WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days

Re:WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days by TLightful on Thursday March 18, 2021 @07:33AM (#26501596)

Allocate some of that to a Harambe memorial.

The rest to habitat nurturing and protection.

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Re:WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days by dmschulman on Thursday March 18, 2021 @08:30AM (#26501953)

This is pretty much what they're already doing. It's all a throwback to a meme. Meme "investors" turned meme "philanthropists"

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Re:WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days by checker on Thursday March 18, 2021 @11:19AM (#26503565)

Harambe is definitely a factor. But it's probably primarily related to the somewhat recent, self-deprecating meme of calling themselves "monkes"/apes (implying some acknowledgement that they are less "sophisticated" investors than traditional retail or institutional). I'm kind of glad to see this new meme because the older self-deprecating memes were pretty insensitive and made it easier to paint the crowd as malicious.

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Re:WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Thursday March 18, 2021 @11:27AM (#26503634)

Well, meme-powered philanthropy is certainly better than meme-powered speculative investment.

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Re:WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days by mattowen_uk on Thursday March 18, 2021 @10:14AM (#26502899)

Harumbe is/was a lowland gorilla, the gorillas we're talking about are mountain gorillas.

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