.

What is QAnon?
Where did it come from?

But Jack did try to debunk Q,

even pretending
that he knew who started it,

claiming that Q was a LARP.

Now, LARP stands
for live action roleplay,

which usually refers to people
dressing up like wizards and elves

to live out a collective fantasy.

In this case,
calling Q a LARP implied

that Q was just some A hole pretending
to be a secret government insider.

And Q didn't like that so much,

going so far
as to call Jack out in a drop.

And in doing so,
sending the Q army after him.

This digital army worked in unison,

attacking targets with harassment
campaigns, or cheering allies,

usually by posting a meme
or simply scrawling Q sent me.

It makes it very hard
to report or deal with them,

because you both know
that there's a good chance

they're lying to you
about anything,

and that they're also collecting
what you're saying to them,

and either recording it or, I mean,
I've asked people for comment

and then like 20 minutes later
they posted my phone number

and the email and everything
to their fans, and yeah.

The Q army would be us.
So, people like me.

Everyone that follows Q
is part of the the Q army.

Q would often repeat itself
using key words and phrases

that found their way
onto mugs, t-shirts, hats,

and the occasional baby.

We have calm before the storm,
red October, this is not a game,

Godfather III, trust the plan,
dark to light, Alice in Wonderland,

future proves past, panic in DC,
the great awakening, the storm,

do you believe in coincidences?
And topping the charts...

Where we go one, we go all.

Where we go one, we go all.

It's a reference to a largely forgotten
'90s flick, called White Squall.

You told us where we go one,
we go all. Well, we believed you.

Q understands that repetition
is a useful psychological tactic

when trying to mobilize people
behind a common cause.

It's also a clue that leads us
to a much bigger question,

who Q actually is.

Now, when considering
possible suspects,

false positives are everywhere.

And just looking
at Q's digital trail,

I can make a case for any number of
people being behind the operation.

Hell, I can even make a case
for myself.

You can really find yourself
falling down a hole,

in terms of trying
to find out who Q is.

Obviously,
the one QAnon people think is

that they think it's someone
close to Trump.

So, they think it's Donald Trump Jr.
Maybe it's Michael Flynn.

Do you think
that Flynn is in on it?

Flynn seems to be aware of it
for sure.

He's signing things
where we go one, we go all.

You know, that's a Q expression.

Q has said that less than 10 people
in the world can identify me.

But there are several theories.

There's a guy
named Vincent Fusca

who's been filmed
at several Trump rallies.

I think it's Vincent Fusca
who's actually JFK Junior

'cause if you look at his grave
in Arlington Cemetery,

from above, it's this huge Q.

He didn't die.
He was already Trump's best friend,

and they've been working together
all along.

Q is a real insider
with real inside information.

It's not one person, that's for sure.
It's a group of people.

There's always been the thought
that like Q is maybe a team,

but I've kind of suspected
it might be like one person

who's like an aide something.

It's safe to say that
Roger Stone and Q sort of speak

to the same cut
of the conservative base.

You can't rule out
some foreign influence operation,

although, I don't think
there's a ton of evidence

pointing in that direction now.

I was thinking more like maybe
Steve Miller or Dan Scavino.

So, what you're saying is
you are not Q.

No, I'm not.

Steve Bannon would be
a high possibility for me.

He would be probably
one of my higher up candidates.

I think Q is President Trump.

The verifications that we've seen
between his Twitter account

and posts by Q where they're almost
dropping posts at the same time...

This Q post came out
September 30th at 14:53. 2:53 PM.

Then you got Donald J. Trump tweeted
at 2:56, three minutes after Q.

If you look at the very end,
stay tuned and watch. See that?

When you start looking into it,

like when I was trying to figure out
who was behind QAnon,

it was like I gotta follow the money.
Like, of course.

Some of the first promoters of QAnon
is some of the first people

who took this from Internet 4chan thing
into something that was more accessible

and easier to reach people.

