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Robinhood, Reddit, & the Revolt of the Retail Investor | Spencer Jakab

Hidden Forces

CHAPTER

Wall Street Bets - What's It All About?

Wall street bets is a social mediam form that was founded as te the front page of the internet. Unlike twitter, facebook or ticktok, you don't follow people. You follow a forum or an idea. And so anybody can go on there and write something crazy like i put all my money into highly speculative derivatives on the stock I think will go to the moon by y. The site has about ten million members during the time it's being used in this story. It set the tone for things which are now leading up to warren’s murder-suicide.

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