If Q was fake would the establishment try so hard to bash it?
Q gave a lot of people hope in the future, let them know they are not alone, encourage them to think for themselves and trust themselves rather than the establishment.
It matters not if it is someone in a basement or an intelligence back channel. the effect is that free thinking people across the world were reassured they are not alone and that there is hope. So far it has been 99% accurate too. You don't have to believe me. read the posts for yourself.

It may just as well say the boogie man did it.

Smells like a Buba reads like a Juuusie story. Oh, wait, it's NY Times. It must be true.

Or it is just like the normal army, 'Keep shooting, don't think why!'
It's the government's job to make up the reasons for you.

(and yes,I have done military service.)