Just in case someone doesn't know about r/wsb and thinks it's just a degenerate gambling community.. they're sort of right but there's more to it. It is a commu

Just in case someone doesn't know about r/wsb and thinks it's just a degenerate gambling community.. they're sort of right but there's more to it. It is a community centered around self deprecating humor, basically people enjoy trying to become successful at trading, but they know the reality is that they're not very likely to succeed, so they share their trials and tribulations on r/wsb to make jokes about their own stupidity. Some people are richer, either because they have good jobs, inherited or had prior success, so they lose more and the community enjoys their posts more. The idea that you would do something stupid that costs you more money than you could afford (and possibly gets you into more trouble) just so that a group of people can laugh at you and make jokes at your expense is ridiculous, but I get that some people really crave that sort of attention. It goes a bit far to say that they get "social approval" from the community though.