Much has been written about Q but little has been said about the vast anonymous army that stands behind the Q phenomenon, driving the movement forward with impressive works of revelation showing the true extent of the Deep State machine which the Q team is fighting against. Anyone familiar with the Q movement will know about the anonymous networks called 4chan and 8chan. Information here:

Wikipedia page on 4chan -- 4chan site
Wikipedia page on 8chan -- 8chan site

Q first began posting on October 28, 2017 on the board /pol/ (Politically Incorrect) on 4chan. Q started posting on 8chan on November 25, also on /pol/, due to some security concern. What we will look at here is the first week when Q began posting in order to examine the reactions of the anonymous posters on 4chan to the revelations of Q. These reactions range from disbelief to hopefulness that this person, who did not yet identify as Q, might actually be telling the truth about the existence of a team of military operators working against the Deep State.

Before we start, I want to offer some hints toward understanding how to read these posts. 4chan and 8chan are very similar. Posters are normally anonymous and can only be identified by an ID code which persists on one conversation thread only. This makes it impossible to match posters on one thread with those on another. The ID is derived from the poster's IP address and is thus only persistent as long as the IP remains unchanged. This is an issue for users with a dynamic IP since the ID is sometimes useful for tracking a conversation. Depending on the service provider, an IP address may persist for only a few days or for as long as several weeks and it may even change abruptly while it is in use. For that reason, do not be surprised when you see a contributor within a thread suddenly vanish. That person might still be there under another ID.

Originally, Q remained anonymous so the only way to identify who was Q on successive threads was to examine the content and writing style of the posts. Q's style is formal and he seldom references another poster or post directly. That makes it pretty easy to identify Q since most people employ a very casual (and often caustic) style of speech and they frivolously respond to other posters. Q began using what is called a tripcode on November 9. A tripcode is simply an unique ID secured by a password. It is not used to log in or to identify oneself to the system. The purpose is to have an ID that is persistent across threads. There are two levels of tripcode security and Q only used the weak version initially, on purpose, as a honeypot to entrap hackers attempting to obstruct Q's mission.

Every post has a number which is unique to the entire board and is not tied to a particular thread. It is impossible to tell, by its number, what thread a post appears in. This creates some issues which even plague 8chan today since it is possible to reply to a post in another thread but without alerting the unwary viewer that going to that post requires loading up the entirety of the other thread. Perhaps this will be addressed at some time in the future but, for now, one must be aware of impulsive clicking since this can lead to a long wait as the other thread loads. So keep this in mind whenever you visit 4chan or 8chan.

There are a number of sites which track all of Q's posts and qmap.pub is the one which will be referenced here and in subsequent documents. The Q posts shown here all have a link to its entry on qmap.pub where more information is available.

I think that is enough background for this topic. Now let's have a look at Q's first day on 4chan. At that point, there was an individual on the board pretending to have insider knowledge of certain events. This is usually called "larping" which is a term that derives from the phrase "Live Action Role Play". So this "larper", who may have been active on a previous thread, left a post regarding the pending arrest of Hillary Clinton. The thread was on the topic of the Mueller investigation and the larper responded to the original post. Q introduced himself by responding to the larper. This is highly ironic and I think Q intended it to be so. The copied posts below employ two different background colors in order to mark out Q and the larper. The posts are in chronological order so you need to check the post numbers to see which post someone may be responding to.

Q's first post in the 4chan archive

You can see what I mean about Q's style. His posts are devoid of grammatical or spelling errors, unlike the larper's posts. This is important to establish Q's credibility. The Q posts continue on the next day in another thread. The larper, if present, does not persist. One wonders if this person is an avid Q follower today. Who knows? Except the larper himself. The posts are in chronological order. All replies are directed to Q.

Q's next post in the 4chan archive

And so Q's second day concludes. The thing to remember about the Anons on /pol/, whether it is 4chan or 8chan, is that they are highly motivated individuals who scour the Internet and many other sources for information regarding their pet subjects which are sometimes highly esoteric. They are extremely well informed on their favourite topic. As the Q movement progresses, these people come to be labelled with endearing monikers such as "lawfag" or "planefag" because they are expert on a specific topic. One will often see a post asking for a "fag" to help out on a research project. This is how work gets done because no single person has access to all knowledge. You will notice in these posts that some people may be unaware of certain things, even what some may regard as common knowledge, but don't take that as a clue to the actual knowledge level of the Anon. They are not "jacks of all trades".

So far, Q has not created a stir since he has said little which is not already known to the Anons. Q is being cautious here as saying too much would arouse accusations of "larper" but he must also make certain that people understand that he does indeed possess insider knowledge.

Q returns on the third day with 8 more posts. The format here is a Q post, followed by all of its replies, then another Q post. The replies are in chronological order only with respect to the initiating Q post. Any replies which reference multiple Q posts appear after the last post referenced.

Q's next post in the 4chan archive

Q has revealed the fact that Military Intelligence is working against the Deep State as represented by the FBI, the CIA and the NSA. It would later come out that MI got control of the NSA, leaving the FBI and the CIA. The partisan players in the FBI will be fired or will resign over the coming months, leaving the CIA as the primary enemy.

This is the point at which the Anons start paying serious attention. This is first-class insider material.

And so concludes the third day. There is much commotion at the end of the thread as various Anons attempt to screenshot Q's posts. I don't know what they intended to do with these since the thread contents can be saved from any web browser.

Due to the sheer volume of posts and replies, this document is broken up into multiple parts. As the journey progresses, we will see the Anons' excitement rise as Q reveals more. The last post above is only slightly exaggerated. Though it may be hard to understand to those who are not familiar with the nature of the Q movement and its players, the effect that Q has had on people is legendary. Keep in mind, though, that the Anons are sufficiently intelligent and well-informed to have outed Q as a larper long before Q hit the mainstream. This is, as they say, "for reals".