2017·The platform era
Stonks
One deliberately misspelled word for every bad financial decision on the internet.
A meme
- SourceNo single original
- MediaNot held by ViralWorld
What this was
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.
It first appeared in 2017, during the platform 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 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.