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.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.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.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.
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.
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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.
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
- Rallying behind a person who represents all they hate like
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- Choosing randos who never interacted with them as messiahs
- Emphasis on research, a crowdsourcing of their gospel, and ability to dump any part that proves inconvenient
- Denial of reality, the need to "bake" any setback.
- Missed predictions don't affect them. At most they'll just deny the prediction was ever gonna happen.
- 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.
- Big emphasis on doing symbolic gestures of commitment to the cause, posting them on social media, alongside guns.
- 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
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.
Dan posted on Patreon a VLOG with Nathan (who co-wrote some of his latest videos) where they discuss Dumb Money.
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.

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)