Wrong timeline, even the qtards fuck up the timeline, I've never been a qtard, you can pull up my comments on old voat and find I was a most vocal critic from the time the qult got to voat. 2015 primary season begins, a trump son posts proof to /pol/ on 4chan of his identity as a trump son, time stamp, partially obscured credit card, clock, and office view from trump tower, this trump son makes a couple more updates with regularity, simple campaign and policy insider info to bring /pol/ onto the trump train, likely eric trump as don jr had kids by a jewess at the time. The last message says they are learning how to use tripcodes. Then appears a figure using the namefag Q with a tripcode and giving contextually similar info of the same caliber just a couple of weeks before debate 1. This Q is really quite innocuous, not really cryptic and is just giving us inside info consistent with the campaign's direction and messaging, they post a thank you and a signoff after trump beat hillary in 2016 saying they might be back for the re-election campaign or not. Within 2 months of this i noticed another person with a different posting style claiming to be Q with a different tripcode on 8chan, 4chan was open source for the longest time and 8chan's original admin said tripcodes should be generated identically between the sites so I immediately flagged this as a fraud. Q got laughed off 8chan /pol/ in a few months and started up its own board which attached a bunch of retards because nobody criticizing the Q hoax was allowed to stay and mods on 8chan/pol/ were anchoring all the threads there to make them sink which qtards called censorship despite their board owner doing direct IP bans at a higher rate than /pol/ and nearly getting shut down by the admin, it was that week that the owner/investor jim actually snatched control over board management from the admin and original owner, Hotwheels. This began a terrible feud but the whole thing got interrupted by the 2017 brenton tarrant mosque shootings which lead them and voat to lose cloud protection services and get professionally DDOSed by at least one state actor for over a year. Voat went into account only mode and took on an angel investor to stay up with many reporting that investor was jim from 8chan because the money dried up as soon as he brought 8kun.top online about 16 months later and considering voat actually left account only mode while still banned from cloudflare and other services with only Jim's proprietary cloud service being available as DDOS protection at the time, Puttitout likely let voat die because he was being imposed upon by feds and lack of funding was the only excuse to get them off his back he could have fund raised like was done in the begining. During roughly 18 months of downtime after the christchurch shootings voat became the centre of the qult, all of the qshit got proliferated to gab, bitchute and other platforms dissidents had been pushed onto by the new wave of government and corporate censorship which we now know was a partnership operated illegally by the FBI. Likely stepping on the CIA or mossad psyop that was 8chan Q, decentralizing the q hoax made it stronger because anons and goats who would talk shit weren't on facebook groups spreading q psy-op shit. Q tried spreading here a couple of times and AOU seems to have tolerated it briefly but poal hasn't been fertile ground for the hoax, not like old voat. I think second Q used various manipulation tactics that cults use and that relying on borrowed clout is what second Q did to push its legitimacy into soft minds. It borrowed clout from well liked trump admin people and when it was starting flynn was a popular figure in rightwing chatter so it name dropped him a few times and people associated all the chatter with Q and let the ideas cross pollinate in their minds, I think q used flynn's good name and did similarly to other figures like giuliani and obviously trump.