i think my favorite part about moass is that they think wallstreet and the government are insanely corrupt, but once they expose that corruptness every branch of it is just gonna go "ah ggs, you did it, well done. heres literally an infinite amount of money"

@bigchungus6827

10 күн бұрын

That's something of a trend you'll see with conspiracies. From how I've heard people describe it, it seems like it comes down to an instinctive want to simplify wide reaching problems that are usually pretty complex and unclear into something with a very specific solution. Having a set enemy and a set path to victory helps people avoid having to think about how messy modern society tends to be a lot of the time. As something of an unavoidable result of that kind of thinking, the solutions for the problems they envision, and the proof of those problems existing inevitably tend to be somewhat infantile.

@DarkLolification

9 күн бұрын

Yes and they're doing it in plain sight ! On reddit ! Like government agencies don't have an eye on them. If moass could happen the authorities would use other means much more powerful instead of supposed shorts like apes believe.

@TheTealHydra

9 күн бұрын

@@DarkLolification I am genuinely curious if anyone's gotten a good-faith answer from apes as to why A) none of the people with more money than all the apes have put together has exploited this to become a trillionaire and B) why they think the rules would still apply when doing so would threaten the entire economy, especially given, y'know, history. Not curious enough to go reading ape forums though, and the ones that come here aren't exactly bringing their A-game.

@alackofgames913

7 күн бұрын

Well, didn't you know that the government operates on Fae rules? If you answer their riddles three, to the court they'll give you the key

@jasonanastas5478

7 күн бұрын

This is my favorite part too 😂

if someone asked me to imagine the worst, least functional government possible, I think "plutocracy, but it's run by runescape players" would probably be in the top 5

@XanthinZarda

9 ай бұрын

Oh, so you've seen his Decentraland Video?

@mousasha-

9 ай бұрын

@@XanthinZardahow could you say the "We held a vote on whether or not politics are allowed in our governance system and decided that politics will not be allowed unless a future democratic vote decrees that they will be." Guys wouldn't be competent at running the entire world!!!?

@deathstorming

9 ай бұрын

anything to make Flute Salad the national anthem

@handlethesenutz

9 ай бұрын

​@@luxill0si want you to write me a detailed essay on the impacts of american interventionism in other countries, then get back to me on whatever it is you think venezuela did wrong.

@hozie6795

9 ай бұрын

Amusingly, this already exists, and it's called Runescape. Old School Runescape has a polling system where a supermajority of members have to vote to approve of any change prior to it being implemented, ostensibly to keep the trust of the playerbase and prevent another exodus like the one that happened after the extremely unpopular free trade removal, Evolution of Combat, and Squeal of Fortune updates. In practice, it mostly gets used as a way for people who have spent hundreds or thousands of hours on the game to prevent anyone from ever getting a level or item without having to go through just as bad of a grind as they did, or a way for the PvE and PvP communities to work out their beef via downvoting each others' updates.

fun easter egg: at the start of Line Goes Up dan uses an analogy comparing the banks of the '08 crash to rotten trees so big that when they fell they'd take all their neighbors with them at the start of this video, he is filming standing in front of a dead tree fallen over in an empty field lol

@commandrogyne

3 ай бұрын

Ooh, good catch! Ive watched these like once a month since they came out and never noticed that, very clever!

@Violaphobia

3 ай бұрын

My god…

@perfectlyfine1675

2 ай бұрын

Give Dan Olson an Oscar

@ahbh4348

2 ай бұрын

deep lore (like roots)

@sadslavboy

Ай бұрын

oh yea thats a really good catch! I never thought of him standing in front of the dead tree in the beginning with any symbolic meanings And, in a lot of ways, its absolutely true. The dead trees of 2008 are STILL wrecking havoc on the world we live in. Still "thrashing" our economy as a whole. Apes are a good example of this. Everything goes back to 08 (really if you think about it, everything goes back to Reagan but I digress)

2:04:50 I love how "don't put all your eggs in one basket" gets interpreted by apes as "put all your eggs in one basket, plus this second basket which we believe will soon merge with the first basket, thereby becoming the same, singular basket. With all your eggs in it." For a group that claims to be good at interpreting secret messages, they are just consistently, astonishingly bad at reading the plaintext.

@itcouldbelupus2842

2 ай бұрын

There is no plaintext mannn It's all S U B T E X T

@TheOneHistoryGuy

2 ай бұрын

That's because the plaintext isn't telling them what they want to hear. If they took the text at face-value, it basically reveals that they a) have no idea what they're talking about, b) all of their theories and delusions are wrong and c) they are wasting all their time and money on a fantasy get-rich-quick scheme that would ultimately lead them to ruin. The only reason that secret messages 'exist' because it's easier to believe that there's a hidden truth than it is to admit that you don't understand and/or you've been played for a sucker. The line can only go up.

@ekki1993

16 күн бұрын

It's what happens when you think dumb shit like Sherlock are the way smart people think.

I grew up in the Rocky Mountain West, and there were these slightly off kilter people who would come to old gold rush towns from the 1800s with panning equipment, convinced they were going to find untold riches in places that had been mined dry 150 years ago. My own uncle borrowed heavily from family to support buying mining equipment, because he believed God had told him that he was going to find incredible wealth in the mountains. I thought of this a lot while watching these people justify buying massive amounts of meme stock long after the writing was on the wall.

@edjohnpowell

9 ай бұрын

I can understand them spinning elaborate conspiracy theories to save face for having spent stupid money on worthless stock. It’s when they keep buying more stock that flummoxes me

@trioptimum9027

9 ай бұрын

Right? Like, it would actually make more sense to grab your panning gear and go try the creek in your neighbor's back yard or something. If there was a working gold mine there and then there stopped being one, you KNOW they looked for more gold, and they had a literal gold mine to finance those efforts. At least if you throw a dart at a map and pan there, you're probably checking somewhere that hasn't been checked dozens of times before. Now, if you're just kinda LARPing, if it's just a fun thing you like to do when you go hiking in the hills, great! That sounds like a lot of fun! You get to feel a connection to old-timey prospector dudes! I hope you grow a cool beard and wear suspenders too (if you want)! But if you're spending money you can't afford, yeah, that's sad.

@bfish89ryuhayabusa

9 ай бұрын

Indeed, the "mother" in MOASS made me think of "motherlode", so I definitely had that thought, even if I have less of a direct connection to it.

@andrejg4136

3 ай бұрын

Like the late, great Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens said, "History doesn't repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme."

Dan seems to run on a pretty much exactly 3 way split between, "hey look at this interesting sociological trend", "I really genuinely want to help financially venerable people avoid scams" and "Bullying grifters is enormously fun".

@sjs9698

9 ай бұрын

and i love the ride that balance creates ^^

@penname8441

9 ай бұрын

I'm cheerfully enjoying this mixture

@bota6575

9 ай бұрын

While I enjoy his recent stuffs, I do wish he make movie analysis again. It's been a while. Last one was 2 years ago.

@empanada223

9 ай бұрын

The finance-bro comedy skits are hilarious!

@nathanyou1899

9 ай бұрын

​@@bota6575same honestly. Part of me kinda hopes that he'll make a video on AI art or something that way he can talk about media stuff and tech hype stuff at the same time.

I've rewatched this video several times now, and I'm still struck by the casual cruelty of "wife-changing money"

@BARMN89

6 ай бұрын

i think about that phrase a lot too

@vau_st

6 ай бұрын

@@BARMN89 I've come to this video back a lot and there are a few sentences and situations I'm just completely baffled could manifest itself in the real world I'm inhabiting

@BARMN89

6 ай бұрын

@@vau_st its wild too when you consider incel culture is convinced women do this exact same thing for the same reasons? That women only use men for their money. To think they would be self selecting "yes, i want to validate this negative view of women" is wild

@Arrakiz666

6 ай бұрын

@@BARMN89 Remember the cross-section of eugenics and biological essentialism in incel cultures. They don't consider that not validating that stereotype is even an option, it's a fact of the universe: women bad.

@justbrowsing9697

6 ай бұрын

I'm still wondering if the meaning is "I will get a different wife" or "my wife's attitude will change" because I can't tell which is worse. Attitude sounds better at first until you realize it's about a gambling addiction / sunk cost fallacy cult.

Y’know, I think the saddest thing about this whole mess is that these people don’t understand that even if they were 100% right (which they’re not), even if every single element fell into place just like they want, that the monied interests wouldn’t just play along. If something like the MOASS were to happen, they would freeze the markets, legislation would occur, the courts would go to work, and the status quo would be maintained. Capital doesn’t fight fair.

@xXEGPXx

4 ай бұрын

That is the most hilarious part to me, that these people think the US government would write them a check for 50 trillion dollars, and that somehow that money would be worth something afterwards

@Matrim42

4 ай бұрын

@@GSDKXV Keep telling yourself that.

@spiffywoahitsspiffy

4 ай бұрын

@@GSDKXVdude you've been in the comments for five MONTHS. take some time off, even if you are a troll.

@simonoliver4751

4 ай бұрын

​@@GSDKXVcapitalism is the problem, the solution isn't funneling more money into the hands of capital.

@computermash8542

4 ай бұрын

@@GSDKXVeven if youre right, which you arent, they would not give you the money. at best they would legislate to prevent any wealth transfer and at worst you and anyone else trying to recruit more shmucks would be imprisoned for market manipulation

"WE will have infinite money" and "you can't save everyone from a 9-5 job" are really perplexing thoughts to have in the same sentence as "we will collapse the world economy."

@JoshSweetvale

9 ай бұрын

"We" in this case doesn't mean the proletariat. It means "we the speculators." (Of Crypto, NFTs or third thing) They expect the masses to suffer while they will ascend into Yacht Heaven.

@Arrakiz666

9 ай бұрын

It makes sense when you remember that neoliberal, corporate capitalism is just a _given_ to these people. The core assumptions of the system are not questioned at all. That’s what makes this so sad.

@TooMuchSascha

9 ай бұрын

It's strangely befitting of a cult mentality

@1Seanmb

9 ай бұрын

@@Arrakiz666 I mean that's the distinction between them and actual revolutionaries, they don't want to fix the rigged system, they just want to win.

@Rock_Appreciator

9 ай бұрын

Turns out they'd just as greedy as the corporations and governments they hate, given the chance.

"Apes are shadow boxing the random noise of the stock market -- and losing" is the best summary of the past 3 years that I have ever heard.

@mac4974

8 ай бұрын

I think that's my favorite Folding Ideas line ever, and I've been around awhile.

@Niffoni

8 ай бұрын

Damn, the random noise of the stock market got hands.

@Russian_engineer_bmstu

8 ай бұрын

​@@mac4974my favorite is "alien goth furry oc" from the wall review review

@copypasta1585

7 ай бұрын

@@Russian_engineer_bmstu From the same video is probably the line that I quote the most with my friends: "Cringe. There's no other word for it. this makes me cringe. It's embarrassing."

@undeadMonk

7 ай бұрын

@@Russian_engineer_bmstu that's "steam punk edgelord furry ocs" and "alien big titty goth girlfriend" - two different quotes from that video smashed together

My ex was bamboozled into buying GME behind my back by a former friend, leading to our divorce. My stomach dropped when I later found out said former friend also happened to be in the capitol on Jan. 6.

@quarterburnt

Ай бұрын

This is the thing I despise the most about the apes. They don’t do this in a vacuum and will hurt those closest to them all for the sake of “I’m going to defeat/join the billionaires” delusion.

@bogdanlevi

28 күн бұрын

​@@quarterburnt every cult is like this.

@Sparklefart023

25 күн бұрын

What a fukin reach. Melties are shamefully fertarded

@diegomo1413

23 күн бұрын

@@Sparklefart023everyone point and laugh at the idiot cultist 😂👆

@diegomo1413

23 күн бұрын

That tracks

My personal favorite part of their fundamental thesis is: "the big bad system that is apparently ignoring every rule in the book (to a cartoonish degree) to screw over 'the little guy' will just give up and give us every single dollar in the entire global economy". And why? Because "thats just how it works"

@Veelofar

6 ай бұрын

Well, yeah, those people are in fact fae creatures and must comply when bested at their game! They also must give you their gold if you answer their riddles and/or find it at the end of the rainbow. This is sarcasm.

@nerocole6734

6 ай бұрын

@@Veelofarthis is a good comment

@RoyalFusilier

6 ай бұрын

I should go look up if Apes have an answer to this, actually I probably shouldn't. But I am curious, it's been years, surely someone has asked 'so what stops the government from just killing us if it gets that far?' That person was probably banned 12 seconds later for FUD, but I'm devilishly curious to know what the answer would be.

@GSDKXV

6 ай бұрын

Brain dead take. Surprising from a bear. The buy button was turned off because the retail investor found an exploit to their corrupt scheme of illegal naked short selling. If you DRS GME and refuse to sell, then those short sellers no longer can use those shares to close out their positions. And according to the quarterly report, we’re already 75+ million shares on the way there.