So, I mean, these were people
with names like Pamphlet Anon.

He runs the site called
Patriot Soapbox.

Good morning, afternoon, evening
around the world, patriots.

It's top of the hour.

You're listening to We the People,
Patriot Soapbox, 24/7 livestream.

Patriot Soapbox ran the earliest
and most successful chatroom

dedicated to Q before starting
a 24-hour QAnon YouTube channel.

These are people who are making
money off of QAnon

through their livestreams
that people donate to.

They would seem like
one of the major suspects.

Like most Anons,

the couple behind Patriot Soapbox was
deeply distrustful of mainstream media.

To compound matters,
NBC had written an article

that suggested Patriot Soapbox
might be behind Q.

The article also revealed
their real names to the world.

Yeah, it was a big thing
when we got doxed.

Our names weren't out there,
and if we had our way,

they still wouldn't be, probably.

One of the things that made it
so interesting and mysterious

was like you didn't know
who was talking to you.

It could be anybody,
and you know, facing...

That's true. When they thought
I was Don Jr. we got like...

Oh my gosh that was so funny.

I was the one that latched on first.

One day I saw a post
on some mysterious insider,

and I immediately started
following on 4chan.

So, when did you decide
to quit your respective jobs

or whatever you were doing before
and go full time on this?

February 15th was
my last day of work.

I had already thrown myself
into it full time at that point.

Everybody that's here,
go ahead and introduce yourself.

Jane Anon LaBay from Illinois.

- We're from the Pacific Northwest.
- Freedom Anon from Arizona.

- M Tex from Missouri.
- Warrior B-Yotch from Wisconsin.

We're sorry everybody.
I know it's hard.

There's a lot of us
tuning in tonight.

The impetus was trying
to provide a platform

that allowed people
to just speak their mind

with a bare minimum
of technological knowledge.

- Was there a specific age group?
- Mainly boomers. Retirees.

Many of the people I've met here,

this is more than I could've ever
imagined my life to be.

Uh, somebody told Pam
this was a bad idea.

Yes, exactly right. It was
a bad idea for the deep state.

It certainly wasn't
a bad idea for us.

Despite all the hate
that boomers got,

they had a lot to offer,
and they were not being engaged.

We have a full book of like letters.

We get letters from people
that tell us

that we have like saved them from
depression and death and suicide.

- It's weird.
- It blows your mind.

I've read these stupid hit pieces
they write about,

my husband
started reading Q posts,

and now we don't talk
or whatever.

And I fear
for his mental wellbeing.

And then there were
all these other weird people

that come out of like nowhere.
This Travis View guy.

Iit's where their whole persona
is just like attacking anybody

that covers the Q posts.

Like in any good game,
QAnons have opposition.

People who are
just as obsessed with Q,

only they devote their time
to debunking it.

When I created my account,

I thought I was going to use it to
make snarky comments occasionally.

Just sort of do it
with the safety of anonymity

as I've done for years
and years and years.

I've always been sort of an anonymous
shitposter through accounts

since I was like 14.

I was just sort of like irritated
with QAnon,

and I started making these
screenshots about what they're doing

and what they're up to
'cause it was pissing me off

that they were operating
in the shadows,

and they're believing
these crazy things,

and no one was talking about it.

And so I wanted
to show people.

Welcome, listeners to the 56th chapter
of the QAnon Anonymous podcast.

As always, we are your hosts,
Jake Rockatansky...

- Julian Fields.
- And Travis View.

But before all that,
QAnon news.

We're like a Brita water filter for all
the horrible shit on the Internet.

Bad for the world,
good for the podcast.

So, we may just be seeing
the tip of the iceberg.

Llike they know how crazy it sounds,
and so they won't actually come out

and out themselves
that they believe in this shit.

So, I think when we talk about QAnon
believers versus nonbelievers,

I think that's actually
the wrong way to look at it.

