What did Q&ON like look like when you first discovered it?

I mean, when it was kind of like a year into Q&N, you know, when it was just sort of a few signs of Trump rallies, like what were the kind of breadcrumbs that you followed and what were the kinds of, you know, who were the kinds of people that you met?

I would say that it's hard to know exactly how much people were fully invested in Q&ON at that

point in time.

I think we were still seeing a lot of those who were one foot in, one foot out.

People weren't sort of openly publicly supporting Q&N in the way we know it now, certainly.

You know, you would see some Q signs at rallies.

You would see some amount of presence of it.

But it wasn't this just titanic force in the culture at that point.

And you'd get this from talking with Q's followers, you know, those who would kind of come out as Q&N believers.

You know, they hadn't fully, you know, you weren't sure if they had fully bought in yet to it or not.

You know, and so I started out by finding people who had, who I talked to Q-tubers, you know, the people who are

on YouTube who kind of translate Q's message to the masses. Sort of the bottom of the information

hierarchy in a way. You know, there are, of course, the people who consume the information,

or the power hierarchy, I should say. So I started out there. I started out with people who had

been queued, you know, mentioned in the Q drops. And I just started talking with people kind of at the

bottom of, yeah, bottom and sort of worked my way up. You know, when I started out with this question

of who is Q, I drafted up, I mean, you see it in the series. I drafted up a list of possible suspects.

But rather than chasing down every one of those leads, I just thought it would be more

efficient to, I mean, if I could, to try to go to the source, which was the site where

Q posts, a place that, you know, it's 8chan was the name of it at the time,

but, you know, it sort of marketed itself as the, the edgiest place on the internet,

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