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Reddit Warns That r/WallStreetBets Could Wreak Havoc on Its Stock Price (gizmodo.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 116 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Somebody should go ahead and get a dedicated WSB instance going so that they can migrate easily after Reddit bans them. I want them contained because they are a toxic community, but I also want them to short the Reddit stock because it would be hilarious.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago (2 children)

they are a toxic community,

Yeah. Being mostly comprised of Incel, conspiracy, Q / Trump shills who think they can predict the future better than their peers will do that to a community.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Looking at the real foundation of wsb and /u/deepfuckingvalue it's not hard to see why conspiracy theorists and the gullible jumped onboard.

The thing about gme was dfv was 10000% correct.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Yeah, and then everyone involved in GME left the sub. What remained was what remains today.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

If you need to run back three years to find a single instance in which a guy was correct, I would not bet the bank on the next prediction being a big winner.

AMC, Best Buy, and Hertz all bled out like stuck pigs while these dorks were screaming and crying.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, thats because AMC took the value they gained from WSB shills, and used it to pay their bonuses instead of improving their business. GME is the only company that actually tried to do something with the windfall value they gained.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

AMC took the value they gained from WSB shills, and used it to pay their bonuses

Which is why their firm was in the tank to begin with. And something DFV should (or, perhaps did) already know.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

God it was glorious back before all these people though. Watching people gamble on their tuition or turn a $50k loan into -$300,000 of debt for memes was fucking hilarious.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

WSB is so stacked with bots and shills already, what would that even look like?