These beliefs have been festering
in American consciousness way before.

That's the scary thing is
that if 8chan went down,

Q never came back,
it would still be just as strong.

Now, Q didn't actually start
on 8chan.

Q started on 4chan,
its less infamous stepfather.

Both 4chan and 8chan
have very similar formats,

except 4chan
is more heavily moderated.

So, one day,
Q decided to move on.

Q moves from 4chan to 8chan
to CBTS, or Calm Before the Storm.

They move to a board that is controlled
by a QAnon true believer.

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA

When Q moved
from 4chan to 8chan,

for some reason,
Q chose Paul's board.

Paul Furber, also known
as Baruch The Scribe.

An Anon living in South Africa.

Now, Furber was another character
named in the NBC article

as a likely suspect for Q.

So, I was surprised
he was going to talk

and more surprised still
that he accepted my offer

to come visit him
in Johannesburg.

Though we had communicated
over Skype,

I wasn't even sure
what he looked like.

And if Paul had started Q
or knew who did,

then he would be extremely well
versed in the art of deception.

What you see
is what you get with me.

I'm going to just be honest here.

No one has ever caught me in
a single lie about this whole incident,

and I I'll challenge anyone
who claims that

because I decided very early on
that I would tell the truth

about what happened
and what I thought at the time.

Why did Q trust
your board?

I would imagine that I was vetted
in the background.

After we got basically blown off 4chan
like a pile of leaves in the wind,

that Q had a look at 8chan
and saw there was a CBTS board.

Q showed up on my board,
and it was a mixture of pure fear

and awesome responsibility
and excitement

and all kind of rolled
into one second.

I remember like telling my wife
at supper

that Q has posted on my board,

and she was like,
wow, so he has moved.

What I remember about those days
was just the intensity of it all.

Because so much was happening,

so Paul would come out
and grab a coffee.

While the kettle was boiling,

he would tell us
what's been the latest with Q,

and then he'd disappear again.

I had to be reminded
that it was Christmas Eve.

- Do you remember that?
- I do.

I said, no, but Q has just like posted
Merry Christmas, patriots.

I have to go
and run the board.

This is what my daily view would
look like in the eye of the storm.

People could post
whatever they wanted.

There was a lot of research.

This is a local archival backup
of the whole board.

I used to take automatic backups
every hour.

Q would post its drops on CBTS,

the first board on 8chan
devoted to researching Q.

When making a post, Q would
enter a secret password.

That password would get
cryptographically scrambled,

resulting in something called
a tripcode.

It's essentially
a digital signature

that lets everyone know
the real Q was posting,

all while remaining anonymous.

Q's drops would often include
leading questions and clues.

Anons would go on digs,

scouring the Internet
for answers,

and post what they'd found
on the board.

Specialized Anons, called bakers,

would then select the best research
and theories

that came from the digs.

Being a baker is a terrible job.

It's like laying down railroad tracks
in front of an oncoming train

because you have
a thousand monkeys inside a thread,

all throwing poo at you.

However, in amongst that
is a piece of pure gold,

and you have to make sure
that you both see it

and get it
into the next thread.

The bakers made Q's job
a little easier.

Q could look
at the curated research and theories

and fold its favorite answers
into an ever expanding narrative.

Anons would then thank the bakers,
usually with some porn.

Q is extremely intelligent
on how he drops his posts.

And then Trump says
something similar.

And then they tie that
all together into proof Q exists.

Anybody, I'll show 'em Q proofs
and say, look, talk me out of it.

Tell me why this ain't real,
or tell me, prove it wrong.

Q Proofs.
Evidence that Q is close to Trump.

Or close to somebody
who is close to Trump.

Photos, random codes, obtuse
and sometimes dated references.

They inspire the player
to research online,

to connect whatever dots they
may find, and invent new theories.

Trump put this photo on Twitter.

