They might be authentic, in the sense that somebody is using a paper-trading account.

Using inspect element sounds like too much trouble when you can just use fake money instead.

Everyone on the Internet is a bot. I'm waiting for you to post "your" YouTube channel and ask for likes.

Why do you not believe people didn't jump on the free money hype train? It's not like redditors havent gathered together to do stupider things before. The fact that almost every easy to use trading app had to limit buys on gme specifically should tell you that it was not a small thing.