In a video posted on Reddit’s WallStreetBets forum, a man throws a long, steep slide with his arms fluttering before slamming into the muddy ground. Then he sits up, dizzy.
Video title: “A WSB-hyped stock as soon as I buy it.”
The meme is a hit, which goes to the top of the subreddit page. “Buy big, sell low, right?” one user replied.
The cheek meme has some truth. In recent weeks, many stocks that WallStreetBets had sent growing “to the moon” have fallen to the ground. Forum fave GameStop Corp. closed at $ 52.40 on Friday, down from an intraday high of nearly $ 500 just over two weeks ago.
The following is a five-day diary of chaos and jokes on WallStreetBets (we can’t publish all the profanity).