Nonfiction
Book
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
©2024
EDITION
DESCRIPTION
341 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
LANGUAGE
NOTES
Introduction -- Occupy Reddit -- Barely staying alive -- The rise of Robinhood -- Becoming 4Chan -- Trolling for Trump -- The crypto threat -- Losing and learning -- Pandora's box opens -- The Gamma squeezes grow -- Crisis overload -- Davey daytrader -- Questions and moderation -- The GameStop gang -- A new level of trolling -- The big squeeze -- The center cannot hold -- Not going away -- Acknowledgments -- A note on sources -- Notes -- Index
This dramatic story shows how two self-proclaimed "degenerates" made WallStreetBets, a subreddit focused only on risky financial trading, a cultural movement by harnessing the power of memes and trolling to create a new kind of online community, changing how an entire generation thinks about money, investing and themselves