Wall Street Bets is a community on Reddit that prides itself on not really knowing what they are doing, so far they have successfully hyped several stock prices way beyond their true value.

Last week they went to war against the short seller Citron Research by pumping Gamestop which led to the stock rising 80% at one point, apparently there are more Shares shorted in the company than there are Shares, over the weekend the story has snowballed, covered by the news media and reputable-ish trading groups all pledging to buy buy buy, it's going to be an interesting watch.

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