The Gamestop stuff reminds me of a neat Pokémon TCG story: at one point, someone realized that with the rules as they stood, they could win 100% of the time with a deck that was 1 Mewtwo and 59 psychic energies. (1/?)

At that time in Pokémon TCG, if you drew your opening hand and had no Pokémon, your opponent got to draw 2 cards and you shuffled your deck and drew a new starting hand. In the Mewtwo deck, you would likely not draw the 1 pokémon in your deck. (2/?)

So by the time you did find Mewtwo for your opening hand, your opponent had a ton of extra cards in hand. Usually a terrible situation to be in, BUT this all hinges on the rule that if you couldn't draw a card, you lost the game immidiately. (3/?)

The rest of the game was pretty boring, because all Mewtwo had to do was use Barrier for the rest of the game. Barrier prevented ALL attack effects, so your opponent just had to watch on in horror as nothing happened in the game until they drew their last card. (4/?)

This deck was built to exploit a system and it was very effective at it. So much so that rules were immidiately changed so the deck couldn’t work. In this allegory, the Mewtwo deck is Reddit, and the players watching on in horror are Hedge Fund Managers. (5/?)

The big difference being that the Pokémon TCG is a game for fun, and the Stock Market greatly affects everyone’s lives. Personally, I’m pulling for the Mewtwo deck to take down hedge funds. (6/6)