After 563 days of quiet, seven words broke the silence. 9News
According to the, the Q account on 8kun used a unique identifier linked to previous Q posts, known as "Q drops" to followers.
But after Trump's defeat, the failure of prophecies to materialise and Q's subsequent vanishing, the movement grew disillusioned and began to fizzle, but not before the January 6 Capitol insurrection when many so-called patriots joined the invading mob.Twenty years on, the skepticism and suspicion first revealed by 9/11 conspiracy theories has metastasised, spread by the internet and nurtured by pundits and politicians like Donald Trump.
The two men were Paul Furber, a South African software developer and tech journalist, and Ron Watkins, a former administrator of the notorious website 8kun, which is still owned by his maverick businessman father, Jim.Furber, a believer of the debunked Pizzagate conspiracy who lives in Johannesburg, has also rejected any assertion he is or was Q.
The Q drops first appeared on fringe messaging board 4chan in October 2017 but later moved to 8kun, which had changed its name from 8chan after the Christchurch mosque shooter had used it toPatriots believed the cryptic posts from Q, which numbered in total close to 5000, held secret messages which were feverishly picked apart and pored over by online armies of QAnon fanatics.
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