Yeap, i see a reflection of the cult craze of the 1950-80's that stemmed from WWII and the various other wars that stressed out and caused mass underlying panic in America that caused people to flock to insane cults and accept their openly criminal and disgusting practices. Now in 2020-23, following the financial crash in 2008, the accelerating inflation of money at a pace never seen before, the entirely stagnant wages compared to pricing of healthcare, rent and food, free internet inundating people with inflammatory articles and exposing people to charismatic grifters with amoral ideologies; a new wave of panic and stress has swept over America, compounded further by the suprise attack of Covid, which has lead to 'finance cults' like NFT bros, Crypto Enthusiasts and Meme Stock Apes, which although are not physically violent like old style cults, still exploits followers and lead them to harm, now by financial and social isolation and loss.

Dan has a background in theology which shows up in a lot of his work which I think is really cool (he confirms this in his interview with Adam Connover if you need a source on that)

its because its an actual almost one to one example of a doomsday cult, longing for the day shorts are squeezed and they can be the emperors of earth, not too dissimilar really to heavens gate or jonestown

Damn, I didn't expect to find you here. Love your videos

I mean, it literally has become a financial apocalypse cult.

He stole that from jawsh's video about kais maleej

@@DEVOTIO33doubt he knows who that is. Who is that?

​@@diskgrinderA guy talking about crypto games.

@@AlexaRobin21 Critically, to be clear before anyone loses thsir mind

JFC.

​@@GSDKXVmy brother in Christ can you at least admit that Kais' behavior on a personal level is fucking inexcusable. Forget the stocks for a second. He tried to impersonate someone to get information about his wife's pregnancy. Edit: lol, dude deleted his reply here to spread his nonsense in other comment chains. Coward.

@@aethertag1530 No behavior is truly inexcusable when salvation is on the line. Kxv is frankly the truest believer I’d seen in all of my life. I mean, he _is_ insane. But he definitely is a true believer.

Wtf did I just read

For context, he did this because Ryan Cohen tweeted a "The last time people were excited to see me" meme with a photo of an ultrasound. Kais interpreted this as a hint that the GME-BBBY merger would happen on the DOB of Cohen's kid, hence the call.

@@TerminatorHIX wtf did I just read x2

i think about that phrase a lot too

@@BARMN89 I've come to this video back a lot and there are a few sentences and situations I'm just completely baffled could manifest itself in the real world I'm inhabiting

@@vau_st its wild too when you consider incel culture is convinced women do this exact same thing for the same reasons? That women only use men for their money. To think they would be self selecting "yes, i want to validate this negative view of women" is wild

@@BARMN89 Remember the cross-section of eugenics and biological essentialism in incel cultures. They don't consider that not validating that stereotype is even an option, it's a fact of the universe: women bad.

I'm still wondering if the meaning is "I will get a different wife" or "my wife's attitude will change" because I can't tell which is worse. Attitude sounds better at first until you realize it's about a gambling addiction / sunk cost fallacy cult.

It's reassuring, since it means even idiots like me can influence and control the global market. It's also horrifying, since it means that many idiots are indeed currently influencing and controlling the global market. And some of them are billionaires.

It is very important to note that, yes, while most systems you interact with on a daily basis are going to be byzantine nightmare constructs of historical laziness, absolute lack of care about people who might find it hard to use them, and pure laziness, they _can_ be navigated. Dan will be accused of trying to muddy the waters by pretending the subject matter is more complex than it is anyway. A grating contradiction about the conspiratorially minded folks, is that the theories must simultaneously be overly complex, because only then can they pretend to be experts and dazzle those even less intelligent than them, but they also must be as simplistic as possible in order to sound realistic to the same people.

He’s got such a strong dad energy you never want the disappointed-dad vibe to be pointed at you but anytime he says anything like “you can do it” it makes you feel like your dad really believes in you

@@Arrakiz666Byzantine, Russel brand is here.

It's less about dazzling the supposedly less intelligent and more about dazzling themselves. It's how they convince themselves that they're super-experts who've cracked codes that have baffled even the actual experts. It's a delusional savior complex mixed with a hefty dose of the Dunning-Kruger effect. @@Arrakiz666

Oh, so you've seen his Decentraland Video?

