How WallStreetBets REALLY Started!

"this ongoing interest in the markets that you know popped up during Co and is still with us today it has not yeah yeah very much so yeah had thought it would"

"it seems to be the way that so many stories in online culture go where you know it starts with sort of a reasonable distrust ... but it's so easily tips over into pizzagate and qanon and you know the line between this is I think part of the issue with trolling where it's hard to tell when somebody's being serious and when they're uh when it's when it's meant to be a joke and when it's meant to be serious"

"Meme stocks have faded in importance over time and yet you know this new generation of retail Traders is still very much in the market and and they seem to be doing relatively well as a group"

"rate of growth of ownership among Young Americans is much faster than among older Americans I mean it's become this sort of popular preoccupation for Youth and in youth culture now"

"hedge funds are now afraid to short stocks I mean that that the and overall short levels have gone down over time... this retail crowd is still playing a very important role in markets"

"this whole thing has become bigger than Wall Street bets... what you have now is a bunch of spin-off both subreddits and Discord communities... a lot of the sort of action has gone back back to those smaller more intimate communities... Wall Street bets is no longer the center of the action"

"I think that online trolling culture has become so powerful that it's spun out and is now sort of overwhelming the old sort of polite popular culture you know the mainstream media is sort of losing its hold to this world of online trolling which is where young people are living and increasingly sort of you know everybody else is getting pulled in as well"