I think /r/wallstreetbets is the modern version of interactive fiction, or perhaps even the evolution of fireside-storytelling that civilization has had for 10,

I think /r/wallstreetbets is the modern version of interactive fiction, or perhaps even the evolution of fireside-storytelling that civilization has had for 10,000 years. "The mammoth was THIS BIG! //extends neanderthal arms for affect//"