@@XanthinZardahow could you say the "We held a vote on whether or not politics are allowed in our governance system and decided that politics will not be allowed unless a future democratic vote decrees that they will be." Guys wouldn't be competent at running the entire world!!!?

anything to make Flute Salad the national anthem

​@@luxill0si want you to write me a detailed essay on the impacts of american interventionism in other countries, then get back to me on whatever it is you think venezuela did wrong.

Amusingly, this already exists, and it's called Runescape. Old School Runescape has a polling system where a supermajority of members have to vote to approve of any change prior to it being implemented, ostensibly to keep the trust of the playerbase and prevent another exodus like the one that happened after the extremely unpopular free trade removal, Evolution of Combat, and Squeal of Fortune updates. In practice, it mostly gets used as a way for people who have spent hundreds or thousands of hours on the game to prevent anyone from ever getting a level or item without having to go through just as bad of a grind as they did, or a way for the PvE and PvP communities to work out their beef via downvoting each others' updates.

Good on you for getting out.

Happy for you dude

watch the savior talk, you just got out

Be grateful for Dan, I'm certainly happy for you, but no more heroes for a while

You also did the work of listening, looking at yourself, and making the conscious decision to change. Don’t sell yourself short (pun intended)

That is the most hilarious part to me, that these people think the US government would write them a check for 50 trillion dollars, and that somehow that money would be worth something afterwards

@@GSDKXV Keep telling yourself that.

@@GSDKXVdude you've been in the comments for five MONTHS. take some time off, even if you are a troll.

​@@GSDKXVcapitalism is the problem, the solution isn't funneling more money into the hands of capital.

@@GSDKXVeven if youre right, which you arent, they would not give you the money. at best they would legislate to prevent any wealth transfer and at worst you and anyone else trying to recruit more shmucks would be imprisoned for market manipulation

I think the Qanon conspiracy still takes the cake for most absurd but honestly, the fact that I'm not overly confident in that statement says enough.

Right? It makes me think maybe these people don't even really know what money IS.

Jokes on you, I have a metric ton of bottle caps and I'm ready to become obscenely wealthy once the nukes drop... I'm doing it right.. aren't I?

​@@BlindErephon It's a fancy cotton / linen mix with dead dudes on it, just like my sock.

It feels like a lot of this comes from the 2008 crisis. It felt apocalyptic especially to younger people at the time and the ones fucked in the end weren't the banks or the investors, but ordinary people. So the mentally now is "when the next crisis happens, I want to be in and not out".

"We" in this case doesn't mean the proletariat. It means "we the speculators." (Of Crypto, NFTs or third thing) They expect the masses to suffer while they will ascend into Yacht Heaven.

It makes sense when you remember that neoliberal, corporate capitalism is just a _given_ to these people. The core assumptions of the system are not questioned at all. That’s what makes this so sad.

It's strangely befitting of a cult mentality

@@Arrakiz666 I mean that's the distinction between them and actual revolutionaries, they don't want to fix the rigged system, they just want to win.

Turns out they'd just as greedy as the corporations and governments they hate, given the chance.

@@GSDKXVThe loudest echo in the chamber, get a life man

@@KrankuSama It's either a bot, or TRUE BELIEVER. Same level of thinking however.

​@@KrankuSama I think he really, desperately needs the attention he gets from these replies. My guess is that the people in his life largely stopped talking to him when he fell down the ape rabbit hole.

@@GSDKXV WW2 is one of the top wars of all time, doesn't mean it was a good thing

​@@GSDKXV I am once again asking if you have anyone in your life, anyone at all, who you can talk to? Like I'm actually scared you've gotten so sucked into the cult you've isolated yourself and you don't have any positive real world influences to keep you grounded. I hope there's someone out there who is worried about you and will eventually try and get you in touch with like, a cult victim support group, because I genuinely think you might need it.

Sorry that happened, I'm glad you made it out

Glad you got out! That stuff isn't easy. Hope you didn't lose too much.

Side-note: you’ve sold during a solid price spike, so that was good thinking. But now, if the price does rise more, don’t be convinced that you’ve made a mistake. Don’t concern yourself with theoretical losses that never were.

