I was there when pizzagate broke.  Wikileaks was releasing daily batches of the Podesta emails starting on about October 7, 2016.  People at r/DNCleaks, I believe, were going through the emails and posting anything good that they found.    Someone came across that weird Herb Sandler-John Podesta email about playing dominos on cheese or pasta.  It was posted because they did not know what they were talking about.  Someone soon suggested they were using the pedocode from the dark web.  When the pedocode was applied to the email, people were pretty surprised about the new context.    Once we realized what was going on, we went back to the previous email dumps to re-search them using the pedocode.  This is when people found "cmet png p*ng".  People did not know what that was but the social media accounts were soon found.   It was mostly pictures of children with crude comments about them.   A lot of sexual innuendo.    The MSM is ignoring all of this for some reason.   They push the "child sex trafficking ring out of a Washington DC pizza shop" narrative, but they never go into the Podesta emails or social media accounts.