MontyAtWork - 39 upvotes - source
I'm literally on here all the time telling people to Inverse WSB. You'll see my account isn't new, and that I'm a frequent poster of this sub. While I only started commenting here during $GME run up, I lurked here for years learning about crypto and pot stocks and lost a lot of money on said pot stocks. That said, every time this sub talks all about a stock, it tanks by the next morning. If there's a TON of posts about a stock, it's already dipped and bag holders are trying to post DD they hope will give the stock one more pump to sell at the top of. But BBBY was being talked about around mid-day or evening Thursday, I believe. If it followed the same pattern I see literally every single day, week in and week out, it would have pumped in morning and rug pulled by 2pm Friday at the latest. But it didn't. It ran, and people posted, and it continued to run. Then, Thursday evening, this sub was shitting on AMC. Earnings was bad, there was no excitement. Shkrelli even shit on it and there was basically no positive sentiment. Yet somehow, the stock ran like it was the talk of the town in here and across Wall Street. To me, this REEKS of distraction/honeypot - from what I'm not sure. I'm confident in saying that its price action was no more attributable to us or retail in general than HKD was I'm in this sub literally every trading day from around 10am to about 3pm every day. I read probably 90% of what gets posted and upvoted to the top 300ish posts at any given time. I also watch the markets, Monday through Friday, while reading in here. I'm autistically hyper focused to the point I've picked up the sentiment and subsequent market movements related to, or unrelated to, said sentiment. I feel confident in saying that both BBBY and AMC were moving different than I'd expect, and for different reasons.

Gastellier - 19 upvotes - source
mods this dude has reposted the exact same shot with different titles 8 times. ban. rule 7 - no bullshitting "Why I’m leaving wallstreetbets after losing my life savings " "Loss Porn for you Apes 🦍 lost my life savings with $HKD" "Why I’m leaving this Sub for good. I miss the old WSB before it went mainstream " Dude has posted that he's leaving the sub a million times. gtfo

betam4x - 19 upvotes - source
due to all this BBBY hype I am 100% buying puts as soon as I can tomorrow. EDIT: just remember how those HKD bag holders landed. Be smart. BBBY is under a microscope and anyone with access to high speed trading won’t be left bag holding. If you read about it on reddit, it is too late.

Da_Millionaire - 18 upvotes - source
I tried it for stuff I would never do. Like short the shit out of HKD and DWAC. Made a few fake millions but I’m scared of shorting since losses can go to infinity. This is where paper trading comes in

PunchingAgreenbush - 17 upvotes - source
No ape but bbby, hkd, bb, sears and many others are allowed. Hilarious

anonkraken - 13 upvotes - source
Okay how is a stock that has always traded in the $15-$30, incredibly over short on a bankruptcy thesis, now not going bankrupt and with a brand that is estimated to be worth more than 3x its current market cap a “pump and dump?” This is not fucking DWAC, WISH or HKD. This is a company that is severely undervalued. It’s a DeepFuckingValue play. You didn’t miss the rocket because the rocket is well above its current price. When we’re trading in the $20s again, then I’d be warning people to be careful. $8? That’s a fucking joke.

WillNeighbor - 9 upvotes - source
imagine if brokers pulled the plug again with bbby like GME, after they didn’t for that HKD bullshit …

MrKarim - 9 upvotes - source
stock buyback implies someone is selling the stock if no one is selling the stock we will have a short squeeze look at GME/BMW/HKD examples. When a company buys 9 billion in stocks, that means it will need someone to sell them those 9 billion which means the one that will be selling the stock will need to pay capital gain tax on those stocks.

UltimateTraders - 8 upvotes - source
The guy that was in $hkd last week?

Tachyon9 - 6 upvotes - source
Oops, Forbes figured out we don't have anything to do with HKD.
 

BuzzYoloNightyear - 28 upvotes - source
But first let's do some monkeypox and polio lockdowns to enhance the scare factor

hardcore_softie - 12 upvotes - source
BBBY gonna buy out SIGA so you can get bed stuff, bath stuff, and monkeypox stuff all in one store.

ThatsAHugeLoadOfBS - 4 upvotes - source
Just make sure none of the monkeypox jizz flies across the room and lands in your mouth/eyes.

aggie1965 - 4 upvotes - source
buying the monkeypox stocks :...SIGA and BVNKRY

Randomname9887 - 4 upvotes - source
How does monkeypox affect BBBY shares?

PathOfExile_Plus - 3 upvotes - source
Free monkeypox?

harris0n11 - 3 upvotes - source
LOTS of calls on PLUG and a few monkeypox type tickers I dont think I can mention here.

migbyo - 3 upvotes - source
The "k" in monkeypox is silent.

hardcore_softie - 3 upvotes - source
I might have gotten the monkeypox too, or maybe I spread it. Either way, calls on SIGA probably.

logictofreedom - 2 upvotes - source
monkeypox is just starting. EUA comes within the next 6 months.

btbsrq - 135 upvotes - source
The Pelosi Effect

Electrical-Shower-89 - 12 upvotes - source
Seriously buy BBBY now. Pelosi gets to insider trade we should get to pump a little too

negroiso - 11 upvotes - source
What if we see Pelosi buys 1mm of GME next week in September reports!?