@simonoliver4751

6 ай бұрын

​@@GSDKXVtwo companies paused buying due to liquidity issues, but people could absolutely still buy GME from literally anywhere else. The 'turned off the buy button' narrative only works if you pretend that they paused buying of GME across the entire stock market, which is just ludicrous. Apes were simply inexperienced and/or incompetent enough to be stopped by one single hurdle. And Apes have only managed to DRS maybe a quarter of all shares, so.....

As Dan said in his NFT vid. Despite what they claim, they don't care about "the little guy" under the boot, they're just upset they aren't wearing it

@skeetsmcgrew3282

8 ай бұрын

Day one of 'owning the economy' they would buy slaves and pay them nothing

@martymcfly88mph35

7 ай бұрын

I mean, let's be honest... you guys wanted everyone fired and forced to stay home for years. Until whenever Fauci said it was okay to work and earn a living again to feed your family. The left has 0 principles they stand by when the chips are down

@esmeecampbell7396

7 ай бұрын

Everyone is just upset they aren't wearing it. Some just hide it better than others...

@scobeymeister1

7 ай бұрын

​@@esmeecampbell7396Speak for yourself. Plenty of us dream of a world with no boots at all

@matthewwhiteside4619

7 ай бұрын

​@@esmeecampbell7396plenty of people do not want to be the ones wearing the boot, but would rather the boot didn't exist. If you think everyone wants to wear the boot, that says more about you.

I worked at GameStop and had guys coming in asking about a merger with bed bath and beyond. Crazy to finally have context for that conversation

@JM_-ix7yh

9 ай бұрын

lowkey scary to have to deal with these cult members in person lmao

@smoothjax

9 ай бұрын

@@JM_-ix7yh haha yeah I hear that. What you have to understand is that conspiracy theorists are just people who believe a crackpot scheme. They wanted it to be true so they came into the store to get evidence. I doubt I convinced them, but who knows?

@smoothjax

9 ай бұрын

@@Blakbox92 you know? That's a great question lmfao Honestly, that was one of the worse jobs I've ever had, not in small part because of people like that. It's not hard to imagine that they had an argument with someone about their 'investment' and came to the store to get some reassurance. When I said "lol nope" to them I doubt it helped them feel better about their spending habits. I just hope that I don't hear about Ape holdouts in 10 years talking about FUD and how there used to be a GameStop in this town.

@teemo9141

9 ай бұрын

@@Blakbox92obviously the ceo personally told the employees about the merger and to only tell the real info to the shareholders. The apes have cracked the code again!!

@thedapperdolphin1590

9 ай бұрын

@@Blakbox92They’re not exactly in touch with reality

The cybertruck line has aged like the finest wine

@toomanyaccounts

2 ай бұрын

funny how many cybertruck owners don't realize you need to use alchol or gasoline to clean it and have rusted the cybertruck. car washes can also brick it

@kityhawk2000

2 ай бұрын

Seems like the perfect car for them tbh 😂

@ronnickels5193

2 ай бұрын

And now I'm thinking Tesla stock is just another meme stock

@KissatenYoba

2 ай бұрын

@@ronnickels5193 not meme, just overvalued, speculative.

@ronnickels5193

2 ай бұрын

@@KissatenYoba I heard it described as an automotive company priced as a tech company

"I work for the company and I can tell you" bro being an Amazon delivery driver doesn't make you an expert on their stock 😂😂

@fredsmith3117

7 ай бұрын

That one infuriated me: 1. Because what he's saying is pure nonsense to such a degree that I don't think he understands even super basic finance stuff, and 2. I work security for Amazon and I can tell you that every single person who works there is in the running for dumbest motherfucker on the planet.

@emptiester

7 ай бұрын

Im a data scientist at publicly traded companies and the stock is a total mystery to me. The number of people with actual inside information that can affect the stock beyond a 48 hour period can literally be counted on one hand.

@Arrakiz666

7 ай бұрын

@@fredsmith3117 Yup. No additional comment, just... yup.

@jakek1735

5 ай бұрын

I'm kinda stealing this from a Mitch Hedberg joke but it's like saying "I know everything there is to know about cow farming, I cooked hamburgers for years"

@mattbenz99

5 ай бұрын

@@emptiester This is it. If you did have insider information, you would be legally banned from discussing it.

I like how Keith Gill's videos just show this soft-spoken, educated, respectful guy, who just agreed that a single stock was undervalued. Just the most agreeable, sensible person in the entire video, and yet these absolute lunatics think he's their cult leader.

@SammaS423

9 ай бұрын

Failing upward i guess 😅

@isenokami7810

9 ай бұрын

@@SammaS423I don’t think being worshipped by lunatics disconnected from reality counts as “upwards”. And I think Keith would agree given how he handled that.

@williammanning5066

9 ай бұрын

Real-life Life of Brian shit

@sideways5153

9 ай бұрын

The guy gave a pretty convincing and respectable speech in front of Congress, those damn dirty apes didn’t deserve him and frankly are slandering him by association lol

@thefallofhousedenari

9 ай бұрын

I must be so *strange* to find yourself in that position; where a load of unstable people are picking apart everything you say for clues.

The whole "the hedgies picked a fight with gamers but we know what it's like to grind for a boss fight so we're gonna come out on top actually" thing makes me think of the sort of "ummmmm I watch Sherlock, I know how to hide a dead body, say your frickin prayers" posts that you used to see on Tumblr circa 2012, which is very funny to me because guaranteed apes would call those kinds of posts cringe (at best)

@vaiyt

9 ай бұрын

"We have been trained for years by an industry that perfected the art of making us feel special and capable! Fear us!"

@emmajoy3864

9 ай бұрын

literally made the exact same connection to the sherlock/supernatural tumblr fandom when i hit that part of the video. insular conspiratorial online communities will always converge on the same apotheosis of cringe.

@jamesrule1338

9 ай бұрын

At least the Sherlock fans didn't gamble their life savings away on smoke. At least I hope they didn't .

@microcomputermaster

9 ай бұрын

There's an echo of GamerGate which runs through all the delusional Ape rhetoric about the establishment "picking fights with gamers." The rabbit hole goes deep on this.

@L3X1N

9 ай бұрын

They targeted gamers. *_Gamers._*

I once had a student who insisted he had a better system to do math than algebra, calculus and trig. His “system” completely misunderstood how numbers fundamentally worked. He made up his own terms for concepts that didn’t exist and missed how numbers connected to reality. His entire “system” became a justification for why he was actually right when he just didn’t get math, and any attempt to explain to him why he was wrong was instantly met with a shutdown of the conversation. This is that but stonks.

@auzpayeur8229

4 ай бұрын

I don’t know if this would be more wild if you’re talking about a high schooler or a college student

@lasagnahog7695

3 ай бұрын

That friend? Terrence Howard.

@kakroom3407

3 ай бұрын

@@auzpayeur8229 i assumed college due to calculus

@auzpayeur8229

3 ай бұрын

@@kakroom3407 yeah but that means this guy got into a *college level math class* and was *still* like this

@phastinemoon

3 ай бұрын

@@kakroom3407eh, my high school had calculus as an option. Mostly seniors who intended to go into computer science in college

No matter how many times I watch, that clip of "we tried to tell them over dinner... WHATEVER" still feels right out of a movie. It's such an exposed psyche moment 😭

@molegoddess

3 ай бұрын

The little chuckle afterwards when he realizes all the face paint in the world can't hide that level of mask slip

@jimshotfirst4887

2 ай бұрын

Timestamp?

@notapplicable6985

2 ай бұрын

1:48:35 is the timestamp

@ItWasSaucerShaped

Ай бұрын

'THEY HAD THEIR CHANCE!' guy is definitely snorting what he was told was cocaine

@sixstringedthing

Ай бұрын

The moment when you almost feel sorry for the guy until you remember that he's dishing out terrible "not financial advice" built from hog-wild conspiracy theories.

“It’s just Reddit’s version of the Rapture” is an excellent line which perfectly explains all the emotional stakes.

@YOSSARIAN313

6 ай бұрын

Apes often use art of the rapture in their moass memes. They are somewhat self aware about it

@GSDKXV

6 ай бұрын

@@YOSSARIAN313 literally never happens 🤡 you’re not even good at spreading misinformation

@YOSSARIAN313

6 ай бұрын

@@GSDKXV man so much coping and seething from you in this comment section

@SharptonsRaceCard

6 ай бұрын

@@YOSSARIAN313 Not. A. Cult.

@YOSSARIAN313

6 ай бұрын

@@GSDKXV citadel is fine. They are still incomprehensibly wealthy

“Despite its reputation, finance, as a subject, is in fact something that you, a layperson, can learn. It is a lot less impenetrable than it seems; Wall Street is awash with B-minus students who wrapped their heads around it. You can too.” One of the most unexpectedly reassuring things I’ve heard in quite some time, and I felt pretty comfortable with my understanding of the subject already. 😂 Thanks, Dan!

@Moonhermit-

9 ай бұрын

It's reassuring, since it means even idiots like me can influence and control the global market. It's also horrifying, since it means that many idiots are indeed currently influencing and controlling the global market. And some of them are billionaires.

@Arrakiz666

9 ай бұрын

It is very important to note that, yes, while most systems you interact with on a daily basis are going to be byzantine nightmare constructs of historical laziness, absolute lack of care about people who might find it hard to use them, and pure laziness, they _can_ be navigated. Dan will be accused of trying to muddy the waters by pretending the subject matter is more complex than it is anyway. A grating contradiction about the conspiratorially minded folks, is that the theories must simultaneously be overly complex, because only then can they pretend to be experts and dazzle those even less intelligent than them, but they also must be as simplistic as possible in order to sound realistic to the same people.

@genechowder

9 ай бұрын

He’s got such a strong dad energy you never want the disappointed-dad vibe to be pointed at you but anytime he says anything like “you can do it” it makes you feel like your dad really believes in you

@kmhkennedy

9 ай бұрын

@@Arrakiz666Byzantine, Russel brand is here.

@BlakLite15

9 ай бұрын

It's less about dazzling the supposedly less intelligent and more about dazzling themselves. It's how they convince themselves that they're super-experts who've cracked codes that have baffled even the actual experts. It's a delusional savior complex mixed with a hefty dose of the Dunning-Kruger effect. @@Arrakiz666

This deprogrammed me. You are my savior Dan

@Hayson898

7 ай бұрын

Good on you for getting out.

@placeholderdoe

7 ай бұрын

Happy for you dude

@bruceusername

7 ай бұрын

watch the savior talk, you just got out

@jordanyoussefzadehclementi9417

7 ай бұрын

Be grateful for Dan, I'm certainly happy for you, but no more heroes for a while

@phastinemoon

7 ай бұрын

You also did the work of listening, looking at yourself, and making the conscious decision to change. Don’t sell yourself short (pun intended)

I'm so grateful for this. I've been questioning my own sanity for the past 3 years witnessing my husband fall down this rabbit hole. I appreciate that the documentary mentions the gambling aspects and how it affects the ape's family and spouses. 😔

@Hayson898

5 ай бұрын

I'm sorry you have to go through something like that. I hope he is or has gotten help for his addiction or at least gotten out of the conspiracy, and if not that you leave him for your safety.

@placeholderdoe

5 ай бұрын

Im so sorry, I hope you and or your husband find some help.

@maskingtables

4 ай бұрын

I hope he can find a way out. This is just a selfmade señffulfilling tragedy based on primal fears

@GSDKXV

4 ай бұрын

@@maskingtables wtf are you talking about? 😂 This is an INVESTMENT based on data found in the balance sheet.

@rabidfirefox8914

4 ай бұрын

I am so sorry. If he believes the 'wife changing money' part you should at least consider what could happen in your relationship. Please take care of yourself. Even if he's a nice man, nothing is worth your mental health and self esteem

Shout out to the Game Stop employee who was like "umm, I don't think it makes sense to merge a video game store with a company that sells candles."

@tinkerer3399

9 ай бұрын

Honestly I really like playing games by candlelight but I've learned to never bet on my tastes being shared by others.

@drewbabe

9 ай бұрын

imagine: mountain dew and doritos scented candles

@absolutechaos13

9 ай бұрын

​@drewbabe you know PepsiCo buying GameStop somehow makes more sense...

@notapplicable6985

9 ай бұрын

​@@drewbabeI think those might exist, there is at least mountain dew soap

@tinkerer3399

9 ай бұрын

@notapplicable6985 So of course I had to check. Result? They don't officially exist however there are secondary markets that make both of them. Normally I wouldn't post that since it's kinda non-news, but when looking into it I found something neat. You don't need Doritos candles because Dorito chips burn like candles already. Just stick em into a fire proof base like sand and thanks to the oils in them apparently uou can just light them up. Gonna test it tonight.

