> This has been going on for days (the majority of the week) and shows no signs of stopping.

It seems that the reddit community has been expecting this for quite a while, though maybe they didn't expect it to get noticed outside of wallstreetbets.

15 days ago, with discussion on upcoming gamma squeezes and eventual short squeeze. Price was $20. https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/kwb827/gme_...

1 month ago: "shorts are still ~100% short and running out of time" https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/kh9na8/gme_...

4 months ago: "bankrupting institutional investors for dummies, ft Gamestop" https://ns.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/ivs6dw/bankr...

(added) another from 4 months ago, focusing even more on a short squeeze: https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/ip6jnv/the_...

(I just found these via the search function.)