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Diehard Qanons are coming home to roost. But they won’t say it. They created it. And it’d be admitting they’re wrong.
Funny enough Epstein may have created Q. Epstein met Moot(4chan owner) and drove him home. The /pol/ board was created the next day. Q would appear on /pol/ a couple years later.
I think it's more complicated than that... Anonymous as a kind of social movement exited long before QAnon. It was already on 4chan and Something Awful which came before 4chan. Anonymous had ops to go after predators and all kinds of other targets. Lots of the grassroots support merged from the Something Awful forums to 4chan, then all the copycats of 4chan. QAnon was originally a continuation of an anonymous operation to go after abusers. As time went by, this morphed into what was sort of co-opted by Michael Flynn, Epstein, and others to use for political reasons. At first though it really wasn't political. Then the Q persona itself came along and was likely several different people instead of just one person. This follows the whole Anonyous OP getting co-opted. The Epstein Cabal really was going after social media along with other kinds of tech. Ghislaine Maxwell was a Reddit mod. Eventually you get to Ron Watkins, etc... TLDR; QAnon started as an Anonymous operation and then was co-opted for political reasons.
Anonymous back then was almost entirely skids. That operation was a joke. Fun related news though, one of Epstein's hackers was dating Ghislaine's sister. Then he died mysteriously after hacking Epstein's Wikipedia page and botting his google results.