I think the argument remains that GME is not fundamentally a near-worthless company and some of these investors are probably right that it was hugely undervalued by all the funds shorting it (maybe not to the tune of $400 a share, but many of those investors have seemed to have been whales, not average joes). Retail is down in the pandemic, but it is not out. My opinions that GME is the biggest pawn shop operation in the US makes me look down on the shops from a high horse that I don't currently feel a need in my personal life for pawn shops, but America as whole will always need pawn shops.