I really like the "aiming for 31 in blackjack" comparison at the end. Knowing that to get that number, youd already have to be at or over 21, and still asking the dealer for more. And when the other players at the table see your hand, they all realize, "this person doesn't know the rules of this game."

@idontcare6736

7 ай бұрын

Theoretically you could get to 31 by being at 20 and then getting an ace

@librenarraty1964

7 ай бұрын

@@idontcare6736 Nope, because if you're at 20 and you get an ace, it'd count as 1 point. Which would still land you at blackjack.

@owenleal

7 ай бұрын

​@@librenarraty1964 when people say blackjack I always think of Uno Blackjack.

@phastinemoon

7 ай бұрын

My understanding of BlackJack is that you get 21 or the closest number to it that's below at the table -- any if you go OVER, that's a bust and the dealer takes your cards.

@DivineOne-vb6td

7 ай бұрын

@@phastinemoon You'd be correct, that's why you almost never hit on anything over 15 because your odds of busting increases exponentially (depending on previous draws and how many decks are in play of course, but I digress). The metaphor works great because if you're trying to get a 31 in Blackjack, it means that you're an idiot who tossed away a perfectly good win for a vague 'more' that ends in you losing due to not understanding how the game actually works.

2:27:06 "No one deserves to be exploited like this. No one deserves to get shaken down by grifters to the point that they have no other choice but to become grifters themselves and shake down everyone else around them. No one deserves to have their ego and security ground down to the point that there's no escape, no reason to step back and admit defeat, no reason to reflect." Just leaving this out so it doesn't get lost in the noise. I would pay money to put this quote on a billboard.

@placeholderdoe

6 ай бұрын

Bit large for a billboard, maybe good for writing down and making a phone wallpaper. Reminding you each time you open it

@yegirish

6 ай бұрын

Honestly, one of the things I really appreciate about this video is that he’s still empathetic to these extraordinarily frustrating people.

@wildfire9280

5 ай бұрын

It would go down in history as the second most important billboard ever made.

@placeholderdoe

5 ай бұрын

@@wildfire9280 whats the first

@ekki1993

5 ай бұрын

It's the same logic as abusers being often people who suffered abuse themselves. It's important to remember to humanize these people not because they are innocent but because we shouldn't ignore the reality that they are also victims.

I don't get most of the financial things BUT THE APES ANALYSING THE BELT BUCKLE FOR SECRET MESSAGES IS THE MOST UNHINGED THING IVE EVER HEARF

@ronnickels5193

5 ай бұрын

Considering these are people who are into Alternative Reality Games and deep diving into game lore, see Five Nights at Freddy's, this is pretty normal.

@tomatopotatu8137

5 ай бұрын

@@ronnickels5193 there a difference between analysing fiction for figure out lore and whatnot and analysing belt buckles for financial advice

@blakksheep736

4 ай бұрын

​@@ronnickels5193 yeah, but FNAF is MEANT to be pried open and scraped for clues. These are _kid's books _

@blakksheep736

3 ай бұрын

​@@ronnickels5193 yeah, but diving into FNAF is the point. It is designed to have lore to be examined. Not so here.

@Infinite_Archive

24 күн бұрын

​@@ronnickels5193Can't wait for when the GameStop executives release a binary message in Morse code that leads to a geocache with the password to a safe that the protagonist found in his attic.

I gotta say, centering the critical text (IE-price is fake) while swapping through posts at rapid speed is a nifty visual effect. Hats off to whoever thought to use that.

@ea5145

9 ай бұрын

Completely agree, never seen anything like that but it's the perfect illustrator of the prevalence of THAT exact idea

@TheMisternyan

9 ай бұрын

Agree as well, was a super cool effect. Like Dan mentions, it's just bizarre to me how these "do your own research" conspiracy types love to repeat specific phrases verbatim, like some kind of mantra. Flat earthers, covid deniers, etc

@DewMan001

9 ай бұрын

​@@TheMisternyancryptodingbats, QAnon followers...

@stillmoms

9 ай бұрын

I feel like this is the perfect summation of Dan’s clear long-term involvement in Internet culture. It reminded me first and foremost of the old YTMND trend of “Lindsay Lohan never changes facial expressions”, where they made a rapid-fire GIF of publicity photos of LL aligned so her face was always in the same space and at the same scale. Here the same idea was implemented with text instead of a celebrity’s face.

@jacopovilla1590

9 ай бұрын

Timestamp?

"I'm smarter than everyone else and therefore can game the system" and "Everyone already agrees with me on this because this stuff is just common sense" is a WILD pair of things to believe simultaneously.

@emilyrln

9 ай бұрын

The cultic milieu is fully submerged in cognitive dissonance 💀

@chrisdray5325

9 ай бұрын

This comment has just singlehandedly changed the way I think about conspiracy theories, so congrats for that

@GwenWinterheart

9 ай бұрын

somehow "I'm actually dumb as rocks and need someone to explain to me what i should be doing with my money next" seems to be mixed in there as well ...

@gwen9939

9 ай бұрын

It falls perfectly in line with the conspiratorial mindset of "if you can't find any proof to support the theory, that's proof that it's actually true."

@lilowhitney8614

9 ай бұрын

Tbf, usually it's more along the lines of "Everyone *reasonable* already agrees with me on this because it's common sense", which lets them readily discard anyone who doesn't agree as unimportant.

"It feels like we're driving backwards really fast at a wall and just before we hit it, the secret level in ready player one is going to open up and let us pass by the entire race and win" oh god no, that is incredibly sad. I can't even make a joke. I just blurted "oh no" as soon as I heard it

@YOSSARIAN313

6 ай бұрын

These guys seriously need to touch grass

@simonoliver4751

6 ай бұрын

When was this?

@joshyoung1440

6 ай бұрын

@@simonoliver4751 damn it I always put timestamps, I don't know why I didn't this time... lemme try to find it

@alexotter1760

5 ай бұрын

when dan was reading it out i remember thinking "this has to be parody, no way someone would really say this, its his investor character and this is a silly sentence" and then he put the comment on screen (2:30:47 btw) and i think i said "oh my god" out loud and covered my face from the second-hand embarrassment.

@GSDKXV

5 ай бұрын

Blah blah blah 75+ million DRSed shares on GameStops balance sheet 😂😂😂😂

The part where he asks the gamestop employee if he knows who Ryan Cohen only for the employee to say no and he becomes incredulous that he doesn't know who he is just because he is working at gamestop is terminally online syndrome.

@trouty606

7 ай бұрын

Somehow in this ocean of nonsense and cringe, that guy stands tall as the absolute most pathetic part of it.

@mariannacross2538

6 ай бұрын

also proof he's never worked a retail job

@kevinstephenson3531

6 ай бұрын

@@trouty606I was genuinely scared he might try to hurt that poor employee.

@lauriepenner350

5 ай бұрын

Because 15 year old minimum wage employees are privy to all their employer's secrets and will be happy to tell you about any global financial conspiracies they are involved in.

@AmellsGrace

5 ай бұрын

@@lauriepenner350 ngl, if I was a 15 year old min wage employee and I actually did know about a global conspiracy, I 100% would off hand mention it to customers as if everyone knew it and refuse to elaborate. I think that'd be funny.

"Apes aren't anti-Wall Street, they're tsundere for Wall Street" is one of the most incredible and insightful sentences I have ever heard.

@baguettegott3409

9 ай бұрын

It's an Anime thing, right? What exactly does it mean?

@noesunyoutuber7680

9 ай бұрын

​​@@baguettegott3409A tsundere is a character whose inner sweetness (usually romantic feelings) is masked behind a rude, unfriendly facade. This archetype usually shows up specifically in romance anime, or at least romance plots.

@BimpytheWimpyShrimpy

9 ай бұрын

@@baguettegott3409 As noesun said. It's basically boys pulling girls' pigtails because they're too imature to say they like them.

@mycophobia

9 ай бұрын

he mispronounced it though. which invalidates his whole argument

@noesunyoutuber7680

9 ай бұрын

@@mycophobia I did consider mentioning that I've never once heard it pronounced like that.

Honestly the part where you said "they don't hate wall street, they're tsundere for wall street" made laugh out loud, another magnificent documentary here Dan, bravo.

@Chimera-man-man

9 ай бұрын

Where does he say that? I missed it

@dominictemple

9 ай бұрын

@@Chimera-man-man 2:22:30 is best timestamp. You can search the transcript found in the description for any specific term or word.

@Chimera-man-man

9 ай бұрын

@@dominictemple thank you

@nekoma7a

9 ай бұрын

bro didn't even pronounce it right i'm dead LMFAO

@evanholt1752

9 ай бұрын

Ooooh, that's what he was saying! I went back like 4 times and I still had no idea.

Seeing so many people be deprogrammed from the MOASS conspiracy theory in this chat is awesome

@emilydurkee8664

28 күн бұрын

Dan out here saving lives

Something that Dan is understating here is just how fucking out of hand these people got over this. The guy asking the gamestop employee about the bed bath merger, Kais Maalej, aggressively trespassed, doxxed, and stalked his way into tons of extremely disturbing situations, including impersonating Ryan Cohen in a call to his family's OBGYN to sus out the due date of his unborn child.

@aethertag1530

6 ай бұрын

​@@GSDKXVmy brother in Christ can you at least admit that Kais' behavior on a personal level is fucking inexcusable. Forget the stocks for a second. He tried to impersonate someone to get information about his wife's pregnancy. Edit: lol, dude deleted his reply here to spread his nonsense in other comment chains. Coward.

@Arrakiz666

6 ай бұрын

@@aethertag1530 No behavior is truly inexcusable when salvation is on the line. Kxv is frankly the truest believer I’d seen in all of my life. I mean, he _is_ insane. But he definitely is a true believer.

@Asianese

6 ай бұрын

Wtf did I just read

@TerminatorHIX

6 ай бұрын

For context, he did this because Ryan Cohen tweeted a "The last time people were excited to see me" meme with a photo of an ultrasound. Kais interpreted this as a hint that the GME-BBBY merger would happen on the DOB of Cohen's kid, hence the call.

@Asianese

6 ай бұрын

@@TerminatorHIX wtf did I just read x2

It's not a coincidence that Dan describes this movement in terms usually reserved for religious movements: e.g. "orthodoxy," "apocalyptic belief placed under cognitive strain." This reminds me of so many new religious movements yearning for a judgment day/apocalypse/armageddon.

@dyppityjoop5912

9 ай бұрын

Yeap, i see a reflection of the cult craze of the 1950-80's that stemmed from WWII and the various other wars that stressed out and caused mass underlying panic in America that caused people to flock to insane cults and accept their openly criminal and disgusting practices. Now in 2020-23, following the financial crash in 2008, the accelerating inflation of money at a pace never seen before, the entirely stagnant wages compared to pricing of healthcare, rent and food, free internet inundating people with inflammatory articles and exposing people to charismatic grifters with amoral ideologies; a new wave of panic and stress has swept over America, compounded further by the suprise attack of Covid, which has lead to 'finance cults' like NFT bros, Crypto Enthusiasts and Meme Stock Apes, which although are not physically violent like old style cults, still exploits followers and lead them to harm, now by financial and social isolation and loss.

@bean6803

9 ай бұрын

Dan has a background in theology which shows up in a lot of his work which I think is really cool (he confirms this in his interview with Adam Connover if you need a source on that)

@jezrielbaquir3237

9 ай бұрын

its because its an actual almost one to one example of a doomsday cult, longing for the day shorts are squeezed and they can be the emperors of earth, not too dissimilar really to heavens gate or jonestown

@bananapooparama6800

9 ай бұрын

Damn, I didn't expect to find you here. Love your videos

@maynardburger

9 ай бұрын

I mean, it literally has become a financial apocalypse cult.

I can't believe Dan made a 2.5 hour documentary just so his Vegas trip could be tax deductible.

@rabidfirefox8914

8 ай бұрын

He's gaming the system.

@Sir_Bucket

8 ай бұрын

​@@rabidfirefox8914truly, the IRS lost its fight with gamers

@edgarallenhoe3518

8 ай бұрын

Just as wild as that time he made a nearly 2 hour documentary to advertise his modern mario houses.

@OhNotThat

8 ай бұрын

Based Dan. Extremely based. He's gonna make it.

@Hidden4125

8 ай бұрын

@@edgarallenhoe3518 dont forget he also made a 75 minute "documentary" that turns out to just be an ad for his hit book Stoicism for Pussies

The superstonks subreddit tried to "debunk" this video and it was just a list of really unconvincing character assassination attempts against Dan and pedantry about specific word definitions, there was no attempt to address the core of any points or arguements that were raised in this video.