@@Arrakiz666 Yeah, I couldn’t care less about the price action. I went into GME thinking it would be a million-dollar squeeze and it was stupid of me to even fathom something like that happening in the first place 😂 I was just waiting for the next spike to occur so I could pull out; many people are still incredibly in the red regardless but apparently to them you don’t incur a loss until you sell… I’ve recently started investing solely into index funds and will continue to do so. I’m only 21 so I’m not too concerned financially. I’m more worried for the “apes” taking out loans and dumping their life savings

I'm happy you made it out!

"We have been trained for years by an industry that perfected the art of making us feel special and capable! Fear us!"

literally made the exact same connection to the sherlock/supernatural tumblr fandom when i hit that part of the video. insular conspiratorial online communities will always converge on the same apotheosis of cringe.

At least the Sherlock fans didn't gamble their life savings away on smoke. At least I hope they didn't .

There's an echo of GamerGate which runs through all the delusional Ape rhetoric about the establishment "picking fights with gamers." The rabbit hole goes deep on this.

They targeted gamers. *_Gamers._*

You said "being a cult leader comes with severe occupational hazards" and now I kind of want to see OSHA guidelines for being a cult leader. "What YOU need to know to run your cult safely!"

This isn't entirely the case. I was an onlooker to these communities at the time (luckily I had no spare money to invest or I would probably have lost it) and I can say phrases like "I like the stock" were already existing memes in the community. He was aware of the audience he had and played to them quite well.

Being a _reluctant_ cult leader gets you thrown into the volcano.

@@tevanchinsangaram6467 "I like the stock" is also an extremely generic phrase and taking it as "ape terminology" is talking about conspiracies a little bit too ironically.

I almost never hear that phrase outside of ape circles, where it has become a mantra.

I think that's my favorite Folding Ideas line ever, and I've been around awhile.

Damn, the random noise of the stock market got hands.

​@@mac4974my favorite is "alien goth furry oc" from the wall review review

@@Russian_engineer_bmstu From the same video is probably the line that I quote the most with my friends: "Cringe. There's no other word for it. this makes me cringe. It's embarrassing."

@@Russian_engineer_bmstu that's "steam punk edgelord furry ocs" and "alien big titty goth girlfriend" - two different quotes from that video smashed together

That one infuriated me: 1. Because what he's saying is pure nonsense to such a degree that I don't think he understands even super basic finance stuff, and 2. I work security for Amazon and I can tell you that every single person who works there is in the running for dumbest motherfucker on the planet.

Im a data scientist at publicly traded companies and the stock is a total mystery to me. The number of people with actual inside information that can affect the stock beyond a 48 hour period can literally be counted on one hand.

@@fredsmith3117 Yup. No additional comment, just... yup.

I'm kinda stealing this from a Mitch Hedberg joke but it's like saying "I know everything there is to know about cow farming, I cooked hamburgers for years"

@@emptiester This is it. If you did have insider information, you would be legally banned from discussing it.

Yeah, then years later you figure out the DARPA chief was a guy in disguise, and not that black guy cause they accidently killed him earlier.

Don't show this to Hideo Kojima... because he'll be SO mad he doesn't have the rights to Metal Gear and can't have Snake go through an adventure just like this

@@goranisacson2502 "You shouldve done your Due Diligence, Snake. Now... BEHOLD! THE STOCKS OF THE PATRIOTS! YOUR SHARES ARE NO LONGER YOUR OWN!" -Liquid Apesalot, Metal Gear Solid 7 The Shares of Liberty I will mail this directly to kojima's house, he will be so cheesed that he missed this opportunity.

Perhaps on Shadow MOASS Island?

@DizzyIM -- You summed this bizarre experience up pretty well.

Honestly I really like playing games by candlelight but I've learned to never bet on my tastes being shared by others.

imagine: mountain dew and doritos scented candles

​@drewbabe you know PepsiCo buying GameStop somehow makes more sense...