So, you can see if you trace
the thumbs, they make a Q.

Twitter assigns a filename of totally
random numbers and letters.

And the filename just happens
to start with do it Q.

Q came up with things
that were so utterly outrageous.

Yeah, they still blow my mind.

Remarkable times
in Saudi Arabia.

There's been an unprecedented
anticorruption purge.

Q basically predicted the arrest

of dozens of members
of the Saudi royal family.

This is when I realized
that Q was the real deal.

November the 10th
I think it was,

Q posted a couple of original photos
of Air Force One,

which we then tracked down.

It matched
the president's itinerary exactly.

We keep it in tiptop shape.

We call it sometimes tippy top shape.
And it's a great, great place.

I want somebody to talk me out
of why Trump said tippy top.

And then he makes this reference
to every dog has its day.

I guess officially you would say that
John McCain passed yesterday,

which was August 25th,
but what is today?

I'm not making this up.
It is the national dog day.

There's the January 13th
DEFCON1 Hawaii missile proof.

That emergency alert that said

that there was an incoming ballistic
missile to Hawaii to seek shelter

and that it was not a drill
did send out a sense of panic.

When Q, for instance, just tacks on the
Catholic version of the Lord's Prayer

onto one of his posts,
and then three weeks later,

suddenly the pope announce that
he wants to change the Lord's Prayer.

And Q pops up the next day
and says, did you see the news?

This man knew
the mind of the pope

who lives in one of the most closely
guarded buildings in the world,

which is the Vatican. How could
he possibly have known that?

Because he's a senior Mil Int guy
standing next to the president

who has satellite tracking
that we can only dream of.

All Q does is that Q throws out
a lot of nonsense,

and the claims that hit are treated
as psychic almost.

But the ones that fail,
it was something else.

There's an explanation.

There's a rationalization,
so we can dismiss that.

All Q claims that appear to be
predictive prove that Q is real,

and all the ones that fail can be
dismissed for one reason or another.

Trump does a video.

Instead of saying, you just watch,
he said Q just watch.

We're gonna win, and we're
gonna win big. Q just watch.

To me, this looks
like another proof of Q

that President Trump
would pick the number 17

to be his official
jersey number.

The 17th letter
of the alphabet is Q.

It says can POTUS tweet a misspelling
with a Q? Trump tweeted this here.

I've seen so many good,
strong, solid reasons to think

that Q is just mathematically
impossible to be anything other

than a legitimate insider working with
Trump to disclose what's happening.

Everything he says ends up coming
true in some form or fashion.

When he makes a prediction, he'll say
this is gonna happen, and it does.

I've stopped believing
in coincidences.

I used to believe in them,
but I don't anymore.

Paul Furber, Patriot Soapbox, and an
aspiring journalist named Tracy Beanz

ushered Q into wide Internet fame.

But it's arguable that Q would never
have broken into the mainstream

without the help of this guy.

It can be attacked
as a conspiracy theory

until you see every single
statement that QAnon is making

can be proved to be true.

Jerome Corsi has 20-plus years
of planting wild conspiracy theories

into the mainstream.

A man whose name
should be a household word,

it's dr. Jerome Corsi.

From the John Kerry Swift Boat
campaign of 2004

that helped to derail
the democrats' presidential bid,

to the Obama birther story.

Sure, let's all believe President Obama
was born in Hawaii like he says he is.

To you name it.

There's no evidence that Hitler died.
What happened to him?

And when he was invited
on Patriot Soapbox to discuss Q,

he made an impression.

This grizzled old veteran of chasing
the deep state was telling us

that he rates Q,
and he thinks he's legit.

I'm a big fan
from way back when.

So, we invited him
to come and chat.

Mr. Corsi, I'd like to let you know
how honored it is to be sitting here

and just listening
to your voice and...

The one video that kind of changed my
perspective was a Jerome Corsi video,

and it was Jerome Corsi doing
a full breakdown of a QAnon post,

and I was just fascinated.

