An inside look at the weekend the GameStop frenzy began on WallStreetBets

Mon, 06/10/2024 - 16:15

In a new book, writer Nathaniel Popper details the GameStop frenzy and how WallStreetBets became a cultural movement that upended the global financial markets.

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The day after Thanksgiving in 2020, on the American bacchanal of consumerism known as Black Friday, a post appeared on WallStreetBets with a short video filmed in the parking lot of a nondescript strip mall.