WhereTendiesGo - 8 upvotes - source
Ya this isn’t really new. Plus remember they didn’t even start the drill till Pelosi was far away from the island. I did buy one otm yolo put but I don’t expect china to actually try and invade.

youjustlostthegameee - 8 upvotes - source
Wouldn't be surprised if pelosi knew this and went to Taiwan bc China can't war rn

jamesy9555 - 8 upvotes - source
I can’t turn on CNBC because I’m jacking off to old videos of Pelosi. Have they mentioned my BBBY?

Cowhead32 - 6 upvotes - source
Nancy pelosi net worth, would just mean she has to work for 500 years. Makes sense.

fn_deft - 6 upvotes - source
Ryan Cohen to us is like Nancy Pelosi to her husband. Jacked to the fucking tits 🚀🚀🔥🫡

tclarke142 - 5 upvotes - source
NANCY PELOSI BUYS LOCKHEED MARTIN CALLS. BUYS PUTS ON RUSSIAN LIFE EXPECTANCY.

fan_of_hakiksexydays - 5 upvotes - source
Oil prices plunging, ships full of grains finally able to leave Ukraine, Inflation Reduction Act about to pass with healthcare cost reduction, the supply chain is continuing its recovery, housing cost beginning to drop as home sellers are beginning to cut their prices, the last Fed rate increase didn't tank the market, Pelosi didn't get her plane shot down.... We're starting to see some light at the end of the tunnel. And if oil continues to plunge this fast, we could get out of this mess faster than expected.
 

djtrace1994 - 179 upvotes - source
Here's my theory. Once the float is 100% registered, Gamestop pulls from the DTCC and blockchains its securities. They roll out an NFT token, one for every share, to the corresponding wallets. This token would represents profit-sharing in the NFT marketplace, equal to the the owners stake in the company. No one guy at the top taking 80% of the profit. Everyone who owns a piece of the company gets a payout based on ownership of the company.

adgway - 102 upvotes - source
There has never existed a stronger use case for delivering an NFT dividend. And that’s not even considering the manipulation & excessive shorting….simply justifiable utility for the marketplace.

CthulhuSlumberFest - 75 upvotes - source
I have some BBBY Jan $8 calls that I bought a few weeks ago. My dream is for is Buy Buy Baby to be spun off as a unit investment trust, each unit packaged into a NFT and distributed to shareholders on the GameStop Marketplace. I want the units to be non-tradable for a year so that no "equivalent market price" can be calculated and used for a cash equivalent, and I want shorts to get wrecked.

pokemonke - 65 upvotes - source
I know this sounds bad in the short term. But a textbook company publishing books on GameStop’s marketplace would mean their royalties are capped at 10% when second hand market can resell for whatever price. Textbooks need to be updated often, and old copies can basically become worthless depending on the field, but still valuable to beginners in the subject. Being able to buy old textbook NFTs on the cheap could actually make learning more accessible. Any company can always be shitty with their practices, but an ape could become an active investor in that company and steer the ship toward ethical education accessibility. Even making NFT passes that just always keep the text book updated, money goes directly to educators who published the book and because it’s so easy to publish a textbook without all the tape, a textbook company could be really streamlined toward making an awesome online product out of their material. Education should not be a profitable model with money in mind but it could be more accessible and sustainable with NFTs

zk_Aby - 58 upvotes - source
making a "profit" happens very differently in crypto than most people imagine it in most cases early adopters simply found something interesting and it was enough to stay around long enough. See early bitcoiners discussing interesting ideas on bitcointalk, early monero folks debating about privacy on IRC, early ethereum developers exploring dapp ideas on workshops/hackathons. 2019 generation synthetix users had no idea they will make 1000x just by sticking around, using the platform, same about 2020 YFI farmers, Uniswap LPs. I will venture to say that many doge holders bought it just for fun, the first NFT communities didn't really take those silly jpegs seriously. Things always become complicated once the pump and dumpers arrive, those who are here specifically for the profit and don't even care what is going on. That leads to the safemoons, the \_\_ inus, the ugly tasteless nfts, the million dollar digital pokemons and a generally overpriced market. At the peak of nft gaming there were hedge funds buying game items from teenagers, you can imagine those teenagers weren't planning to become millionaires from this :') Will get downvoted for saying this but sometimes it is enough to just observe interesting projects and participate. Once things get \_really\_ cheap, you will know it and won't need random people's advice.

kcaazar - 57 upvotes - source
Fuck yeah. I’m willing to invest in promising startups if it’s on GameStops NFT marketplace. Fuck the stock market; it’s a way for hedge funds and wall st banks to steal from small retail investors.

cuby87 - 52 upvotes - source
Game developer here: \- A bad game won't be improved or better monetized with NFT, play to earn and whatever. \- A good game doesn't need NFTs, play to earn or whatever. Plus, as a developer you don't want NFTs or whatever for people to trade items outside of your control. Much easier, efficient and profitable to have everything in house, centralized and under your control.

mrfreedayaz - 50 upvotes - source
GS doesn't have to remove their shares from the DTC/NYSE. With an NFT Dividend, as a "reflection"/tokenized on the blockchain, they don't have to.