​@@drewbabeI think those might exist, there is at least mountain dew soap

@notapplicable6985 So of course I had to check. Result? They don't officially exist however there are secondary markets that make both of them. Normally I wouldn't post that since it's kinda non-news, but when looking into it I found something neat. You don't need Doritos candles because Dorito chips burn like candles already. Just stick em into a fire proof base like sand and thanks to the oils in them apparently uou can just light them up. Gonna test it tonight.

funny how many cybertruck owners don't realize you need to use alchol or gasoline to clean it and have rusted the cybertruck. car washes can also brick it

Seems like the perfect car for them tbh 😂

And now I'm thinking Tesla stock is just another meme stock

@@ronnickels5193 not meme, just overvalued, speculative.

@@KissatenYoba I heard it described as an automotive company priced as a tech company

And hiding the actual reveal of it to the last ten minutes of the video

Do you have a goldfish attention span/intelligence? Also that's your grievance with the video? The 'absolute gall' to say something that you just didn't understand? Are one of the said 'apes'?

Also the actual quote he said dividends and why it's hilarious that these idiots think those magic dividends will somehow fund their lives and family's lives for ages to come. Are you genuinely stupid? I'm surprised you made it an hour and a half in, my guess is you just clicked on that section of the video and just watched 2min then called it a day

@@SxTxferlife buddy, I have no grievance with this video, I’ve watched it like 4 times - Dan has gone on record saying he deliberately used before explaining a bunch of ape vocabulary with the express purpose of making you think you maybe just misheard. Following up another use of that technique with “sharp eared listeners might have heard me say ‘dividends’” is so brazen that I’m sure Dan was chuckling to himself when he wrote it, and I wanted to draw attention to it because I think it’s really clever and I haven’t heard anyone mention it

​@@SxTxferlife dude the only person here who's mad is you. they're pointing out that it's a funny joke.

Why would they say this? I just don't get it

​@@BlancheNeigefandan explains it a bit. They lie and financially endanger their partners so reasonably their partners probably ask reasonable questions like how are you gonna pay for all of theese shares or the real life stuff you cant afford cause all your money is in gme. So they are resentful that their partners "dont believe in them." So they fantasize about being rich enough to attract a gold digger that doesnt ask questions.

@@BlancheNeigefan because when they become gorillianaires they can afford to get rid of the average wife they hate and get a model trophy wife. Completely delusional and narcissistic

Fwiw I didn't even realize he was saying it before the reveal until my second watch

​@BlancheNeigefan because there is at least some overlap/intersection with incel culture. The idea here is that whatever kind of partner you currently have, you could have had a better one had you had more money. Ergo, when you get that more money you can, and will, "upgrade".

and i love the ride that balance creates ^^

I'm cheerfully enjoying this mixture

While I enjoy his recent stuffs, I do wish he make movie analysis again. It's been a while. Last one was 2 years ago.

The finance-bro comedy skits are hilarious!

​@@bota6575same honestly. Part of me kinda hopes that he'll make a video on AI art or something that way he can talk about media stuff and tech hype stuff at the same time.

There is no plaintext mannn It's all S U B T E X T

That's because the plaintext isn't telling them what they want to hear. If they took the text at face-value, it basically reveals that they a) have no idea what they're talking about, b) all of their theories and delusions are wrong and c) they are wasting all their time and money on a fantasy get-rich-quick scheme that would ultimately lead them to ruin. The only reason that secret messages 'exist' because it's easier to believe that there's a hidden truth than it is to admit that you don't understand and/or you've been played for a sucker. The line can only go up.

Ooh, good catch! Ive watched these like once a month since they came out and never noticed that, very clever!

My god…

Give Dan Olson an Oscar

deep lore (like roots)

It seems like they're talking about the money they'd need to divorce their current wife, then attract and marry a trophy wife. These are two acts that are individually normal in our current society, which either makes the MOASS folks less bad or society's relationship to traditional marriage worse, depending on your perspective.

And here I thought I misheard, holy crap.

@@JJ-qo7th Same. It took me until it was in text on the screen for me to realise "No, they really are saying that."

Wait I thought they meant wife changing as in "my wife will change their mind about my investments being stupid once I get rich". Are they referring to actually divorcing their wives and finding someone else?

Urban dictionary seems to agree with me.

