Who exactly is this "r/wallstreetbets" that is riding high on this idea? Unlike other subreddits, WSB is very much not a hivemind. This did not happen by accident.

You can take a look at mention trends [0] and see that most people are talking about stocks that have no "squeeze" story behind them.

You can also take a look at the rules [1] to see that market manipulation (like 95% of the GME discussion that goes on) is not allowed.

Finally you can take a look at the daily thread [2] and note that within the top 1,500 comments, only two mention the word "squeeze".

[0]: https://www.quiverquant.com/wallstreetbets/

[1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/about/rules

[2]: https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/silx0h/dail...

I skim and see at least a few mentions and threads a week talking about the GME squeeze that's still coming. Combined with seeing people talking about trying the same pump method on other stocks feels to me like there's a lot of people trying to replicate the fluke that GME was.

No doubt the number is non-zero in a subreddit that gets 20-30K comments a day.

Still, the people complaining make it seem like the sub today looks the same as it did on January 28th, 2021.

I took a very cursory look at the front page just now and don't see a single post advocating a short squeeze. Maybe there's one or two mentions within the threads, but it's far from everywhere.

They badly need to run another paper trading challenge... The new userbase needs a pruning.

Well, AMC was a similar story.

I'm not super familiar the "DD" that happen happened with it but AMC only really popped ~500%. I always thought it was more of your standard pump with a quiet dump than a real short squeeze like GME (maybe already caused).