Template:Did you know nominations/Jim Watkins (businessman)
- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 14:20, 16 September 2020 (UTC)
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Jim Watkins (businessman)
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Jim Watkins in 2015
- ... that some have speculated that Jim Watkins is working with "Q", the anonymous poster behind the QAnon conspiracy theory, or that Watkins himself is Q?
- Protocol: "For seasoned QAnon watchers, perhaps the biggest significance behind the unveiling of the PAC is that it seems to cement the connection between Watkins, 8Chan's owner, and the Q poster himself... 'Watkins always made it seem like there was distance between him and Q, that Q was just this guy posting on his forums, that he let Q post because he's a free speech absolutist. By launching this PAC he is fully admitting that he is working with whoever is posting as Q and he is now part of the grift that is QAnon,' said Mike Rains, a QAnon researcher who is behind the Poker and Politics Twitter feed, which follows the Qanon movement and debunks many of its claims. Argentino has studied the changes in Q's syntax, grammar and selection of topics over the past three years since the first post in 2017, and believes Watkins has been posting as Q since last fall."
- Daily Dot "There was already speculation that Q and Watkins were linked, as when 8chan went down in August 2019, the Q poster didn’t make their drops somewhere else, instead waiting around for months while 8chan found a new service provider and rebranded as 8kun."
- Playboy "'The most important change in mind-set was that I came to believe Jim and Ron do not operate 8chan in good faith but rather to twisted ends,' he says. 'Their actions continue to betray them—for example, helping QAnon post and making sure QAnon’s identity would remain stable during the transition from 8chan to 8kun, which they did for no one else.'"
- The Atlantic "Fredrick Brennan’s theory is that Jim and his son Ron, who is the site’s administrator, knew 8kun needed Q to attract users. 'I definitely, definitely, 100 percent believe that Q either knows Jim or Ron Watkins, or was hired by Jim or Ron Watkins,' Brennan told me.... Every faction of QAnon has its own hunches, alliances, and interpersonal dramas related to the question of Q’s identity. The theories fit into three broad groups.... This second category includes Brennan’s idea that the Watkinses are now paying Q, or are paying someone to carry on as Q, or are even acting as Q themselves."
- Comment: There is another potential hook in this article about 2channel, but because the article on 2channel was just so recently featured in DYK I didn't suggest it. Sorry this is a little bit late—I had heard there was a news story to be published about Watkins soon that might make for some quality sourcing, but it seems it hasn't yet come out.
Created by GorillaWarfare (talk). Self-nominated at 19:41, 7 September 2020 (UTC).
This interesting article has been nominated two days late, but I think we can overlook that. It is plenty long enough. The image is suitably licensed, the hook facts are cited inline, the article is neutral and I detected no copyright issues. A QPQ has been done. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:29, 13 September 2020 (UTC)