And the pen is
a Mont Blanc ink pen,

that Trump has used
for a long time.

And so, when QAnon showed
a picture of the pen and the desk

and says, now, look familiar?
Note the desk.

That's Camp David
over the weekend,

and that picture had to have been
taken by somebody who was there

with President Trump.

Cause he was, at the time, the bureau
chief for Alex Jones's Infowars.

So, dr. Corsi,
it's great to have you here.

I'm honored now to be
an official part of Infowars, and...

Jerome's brought a lot of people
to the movement in general.

Honestly, if Alex hadn't covered Q
through Corsi,

I would've never covered it.

I basically know from sources
who QAnon is.

A lot of what I saw QAnon say
was really good intel

and is spot on
with other intel I had.

Everybody's jumping ship now...
I'm getting chills.

...Over to Make
America Great Again.

God, this is so incredible.
This is real. This is happening.

Alex Jones and all of them,
the intellectual class,

the intelligentsia would watch that,
and they would think,

the audience is laughing
along with us, right?

But when Donald Trump won
the presidency, it flipped the script

because suddenly, this is not
just jokes on the Internet.

This is not just crazy people.

There's a real impact from people
moving away from the mainstream.

And it doesn't really matter
what they're moving towards

because even Bernie Sanders
was an example

of people moving away
from the mainstream

faster than the political process in
the United States would've wanted to.

- Hi, Baruch.
- It's terrifying.

The fact that the world is run
by Satan worshippers.

We've had confirmation
now from the individual

who is obviously one of President
Trump's right-hand men.

January 5th, 2018.

Paul is rolling high off
of his Infowars appearance.

He's planning to write a book.

Then something happens
behind the scenes

that makes Paul suspicious
that Q was no longer real.

The board owner can see
a whole lot of things

that the normal user can't see.

So, I can click on a post
as the board owner,

and I can see a scrambled version
of the IP address.

An IP address is
kind of like your phone number.

And if the person on the other end
has caller ID, they know who you are.

I had seen the ones
that Q had been posting from,

and this was nothing like,
this was not even close.

The first thing that was wrong

was that they were all
from exactly the same address,

which was something
Q had never done before.

Q posted from at least six
different devices and addresses,

because of security reasons.

Very few people agreed
with me that it was a fake.

I mean, did you think that
it was possible that it was a fake Q?

No. To me, it seems like
there's one continuous handoff

from one identifier to the next
as far as Q's concerned.

I think he convinced both Corsi
and Coleman Rogers at that point

that the posts were illegitimate.

Coleman Rogers was trying
to start a fucking news network,

and Corsi was trying
to make money.

Corsi was making thousands of dollars
per stream on those livestreams.

I did not. He was making
thousands of dollars?

And Dr. Corsi funnily enough
was on my side initially,

but dr. Corsi changed his mind
within a few days.

I checked it out
with one of my sources

who talks to the White House
pretty constantly,

and they seem to think
that this is Q.

Here's the argument.
Okay? They're saying that...

He and I'd agreed to disagree.

He thought it was still
the same Q continuing.

Eventually, Coleman Rogers
had to cut ties with Corsi

because Corsi was threatening
his revenue stream.

The last straw ended up coming

when Q posted about people
making personal financial gain

from the movement.

But nobody was...
He didn't name him and that point.

Honey.
Can't even finish a thought.

I don't even know
what I was saying now.

Making money
from the movement.

Q came in there
and made that post about...

- Be careful who you follow.
- Be careful who you follow.

People are making personal gain off
off of this movement.

- And he immediately took it as...
- Personal.

- Slight too, slight directed at him.
- At him.

Pamphlet Anon is an idiot.

I don't say that lightly.
He is a very controllable idiot.

He was very easily convinced
by Baruch

about whatever Baruch thought
was needed to be done.

Paul decides to block Q
from using the tripcode.

