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Ghilz Perpetually Confused from Yeeted at Relativistic Velocities Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Barbecuing
Perpetually Confused
#451: Oct 6th 2023 at 3:29:20 PM

They're not acronyms, they're stock names, which have no rules at all for what they're called. The stock X is a steel company, for example. There is no hope of decoding them under normal circumstances.

DFV is an acronym, it stands for Deep Fucking Value, again Keith Gill, the one guy the apes elected as the saint of the cult who then got the fuck out when he realized the idiots he was dealing with (and also he got rich)

Mullon Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson
#452: Oct 7th 2023 at 9:39:34 AM

I wonder if Dan has any thoughts on the Dumb Money movie.

Never trust anyone who uses "degenerate" as an insult.
Krory Since: Aug, 2012
#453: Oct 7th 2023 at 1:04:08 PM

[up][up] I actually feel bad for the guy. He accidently became a multi-millionaire and was promptly chased out of public life by a bunch of deluded morons.

RAlexa21th Zettai Ryouiki Enjoyer from California (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I <3 love!
Zettai Ryouiki Enjoyer
#454: Oct 7th 2023 at 2:28:52 PM

The video has been removed from r/bbby, r/gme, and r/superstonk. Say what you want about r/cryptocurrency, even they didn't remove Line Goes Up.

Continue writing our story of peace.
Ultimatum Disasturbator from The Wiggle Room (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#455: Oct 7th 2023 at 2:32:20 PM

insert 'They hated jesus because he told them the truth meme'

have a listen and have a link to my discord server
RhymeBeat True colors from Eastern Standard Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: In Lesbians with you
True colors
#456: Oct 7th 2023 at 3:45:31 PM

As Dan himself said, the NFT community can hear bad news, it just spins it in favor of NF Ts. The MOASS community can't even do the former.

The Crystal Caverns A bird's gotta sing.
diddyknux (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#457: Oct 7th 2023 at 3:52:17 PM

Am I the only one who can't stop giggling anytime they see or hear MOASS?

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she/her friend to the hooved
#458: Oct 7th 2023 at 3:56:51 PM

[up][up]It feels like the NFT community, say what you will about them, are the ones who actually go outside sometimes, while MOASS is primarily internet weirdos. Maybe that has something to do with it.

Lyendith Since: Mar, 2011
#459: Oct 7th 2023 at 3:57:05 PM

[up][up] Almost sounds like a joke that got out of hand like that "Birds aren’t real" conspiracy theory…

Oh, and even Man Carrying Things has his own take on the NFT vid. evil grin

(he’s a youtuber who makes short vids parodying community reactions on new stuff)

Edited by Lyendith on Oct 7th 2023 at 12:59:33 PM

Ghilz Perpetually Confused from Yeeted at Relativistic Velocities Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Barbecuing
Perpetually Confused
#460: Oct 7th 2023 at 5:22:46 PM

Dan also linked to a video another youtuber made about the specific dude we see in Dan's video going to hassle Gamestop employees about Cohen. Apparently the guy's insane even by ape standards.

RAlexa21th Zettai Ryouiki Enjoyer from California (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I <3 love!
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#461: Oct 7th 2023 at 5:36:29 PM

Hoo boy, there's an entire document about the guy.

It was my first exposure to the reddit memestock crowd.

Continue writing our story of peace.
Ghilz Perpetually Confused from Yeeted at Relativistic Velocities Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Barbecuing
Perpetually Confused
#462: Oct 7th 2023 at 5:53:41 PM

That's the one.

Still more apes getting mad at Dan on twitter. It's very funny. They are very bad at this.

Also a lot of regular viewer shocked to find the Ape who dresses like a wrestler wasn't a bit, but is in fact real.

Edited by Ghilz on Oct 7th 2023 at 8:55:26 AM

Nightwire Since: Feb, 2010
#463: Oct 7th 2023 at 8:59:55 PM

I actually feel bad for the guy. He accidently became a multi-millionaire and was promptly chased out of public life by a bunch of deluded morons.

Why? He made his millions, then had enough sense to dip out at the right time. Honestly, good for him.

Hylarn (Don’t ask)
#464: Oct 7th 2023 at 10:09:06 PM

I've seen some people saying that he was actually happy to grift the apes, but had to go silent to avoid getting in trouble for market manipulation

Grahf Since: Jan, 2001
#465: Oct 8th 2023 at 7:59:55 AM

My takeaway on DFV is that he very likely never expected GME to go from a dollar stock to a hundreds of dollars stock; he expected it to go from a dollar stock to maybe a four to five dollar stock; which is why he was buying it. The short squeeze that happened just incidentally made him an overnight millionaire. I think that Gill realistically thought that he might get at most a five to ten times payout, which hey turning $50,000 into a quarter to a half million is nothing to sneeze at. What happened was likely beyond his wildest dreams.

