2012·The social era
r/wallstreetbets
The forum that turned a joke about a dying video-game shop into a market event.
You might remember it as WallStreetBets
A trend people joined in with
- SourceNo single original
- MediaNot held by ViralWorld
What this was
A subreddit built on deliberately reckless trading and its own dialect — diamond hands, tendies, apes — which in January 2021 coordinated enough retail buying of GameStop to force a short squeeze that reached the US Congress.
It first appeared in 2012, during the social era.
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Related
Nothing related yet. Relationships are recorded where evidence supports them, not inferred from similarity.
Behind the recordWhere it came from
There is no original to identify: this spread through many separate posts at once rather than from a first one. ViralWorld holds no copy of it either — what it was, when it spread and what people called it is the record.
Nothing here is claimed to be the first version of this, because research established there was not one — it appeared in many places at once.
Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.
- What happens
- A subreddit built on deliberately reckless trading and its own dialect — diamond hands, tendies, apes — which in January 2021 coordinated enough retail buying of GameStop to force a short squeeze that reached the US Congress.