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yes! the community activity around GME + WSB is actual meme - a space for collaborative participation whether you invest in it or not & regardless of why you get into it or what you get out of it. The point is the range of participation not just the stock or the "memes" https://twitter.com/ChappellTracker/status/1354439622571528196
You can be in it for financial gain, YOLO, sharing DD, jokes, discussion, education, the worship of DFV, rising up against the market makers, the karma farming or even the hot takes on twitter. It all builds strong tie between you and the community https://twitter.com/alexisohanian/status/1353948461054316544
based on what we see in fandoms, the reporting around $GME participation is way off: people will join for a diversity of motivations which can be at cross purposes but still feed each other.
As people realize that they can profit off of the backs of the desire for participation, we will see new forms of influence engineering. Folks like @DGaff_ @timhwang are getting ahead of that https://twitter.com/timhwang/status/1352270183449186313
If you're reporting on GME as meme, look outside of Finance to other moments where communities realized they could have collective agency against power networks, moral or immoral. (MAGA, Q, 4chan + Time Mag, Beliebers brigading Twitter Trending Topics) https://twitter.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1354113777239797762?s=20
