Art of Interpretation

HGL'S F.B. WRITINGS : Drew Gasaway Attacking QAnon - and Himself · Φιλολoγικά/Philologica : Art of Interpretation

Mode 201 - over the web.

There is no way for social-media users to know who Q is. Whoever is posting as Q uses a password-protected account that produces a unique ID, visible to other users. This is how forum-goers can verify that the account posting “Q drops” is the same over time. Q was initially believed to be one person, but it is now accepted that multiple people, in cooperation, are posting using the pseudonym, says Harvard researcher Brian Friedberg. (In November 2017, a small-time YouTube video creator named Tracy Diaz banded together with two moderators from the 4chan website, Coleman Rogers and Paul Furber, to push QAnon onto mainstream platforms, according to Brandy Zadrozny and Ben Collins of NBC News. Rogers and his wife, Christina Urso, later launched the Patriots’ Soapbox, a round-the-clock live-streamed YouTube channel devoted to QAnon coverage which they use to call for donations that are accepted through PayPal, cryptocurrencies or mail. Recent guests on the show include GOP Congressional candidate and QAnon supporter Lauren Boebert, and Erin Perrine, director of press communications for Trump’s reelection campaign.)

Inside QAnon, the Conspiracy Cult that’s Devouring America
By Jason McGahan -August 17, 2020
https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/qanon-gop/

Obviously, if it is the same account, and if the "Q drops" are very similar, one way of interpreting this, is, Q is one person who has one account who has one style.

In fact, I think this is the main option.

Believing Q is a committee is - a conspiracy theory. Not an extremely wild one, but still.

It's going viral since I had Drew Gasaway claiming to be confident Q Anon is neither an American nor a single person.

I have never been into Q Anon. Here is why : I am trying to get celebrity status a bit the same way, but under my own name and with a more varied essay style than Q Anon's "Q drops" that are famous enough to have been seen even by me, for instance when William Tapley once cited one of them.

But I do know from my own case, as wanting also to get some money for my writing in the end, that being mistaken for a committee driven by a foreign spy system (Drew Gasaway considers Q Anon could be a Russian spy) happens, and it sucks. Well, perhaps it doesn't suck to Q Anon, perhaps it boosts his sense of secrecy and intrigue to have actually driven people to that conspiracy theorising.

This quote is from at least one relevant passage of footnote 59 on wikipedian article. It is to lines saying

The pseudonymous identity known as Q is likely controlled by multiple people in cooperation._[59]

By design, anonymous imageboards such as 4chan and 8chan obscure their posters' identities,_[59][83]

In it, the article is not attributed to Jason McGahan, but to ...

Stuart, Gwynedd (August 17, 2020). "Inside QAnon, the Conspiracy Cult that's Devouring America". Los Angeles. Retrieved September 20, 2020.

The following goes on to say:

but those who wish to prove a consistent identity between posts while remaining anonymous can choose to use a tripcode, which associates a post with a unique digital signature for any poster who knows the password._[28][84] There have been thousands of posts associated with a Q tripcode, known as "Q drops"._[28] The tripcode associated with Q has changed several times, creating uncertainty about the poster's continuous identity._[28] Passwords on 8chan are also notoriously easy to crack, and the Q tripcode has been repeatedly compromised and used by people pretending to be Q._[85] When 8chan returned online as 8kun in November 2019 after several months of downtime, the Q posting on 8kun posted photos of a pen and notebook that had been pictured in earlier 8chan posts to show the continuation of the Q identity, and continued to use Q's 8chan tripcode._[28]

There have been thousands of posts on my blogs as well. Fortunately, I have not seen any fake posts, so far. I have missed things I remembered posting, like a link to Alex Jones, though. There could be a similar reason why the posts are many : both persons share a passion for writing and for writing controversial opinion. As said, though, I am not Q Anon. But I am sensitive to possibility I could be misconstrued in a similar way as I think he is being misconstrued.

Perhaps I should read footnotes 28 and 85 as well, but even repeated compromising of a tripcode could happen to a single person. I had two blogger accounts rapidly locked in 2006, and I have two wordpress accounts locked too, the second accidentally, by not changing e-mail rapidly enough while one was closing. The e-mail connected to it, that is. These are not valid reasons to have any serious doubt about the identity of Q Anon over time.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
St. Martin's Day
11.XI.2020

PS, Adrienne Lafrance also in footnote 28 did not say the tripcode had changed several times. Here a wikipedian seems to have misscited the article./HGL

PPS, people who point to me having several URLs for several blogs for same suspicions : I have several blogs to keep some order on content (and in cases of articles which could logically be posted on either of two, sometimes to allow another blog to have previous article highest)./HGL

PPPS, I have proven blogs belong to same account by cross-referencing for instance in this case between this blog and HGL's FB Writings, the article where I debated Drew Gasaway./HGL

PPPPS, I am often tired and I do my own html - this post proves both, since I made the footnotes "sub" instead of "sup" in the html marking./HGL

PPPPPS - I also forgot to link to wiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAnon

Wonder if the wikipedian who misscited sources about QAnon was ... QAnon?/HGL