For me, the amazing thing is the conclusion that if a hypothetical collapse of the economy were to happen, old economy value would have any kind of value in the new economy, and they would get any kind of "compensation" for it

@@wydx120some apes realize this and have crafted different theories around how the new economy would be structured around GME ownership. Which is hilarious to think about

(Drums and trumpet fanfare) How lucky can one guy be (trumpets) I kissed her and she kissed me (trumpets) Like the fella once said "Ain't that a kick in the head?" (Trumpets)

​@@GSDKXVBro you guys are just funny. Its as simple as that

They fail to realize that at the end of the day, systems are controlled by people and the banker is not an NPC that will let you use an infinite money exploit in front of him. Like if they are right and don't get disappeared by some mercenaries and they also don't get told "oh, you found a hedge fund was doing something illegal, guess we shut them down and then gamestop goes bankrupt because their value was all smoke" by a judge then their infinite money will end up being rejected by basically all of society, as the wealthy don't want to be beaten at their own game and everyone else won't suddenly bow down to a bunch of self-obsessed redditors who think they should rule the world. Like even if they managed to take control of the world economy, they don't have the social control to make everyone play along.

I'm sorry you have to go through something like that. I hope he is or has gotten help for his addiction or at least gotten out of the conspiracy, and if not that you leave him for your safety.

Im so sorry, I hope you and or your husband find some help.

I hope he can find a way out. This is just a selfmade señffulfilling tragedy based on primal fears

@@maskingtables wtf are you talking about? 😂 This is an INVESTMENT based on data found in the balance sheet.

I am so sorry. If he believes the 'wife changing money' part you should at least consider what could happen in your relationship. Please take care of yourself. Even if he's a nice man, nothing is worth your mental health and self esteem

Theoretically you could get to 31 by being at 20 and then getting an ace

@@idontcare6736 Nope, because if you're at 20 and you get an ace, it'd count as 1 point. Which would still land you at blackjack.

​@@librenarraty1964 when people say blackjack I always think of Uno Blackjack.

My understanding of BlackJack is that you get 21 or the closest number to it that's below at the table -- any if you go OVER, that's a bust and the dealer takes your cards.

@@phastinemoon You'd be correct, that's why you almost never hit on anything over 15 because your odds of busting increases exponentially (depending on previous draws and how many decks are in play of course, but I digress). The metaphor works great because if you're trying to get a 31 in Blackjack, it means that you're an idiot who tossed away a perfectly good win for a vague 'more' that ends in you losing due to not understanding how the game actually works.

😂

Hang this on my wall, I love it

Blue hair army MF3rs. FAFO !

You joke but the International Olympic Committee did mess with the knitters and it did go extremely badly for them. Don't mess with people with time on their hands and infinite patience!

My personal observation about knitting is that apparently involves a lot of math and all the people who do it suck at math and hate it and will always complain about it. That's probably not true in general but just in my personal experience and I find it funny because I'm really good at math and love it so those people are always like "you should try knitting!".

Massive sovereign citizen similarities in those beliefs

Video game exploit “well they gotta just hand me the keys to the castle now, no way around it” style thinking

@@pobbityboppity1110 I remember reading a story about "GM Island" in World of Warcraft(?), where the story was that if you managed to find a way over there you'd be crowned an honorary GM. Instead of, you know, suspending or banning you on the spot for hacking or otherwise exploiting to get to where you aren't supposed to be. Like imagine sneaking backstage at a concert and the band just goes "Well, I guess you're a new member now."

@@Shadewaltz Wasn't the "sneak into the backstage at a concert; gets to play with the rest of the band" a common plot point in 80's and 90's cartoons and sitcoms? Heck! That's pretty much the climax in A Goofy Movie. In other words; they engage with the world using cartoon logic.

Our former friend who we lost because he went HARD in the paint for conspiracy thinking would often say "I can hold two ideas in my head at once" with an imperious air that implied that our brains were somehow weaker for being "incapable" of ignoring cognitive dissonance. Not only are those two ideas contradictory, but many of them seem oddly proud of that.

I don’t know if this would be more wild if you’re talking about a high schooler or a college student

That friend? Terrence Howard.

