Well duh. ReplyAll actually talked to a couple of them months ago about the start of Q and who is running it now: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/llhe5nm tl:dl - The original message board had all anonymous accounts, and you couldn't change your password. So people's passwords often got stolen, posted in the open, and others would post as that person. This happened with the Q account a bunch of times, until they rebuilt the sites' engine, and the owners of the new engine took over the Q account. It's a dude in the Philippines and his son. The dude is the money, the son is Q. And he's scrubbed himself from the net, so he seems really mysterious... but he's just a rich man's putz kid.
The headline undersells it, in my opinion. It's been a popular theory among Qanon "researchers" for a long time that Q is actually a group of people, and not a single individual. What this article claims is that 4chan Q and 8chan Q are two separate people, which is much more significant. If that's true, it either means 4chan Q stepped down and let another person take over their role, or that 8chan Q is impersonating 4chan Q. Is anyone here following this lunacy more closely? How are the Qanon "researchers" reacting to this discovery?