As an apparent normie middle aged woman with no interest in stocks or 4chan or any of the green text nonsense, I subbed to wallstreetbets when the GME thing was going down.
It was one of the silliest, absurd and funniest things I’ve witnessed a group of people doing online. The ongoing stuff about ‘my wife’s boyfriend’, all the rocket ships and diamonds, screenshots of people’s plummeting investments with responses of ‘apes/autists together strong’. It was just so, so dumb and relentlessly funny. There was something that felt very early internet about it. Silliness without ego because everyone was just trying to outdo each other’s patheticness.
As an apparent normie middle aged woman with no interest in stocks or 4chan or any of the green text nonsense, I subbed to wallstreetbets when the GME thing was going down.
It was one of the silliest, absurd and funniest things I’ve witnessed a group of people doing online. The ongoing stuff about ‘my wife’s boyfriend’, all the rocket ships and diamonds, screenshots of people’s plummeting investments with responses of ‘apes/autists together strong’. It was just so, so dumb and relentlessly funny. There was something that felt very early internet about it. Silliness without ego because everyone was just trying to outdo each other’s patheticness.
that sounds about right about the biggest issue with any community
it’s almost like adults are having fun, then edgelord children join trying to act tough, and it all comes down
and yea, GME was a ride, kinda like MLP was