@@auzpayeur8229 i assumed college due to calculus

@@kakroom3407 yeah but that means this guy got into a *college level math class* and was *still* like this

@@kakroom3407eh, my high school had calculus as an option. Mostly seniors who intended to go into computer science in college

And it's coming back down already. Those morons bought MORE after it spiked because they thought it was MOASS. So this spike only lost them even more money in the long run 😂🤣 Worst investors in the history of the stock market

much faster bubble burst than anyone could have seen coming

If we hold, then short sellers can’t close

@@alexpope1984 so true I’m still holding my 100 shares sad I don’t jump off at 80 but fuck it let’s see what’s happens

500 million is just around the corner 😂

I truly think this type of conspiracy madness grifting, is one of the greatest and most important forces in the 21st century. Trump and his political movement is almost entirely powered by it. Flat earth, GME, Right Wing lunacy, they all are marketed and performed in the same way.

Your observation is spot on. This video strongly reminded me of the flat earth video and the NFT video, since people who didn't divest from GME when it started to plummet kind of ended up falling up in between the conspiratorially-minded flat earthers and other groups from the flat earth video, and the "I'm gonna get rich as hell, I just need to get someone to buy this bag I've been holding once it skyrockets in value, everyone but me is a sucker" mentality of the cryptobros from the NFT video.

That's a great way to put it, the series is basically: - In Search of the Flat Earth - That Time Geocentrists Tricked A Bunch of Physicists - Line Goes Up - The Problem With NFTs - The Future is a Dead Mall - Decentraland and the Metaverse - This is Financial Advice This last video really ties up all the conspiracy theories, end-of-the-world beliefs, and hyper-capitalist ideas from the previous videos.

@@SatherianI think the Decentraland video belongs in the series too

@@edjohnpowell Oooohhhh, good point. Forgot about Decentraland

lowkey scary to have to deal with these cult members in person lmao

@@JM_-ix7yh haha yeah I hear that. What you have to understand is that conspiracy theorists are just people who believe a crackpot scheme. They wanted it to be true so they came into the store to get evidence. I doubt I convinced them, but who knows?

@@Blakbox92 you know? That's a great question lmfao Honestly, that was one of the worse jobs I've ever had, not in small part because of people like that. It's not hard to imagine that they had an argument with someone about their 'investment' and came to the store to get some reassurance. When I said "lol nope" to them I doubt it helped them feel better about their spending habits. I just hope that I don't hear about Ape holdouts in 10 years talking about FUD and how there used to be a GameStop in this town.

@@Blakbox92obviously the ceo personally told the employees about the merger and to only tell the real info to the shareholders. The apes have cracked the code again!!

@@Blakbox92They’re not exactly in touch with reality

The little chuckle afterwards when he realizes all the face paint in the world can't hide that level of mask slip

Timestamp?

1:48:35 is the timestamp

They really do not seem to understand that.

I don't think applied calculus was part of their education.

my understanding is they're using an abbreviated version, the full one being ''*their* infinite risk is *our* infinite reward''

oooh I didn't think of that. either way I'd say we've both put far more critical thought into this than any of them lol @@ThatGirlOrSomething

@@Philitron128 the irony 😂😂😂

The cultic milieu is fully submerged in cognitive dissonance 💀

This comment has just singlehandedly changed the way I think about conspiracy theories, so congrats for that

somehow "I'm actually dumb as rocks and need someone to explain to me what i should be doing with my money next" seems to be mixed in there as well ...

It falls perfectly in line with the conspiratorial mindset of "if you can't find any proof to support the theory, that's proof that it's actually true."

Tbf, usually it's more along the lines of "Everyone *reasonable* already agrees with me on this because it's common sense", which lets them readily discard anyone who doesn't agree as unimportant.

Even worse - there’s a specific goal in games that definitely MEANS winning. Life doesn’t really have an END, much less a WINNING END (in the sense of how life as a collective experience, doesn’t have an end - even as individuals die, more individuals are born, etc)

@@phastinemoon I mean, yes, but it could be argued that Jeff Bezos has won capitalism in a very real sense. He has managed to set up a system where he can essentially levy taxes on other party's transactions. A huge part of the retail industry is basically paying rent to him which is absolutely insane.

