He stopped posting because he was actively the target of an SEC investigation. If I recall his last message was something like “I’m gonna have to stop these updates for a while. Pretty sure you all know why.” He never claimed he wasn’t taking profits; he was drawing down his position every week with new slates of options once that week expired. Because that’s how you play options. That neophyte redditors who have been trading options for 6 months don’t understand what he’s doing is beside the point — which is why the general rule of thumb for retail investors is to avoid options trading entirely.

There’s still a long tail on the GME drama only because a bunch of people who run /r/wsb are looking to milk the whole thing for what it’s worth. The whole game was already over by the time the mainstream press even mentioned Reddit.