I read a while back that Q has been traced to an expat living in Indonesia, and his expat son living in Singapore. This was traced via the server they were using. They started it as a social experiement of sorts, just to see what would happen. At some point it took on a life of its own. I couldn't find that article again, but I did find this one, pointing to a software developer in South Africa. It seems Q is the collective work of a handful of expats jerking at ... something. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/19/technology/qanon-messages-authors.html