A close look at the earliest days of QAnon, showing Q's origins in, and relationship to, broader 4chan culture. WARNING: primary sources may be vile.

Joined September 2020
IMPORTANT RESOURCES: 1. dchan.qorigins.org -- our database. For details: xitter.cf/QOrigins/status/143581… NOTABLE THREADS: 1. Early days: xitter.cf/QOrigins/status/131114… 2. My VERY in-depth article on the making of QAnon: xitter.cf/QOrigins/status/134705… 3: xitter.cf/QOrigins/status/139184…
I am pleased to announce the first forensic evidence of Q’s whereabouts, discovered by my colleague Abigail X (@BobPythonic) with help from Robert Amour (@kunstderfuge1). The full story is up @Bellingcat; we summarize our work in this thread. bellingcat.com/uncategorized…
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Read @PokerPolitics on this.
What is "Panda Eyes"? It's a lie about child sexual abuse that QAnon promoters made up to justify posting photos of injured/dying children and then blame it on their supposed enemies. It is one of the most ghoulish things in a movement full of horrible ideas.
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Short update on Candace “I will stake my reputation on the claim that Brigitte Macron is a dude” Owens:
2 days ago you claimed Harris hid a secret marriage based on a misreading of a Canadian marriage certificate. 2 weeks ago you misidentified a Jamaican death certificate, creating this absurd conspiracy. Why should anyone trust you to have properly vetted this person's testimony?
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2 days ago you claimed Harris hid a secret marriage based on a misreading of a Canadian marriage certificate. 2 weeks ago you misidentified a Jamaican death certificate, creating this absurd conspiracy. Why should anyone trust you to have properly vetted this person's testimony?
Replying to @alexkasprak
You are dense. The woman pictured is NOT BERYL. She hijacked a photo of a black woman and pretended it was her grandma. You guys cannot gaslight us people out of this one. She is now officially caught.
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Question from a pal of mine: “Can you think of anything that’s both conservative-coded *and* feminine-coded?” I’m tossing this out to the floor for suggestions. Speak now or forever hold your peace!
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“I tied an onion to my belt cause that was the style at the time. Nickels had bees on them and you would say “Gimme 5 bees for a quarter man…”
Reporter: Should Google be broken up?  Trump: Virginia cleaned up its voter rolls and got rid of thousands and thousands of bad votes Reporter: The question was about Google
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Donald Sterling would be proud.
Reporter: Should Google be broken up?  Trump: Virginia cleaned up its voter rolls and got rid of thousands and thousands of bad votes Reporter: The question was about Google
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“The Illuminati tricked us and made us call Governor Walz a pedophile.” This is how they explain why they were promoting a lie. They claim the original liar isn’t one of their own and is a Deep State shill who faked the story to make them look bad.
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Russell Brand, remade as a right-wing Christian influencer, is now selling a "magical amulet" that protects you from WiFi signals and other "evil energies." Only $239.99 per amulet.
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KAG Drogo is the Jew-hater-in-chief of the QAnon movement, just so you know.
Trump was photographed with QAnon figure Chad Vivas, known online as "Kag Drogo." (Trump has previously amplified Drogo on Truth Social.)
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Guy tries to explain away the cursor in the emails and when shown other obvious signs of forgery says "Well these are different issues.
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MAGA-land had been eagerly awaiting sordid allegations against Tim Walz today, reported by internet personality "DocNetYoutube." But the release has already been undermined by the appearance of a cursor in a witness's key emails— suggesting DocNetYoutube wrote it himself.
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Just here to say that the guy who was stopped with weapons near Trump's rally yesterday ran for office as a Republican in 2022. nvsos.gov/SOSCandidateServic…
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The ideal marriage is when your spouse runs the worm unit
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My dog slipped her leash in the middle of the street this morning, so I had to pick her up and carry her. She HATED it. Now she’s looming over me from the top of the staircase, plotting her revenge.
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QAnon influencers are *so normal*. So normal, you guys. (Also: it’s fascinating that Trump’s habitual rambling about windmills has turned this lady /so viscerally against them/.)
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NEW VIDEO: Prebunking Graham Hancock's Ancient Apocalypse Season 2 in the Americas with Prof John Hoopes (@KUHoopes) is now live! Check this out for a nice overview of the Archaeology of the Americas! youtu.be/07dcLdEnALo
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Every media outlet should be asking themselves if they are telling the truth about what’s happening, or if they are bothsidesing us into oblivion guided by some mythical notion of objectivity. Be truthful, not neutral.
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