@KrankuSama

5 ай бұрын

@@GSDKXVThe loudest echo in the chamber, get a life man

@realkarfixer8208

5 ай бұрын

@@KrankuSama It's either a bot, or TRUE BELIEVER. Same level of thinking however.

@simonoliver4751

4 ай бұрын

​@@KrankuSama I think he really, desperately needs the attention he gets from these replies. My guess is that the people in his life largely stopped talking to him when he fell down the ape rabbit hole.

@xXEGPXx

4 ай бұрын

@@GSDKXV WW2 is one of the top wars of all time, doesn't mean it was a good thing

@Ezekiel_Allium

4 ай бұрын

​@@GSDKXV I am once again asking if you have anyone in your life, anyone at all, who you can talk to? Like I'm actually scared you've gotten so sucked into the cult you've isolated yourself and you don't have any positive real world influences to keep you grounded. I hope there's someone out there who is worried about you and will eventually try and get you in touch with like, a cult victim support group, because I genuinely think you might need it.

We did it guys! the stock reached $50! That's only 0% of infinity. We're gonna be rich!

@Adam_U

2 ай бұрын

And it's coming back down already. Those morons bought MORE after it spiked because they thought it was MOASS. So this spike only lost them even more money in the long run 😂🤣 Worst investors in the history of the stock market

@alexpope1984

2 ай бұрын

much faster bubble burst than anyone could have seen coming

@GSDKXV

2 ай бұрын

If we hold, then short sellers can’t close

@pdp703

2 ай бұрын

@@alexpope1984 so true I’m still holding my 100 shares sad I don’t jump off at 80 but fuck it let’s see what’s happens

@realkarfixer8208

2 ай бұрын

500 million is just around the corner 😂

The congressional hearing bit at 1:10:11 is chilling. My first thought was 'Huh, Keith is referencing ape terminology and memes, even under oath before congress. Maybe he really was part of this movement.' Then I realized I had it backwards. He wasn't referencing ape stuff, every word of this testimony was picked apart and adopted by the apes afterwards. This one brief clip spawned multiple in-jokes/shibboleths/signifiers that still persist today, this testimony is something of a holy scripture. I think he made the right choice to disappear from the internet. Being a cult leader comes with severe occupational hazards.

@DewMan001

9 ай бұрын

You said "being a cult leader comes with severe occupational hazards" and now I kind of want to see OSHA guidelines for being a cult leader. "What YOU need to know to run your cult safely!"

@tevanchinsangaram6467

9 ай бұрын

This isn't entirely the case. I was an onlooker to these communities at the time (luckily I had no spare money to invest or I would probably have lost it) and I can say phrases like "I like the stock" were already existing memes in the community. He was aware of the audience he had and played to them quite well.

@JoshSweetvale

9 ай бұрын

Being a _reluctant_ cult leader gets you thrown into the volcano.

@ekki1993

9 ай бұрын

@@tevanchinsangaram6467 "I like the stock" is also an extremely generic phrase and taking it as "ape terminology" is talking about conspiracies a little bit too ironically.

@mattdeaver6850

9 ай бұрын

I almost never hear that phrase outside of ape circles, where it has become a mantra.

Watching three adults hear "more than majority voting" and talk themselves into "more than issued voting" is one of the most distressing things I've ever seen, just sheer mental desperation to not have wasted their time and money to such a degree that they'll convince themselves that something they heard literally seconds ago was actually something else.

@SashaMinkh

9 ай бұрын

I want to make sure I'm understanding, they basically heard "more than 50% voting shares present for this vote" and thought/dreamed it meant "there's more than all possible voting shares present"?

@scottdick296

9 ай бұрын

@@SashaMinkh Not only that, but a few seconds later they had convinced themselves that they had LITERALLY heard the words "more than issued voting".

@meghanhenderson6682

9 ай бұрын

That one hurt. "Sweet summer children, WHERE DID YOU THINK THE WORD MAJORITY CAME FROM IN THIS CONVERSATION IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE IT WAS THE WORD USED!!!"

@PicturesqueGames

9 ай бұрын

Imagine, being so mentally NPC that even your magical thinking is about mundane and boring things, which can lead to contrived and boring "end of the world as we know it" result. World of Bobby only he dreams about stonks.

@Adam_U

9 ай бұрын

Not as bad as some of the other stuff, like the recent BBBY shares being cancelled post-bankruptcy has apes like "It says share CANCELLATION, not DELETION, that's different somehow!"

The Teddy Day segment blew my mind because like, I’ve gotten pretty deep into the Undertale/Deltarune community, and those games are THICK with hidden symbolism and secret narratives, so when you start digging into the minutia of every tiny little thing it can look a lot like what these people were doing. The difference is that, first of all, Deltarune people often know that they’re delving into insane conspiratorial territory and revel in that fact, it’s fun to get crazy and throw around wild ideas, and second that it’s a fictional story crafted by a real person to have a deep literal and meta narrative that is intended to be unraveled. Unraveling the story is the secondary form of engagement with the media, just after playing the game itself. To see people delve into that kind of thinking, picking apart names and designs, but trying to apply it to real world events with massive financial consequences… it’s fascinating, to say the least.

@DarkLolification

4 ай бұрын

Yes theses kind of theories scratch an itch ! There are multiple work of arts that play with this notion and invite the user to engage with theory crafting. Like the Bloodborne or Dark Souls game, it feels so good to understand something vaguely hinted in the game. But these are works of fictions ! Made by real people who left holes in there stories for interpretation !

@agnieszkasalach4395

4 ай бұрын

Legit kind of what I was thinking. I was present in the fandom for the tail-end of the Gravity Falls run, just before the final episodes were getting released, and I had a lot of fun with the theorizing. It was all the same, picking the tiny clips of the show apart for the most miniscule of clues, symbols, turns of phrase. I was watching these segments and I really thought, "wow, maybe these people just really need to get intensely into online fandom". It scratches the same itch, without the disastrous stakes

@blakksheep736

4 ай бұрын

Literal kids books...

@tommykarrick9130

4 ай бұрын

@@agnieszkasalach4395 honestly yeah. The current version of that is definitely Deltarune, it’s gotten to the point where someone can mention how “Spamton’s a cat” and everyone just nods in agreement like “well yeah we know but what about it?” Plus instead of waiting for a mythical MOAS, you’re just waiting for yknow The next part of a game to come out.

@squibble08

19 күн бұрын

conspiracy theorizing about games or other such stories is the healthy way to do this

This whole affair is basically that moment from Glass Onion Apes: "So dumb, it's brilliant!" Dan: "NO! It's just dumb!"

@simonoliver4751

6 ай бұрын

​@@GSDKXVCohen has decreased losses by slashing employee benefits and closing stores. That can't carry on forever. Their total sales are lower now than at their peak fifteen years ago when the share price was lower than what it is today. Most people buy games online, either digitally or through online retailers, and the vast majority of people purchase gaming peripherals from places like Amazon. Cohen dumped millions into revitalization efforts, but those plans failed. He brought in a team of experts to right the ship, all of whom are gone now. The trend over the last three years has been down, and it's clear to everyone who isn't drenched in Ape nonsense that, while GameStop may manage to carry on, it is drastically overvalued. MOASS is a fantasy. Anyone who bought in at triple digits is just fucked, and frankly so is anyone who bought in over $20. You aren't who this documentary is for, you're in much too deep for that, but you are absolutely who it's about.

@xXKris_DreemurrXx

6 ай бұрын

​@@GSDKXV :> ~Hush~

@kevinstephenson3531

6 ай бұрын

@@GSDKXVhope you manage to travel to the parallel dimension where moass will happen

@ScottGuertin

6 ай бұрын

@@GSDKXV the validity of DRS as a way of registering shares is probably the least contentious thing about what APES advocate.

@GSDKXV

5 ай бұрын

@@kevinstephenson3531 hey look another bot deflecting with nothing of substance yet again 😂 75+ million DRSed shares buddy cope and seethe

Excellent as usual. I'm no econ major but I have found the old chestnut "do not listen to economic advice from a man wearing face paint" has helped me out in real life for the most part.

@chainswordcs

9 ай бұрын

also: maybe don't take financial advice from someone who's clearly trying to sell you something

@kaloofy3500

9 ай бұрын

I AM an Econ major and can confirm this is true, all the data says so

@JeremyBuxman

9 ай бұрын

@@kaloofy3500We can tell you're an econ major from the vibrant face paint! :)

@fauxrowsdower7610

4 ай бұрын

my grandfather always told me this

“Bro I play runescape.” As a long time runescape player, that’s about all I needed to hear to know the kind of cringey, delusional, gluttons for punishment we’re dealing with here.

@IAmOfAll

9 ай бұрын

Truer words are seldom spoken.

@breadguy325

9 ай бұрын

I'm imagining a scenario where Citadel finds out that theyre up against RuneScape players and everybody in the office freaks out and starts sweating, frantically making calls

@TylerWardhaha

9 ай бұрын

Tbh I read that as self depreciation rather than a brag.

@mrsn3sbit888

9 ай бұрын

​@@breadguy325 Citadel is just the zezima bro

@katarjin

9 ай бұрын

At least it was not a Eve Online player. (speaking as one who won Eve years ago, we be a crazy messed up bunch)

“The squeeze never ended”, to me, is akin to believing the married man you’re dating is going to leave his wife.

@Sparklefart023

25 күн бұрын

Yeh.. because gamestop returned to $2..... oh wait

@raviolithedesigner3736

24 күн бұрын

​@@Sparklefart023I thought the whole idea is that it'd go to the moon. Did GME at ANY point in the 3 years since that initial spike hit those numbers? If not (which, by the way, they didn't) you have no goddamn leg to stand on. Maybe the stock went decently back up, that'll happen sometimes, but MOASS is a lie and you need to stop gambling.

@seliamila1005

20 күн бұрын

It's more likely for him to leave his wife than the squeeze never end (I'm not joking)

@ekki1993

19 күн бұрын

That metaphor is too unrealistic by comparing apes to someone anywhere near the married man.

@mryan89

13 күн бұрын

@@Sparklefart023😂

5:05 "They picked a fight with the gaming industry." This one sentence kills me every time. The gaming industry. I don't even have a specific explanation, it's just so absurd at the face of it.

@user-dg1ry2ly5t

26 күн бұрын

It's such a misunderstanding of their own role. Consumers are not a part of the industry. It's like a hypercharged version of when a sports fan talks about "our" team, and what "we" did on the field.

@ekki1993

16 күн бұрын

Also, even if referencing gamers, it's the least combative group of consumers ever. It's filled to the brim with libertarians that insisted for the past couple of decades that "voting with your wallet" is the best way to fight corporate greed while the industry they claimed to love deteriorated.

@zbsfm

10 күн бұрын

also gotta love the unspoken "people who play video games sometimes = gaming industry"

Structuring the entire essay just to make a "Chapter 11: Bankcuptcy" joke is an absolutely incredible flex

@DEVOTIO33

9 ай бұрын

He stole that from jawsh's video about kais maleej

@diskgrinder

9 ай бұрын

@@DEVOTIO33doubt he knows who that is. Who is that?

@AlexaRobin21

9 ай бұрын

​@@diskgrinderA guy talking about crypto games.

@rudolfambrozenvtuber

9 ай бұрын

@@AlexaRobin21 Critically, to be clear before anyone loses thsir mind

@SeekSeekLest

9 ай бұрын

JFC.

This is going to get lost in a sea of thousands of comments for sure but like. This is all so surreal to me because I'm a normal ass employee of AMC theatres and we did a promo event where stock holders got NFTs for buying tickets or whatever, and the theater was sold out online only for three people to show up. Literally, hundreds of tickets scooped up in seconds by grifters, while some of the most annoyingly earnest ancaps of all time came to an empty mall movie theatre to watch the new kinda bad jurrassic park movie. And when I think of apes and this movement, I think of those three people- who eagerly held onto the stock of a dying company to arrive at an empty theatre that was claimed to be sold out, with every empty chair representing the work of a grifter who saw a chance to sell back to all the other earnest people who wanted a cut.

@aleg719

9 ай бұрын

At least they got good seats

@XanthinZarda

9 ай бұрын

Is that really what the heck $APE was?

@novalinnhe

9 ай бұрын

@andyes4556 - What happened when the three people showed up? How did they act/take it? And, were you guys (as the employees) aware something like that might end up happening, or was it a total surprise on the day? Sounds like such a crazy experience!

@raven_g6667

9 ай бұрын

*chef's kiss* Couldn't have put it better myself.

