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r/wallstreetbets

You might remember it as WallStreetBets

“Stonks” for shares, “tendies” for gains, “diamond hands” for refusing to sell
This spread through many posts rather than one canonical upload.

2012·The social era

A forum on Reddit for share and option trading, known for aggressive bets and a vocabulary of its own.

At a glanceThe facts

Remembered as
WSB
Spread in
2012
Format
Phenomenon
Era
The social era
Made by
Jaime Rogozinski, removed as moderator by Reddit in April 2020
What it said
“Stonks” for shares, “tendies” for gains, “diamond hands” for refusing to sell
Origin
No single original
Available
Not held by ViralWorld

What this wasThe story

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.

Why it matteredWhat changed

It had two million members on 24 January 2021 and 6.2 million five days later.

TimelineIn order

  1. Made

    The forum is founded.1

  2. Took off

    Its users begin the squeeze on GameStop’s shares, which rise more than 600 per cent in four days.1 What else happened on 22 January

  3. Taken down

    Its Discord server is banned, and the forum itself is closed to outsiders for about an hour.1

Why it is here: something the internet still knows by name · it got out of its own corner of the internet fast · still being watched and quoted years later

Where it came fromWhat we know

This spread through many posts rather than one identifiable original. No copy is held here — what it was, when it spread and what people called it is what this page can tell you.

Nothing here is claimed to be the first version of this. It spread through many posts rather than from one identifiable original.

Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.

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SourcesWhat was read

  1. Wikipedia — r/wallstreetbets

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