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> It's not everywhere all the time but I run into restively frequently in various when snooping around general Republican activity online in my country on social media. 
yeah, I see that it´s pretty popular in its own circles and that 8chan has definitely helped to concentrate and boost its popularity.

> all the weird people that Trump brought in were starting to interact with the the traditional wings of the republican party 
> dressed up as clowns... but this is just weird.
you are not making a bad correlation. In fact it would make sense considering that it could be a certain tactic that Hillary would make with the Pizzagate members. Almost like a revenge with the same coin.

Again the elite and intellectual movements from the US have been certainly creepy and kind of obscure like the MK Ultra experiments. 
The best we can expect from it is like using this as a meme in the end, like the Polybius myth, and it doesn´t affect us....but somehow, it will magically will by force for some reason.

> it's everywhere 
eeeyup, almost 50k followers on reddit, merchandise from Amazon (you won´t be free of it in the streets, let´s wait if it´s as popular as Joy Division T-shirt worldwide) and the Q billboards by themselves are worth of meme material, let´s be honest.

So, the basis of the QAnon event is supposedly leaking information and that it´s suspected, if not confirmed, that it comes from the Republican party.....

When one has the power by majority, the control of media is absolute. It has happened in my country, it will be the same in yours, in China and in Neptune if there were rational beings.
So, my opinion of it, by not being too deeply into it nor dedicated, I suspect that this is another way to leak information on purpose because of populist decisions and occupy some news.

The things that QAnon has leaked are pretty popular on the internet(Rothchild, Soros,). What does it add for now? Well, that anon likes to play and see how people react by leaking little by little. This is like the new form to make politics but for now, it feels like compilation of all the previous conspiracies by making them official or canon to people´s beliefs. 

So if they are leaking them now, it´s because it´s either too obvious and too popular to hide or that we get entertained by this event and others that QAnon won´t leak are happening behind all the noise. 

Again for me, it´s like a meme that reunites everything popular in the net to the media so I would take QAnon as a medium more than something edgy or top secret that it can get revealed. It´s a confirmation or sign of pointing out the things a lot of people know but not all the citizens.

An analogy to MLP, it´s like making X thing canon because that random thing appeared in Y episode. 

> The could easily invade the other boards, including here. At least spill over some. /sp/ would put up a fight for awhile but I could see even them leaving.
the /end/ is not that interesting to spam all over like you say. It would have a few weeks of popularity and that would be it. However, it would make the site noticeable or potentially influential in the future.