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Maybe Reddit as a whole, but what are your thoughts on WallStreetBets? It seems that WSB has all of the elements of a counterculture, although maybe diluted aft

Maybe Reddit as a whole, but what are your thoughts on WallStreetBets? It seems that WSB has all of the elements of a counterculture, although maybe diluted after the wide spread GME interest.

deliveryboyman 6y ago
WSB is a shade of its former self now due to the onslaught of new members
- monocasa 6y ago
  Has a "what was WSB before the eternal September" escape hatch subreddit popped up yet?
  - ZephyrBlu 6y ago
    Yes, /r/wallstreetbetsogs.
- ZephyrBlu 6y ago
  Check out /r/wallstreetbetsogs. It's an attempt to bring back the old school WSB.
  - deliveryboyman 6y ago
    I tried it out for a few days. It's also nowhere near the old WSB.
- the_only_law 6y ago
  I remember popping into r/WSB towards the end of the first wave of GME stuff and it seemed to be nothing more that what’s described on reddit as a “circlejerk”. It was also interesting to see a dozen different spin-offs when searching for it. Maybe it was like that before but everything felt forced and unnatural as if the new users were attempting to “fit in” by imitating the culture and vocabulary.
juststeve 6y ago
Yeah because WSB uses another language that many do not know, or care to know.
- SV_BubbleTime 6y ago
  I’m really not sure “diamond hands” and “retard” count so much as another language. I think the big gap between there and other places on the same subject is on “gambling logic”, not right or wrong, I’ve seen more people there admit that than “Wallstreet Types” who would be trillionaires if they actually knew how to win.
  - juststeve 6y ago
    Fair. But there is also some assumed knowledge of what futures and puts are, no?
satellite2 6y ago
WSB seems like the definition of a smart hedge fund that managed to manipulate the market transparently. Everything there reeks of fake, manufactured and engineered "counter" culture
SyzygistSix 6y ago
I think the thing that is/was countercultural were the actions taken by WallStreetBets, not the site itself.

Maybe Reddit as a whole, but what are your thoughts on WallStreetBets? It seems that WSB has all of the elements of a counterculture, although maybe diluted after the wide spread GME interest.

deliveryboyman 6y ago

WSB is a shade of its former self now due to the onslaught of new members

monocasa 6y ago
Has a "what was WSB before the eternal September" escape hatch subreddit popped up yet?
- ZephyrBlu 6y ago
  Yes, /r/wallstreetbetsogs.
ZephyrBlu 6y ago
Check out /r/wallstreetbetsogs. It's an attempt to bring back the old school WSB.
- deliveryboyman 6y ago
  I tried it out for a few days. It's also nowhere near the old WSB.
the_only_law 6y ago
I remember popping into r/WSB towards the end of the first wave of GME stuff and it seemed to be nothing more that what’s described on reddit as a “circlejerk”. It was also interesting to see a dozen different spin-offs when searching for it. Maybe it was like that before but everything felt forced and unnatural as if the new users were attempting to “fit in” by imitating the culture and vocabulary.

juststeve 6y ago

Yeah because WSB uses another language that many do not know, or care to know.

SV_BubbleTime 6y ago
I’m really not sure “diamond hands” and “retard” count so much as another language. I think the big gap between there and other places on the same subject is on “gambling logic”, not right or wrong, I’ve seen more people there admit that than “Wallstreet Types” who would be trillionaires if they actually knew how to win.
- juststeve 6y ago
  Fair. But there is also some assumed knowledge of what futures and puts are, no?

satellite2 6y ago

WSB seems like the definition of a smart hedge fund that managed to manipulate the market transparently. Everything there reeks of fake, manufactured and engineered "counter" culture

SyzygistSix 6y ago

I think the thing that is/was countercultural were the actions taken by WallStreetBets, not the site itself.