The Meme Stock Cult
Added 2023-05-15 09:01:00 +0000 UTCIn 2021, scrappy young investors from across the world joined forces to buy GameStop stock, aiming to take down greedy hedge funds. What came next was tragedy, injustice, and a conspiratorial internet cult so stupid we had to do an episode about it.
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Later this week: Nudge, pt. 2: The Nudgening
Comments
Would love a part II to this considering recent events.
Emily Adamo
2024-06-09 00:54:05 +0000 UTCThey were right that the game is rigged, but it's rigged in the way it's been rigged forever, not due to an exotic and elaborate conspiracy. Also, pointing out how similar this was to a doomsday cult is brilliant.
Chad Romney
2024-05-10 17:04:08 +0000 UTCI’m so happy and grateful that Dorian from origin story name checked this podcast on the 1984 podcast a while back. I’ve listened to all these at least twice. Fave podcast by a mile
david lister
2024-03-28 22:59:03 +0000 UTCI guess the one good thing that came out of this is random cult members being nice to gamestop employees to boost morale. 😅 'cause it sure feels like the average person feels justified in punishing service industry workers because they have bad jobs and must therefore be bad people 😓
Violence Zack
2024-02-26 14:10:11 +0000 UTCHow could you not mention the fantastic music that this stock cult has inspired? https://youtu.be/vh6aZYKspKA?si=arg6qRHqKMHR0Fpm
Kevin Hengehold
2024-01-01 17:16:41 +0000 UTC
