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GameDrop

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Perhaps this will finally end the silliness. As some of you may know, GameStop has had a resurgence in the complete goofiness of January. That is, the notion that a bunch of 18 year old investors, armed with stimmy checks, will topple the big, bad hedge funds. It worked amazingly for a while, pushing GME from about $5 to one hundred times that level, but after the worldwide media attention, you just kind of knew it was done. And that doesn’t even include the mountain of memes created by the /wsb dorks……….

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