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Long time lurker there I also found it strange and manipulative. It was also strange to see GME pushed since the sub had a no-penny-stock rule which means anyt
by adriancr 6y ago
Long time lurker there I also found it strange and manipulative.
It was also strange to see GME pushed since the sub had a no-penny-stock rule which means anything below 5B market cap would get insta delete.
Part of the strangeness included all the 'ape' comments and copy-pastas everywhere. (what ever happened to the previous 'autist' 'retard' and so on ...)
Even when a huge hedge fund sold massive amounts of stock, the forum was still blaming 'ladder' attacks (not that these didn't probably happen at some point).
Alas, the content on non-daily/non-gme thread was fun, the opportunity was there if you knew when to cash out and ignore things.
- Qub3d 6y agoThe "ape" thing came out of a thread where WSB users were trying to figure out how to explain the GME situation to casual observers. The most popular explanation that came out of it used snakes as the shorts, shorting bananas, and the WSB users as apes[0]. This then was built upon with the "aps together strong" scene from the Rise of the Planet of the Apes movie [1]. But yeah, its a bit overdone. [0]:Not the original, but one example - https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l7jnqw/information_for_the_newbies_who_want_to_join_the/gl74lqf/ https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l7jnqw/info... [1]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20LuSlZT4S4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20LuSlZT4S4