They say it’s a guy named Ron Watkins. They interview him.
I was under the impression that was not really a secret nowadays, kind of like Robin Gunningham’s alter ego.
Well, it’s on the Wiki page
BTW, do we need a six-part documentary on this? HBO just finished a four-part documentary on the Woody Allen molestation story and now this. My sense is they’re padding out their schedule with these documentaries to cover the fact that they have no drama series to air in COVID times. (I wonder why I still pay for HBO.)
I thought it was his dad Jim, not Ron, as I consider Ron less than a useful idiot. Ron is the “computer expert” with the (now suspended) Twitter handle CodeMonkeyZ (wow, he must be a dev god), who is apparently clueless about JSON files (okay, so maybe not so god-like after all).
I’ve heard its both of them, Ron and Jim Watkins.
According to studies like this based on examination of the posts, they appear to be written by 2 different people.
So is he mentally ill, a grifter or just a troll doing it for the lulz? It the big reveal in part 6?
I think it’s a good thing for the world to know kljust how batshit Qanon is, in the same way they needed to know what Scientology actually proclaimed. Revealing “the truth” in layers is a classic tool of indoctrination into a cult. Better to make it public.
Is there any new news here, that wasn’t already going around last August?
We had a thread from Aug. 31 to Sept. 8 last year asking:
(The suspected perp, Watkins pére, was named elsewhere in that thread.)
The thread quickly drifted away from the question “Is he in any legal trouble?” and more toward a discussion of what information Q might actually have access to anyway.
The consensus of the thread seemed to be: “No, probably not in any legal trouble” and “No access to much (and probably not any) sensitive information anyway”.
From what I know (mostly from the podcast I’ll link below), grifter would be the closest. He took over the Q account to keep people from leaving 8chan. One of Q’s “translators” (who was possibly the original identity of Q) was starting to pull followers away to his own personal board. With a bit of social engineering, he was able to convince people that he was the real Q and the translator had been compromised.
The former owner of 8chan believes that Watkin’s goal in buying up 8chan was to repeat what he had done with 2chan, a Japanese board that became the hub for the far right in Japan. 8chan had become the darling of the alt-right, to the point it was growing too fast for the old owner to keep up. So he wound up selling the site to this other guy.
He alleges that this is what the Watkinses do. They see something that is popular with the far right and buy it up, then try to make it as big as possible. He suspects they are themselves far right, and are doing this for political reasons.
Here’s the podcast where the old owner details everything. (I suspect he’s also a big source for the documentary):
(Note that it has a transcript for those who would rather read than listen.)
That’s talking about different posts on different forums, so it’s probably about Watkins and the old Q who posted on the disciple’s board. Watkins was only ever Q on 8chan.
(Not sure which Watkins, unfortunately.)
Here’s a link to a really good story on Watkins and Q and their links to Russia.
Up until sometime in 2019, a right wing grift group called Patriot Soapbox was involved, then they “broke up” with Watkins - then Watkins started 8kun and singlehandedly revived Q.
It really shouldn’t be a surprise that the registered owner of the 8kun and Qdrops websites is Q, but I guess some people are surprised.
ETA- the link I posted contains links to lot lots of other good material on the subject, I highly recommend following some of them.