Stonks
“Stonks”, for stocks
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2017·The platform era
A picture of a smooth computer-drawn head in a suit in front of a rising chart, labelled “Stonks”.
At a glanceThe facts
- Spread in
- 2017
- Format
- Meme
- Made by
- The Facebook page Special meme fresh
- Who or what it shows
- Meme Man, a rendered head the page had been using since 2014
- What it said
- “Stonks”, for stocks
- Origin
- No single original
- Available
- Not held by ViralWorld
What this wasThe story
A stock photo man in front of a rising arrow, captioned with a misspelling. It became the standard caption for any confidently wrong decision, and then the actual vocabulary of the 2021 retail trading boom.
TimelineIn order
- Made
Meme Man first appears.1
- Posted
The Stonks image is posted.1
- Picked up
Elon Musk tweets the word as Tesla’s shares rise.1
- Took off
During the GameStop squeeze Musk tweets “Gamestonk!!”, and the shares rise 157 per cent in after-hours trading.1
More from hereIn this collection
Why it is here: something the internet still knows by name · copied, redrawn and reused until the original stopped mattering · it got out of its own corner of the internet fast
Where it came fromWhat we know
This spread through many posts rather than one identifiable original. The example shown is one surviving copy and is not claimed as the first.
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.
More from 2017You were there
ConnectedFollow it further
- Spread by r/wallstreetbetsPhenomenon · 2012
During the 2021 GameStop squeeze the subreddit made Meme Man the face of the event.
SourcesWhat was read
Sources last read on . That date is about the history on this page. Whether the media still plays is checked separately and can change any day. How ViralWorld documents things