In fact, Paul blocks everyone
from being able to use tripcodes.

So, what does Q do? Q goes
somewhere the tripcode will work.

The board run by Coleman Rogers
from Patriot Soapbox.

Q left and went to this board
that I had created.

Tell me a little bit about
the board change that happened.

- What did you feel like?
- On top of the world.

This is a really important role
that I now have in my hands.

I kind of felt for Baruch
of course.

He took it rough.
Like you could hear it in his voice.

Like it sucked everything out of him.
And then he got mad.

For him, it all rested on this idea
that Q would never do that to me.

And he looked for every confirmation
he could.

So, was that the real Q?
I'm not sure.

Actually, I think, hang on, I think
CodeMonkey made an announcement.

In the 8chan hierarchy of power,
the board owner was near the top.

There was only one person above Paul,
and that was CodeMonkey.

CodeMonkey,
as the admin of 8chan,

he steps in and says,
oh no, this is the real Q.

The buck stops with him. So,
if he's saying this is the real Q,

then, as far as the public goes,
or perhaps someone who,

like Paul Furber who disputes this,
there's not anywhere you can go

because he has
sort of the ultimate access

in terms
of the technology of 8chan.

Ultimately, I blame CodeMonkey

because without his help, fake Q
would've gone absolutely nowhere.

I sent a private message
to CodeMonkey, and I said,

dude, thanks for throwing
the whole board under the bus.

That is not Q,
and you know it.

When you're online and you're
up against the administrator,

you're wasting your time.

And that's where Paul Furber
kind of jumps off the train.

There was this bunch of hardcore
Anons on CBTS that said,

this is a LARP.
Q is compromised, bye.

But most of the sheep immediately
moved over to the storm.

They believed it. 'Cause
CodeMonkey said it was real.

So, who exactly is CodeMonkey?

A lengthy search online
only produced scattered results.

His real name
was Ron Watkins.

And in terms of pictures, I could
only find shots of his father, Jim.

Even in his high school yearbook,
he had no photo.

It's as if this guy had been training
his whole life to be a ghost.

I've certainly never had
any interaction with CodeMonkey,

and just strikes me
as sort of an online punk.

The funny thing is he is the one
that offered to take over 8chan

'cause he knew
he could convince his father.

So, I think it was
sort of his plan all along.

I don't even know
who CodeMonkey is.

It's just his name is synonymous
with what we do.

CodeMonkey's in direct contact with Q,
and that's a pretty rare thing.

He's the only person Q's
actually talked to on the boards.

CodeMonkey's either
such a useless admin

that yeah,
you cannot tell the difference.

Or CodeMonkey is treacherous
and that he is in on it.

So, if anybody has access to
or knows who Q is...

- It might be CodeMonkey?
- Yeah.

I can't fucking believe it. This...
Fuck. Stupid fucking Skype.

To my knowledge, this was
the first recorded interview

that CodeMonkey had ever given.

I don't know why he agreed
to talk to me,

but I wasn't going
to pass up the opportunity.

Of course Skype is just being
a fucking asshole.

- Hey.
- Hello, Cullen.

- Sorry about that.
- No worries.

What has it been like for you watching
the Q movement evolve on 8chan?

I've watched it
like any other person.

I go to the Q research board
and see what he's posted,

and read what people are saying
about it. It's interesting.

I like how Q is very consistent
with what he does.

To me, it's the biggest factor
that Q is real.

Currently, they're the most active
board on 8chan by a lot.

Recently, QAnon said there's
like 410 thousand users on 8chan.

Q said that?

Q said that, which is strange
'cause how does he know?

I don't even know.

Yeah, I'd really enjoy having
some time with you in person.

Early December
works works well for me.

It does?

I was getting on a plane
to hang out with the guys

behind the most notorious website
on Earth

because if anyone knew
who was behind Q,

it would be those closest
to the source.