@valerian_e_song

9 ай бұрын

@@novalinnhe the managers definitely let us know beforehand that the theatre was supposed to be sold out, so they told everyone to prepare for the worst because they're not as internet savvy and didn't really know about the empty crypto bubble thing. so we were fully staffed, fully doom prepared and then- nothing. the three people showed up, and they honestly weren't all that rude at the employees- they just seemed genuinely surprised. a guy was like "wow, this was it? i thought there was supposed to be more people" and he walked into the theatre with a bucket full of popcorn even though he was watching in real time as the movement had left him behind. a girl came up to the front desk a couple days later insisting that amc was running a different crypto/nft thing because she saw it on twitter, and the employees had to tell her we didn't know a thing about it. and i think the thing these people didn't want to know is that not only do we not get told anything about amc social media trying to lean into it expecting a larger demographic, but that we don't care. amc made more money appealing to swifties than it ever did trying to appeal to apes which. yeah theres not much else to say is there

As someone who actually worked at GameStop for 2 years, I cannot describe how physically painful it is to rewatch the guy going into the store at 1:53:45... the amount of people who came in like that during that period in early 2021 was just the worst. Vivid memories of someone spending about 30 minutes in the store giving me investment advice, just the worst kinds of people you've met.

@brianmolina2615

6 ай бұрын

​@@GSDKXVit's not dehumanization it's saying these schizophrenic weirdos are annoying

@ScottGuertin

6 ай бұрын

@@GSDKXV Spoken like someone who's never been held hostage by a customer who has decided to bombard you with their insanity. I say held hostage because they will be fired for asking these people to like... stop bothering them while they're working. Your pearl clutching is pretty pathetic.

@ScottGuertin

6 ай бұрын

@@GSDKXV cope harder

@nico.f.

6 ай бұрын

​@@GSDKXV you have the charm of chronic arrested development

@julianbell9161

5 ай бұрын

@@GSDKXVdid you not watch this video? The guy in this video is 1000% bombarding a GameStop employee with their insanity

I bought some GME right after the peak, lost about $200. Wasn't a big deal, I just saw it all over the news and had fomo about it. I was 22 in college at the time and getting a huge payout would have been life changing for me, but I also didn't have enough money to actually invest and take a huge financial hit. You calling these guys gambling addicts really stuck out to me. I know I have a very addictive personality. I also have the bad personality trait of thinking deep down that I'm "better" or "smarter" than qanon conspiracy theorists, climate change deniers, relgious cults, etc. But damn, all it took was me knowing nothing about a subject and feeling left out to buy into this bullshit, even just half assed for just a few short months. I'm so glad I didn't have any actual money at the time to lose. This video was humbling to say the least lol

@trouty606

6 ай бұрын

If you were 22 at the time of GME at peak, that means you're still pretty young in the grand scheme of things. You're at the right time of your life to really be understanding those aspects of your personality and getting that introspection, so honestly sounds like you're doing fine. Took a couple hundred bucks loss to learn a lesson that clearly a lot of people never learned and only kept on digging themselves in deeper. I think that's what really shows you'll be someone who actually learns and grows and understands their personal flaws and works to overcome them, opposed to apes who just bunker down and refuse to accept reality. It takes more strength to admit when you're wrong or beaten and pick yourself up and learn than it does to refuse to accept it.

@Hayson898

6 ай бұрын

Good on you for knowing and seeing your personal pitfals. Keep with the introspection and willingness to be wrong and you'll go far.

@Suzanne4415

6 ай бұрын

Those are personality flaws, just realize they're pretty much 100% universal to humans. The addictiveness thing is on a spectrum so that's good to keep an eye on, but everyone's got weak spots to exploit, can be people pleasing, guilt, brain freeze during stress etc etc. When I was 21 I put $600 into some pyramide scheme "stocks" because the most stereotypical sleazy sales guy pitched it to me and some friends for like two hours. (I didn't know what pyramide schemes were back then... I knew I didn't feel like recruiting people to it however, but then he presented this wonderful opportunity to get in on their "stocks", and it seemed like, if there's a 1/100 chance it's not bull I should take it... lol). I'm now 41 and have managed to tie my shoes daily and not join any cults or get majorly scammed since. Can still happen, but, have hope 🙂

@placeholderdoe

6 ай бұрын

You learned, and admitted your faults and mistakes. Im proud of you, keep on doing it and you’ll be less likely to fall for this stuff in the future

@blakksheep736

4 ай бұрын

At least you learned.

The comparison to sovereign citizens is really apt. It's like this idea that law and governance is sort of like computer programming, and with the right mechanical exploit you have the power to do anything. When in fact, institutions can just say "Nah" and suspend the rules as an emergency measure. Debts can be forgiven, etc. That's what real power is.

@dansken610

9 ай бұрын

Yeah it's basically how people view the society we've set up as some sort of hardcoded reality that we have no say in. It ultimately stems from a sense of lack of control and there are some actual points to made about democratic control over institutions and so on... But these people are ironically engaging in the problem in the most unproductive sheep-like way possible.

@Riccardo-kw5dc

9 ай бұрын

That's what happen when people start to believe that Capitalism is some sort of natural law. It isn't, power comes from violence and the rules of this world have been re-written multiple times by class violence.

@CTOOFBOOGLE

9 ай бұрын

Yeah exactly. Let’s say that everything about MOASS was true, that if some set of circumstances came to exist the US government would be obligated by some set of rules to give its entire gdp away to some redditors. Even in that ridiculous fantasy scenario they would still get nothing as the government would just change the rules.

@IAmOfAll

9 ай бұрын

I feel like this comparison is maybe too silly, since it's to fiction. But in the popular anime BOYS IN MECHS 2010s EDITION there is a villain who plans out and successfully organizes a long, complicated plan that enables him to unpopularly-but-legally claim the right to rule. And the government he has just legally taken over... Just ignores his claim. Because of course they would. Because a plan of victory that relies on a rules technicality is great for games, but does not work in real life.

@sebastiankrant2738

9 ай бұрын

@@IAmOfAll it goes back far beyond that - for a while it was a real trend in cartoon/comics to have these kinds of plots, including a very famous Disney/Donald Duck story (that I believe was the impetus for those other stories): The basic setup is something along the lines of "he who has that relic/gets that signiture/finds that document becomes king of the US/America/owns all the land" and everybode really believed that. Everyone genuinly believed if you get that crown you become king... because it was a childrens story (though even in the original story there was the implication that in-universe they were all just too mad with power to realize how crazy it is).

I take financial advice from a coked-up guy in face paint yelling into a microphone, my investment strategy is shitposting, and my due diligence research consists of collecting all the dankest memes. What could possibly go wrong?

@blakksheep736

8 ай бұрын

😆

@tekboi1984

7 ай бұрын

🎉😂

Someone please explain to me how this 2.5 hour KZread documentary has become my comfort show that I watch in its entirely at least once every couple of days. I’m gonna be able to recite it from memory soon at this rate.

@mirrorocean

4 ай бұрын

I was literally just thinking the same thing, I'm so glad I'm not alone. I have watched this video dozens and dozens of times. I can speak his words along with him now. There's just something really comforting/satisfying about it.

@GSDKXV

4 ай бұрын

Y’all are WEIRD AF Anyway DRS GME

@unrulybxite

4 ай бұрын

Legit came to drop a comment that I'm on my like 8th watch 😂 I already watched this twice last week, it's just so well-done and fascinating. Cheers fellow serial-watcher, enjoy your upcoming viewings!

@Hayson898

4 ай бұрын

Regardless of what he's talking about Dan is just a comfy looking and sounding guy. I think that is it part of it.

@SallySueSaywhatagain

4 ай бұрын

Same! This video is on my list of many of Dan's vids that I comfort-rewatch. I think at least partly it's because of how hilarious I find his deadpan, straight-faced sense of humor. :)

How can someone be self-aware enough to realize their trading strategy is "driving backwards really fast at a wall", but delusional enough to think the secret level in Ready Player One will open up and save them from financially ruining themselves?????

@GeneralBolas

6 ай бұрын

Because they're already in the car and are headed towards a wall. There's a saying. If you're falling, you may as well try to fly; you've got nothing to lose. The problem is that the delusion they've picked is one where, in order for the ground to open up, they *must* drive *faster* towards that wall. And that they must convince others to start doing the same.

@luobomu9747

6 ай бұрын

@iuffcgpuu I don't think you can make sense of a non-nonsensical comment by breaking it down. Whatever sense you do find by doing so is coincidental. In actuality, it's 100% delusion.

@RoyalFusilier

6 ай бұрын

I think another aspect is that Apes think they are the protagonists of reality, and our society has brought them up largely fostering that. Everyone's the hero of their own story, they just take it to an uncommon but not unprecedented extreme. See also "Every other generation of human beings that has ever lived has died, but we will not; Jesus is coming back to get us before we die, because we are the most special people that have ever lived."

@user-dg1ry2ly5t

3 ай бұрын

If they love a shitty book...

Dan Olson analysing post-modern secular cults is my favourite genre.

@GSDKXV

9 ай бұрын

Would be HILARIOUS if anyone normal reading this took a look at Jon Stewart interviewing Jim Cokerat. Or S1E5 from The Problem.

@fernandomoras9160

9 ай бұрын

​@@GSDKXVyou keep posting this, what do you expect people will get from that interview that relates to the video? It's not a secret that wall street is full of greedy assholes and idiots like Cramer, it doesn't mean everyone who thinks they're fighting against them is right

@damien678

9 ай бұрын

Calling Qanon secular is... quite funny

@vlad5042

9 ай бұрын

@@damien678hes never rly done a vid on qanon, just mentioned it adjacent to other topics. but also qanon being described as secular doesnt seem totally ridiculous to me, i do think particularly at its inception it was more of a secular conspiracy theory and then eventually satan became an intrinsic part of it

@Drillproduction

9 ай бұрын

@@vlad5042 the flat earth video wasn't really about flat earth, it was an essay/documentary on qanons, the flat earth stuff was just a segway/intro.

At first I assumed that wife-changing money was me mishearing something, then Dan having a funny pronounciation. When I finally saw that "wife-changing money" was a term they actually used I just felt an emptiness inside me and deep secondhand embarassment.

@BlancheNeigefan

9 ай бұрын

Why would they say this? I just don't get it

@lawtonadams4235

9 ай бұрын

​@@BlancheNeigefandan explains it a bit. They lie and financially endanger their partners so reasonably their partners probably ask reasonable questions like how are you gonna pay for all of theese shares or the real life stuff you cant afford cause all your money is in gme. So they are resentful that their partners "dont believe in them." So they fantasize about being rich enough to attract a gold digger that doesnt ask questions.

@Glulail

9 ай бұрын

@@BlancheNeigefan because when they become gorillianaires they can afford to get rid of the average wife they hate and get a model trophy wife. Completely delusional and narcissistic

@Glulail

9 ай бұрын

Fwiw I didn't even realize he was saying it before the reveal until my second watch

@paultapping9510

9 ай бұрын

​@BlancheNeigefan because there is at least some overlap/intersection with incel culture. The idea here is that whatever kind of partner you currently have, you could have had a better one had you had more money. Ergo, when you get that more money you can, and will, "upgrade".

every time i rewatch and get to the heat lamp section, i cant stop myself from thinking... "there has to be a clearer analogy for this"

@XanthinZarda

6 ай бұрын

Predictive timing & ordering. The problem with the Simian idea is that they're only operating with maybe a screw.

@misteraskman3668

6 ай бұрын

It is so confusing that it has retroactively make me question if I understand what a heat lamp is. (My native language isn't english so that just makes things harder)

@commandrogyne

3 ай бұрын

​@@misteraskman3668if it helps, english is my native language and its like... *technically* accurate but just a bad analogy. (if it helps, heat lamps are specialty lamps which give off heat, but in my experience tend to be more associated with animal husbandry over food, as foods kept under a heat lamp tend to be greasy, unhealthy, old, or from a source you shouldnt trust with that kind of food, like a gas station. Seems kinda apt, but not intentionally lol)

@ekki1993

16 күн бұрын

Oh, so it wasn't because of the autism that I didn't get the metaphor.

April 18th, 2024: I just met an ape in the wild on Reddit. I assumed this whole thing had fallen apart, maybe even years ago, but apparently it's still going. GME is down to $10.30 as of right now, so I wonder how that's going for them 💀

@Yossarianstregret-gp2cd

3 ай бұрын

Its a slowly dying movement. Like scientology its reputation is so bad its hard for them to recruit into the group

@Morgannin

3 ай бұрын

Their fingers are hovering over their keyboards waiting for any upward blip in the stock price so they can immediately cry out that they are winning.

@notthenerdyourlookingfor7574

2 ай бұрын

Imagine how full of themselves they must be right now

I’m grateful that Dan decided to fill the niche of dissecting and explaining the cultural and psychological aspects of the financial and social anxiety of the online generation and the actual nonsense that’s coming out of it.

@sixstringedthing

9 ай бұрын

Just when you thought the worst thing FOMO could be responsible for was people continuing to pre-order shitty live service video games...

@jtrain9926

9 ай бұрын

Oh and the salty comments from the temporarily embarrassed millionaires in the comments is the cherry on top.