Then when he saw that he was becoming an involuntary messianic figure for these people and that he would be regardless of what he said or felt about it, he dipped fast.

Protagonist506 from Oregon Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#466: Oct 8th 2023 at 4:16:56 PM

I'll say Olson's video doesn't paint him as especially unsympathetic, and that actually feels notable, but I can't say beyond that.

Leviticus 19:34
Watchtower Since: Jul, 2010
#467: Oct 8th 2023 at 8:18:57 PM

[up][up][up] Dan's video depicts it as much: Gill was able to correctly argue to Congress that he wasn't involved with the meme stock jump and just happened to be right there when it was happening, but Gill (potentially) realized that he'd potentially be more culpable if it happened again and there was a clear link between him tweeting about a company or brand and apes jumping on the stock. If anything the apes proved this by jumping on BBBY solely because of Cohen's involvement, and Cohen should probably be thankful that the apes didn't somehow save BBBY and thus Congress has no reason to knock on his door.

Nightwire Since: Feb, 2010
#468: Oct 8th 2023 at 8:32:16 PM

It's wild how these guys claim to hate Wall Street, yet think some billionaire asshole would be their lord and savior.

Edited by Nightwire on Oct 8th 2023 at 8:32:28 AM

Ghilz Perpetually Confused from Yeeted at Relativistic Velocities Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Barbecuing
Perpetually Confused
#469: Oct 8th 2023 at 8:44:54 PM

What impresses me is the amount of overlap between the Apes and Q Anon. Like Dan mentions there's parallels, but doesn't go in too deep. But there's so much thats familiar if one's been following these lunatics or is a regular listener of QAnon Anonymous

  1. Rallying behind a person who represents all they hate like [up] said
  2. Choosing randos who never interacted with them as messiahs
  3. Emphasis on research, a crowdsourcing of their gospel, and ability to dump any part that proves inconvenient
  4. Denial of reality, the need to "bake" any setback.
  5. Missed predictions don't affect them. At most they'll just deny the prediction was ever gonna happen.
  6. Believing in a big future event that will "prove them right" and deep fantasies about how they'll rub the nose of the naysayers when the time comes.
  7. Big emphasis on doing symbolic gestures of commitment to the cause, posting them on social media, alongside guns.
  8. A belief that they are going to change the world, but that change requires little to no effort from them. Apes' "Just buy 1 share, and feel good about myself" vs Q Anon's "Trust the plan"

Like I could go on for hours about things Dan lists that I'm like "That's shit Q Anon does"

Edited by Ghilz on Oct 8th 2023 at 11:49:53 AM

Grahf Since: Jan, 2001
#470: Oct 9th 2023 at 7:21:24 AM

Perhaps the most baffling thing to me, as has been pointed out elsewhere is the notion that many apes think that the government is complicit in the naked short selling and everything else. Yet even if literally everything they believed were true and MOASS actually did happen, they think that the government would for some reason come to the table in good faith and honour these massive amounts of debt instead of say, just telling any stockholders to collectively go piss up a rope.

JethroQWalrustitty Since: Jan, 2001
#471: Oct 13th 2023 at 2:46:51 AM

It's a lot like the whole Romana Didulo situation in Canada. They think every layer of the government is inflitrated by the deep state, but think they can arrest them for breaking the law. Like how exactly do you think that's going to work out?

Ghilz Perpetually Confused from Yeeted at Relativistic Velocities Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Barbecuing
Perpetually Confused
#472: Oct 13th 2023 at 6:46:50 AM

She and her followers are a special brand of crazy though. Like even by Qanon standard.

She's also much more like a classic cult. With a central leader hashing out cult doctrine and mooching off followers money.

Edited by Ghilz on Oct 13th 2023 at 9:48:11 AM

Ghilz Perpetually Confused from Yeeted at Relativistic Velocities Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Barbecuing
Perpetually Confused
#473: Oct 30th 2023 at 7:18:58 PM

Dan posted on Patreon a VLOG with Nathan (who co-wrote some of his latest videos) where they discuss Dumb Money.

CanuckMcDuck1 PEPSIMAN from Japan Since: Sep, 2023 Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
PEPSIMAN
#474: Nov 10th 2023 at 5:00:37 PM

This may sound a bit selfish, but while I love that Dan is making these huge sweeping videos about corruption and scam-artists to drive away others, I also kinda miss when it was less grand topics (y’know just films or games). I’m fine if he has simply moved on from them (as that one interview he did revealed), and it’s great what he’s doing, but it’d be nice if he tried to revisit those ideas.

Do not mess with creatures which you do not understand.
Grahf Since: Jan, 2001
#475: Nov 10th 2023 at 6:02:31 PM

Well, kinda on that note, Dan did upload a patrons only video - whether or not it'll be made public going forward I have no idea - that's about 10 minutes long discussing how Blizzard was dumb and allowed a five hour line to be a thing at this latest Blizcon.


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