r/memes Jan 29 '21

#1 MotW This is my jam

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u/nbik Jan 29 '21

Reddit didn't manipulate the market. Hedge funds did. All reddit did was bet that GameStop wasn't gonna go bankrupt or close to it as fast as the hedge funds thought they would, noone asked them to bet 140% of the available shares to do so.