@NightRogue77

9 ай бұрын

Talk about finding a needed niche to settle into and then immediately dominating all relevant discussion

@XanthinZarda

9 ай бұрын

I knew for long that those in this absurdist game were quite insane. I did not realize the insanity ran so deep as to belive that shiny pieces of paper registered to themselves would mean a hill of beans in the event of an unforeseen forced financial collapse. If the economy as we know it were to collapse, they'd be the ones against the wall first, having a complete lack of valued skills and having assets that others will want. Shiny pieces of paper? Great, I can line my {purely hypothetical} falcon's cage with it before she scratches your face off, and then I'll take your bullets.

@UnreasonableOpinions

9 ай бұрын

Exactly. There are good, important and relevant reasons behind the people who buy into Stonks cultic thinking, even as the actual beliefs they lead to are absolute nonsense.

That gamer section was so sad. I cannot stress this enough: Video games are DESIGNED to let you win (regardless of how difficult that win was). Real life? Not at all.

@phastinemoon

9 ай бұрын

Even worse - there’s a specific goal in games that definitely MEANS winning. Life doesn’t really have an END, much less a WINNING END (in the sense of how life as a collective experience, doesn’t have an end - even as individuals die, more individuals are born, etc)

@CC3GROUNDZERO

9 ай бұрын

@@phastinemoon I mean, yes, but it could be argued that Jeff Bezos has won capitalism in a very real sense. He has managed to set up a system where he can essentially levy taxes on other party's transactions. A huge part of the retail industry is basically paying rent to him which is absolutely insane.

@jamesrule1338

9 ай бұрын

THIS! So much this.

@gratuitouslurking8610

9 ай бұрын

@@CC3GROUNDZERO yes, he 'won' a single arbitrary system which grants him a cheat code to many other systems (money), but in the end, he still has a good several decades to figure out if that was enough. Just knowing the fact he's a billionare is going to tell me that it's probably not enough.

@lrose5522

9 ай бұрын

It's a bit semantic but rather than designed to "let" you win, I'd say that they're designed to be winnable. Or even if there's no "win" there's a goal that can be completed by at least someone, given enough skill. And ofc as you said, this does not exist in real life

"The story of apes post-squeeze is a bunch of people standing around a trashed hotel room at 5 am asking when the party is supposed to start". Sums it up perfectly.

"I just want a revolution, not a degree," is such a perfect quote. It encapsulates why populous revolutions are so risky and often backfire horribly unless what you're revolting against is already rock bottom.

@GSDKXV

2 ай бұрын

LMFAO bro all GameStop investors have to do is twiddle our thumbs. That’s it. That’s what holding entails. Just sitting on our diamond hands and developing scoliosis.

@bigchungus6827

2 ай бұрын

@@GSDKXV Scoliosis is a disorder typically developed during childhood that mainly involves severe curvature of the spine. You don't really develop it by pressing a buy button.

@Arrakiz666

2 ай бұрын

@@GSDKXV Thank you for explaining perfectly why and how this is an exceedingly shitty plan.

@TheTealHydra

2 ай бұрын

@@GSDKXV The fact that you believe this and it doesn't make you immediately doubt the plan is flabbergasting. Can you name a few other revolutions that involved sitting on your ass?

Thank you for explaining why someone who used to be one of my best friends in the world went literally insane and stole my car to drive it to a shareholder meeting in Texas in June of 2021.

@timothymclean

9 ай бұрын

Did you get your car back?

@doctorrobert1339

9 ай бұрын

What the fuck man

@Wote89

9 ай бұрын

How *dare* you just drop that into the comments and peace out without elaboration? :P

@Aquatj999

9 ай бұрын

Holy shit Years later, you finally get an answer as to the utter insanity of that day

@misterkefir

9 ай бұрын

wtf??? wow.. tell us more.

“In reality apes are shadow boxing the random noise of the market-and losing” God I love his videos so much.

@GSDKXV

9 ай бұрын

Over 70 million shares registered into the hands of individuals and a billion in cash sure does sound a lot like “losing”

@cookingwithtool159

9 ай бұрын

@@GSDKXV yeah it is cause they're losing money

@meepnax

9 ай бұрын

@@GSDKXV how could you possibly believe apes own 70m shares?

@Adam_U

9 ай бұрын

@@GSDKXV Funny how "over 2 billion in cash" became "over a billion in cash" Soon it'll be "only 1 billion in debt", and then "only chapter 11 bankruptcy"

@Sceusell

9 ай бұрын

​@Adam_U chapter 11? You gotta pump those numbers up, those are rookie numbers. I personally am on chapter 27 bankruptcy

They say history runs in cycles. I didn't expect this cycle to be this short.

@adampope5107

Ай бұрын

**steps outside** **Sees history doing donuts in the front yard** **Sips coffee** God damn it.

@callistephus42

Ай бұрын

Yep... i find myself returning to this video after seeing so much more news on gamestop/roaringkitty lately. Truly I don't know how to feel about it.

@Vacremon

Ай бұрын

@@callistephus42 Maybe when another hedge fund like Melvin Capital goes bankrupt it will make you feel good?

@TacticusPrime

Ай бұрын

If Gill really did post and pump the GME stock price, he might be in serious regulatory trouble.

@Arrakiz666

Ай бұрын

@@Vacremon Good luck with that.

They.... they do know that infinite risk = guaranteed loss right? Like, mathematically?

@Philitron128

6 ай бұрын

They really do not seem to understand that.

@GeneralBolas

6 ай бұрын

I don't think applied calculus was part of their education.

@ThatGirlOrSomething

6 ай бұрын

my understanding is they're using an abbreviated version, the full one being ''*their* infinite risk is *our* infinite reward''

@kibo7430

6 ай бұрын

oooh I didn't think of that. either way I'd say we've both put far more critical thought into this than any of them lol @@ThatGirlOrSomething

@GSDKXV

5 ай бұрын

@@Philitron128 the irony 😂😂😂

I feel so bad for that poor employee working at the GameStop and being questioned by the guy who's trying to convince him that they're going to merge with Bed, Bath & Beyond. He has such a voice of "I do not get paid enough to deal with this crap."

@pigeonfood420

9 ай бұрын

can confirm that as a current retail employee that that tone of voice is the one i give to customers who cant just get the fucking hint and keep trying to give advice to improve the store like my minimum wage paid ass has anything to do with how the place is run

@NerreraFightStories

9 ай бұрын

If you think that’s bad, Kais Maalej (the guy in the video) has a whole channel full of videos of him standing outside random Bed Bath stores spouting nonsense, harassing employees. He even once tried to break into a Bed Bath warehouse to see if they still had stock coming in. He is genuinely mentally ill

@johndavenport2847

9 ай бұрын

The second hand embarrassment is too much, I can’t rewatch shit like that. Once was more than enough

@SpanielTower

9 ай бұрын

For public facing positions like that, that's probably what he's been specifically told to do. I'm a volunteer at a Zoology Museum and if a creationist starts talking their talk we are supposed to just smile and nod.

@christiancramer8691

9 ай бұрын

I enjoy his half hearted attempt to speak reason to him. “How will that work because we sell video games and they sell bath stuff” 😂😂

"They're sitting around a blackjack table convincing each other that there's a secret rule, that if you hit 31 then the dealer has to give you their entire tray. So hit me, hit me, hit me, hit me." That closure was stone cold...

My sister told me that one of her friends "might be coming into some really serious money soon", and when I was like "oh?" she told me, "Yeah, he got in on Gamestop early on." Apparently he's promised to buy her a house.

@svfrey7

13 күн бұрын

**Ron Howard voiceover** he did not buy her a house

It took me until my 4th rewatch to figure out CosmicLightningWarrior was not a bit that Dan got one of his friends to do

@svfrey7

Ай бұрын

In a lot of ways, that's the saddest part of this whole video. "Diamond Hands Dan" and his sweatband is, in fact, the only act. Everyone else is serious.

@RoyalFusilier

Ай бұрын

He may be the most fascinating character in the whole doc, CLW has a preacher's demeanor. Especially the "we *know* we own the float!" bit.

"I don't believe those government snakes, they are corrupt and don't play by the rules" and "The US government will play by these exact rules and give us billions of dollars" are fascinating beliefs to coexist in someone's head.

@aim-to-misbehave5674

9 ай бұрын

Massive sovereign citizen similarities in those beliefs

@pobbityboppity1110

9 ай бұрын

Video game exploit “well they gotta just hand me the keys to the castle now, no way around it” style thinking

@Shadewaltz

9 ай бұрын

@@pobbityboppity1110 I remember reading a story about "GM Island" in World of Warcraft(?), where the story was that if you managed to find a way over there you'd be crowned an honorary GM. Instead of, you know, suspending or banning you on the spot for hacking or otherwise exploiting to get to where you aren't supposed to be. Like imagine sneaking backstage at a concert and the band just goes "Well, I guess you're a new member now."

@arturoaguilar6002

9 ай бұрын

@@Shadewaltz Wasn't the "sneak into the backstage at a concert; gets to play with the rest of the band" a common plot point in 80's and 90's cartoons and sitcoms? Heck! That's pretty much the climax in A Goofy Movie. In other words; they engage with the world using cartoon logic.

@HVolnWhatnow

9 ай бұрын

Our former friend who we lost because he went HARD in the paint for conspiracy thinking would often say "I can hold two ideas in my head at once" with an imperious air that implied that our brains were somehow weaker for being "incapable" of ignoring cognitive dissonance. Not only are those two ideas contradictory, but many of them seem oddly proud of that.

The phrase "wife changing money" is costing me years off of my life. Everything is monetizable and transactional to these people. Nothing is real.

@timothymclean

9 ай бұрын

It seems like they're talking about the money they'd need to divorce their current wife, then attract and marry a trophy wife. These are two acts that are individually normal in our current society, which either makes the MOASS folks less bad or society's relationship to traditional marriage worse, depending on your perspective.

@JJ-qo7th

9 ай бұрын

And here I thought I misheard, holy crap.

@lillysmith6123

9 ай бұрын

@@JJ-qo7th Same. It took me until it was in text on the screen for me to realise "No, they really are saying that."

@5JSX5

9 ай бұрын

Wait I thought they meant wife changing as in "my wife will change their mind about my investments being stupid once I get rich". Are they referring to actually divorcing their wives and finding someone else?

@5JSX5

9 ай бұрын

Urban dictionary seems to agree with me.

Coming back to this video, the intro totally reminded me -- The absolute irony that someone is sighting their long-term Runescape experience as a sign of expertise is palpable. Runescape used to be littered with "merch" clans, that would invite you to a chat channel and give you instructions on an item to buy on the Grand Exchange (the in-game mass player market) at what price and then when to sell it. Naturally, this was to artificially raise the price of some niche item that the insiders were holding onto, so that they could then sell off their stash when the price got outrageous and they'd turn a massive profit. If this sounds familiar to you, the first time I'd ever heard of a pump and dump scheme I immediately said "Oh you mean like a Runescape merch clan??"

@roccer2112

4 ай бұрын

@@dualpapayas I'll trade ya for my burnt fish collection, whaddya say?

@owenleal

4 ай бұрын

Citing*

@roccer2112

4 ай бұрын

@@owenleal oop, ya got me

@Ruteekatreya

3 ай бұрын

@@GSDKXV The one that cites falling revenue and tries to cut costs, most of which were necessary to long term stability, to offset it? Quarterly reports are how the finance sector has inadvertently tricked other industries into destroying long term value in the first place...

Just sold at $52 after bagholding for years. Thanks for the financial advice, I would’ve been waiting for the phone numbers for the rest of my life

@chasewr118

2 ай бұрын

Literally same. Had xx shares and was convinced I had basically lost that money

@Andum48

2 ай бұрын

Honest question, What information did this video give you as to why the stock went back to 52?

@fakenamerealchungus9851

2 ай бұрын

​​@@Andum48 DFV tweeted, that's it

@Andum48

2 ай бұрын

@@fakenamerealchungus9851 I appreciate the response, doesn't explain the 150% move before he tweeted. Anyway it's still good to know the narrative being thrown around.

@inefffable

2 ай бұрын

Good for you! I'm sure those still holding will get those phone book numbers (lol) but don't let the fomo fool ya. You did good. Gz

Something I found interesting about the constant comparison to "The Big Short" was that the explicit point of the movie was even though the main characters had "beat the system", they were all miserable, realizing that "the system" dragged down everything around it as it failed. I guess the apes must have turned off the movie halfway through.

@Donnerbalken28

9 ай бұрын

The movie doesn't even leave it to subtext; Brad Pitts rant about rising suicide rates coinciding with major recessions is what shuts those two mini-Hedge Fund dudes up when they wanted to celebrate the deal of their lives. The only guy who isn't emotionally affected by it all is Ryan Goslings character, and that guy was framed as a massive dick from the beginning.

