every trading app is down now so like go have breakfast first at least
frozen at 269.69???
where were you when the global financial system paid script kids to ddos every broker on the planet to stop gamestop from triggering the great depression
anyway once again this is why we no longer need professional or fan fiction
I had been assuming that was an intentional bit of design, but now knowing that community didn’t spring up just for the GameStop thing I guess the concept of what a “cool” stock broker looks like is some kind of culturally universal monomyth like the great flood.
game, stop
Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy when the prices fell
online meme movements even when acted out in jest can now become coordinated enough to enact real effects on the real world. It’s not just a weird story every few months; it’s a consistent pattern of random events towards weird. The systems that have always been the most illusory and predicated on shared assumptions of behavior are the most vulnerable
eyes bulging out of skull, nervously pacing back and forth while holding a cannonball for no reason
god that smirking mascot
we had like three effigies of it in the backroom that we had to hide every time the district manager visited
some of my friends are talking about this in our whatsapp and im honestly relieved this shit is some bizarre language i can’t comprehend
It’s beautiful that this is happening with not just a dying retail business, but the dying retail business: one in which the physical good is almost unnecessary and the consumers are the most likely to use digital distribution. I don’t know anything about their fundamentals but there are few business models more insolvent than a store where you buy video games on discs.
b-but u can also buy funko pops there!