Wooden_Hair_9679 - 49 upvotes - source
They still in the transformation, hired an entire team of blockchain experts that build an nft marketplace in the last 6-12 month and built huge fulfillment center. It might still take some time to become profitable but it’s obviously not done within a year

Ianova - 42 upvotes - source
Listen I get it, unfortunately education is a business venture. What sucks ass is that I'm going to have to buy the NFT version, brand new, every year. I know for a fact these vultures are going to say "Only our most recent NFT textbook has the current access key to our website, sorry!". Every new edition that's posted gets a new key, or some bullshit. They don't care about royalties, they can make transparent, trackable textbooks that have the lifespan of <1 year. No ones gonna buy used because the used books don't have codes.

Lulu1168 - 69 upvotes - source
This👆. I’ve been saying this for years…as long as these greedy corporate entities donate to campaigns and lobbyists have more power than the people who elect these useless idiots, then it’s up to everyday people to stop voting for these same people over and over again. If voters were smart, they’d re-elect someone new to their districts every two to six years. This would do more to keep politicians focused on their job, then making millions from corporate interests at the expense of their constituency. But as long as you keep voting the same losers in every two to six years, you get what you vote for.

OperationBreaktheGME - 68 upvotes - source
For real. I listen to their saga cause low key…….. it’s entertaining AF. Like yo……. We on a bigger boat, fuck that a Mega Yacht over here on the SS GMErica and when they started diluting shares during their June 2021 run up you should of saw the signs. I did. Put them earnings all into SS GMErica. But yeah it’s a mess AA is not your friend, GME will welcome you with open arms. And a few jokes but mainly open arms.

youdoitimbusy - 56 upvotes - source
No, all the brokers were instructed by the DTC to split the stock, as far as I can tell. So it diluted the stock by adding more shares, on top of the shares gamestop issued to the DTC for distribution. So gme is listed at 304.52m shares, but there are at least 3 times as many shares out there just from this one incident. What that means is we can individually remove shares at a faster pace. At some juncture 100 percent of the issued shares will be DRSed. Then there will still be millions, if not billions of shares the DTC and brokers will have to figure out how to deal with. What happens at that point is anyone's guess. This is unprecedented. There has never been an individual loss of trust in the system prior to gamestop. We're all waiting to see what happens, but no one is forced to buy anything as of yet.

anonkraken - 45 upvotes - source
I’ve been here awhile. Let me break this down for you motherfuckers: - BBBY was being priced as if it was going bankrupt, both shares and on the options chain. - If not facing bankruptcy, it is easily a $15-$25 stock based on assets alone. - Ryan Cohen bought in with millions in far OTM calls, has shook up the board and ousted the shit CEO. - The shorts went too deep, like GME, thinking it would be bankrupt in weeks. - Insiders started buying. There’s a chance RC doubles down. - Buy Buy Baby could be sold off. There is a shareholder update planned for this month. - There is a huge January gamma ramp. - This is not a pump and dump. It’s a value play. BBBY is absolutely worth what it is trading at (unlike WISH and other famous WSB P&Ds). - At $10 is a huge put wall. That breaks and this bitch could seriously fly. - Many of us have been in this play since the -50% drilling, but couldn’t post on WSB due to market cap requirements. Now you’re seeing a flood of spam and fomo. It’s annoying, but this is a good play. Edit: Thanks but stop giving me awards. Also lol to whoever reported me to the suicide watch.

beesdonthaveknees123 - 42 upvotes - source
You failed to mention that most corporations are reporting record profits in this “Recession.” I mean if you like to lick boots that’s your business BUT raising corporate taxes can only help fund underfunded programs in this country and even cut the deficit. Especially since mega corporations have been paying literally fractions of pennies on the dollar for decades. Not to mention, raising corporate taxes is hugely popular among most Americans. We the people have been fucked left, right, and center by Corporate greed and are tired of it.

badley13 - 40 upvotes - source
Millions of Registered holders like me and you! And millions of *international* holders and their regulatory bodies ape fren!

Fantastik-Voyage - 34 upvotes - source
I'm not trying to make people do things but...look at it this way..Ryan Cohen has literally pit his blood sweat and tears along with hundreds of millions of his own money on the line.....

zimmah - 33 upvotes - source
Millions per share is not a meme. Infinity pool is not a meme either. In fact, the Golden goose theory has merit too, meaning we might never need to sell at all.

senorderpenstein - 33 upvotes - source
Not true. If you research their sales compared to net income, when Tritton took over as CEO in 2019 they started losing hundreds of millions a year instead of making hundreds of millions, even though their sales were very similar. Then he further messed up their sales in the years that followed. Have you seen the BBBY app and inventory? As a new home owner who has used Amazon A LOT, I'll be looking at BBBY first from now on, their variety and quality of goods demolishes Amazon in multiple home-related categories.

Uisce-beatha - 26 upvotes - source
Never. Bust or millions.