@superdark336

9 ай бұрын

@@Donnerbalken28 and yet, Ryan Gosling is hot and when he is emotinally disaffected it looks Cool and Powerful, the message is lost in that. He still Wins, if only for a while. Apes want to Win, they dont want things to be good.

@dyppityjoop5912

9 ай бұрын

Most conspiratorially minded individuals also have no media literacy, see The Matrix, American Psycho and obviously The Big Short. The original Matrix movies are used by far right misogynists who want to reinstate the patriarchy and repeal queer rights for LGBTQIA+ communities when the movies themselves were written by trans-women as a allogory for gender exploration and 'waking up' from the matrix of binary gender expression and heteronormativity, instead choosing to live in a shitty real world as yourself where the world itself is hostile and alien (eg homophobia and transphobia), rather than a fake world where you pretend to be okay with existing as a cog without identity (eg pretending to be straight or gender conforming). American Psycho is used as a ideal to aspire too, where Patrick Bateman is potrayed as a idol, when the movie was a critique on the overly macho male fantasy of financial, sexual and violent freedom, how Patrick Bateman was really a pathetic loser poser, where his 'murders' were most likely made up in his head out of frustration and inferiority, where the man literally enters a dick measuring contest using the font, cardstock and colour of buisness cards, the cards themselves being utterly worthless pieces of paper and cardboared yet Patrick cares so much about literal paper that he begins to shake and go crazy, illustrating the fragile masculinity and utter impotency of men like Patrick, grandstanding, macho, violent and sexual men, being utterly useless and incapable of doing anything (aside from picking on the weak and underprivileged who cannot and will not be defended by the system, people like the homeless man and dog, the 2 struggling sex workers, the only truly confirmed kills), and the writer of the book the movie was based on is literally a gay man, the antithesis of the 'macho' male Patrick Bateman that this new generation of 'Sigma' men look up to. I haven't watched the Big Short like the other 2, but I have seen the clip your talking about, and the point is literally yelled at the viewer, 'The system sucks! People die! Stop being so self centered and actually look around yourself!'. Honestly conservatives have like 0 brain cells in the literacy department, they hear whatever they want to hear and see what the want to see and thats it.

@SeanRI

9 ай бұрын

This reminds me of a joke from Clone High: "I saw the first two thirds of the MC Hammer 'Behind the Music', and if there's one thing I learned, it's that the money never runs out!"

@maynardburger

9 ай бұрын

Another irony is that apes say they HATE shorts. But of course they dont really, they only hate it when it affects their money. They were 100% fine with the people who shorted the banks in the movie.

Even if the apes were right about literally everything and the MOASS arrived, their only reward would be a knife in the back as the rules magically changed in front of them, and there would be nothing they could do to stop it. For all of their baking and theorycrafting, they've already agreed to play someone else's game on someone else's field. Even if they truly have figured out how to hack the system, they're still forgetting the most important truth: the house always wins.

@wydx120

9 ай бұрын

For me, the amazing thing is the conclusion that if a hypothetical collapse of the economy were to happen, old economy value would have any kind of value in the new economy, and they would get any kind of "compensation" for it

@duckbuster1572

9 ай бұрын

@@wydx120some apes realize this and have crafted different theories around how the new economy would be structured around GME ownership. Which is hilarious to think about

@tree48203

9 ай бұрын

(Drums and trumpet fanfare) How lucky can one guy be (trumpets) I kissed her and she kissed me (trumpets) Like the fella once said "Ain't that a kick in the head?" (Trumpets)

@rudolfambrozenvtuber

9 ай бұрын

​@@GSDKXVBro you guys are just funny. Its as simple as that

@sealeo5772

9 ай бұрын

They fail to realize that at the end of the day, systems are controlled by people and the banker is not an NPC that will let you use an infinite money exploit in front of him. Like if they are right and don't get disappeared by some mercenaries and they also don't get told "oh, you found a hedge fund was doing something illegal, guess we shut them down and then gamestop goes bankrupt because their value was all smoke" by a judge then their infinite money will end up being rejected by basically all of society, as the wealthy don't want to be beaten at their own game and everyone else won't suddenly bow down to a bunch of self-obsessed redditors who think they should rule the world. Like even if they managed to take control of the world economy, they don't have the social control to make everyone play along.

I got swept up in the AMC stock rise by sheer coincidence. I was working for an Amazon DSP and i had been working incredibly long hours so i had accumulated not a small amount of cash. So, i decided to open a Robinhood account. When deciding what stock to buy i decided to buy and accumulate, Yeah thats right you guessed it, AMC. I bought AMC at around $3 and had 700 shares at one point. I had deployed the wheel strategy so i was making a little bit of money. This was around September and October before January. When the government announced the covid vaccine would become available to the general public i actually bought another 1000 shares in AMC because i thought everyone would want to go to the movies and get out the house... If not for the meme stock craze i would probably be down a couple thousand dollars now. Instead i got lucky, incredibly lucky and as a result i was swept up in the cult like behavior of wall street bets. I was close to getting a "diamond hands" tattoo... Thank god i procrastinated and didn't actually get it

@GSDKXV

5 ай бұрын

AMC was always trash to anyone that can read a balance sheet. Only GameStops ceo and board continue to BUY into their company, unlike that trash popcorn stock where board members and the CEO SOLD. Ryan Cohen refuses to take a salary out of a genuine commitment to grow the business instead of trying to fleece its investors.

@Hypogean7

5 ай бұрын

​@@GSDKXVGameStop has long since lost to Steam and Valve.

@placeholderdoe

2 ай бұрын

Glad you got out, hope you didn’t lose any money!

I’m so proud of everyone who sold today and I hope you’re proud of yourselves too.

@blakksheep736

2 ай бұрын

Did anything in particular happen?

@Lacewise

2 ай бұрын

@@blakksheep736 google “Keith Gills”

@me-myself-i787

2 ай бұрын

​​@@blakksheep736RoaringKitty posted some cryptic messages on his socials so GameStop's stock price went up. Although, no-one knows whether it was actually him or whether his account was hacked. Also, he was the guy who originally pumped the stock back in 2021.

It is so funny every time Dan, a true real adult, says some meme word or phrase out loud like “wife changing money”

@aidanm8009

9 ай бұрын

I dabbled with the GME shit but hadn’t actually heard that phrase until this video. Its disgusting, an absolutely repulsive thing to say and repeat as a “meme”

@Moonhermit-

9 ай бұрын

Technically, having no money can also be "wife changing money". Especially if they have to find out themselves after the fact.

@sebastiangrab9604

9 ай бұрын

I never heard that before so for a moment my brain short-circuited when he said it, it feels so unreal people actually use that in real conversations, even online.

@ekki1993

9 ай бұрын

@@Moonhermit- And given how conspiracy minded people often are or end up being divorcees, it's got a strong case for that interpretation.

@jthopkins

9 ай бұрын

@@aidanm8009100%

As someone who was once a part of the “movement”, it is uncanny how accurately Dan depicts the users speech and thought patterns. With his delivery as excellent as it is, it comes across as both biting satire and extremely realistic. So crazy for me to see and reflect on now having been away from it for over two years

@idatethefatkid

9 ай бұрын

Congratulations for getting out

@kagitsune

9 ай бұрын

What made you leave? I'm always interested in hearing how people snapped out of it.

@Horatio787

9 ай бұрын

Good for you.

@georgerosebush9754

9 ай бұрын

@@kagitsune losing a ton of money will do it

@ArDeeMee

9 ай бұрын

Also, growing out of puberty, and/or leaving the house.

the retro presentations with the person in the green dress were awesome. they were great at both explaining stupid market concepts and playing the role. just great work overall, thanks for this essay

I worked at Chewy for about a year or so and was jumpscared by the presence of it in this video. Working at that company tanked my mental health lower than it's ever been. There has never been a more hopeless period in my life than when I was underpaid to be screamed at by Boomers over the phone.Knowing that the former CEO is the subject of these sycophants is entirely unsurprising. The mythology built around that company's start and company culture was cult-like from the first day of training. They'll tell you some holistic story about the company's beginnings, but the idea for Chewy was built around a standard Capitalist story: looking at dog food at walmart and deciding to repackage the supply of pet products for the internet. The customer base who calls in more often than not is happy to abuse you for special treatment, special treatment they are often given for the sake of engineering a loyal customer base and a culture of taking-abuse for the Employee. A genuine nightmare. The stories I could tell are awful.

@ceilazel6061

6 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing that. I've been a chewy customer for a few years and I'm going to walk to the pet store as much as possible from now on.

@bafflea9

6 ай бұрын

@@ceilazel6061 you’ll save your vet plenty of annoyance too. Vets notoriously hated Chewy for the way the process of buying medication online was constantly stopped up by the need to contact the vet for approval before sending it. Plenty of animals didn’t get their medication on time because of Chewy’s policies and customer desire to save 5 dollars on their dog’s diabetes medication. There was no way for any one CSR to stay on top of it and that’s not readily apparent to an outsider.

@bafflea9

6 ай бұрын

@@GSDKXV Ryan Sempai won’t notice you for doing this

@bafflea9

6 ай бұрын

@@GSDKXV i’m not giving him a moment of my time, you’re a shill

@simonoliver4751

6 ай бұрын

​@@GSDKXVhow do you justify to yourself the fact that, whenever you're pressed with a real question, you ignore it and run off to a new thread? You have hundreds of comments, but outright refuse to engage with actual criticism. I know you would never admit it publicly, but you have to see how obviously bad that looks for you in specific and the Apes generally.

Honestly, the funniest thing about these financial conspiracies is that they assume that once their apocalyptic vision starts coming true that governments wouldn’t just pass some emergency resolution saying “no, fuck you the companies win” Like, they looked at 2008 and think “oh yeah, we’ll get ‘em next time”

@brettpgh3312

9 ай бұрын

To the extent that the entire global economy would be devastated and millions would suffer and die. That's what they expect to happen. That the entirely of worldwide finance is going to crash and burn, and only they will come out on top. They believe that's what'll happen and no one will step in and stop it. Why? Because that's what they consider to be "fair." They get to rule the world for investing in a company that sells video games. Imagine having that view of the world.

@XanthinZarda

9 ай бұрын

@@brettpgh3312 And imagine, that not only that, not only do they get their crash, but more to the point that they expect people to call them new kings of The White Rome (because come on, it isn't a reach), and kiss their stock certificate... ...In spite of the fact that the very backing institutions that would have given that stock any value would have vanished in the ensuing chaos.

@valivali8104

9 ай бұрын

​@@brettpgh3312 they sound like severely narcissistic monsters who don’t value lives...

@DewMan001

9 ай бұрын

"you win this round, Wall Street! But we will win the war!!"

@ultravenia

9 ай бұрын

@kuronetwork920 Did you see the reason behind RH turning off the buy button? It's because they didn't have enough funds to cover.

I still think my favorite part about this MOASS conspiracy is that, even if they managed to get the share price to hundreds of millions of dollars, and even if they were able to get all of the money they were then theoretically owed without legal consequences, the value of the money they'd receive would be functionally worthless due to the apocalyptic amount of inflation necessary to produce that amount of money. So not only is the likelihood of the outcome they look for basically impossible, but if it did somehow work they'd still be screwed.

@Yohan99999

7 ай бұрын

They'd still collapse the economy though. They just wouldn't be the philosopher kings of the new world order

@NothingXemnas

7 ай бұрын

I think some of them were, indeed, short-sighted, but a good deal of the reasoning was less about gain, but the opposite, about sacrifice. Like people who believe the only way to revolution is to kill and die your way out of the status quo, these shills probably DEEPLY believe their literal economial death is worth destroying the capital status. Still short-sighted, though. I can't say I don't get it, because I do (I am more or less punkish and maybe anarchist in SOME aspects), but the status quo is hard to break even in the event of wars because it requires a lot of forethought and planning to effectively patch the holes. And we DO NOT have anything better than monarchies, communism, capitalism or anarchism. We only have human systems with human flaws that will always fail.

@Lucifersfursona

7 ай бұрын

“The value of the money is functionally worthless” it’s almost as if the concept of an amount of stuff doesn’t have an objective worth outside of “our wet little meat brains know what 1 and 10 and 0 are intuitively, and unlike other animals who just know how to use math tangibly to do animal stuff, we’re sapient and can abstract math into theory and experiment. The human experience is a species that can compose formulas that express the ways reality builds itself got so absolutely fucked up over “one” “one what” “yes”

@Hypogean7

7 ай бұрын

​@@LucifersfursonaHave you ever even taken an economics class?

@TessHKM

7 ай бұрын

​@@Hypogean7 I mean that's basically just a very crude version of the subjective theory of value

“First as tragedy, then as farce,” but actually just a repeating farce.

