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Clips from Q: Into the Storm (2021) - Do You Believe In Coincidences? (S01E01)

"Don't run into the elevator power cord."
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"Ron Watkins: This is 8chan headquarters."
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"Wheelchair accessible, right there."
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"Filmmaker: Jim's command center for his entrepreneurial efforts"
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"was largely vacant when we arrived."
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"-Pen 15 club, Frances? -Oh!"
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"Ron Watkins: Wait, I think we gotta get..."
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"Filmmaker: There was a small studio"
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"where they recorded content"
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"for a news site called The Goldwater."
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"-Team. -Jim Watkins: I'm a member of the Pen 15 club, too."
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"-Frances: Yeah. -(laughing)"
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"-Welcome to the club. -Welcome! (laughs)"
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"its volunteers scattered around the globe,"
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"and its headquarters essentially wherever Ron carried a laptop."
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"Though it seems some work did get done here."
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"Jim Watkins: We don't have a serious bone in our bodies."
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"Your documentary won't be picked up by anybody"
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"if we talk the way we usually talk."
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"Filmmaker: How would you say you differ from your son?"
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"Jim Watkins: I don't differ from him."
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"We're, like, out of the same mold."
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"When he was 10 years old, he's sitting right next to me"
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"with just a little black Compaq computer he had."
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"Ron Watkins: I'm more of an anti-social type person. I avoid..."
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"social contact as much as possible."
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"I talk mostly with my dogs."
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"Uh..."
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"Jim Watkins: But your dog talks back."
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"My dog does talk back. (laughs)"
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"because it's very important to get the word out"
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"that, uh, as the years go by,"
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"more and more people are attacking free speech online,"
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"and we need to do all we can to defend it now"
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"while there's still time."
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"I, I'm more of like, the,"
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"I'm terrible at adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing."
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"But I'm really good at very"
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"high-level mathematics. Like PhD-level mathematics."
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"(clears throat) I'm able to use these mathematics to"
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"build things that other people are not able to,"
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"to, uh, comprehend."
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"Uh, Codemonkey. Correct."
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"Well, there's a, a famous song"
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"from, I guess 2005, called "Codemonkey.""
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"and you can find that on YouTube."
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"And I really liked the name,"
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"and then one day, I was, uh,"
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"mining tripcodes and came across "Odemonkey,""
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"so I added a "C" on the front, and it became "Codemonkey.""
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"People approach me all the time asking who Q is."
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"He's just another 8chan user."
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"And he's welcome to post on 8chan as long as he wants."
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"We don't know who Q is."
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"It's not me. (clears throat)"
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"Might be you. Right? But it's not me."
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"Only Q would do a documentary about himself. Like--"
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"It's like, wow."
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"So he posted about six hours ago."
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"And that does coincide with this flurry of activity"
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"about six hours ago."
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"Q even attacked me."
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"And I had to-- (coughs) I had to set that straight quickly."
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"Filmmaker: While calling it an attack might be an exaggeration,"
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"and even asked Ron for more resources."
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"Yeah, CM, which I assume--"
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"Ron Watkins: See, it says here he has a team to secure."
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"So..."
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"From then, I figured Q was a team."
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"-Right. -Right."
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"The Q is like a type of security clearance,"
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"Filmmaker: While Jim didn't have a Q-level clearance,"
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"I started out as a mess hall truck driver,"
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"and after that, I went on to army recruiting,"
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"and I did that for about 10 years,"
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"and then I got out of that and started my own company."
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"where he could use the laws of one country"
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"to skirt around the laws in another,"
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"investing in imageboards."
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"The very first imageboards actually started in Japan."
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"But they were heavily censored, due to Japanese law."
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"That would all change in 1999,"
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"named Hiroyuki Nishimura created 2channel."
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"2channel was named after the channel that you tuned your TV to"
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"when hooking up an old-school video game console."
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"Because the site was hosted on American soil,"
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"and it was insanely popular."
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"Jim Watkins: Hiroyuki came to me and he said,"
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""I can't afford to do this anymore,""
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"and so we put some servers in my data center,"
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"and we put it online."
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"Filmmaker: In 2003,"
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"America finally got a taste of the chan culture"
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"that its free speech laws had helped to create."
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"(screaming): 4chan!"
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"Filmmaker: 4chan's founder, Christopher Poole,"
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"also known as "moot,""
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"got his start at a comedic website"
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"it preserved something that made the internet in the '90s special..."
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"Anonymity."
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"which focused more on drug culture."
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"420chan, that started as a damn joke."
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"Like, it was, it was 420."
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"We were, we were fucking high as shit,"
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"and he's like, "Hey. (chuckles)"
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""You should register 420 chan."
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"That-- That'd be fuckin' funny.""
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"Filmmaker: But Aubrey Cottle had another claim to fame."
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"He had cultivated the collective of internet hacktivists"
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"and keyboard warriors known as none other than "Anonymous.""
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"Anonymous: Welcome. I am Anonymous420."
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"We interrupt your YouTube time to bring you this urgent news story."
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"and users were organizing"
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"to pull off comedic and sometimes offensive stunts."
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"Anonymous: Contrary to the assumptions of the media,"
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"Anonymous is a collective of individuals united by"
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"an awareness that someone must do the right thing."
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"That someone must bring light to the darkness."
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"it became increasingly political."
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"At first, they targeted individuals"
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