All of this "Main Character Syndrome". If such an 'infinite money glitch' was found and extremely famous and actually worked, don't you think the 'bad guys' would be doing it too? If your goal is 'lots of money' and their goal is 'lots of money', then richer more experienced money-people will want a piece of that. Or worse, they aren't doing your strategy, but they doing something to literally profit off of your stupidity, so they let you continue, or worse than that, secretly joined and encouraged you to continue your bad strategy. ...Which is probably what happened.

@bogdanlevi

28 күн бұрын

It's a conspiracy theory. The bad guys obviously conspired not to do this.

@Sparklefart023

25 күн бұрын

Conspiracy theory.... lol cute

@svfrey7

25 күн бұрын

​@@Sparklefart023Are the hedgies here in the room with us now?

You wanna know the biggest mistake the hedgies made? They messed with knitters. KNITTERS. The same people who will sit in a rocking chair for HOURS ON END looping FABRIC with NEEDLES just to watch a SCARF FOR A FRIEND get SLIGHTLY LONGER, only stopping to SIP TEA or occasionally GENTLY PET A CAT. WE WILL NEVER BACK DOWN!!!!!

@GSDKXV

9 ай бұрын

😂

@Blueeyesthewarrior

9 ай бұрын

Hang this on my wall, I love it

@PacificSword

9 ай бұрын

Blue hair army MF3rs. FAFO !

@EvilDoer-ts8ch

9 ай бұрын

You joke but the International Olympic Committee did mess with the knitters and it did go extremely badly for them. Don't mess with people with time on their hands and infinite patience!

@hedgehog3180

9 ай бұрын

My personal observation about knitting is that apparently involves a lot of math and all the people who do it suck at math and hate it and will always complain about it. That's probably not true in general but just in my personal experience and I find it funny because I'm really good at math and love it so those people are always like "you should try knitting!".

What I find fascinating about cults like these, is the idea that there's no one pulling the strings, no charismatic leader telling them what to do, and just form almost by accident, like its members are brainwashing themselves and each other. And the fact that then they start looking for one, even if he doesn't want anything to do with the cult.

@acerino3151

9 ай бұрын

The "self-organizing high control group", I believe Dan called this phenomenon in his NFT video.

@shinyskunk

9 ай бұрын

Groups like this "electing" a leader figure is a phenomenon that I think has a lot to do with how the internet and social media algorithms work, specifically. Ian Danskin talks about this a bit in his video on the Alt-Right functioning like a cult.

@ForeverGotShorter

9 ай бұрын

@@shinyskunk Yeah, I was thinking of his lecture on how the alt-right is like a cult when I made this comment. So fascinating. And also horrifying.

@samsprague3158

9 ай бұрын

This is such a valuable lesson to carry around society in general, and why things are the way they are. So many human made issues we have are propelled by social forces, but those forces can’t often be fully directed by individuals. Grifters just stick their straws in milkshakes that are already flowing.

@ivyivyyiivvvyyyyvy

9 ай бұрын

Reminds me of incel communities, how they drag each-other down with them, which just results in a bunch of people constantly convincing each-other that everything is hopeless. Not quite as miserable here, but probably equally as dangerous

I swear the first couple times I watched this video I was sure the guy with the blue face paint was one of Dan's KZreadr friends mucking it up. I laughed SO HARD when I realized it was an actual guy being DEAD SERIOUS

@Ramsey276one

Ай бұрын

Almost the same on my first watch! XD

As someone who was fascinated by oddball cults when I was younger, it's genuinely impressive how "apes" managed to make a completely secular cult that rivals some of the weirdest.

@ronnickels5193

27 күн бұрын

Years of social isolation and desperation can do word things to a person

For anyone having trouble understanding a short sale, here is an example: You borrow 100 shares of a stock from somebody. You must give 100 shares back to them in one month. You immediately sell their stock at the current market price of $10 per share. Now you have $1,000. For the next month, the price of the stock goes down. At the end of the month, the stock is only worth $3. You owe that guy the 100 shares you borrowed, so you buy 100 shares at the current market value of $3 each. You spend $300 and you give that guy his 100 shares back. You profited $700 due to the stock price decreasing.

@ChopsTV

9 ай бұрын

I've gone my whole life not understanding what short selling is and just resigned to thinking of it as "shady thing stock people do". This is the explanation I needed.

@ashsweet

9 ай бұрын

Thank you. Im- as the apes say- incredibly fucking smooth brained

@JohnnyAdroit

9 ай бұрын

Good explanation. What would make it complete is to explain why the owner of the stock would lend it out. In your example, the lender lost $700 in stock value. Because the lender did not possess the shares, they could not sell while the shares were losing value. Because of this risk of loss, the lender will demand to be paid fees to compensate. In the movie "The Big Short," these fees are why Burry and all the other short sellers are panicking at the climax of the movie. The fees are eating away at their portfolios, and there is no sign that any of the securities they are shorting will drop in price in time before they go broke.

@AchedSphinx

9 ай бұрын

also explains why those companies collapsed during the GME short. if they borrowed millions of shares at 5 bucks a pop, but then had to pay back 500 bucks per share, they'd immediately collapse. shorts seem like the surest thing if you know of the impending doom of a company, but if something like GME happens, you can lose infinite money. it's insane.

@bagorngo

9 ай бұрын

​@@JohnnyAdroitAs an addition to this, one of the main reasons why they lend their stock is that the holder has a longer timeframe. If you're holding an investment for 5 years, how do you make money in the short term? You could wait and just receive dividends (though many companies do not give dividends and instead spend that money growing). But what if someone comes by and offers you money to borrow your stock for a month? You were holding for 5 years, so you aren't affected by a small monthly dip. Though there is an issue if the stock plummets, that is pretty unlikely.

dude listening to quotes from these ape guys and learning about their weird nonsense feels like getting exposited to by a metal gear solid villain that has no idea what the grand scheme actually is. like i'm on my knees handcuffed, i've been captured after infiltrating their base trying to figure out what the hell MOASS is and then the boss gives me a thirty minute cutscene telling me the history of bed bath and beyond complete with live acted fmvs and slideshows of arrows going up and down, only to then be told that all stocks in the world are being controlled by semi-sentient AIs and that war must be declared on the concept of money by buying the worst shares imaginable.

@goranisacson2502

9 ай бұрын

Don't show this to Hideo Kojima... because he'll be SO mad he doesn't have the rights to Metal Gear and can't have Snake go through an adventure just like this

@DizzyIM

9 ай бұрын

@@goranisacson2502 "You shouldve done your Due Diligence, Snake. Now... BEHOLD! THE STOCKS OF THE PATRIOTS! YOUR SHARES ARE NO LONGER YOUR OWN!" -Liquid Apesalot, Metal Gear Solid 7 The Shares of Liberty I will mail this directly to kojima's house, he will be so cheesed that he missed this opportunity.

@ViridianSunrise

9 ай бұрын

Perhaps on Shadow MOASS Island?

@iprobablyforgotsomething

9 ай бұрын

@DizzyIM -- You summed this bizarre experience up pretty well.

@khodges72

9 ай бұрын

Even Liquid Snake couldn't prevent bed bath and beyond from going into liquidation 😢

love checking back on these comments every once in a while to see that one kxv guy still going strong. never give up brother

@overestimatedforesight

2 ай бұрын

He either got removed or deleted everything

@mycophobia

2 ай бұрын

@@overestimatedforesight rip

@bluespart

2 ай бұрын

@@mycophobia They're still around, they just delete some of their comments every once in a while. We'll probably notice some reply from them in the coming days when they try to push DRS again

@YOSSARIAN313

2 ай бұрын

​@@overestimatedforesighthe deletes his comments when he gets roasted

@user-dg1ry2ly5t

2 ай бұрын

@@mycophobia He's back after the latest pump and dump.

"price is just supply and demand. if the supply is 0 the demand is infinite!" when i was a kid i made a trout out of clay in arts and crafts class, which i still own to this day, and i'm not selling, meaning the supply is zero. i don't think it would sell for above 10 bucks, and that's being generous. you forgot about the "demand" part of "supply and demand". IF the price of gamestop skyrockets, who's going to buy it? the short sellers will just cash out for however much it's worth and apes will be left with theoretically expensive stocks that no one wants, like a billion dollar hot potato.

@placeholderdoe

7 ай бұрын

This is your lucky day kid, I wanna buy that trout for $Infinity.99

@atoucangirl

7 ай бұрын

@@placeholderdoe you know i was gonna turn it down, but the .99 just convinced me. deal.

@simonoliver4751

7 ай бұрын

If they cant pay then wouldn't they just... go bankrupt? And if they do, shareholders are the last ones who would be made whole from their assets. Of course, if moass weren't made up nonsense, if the global economy were at risk, wouldn't the US govt just force GameStop into bankruptcy? I mean, the US overthrew a country on behalf of a fruit company's profits, so... ​@@GSDKXV

@Nanook128

7 ай бұрын

​@@GSDKXVwhat's more likely? The people shorting gme are going to pay 10 million a share, or they will just walk away from their position and cut their losses?

@Feasco

6 ай бұрын

@@placeholderdoe Don't listen to them, I must have that clay trout for $Infinity+1

I'm happy Dan got to write off a Vegas vacation on the grounds that it served as background metaphor to the larger story he was trying to tell! Now THAT'S how you grift the system!

@timothymclean

9 ай бұрын

To be fair, you only get to write off part of the Vegas vacation, based on a bunch of rules that boil down to "The portion of your vacation expenses that were used for business purposes can be counted as a business expense". So, if he had to pay those two showgirls to pose with him for the video, that part is 100% a business expense. If he spent half of his time doing video stuff and half of his time doing fun stuff, that's a good basis for counting 50% of his transport costs as a business expense. If he used the hotel both as a filming location and as a place to sleep...well, that's a bit fuzzier. *This isn't financial advice,* but if you have a reasonable justification for whatever number you pick, you'll probably be fine. You'll need more rigor if you're doing other things that might catch an auditor's eye, though, especially if your business expenses are suspiciously high relative to your business income. (I am a professional tax preparer, writing in my capacity as someone who wants people to make more accurate tax jokes.)

@mousasha-

9 ай бұрын

@@timothymcleanyeah, also like, I'm sure he can afford popping down to Vegas for a weekend or whatever to record stuff. He's got solid patreon $ and ik Line Goes Up definitely raked in a good amount of money (deservedly). I'm glad to see Dan reinvesting his $ into the production value of these videos, bc it's really paying off.

@warmachine5835

9 ай бұрын

@@timothymclean If it makes you feel better, I'd love to read tax comedy by a tax expert. Probably a dry as a saltine cracker, but people also like British comedy.

@jamesruth100

9 ай бұрын

@@timothymclean Quick question on this line: "If he used the hotel both as a filming location and as a place to sleep...well, that's a bit fuzzier." Is the cost of lodging not normally considered part of the business expenses? Is the issue the nature of where he's lodging-like him using an overly expensive hotel for the shoot is understandable, but using it as the place of lodging when cheaper options were available is a thing one should avoid? Like, this isn't meant as some kind of loaded question; I literally don't know and the line just got me curious about why it's potentially fuzzy.

@NickiRusin

9 ай бұрын

​@@timothymcleanseconding another commenter, I feel like properly written tax comedy could be extremely funny!

The clip of that guy going into a gamestop and telling a random employee about his conspiracy theory is funny to me because I had so many people do stuff like that to me when I worked retail and I can very much hear in the employee's tone the sentiment of "just smile and nod and he'll go away"

@GSDKXV

9 ай бұрын

You are slow. The shorts only need one thing to happen to win: bankruptcy for GME. Anyone with 2 brain cells can read their 10-Q on their investor relations website and see how healthy their balance sheet is.

@iprobablyforgotsomething

9 ай бұрын

Yeeeep.... same, same. Even simple (store mandatory) greetings to them become invitations for customers to open their mouths and spill their crazy out on you, and you just can't end the transaction fast enough no matter how quickly you move.

@JkittycatTheDork

9 ай бұрын

Had a guy start telling me about how great QAnon is…in a coffee shop. Sir. Take your absurdly specific drink and go.

This is the only video on KZread that deserves to be properly called Financial Advice.

@simonoliver4751

6 ай бұрын

​@@GSDKXVthe advice was "don't get caught up in cults and pyramid schemes"

@simonoliver4751

6 ай бұрын

​@@GSDKXValso, two companies turned off the buy button due to liquidity issues, but people could absolutely still buy GME from literally anywhere else. The 'turned off the buy button' narrative only works if you pretend that they paused buying of GME across the entire stock market, which is just ludicrous. Apes were simply inexperienced and/or incompetent enough to be stopped by one single hurdle.

I am terrified of what these people have done to themselves, it remindes me of how as child when I became frustrated with a video game I would throw a tantrum and do illogical and utterly nonsensical things to somehow overcome the problem without actually addressing it in any way. It's just utterly terrifying.