THIS! So much this.

@@CC3GROUNDZERO yes, he 'won' a single arbitrary system which grants him a cheat code to many other systems (money), but in the end, he still has a good several decades to figure out if that was enough. Just knowing the fact he's a billionare is going to tell me that it's probably not enough.

It's a bit semantic but rather than designed to "let" you win, I'd say that they're designed to be winnable. Or even if there's no "win" there's a goal that can be completed by at least someone, given enough skill. And ofc as you said, this does not exist in real life

He comes off as a perfectly fine fellow throughout.

I also like the thicc one with glasses.

He left the community because he ran a pump and dump and if he kept running his mouth he'd come under scrutiny from law enforcement, nothing more.

@@dr.professor5229 you sound exactly like the cult members in the video; understanding one thing about markets and pigeon holing everything into it. what YOURE saying is libelous. YOURE the reason DFV cant be in the public sphere. YOU. not fucking law enforcement.

I respect the fact that he recongised that the community was getting out of control and decided to duck out early. He could have easily embraced it and become a grifter like Ryan Cohen did, like so many community members have.

Bit large for a billboard, maybe good for writing down and making a phone wallpaper. Reminding you each time you open it

Honestly, one of the things I really appreciate about this video is that he’s still empathetic to these extraordinarily frustrating people.

It would go down in history as the second most important billboard ever made.

@@wildfire9280 whats the first

It's the same logic as abusers being often people who suffered abuse themselves. It's important to remember to humanize these people not because they are innocent but because we shouldn't ignore the reality that they are also victims.

To the extent that the entire global economy would be devastated and millions would suffer and die. That's what they expect to happen. That the entirely of worldwide finance is going to crash and burn, and only they will come out on top. They believe that's what'll happen and no one will step in and stop it. Why? Because that's what they consider to be "fair." They get to rule the world for investing in a company that sells video games. Imagine having that view of the world.

@@brettpgh3312 And imagine, that not only that, not only do they get their crash, but more to the point that they expect people to call them new kings of The White Rome (because come on, it isn't a reach), and kiss their stock certificate... ...In spite of the fact that the very backing institutions that would have given that stock any value would have vanished in the ensuing chaos.

Yes, they think because we saw what they did the first time (buy button) they can't do it again.

​@@brettpgh3312 they sound like severely narcissistic monsters who don’t value lives...

"you win this round, Wall Street! But we will win the war!!"

It's equally ridiculous in context too

It's also hilarious in context

Pelosi: "My entire portfolio is in shambles. I'm broke!" McConnell: "Well that may be but we have a duty to make these Apes whole!" And that's how Republicans and Democrats came together to beknight the Apes as lords of our new benevolent economy, children.

Haha, I was gonna say, pretty hilarious in context, too.@@igormaka

The US government WILL submit to the demands of redditors Lmao

These guys seriously need to touch grass

When was this?

@@simonoliver4751 damn it I always put timestamps, I don't know why I didn't this time... lemme try to find it

when dan was reading it out i remember thinking "this has to be parody, no way someone would really say this, its his investor character and this is a silly sentence" and then he put the comment on screen (2:30:47 btw) and i think i said "oh my god" out loud and covered my face from the second-hand embarrassment.

Blah blah blah 75+ million DRSed shares on GameStops balance sheet 😂😂😂😂

It's probably for that too.

@@raven_g6667 lil column A, lil column B

Is influencing someone to be a dumbass that does not benefit me instantly even illegal?

Or both.

@@ashutoshsethi6150 Well, they own a position in what they are trying to convince you to buy and are absolutely willing to lie and hide crucial information so I could definitely see them being stuck with legal liability regardless of their "This is not financial advice" cliche.

Completely agree, never seen anything like that but it's the perfect illustrator of the prevalence of THAT exact idea

Agree as well, was a super cool effect. Like Dan mentions, it's just bizarre to me how these "do your own research" conspiracy types love to repeat specific phrases verbatim, like some kind of mantra. Flat earthers, covid deniers, etc

​@@TheMisternyancryptodingbats, QAnon followers...

I feel like this is the perfect summation of Dan’s clear long-term involvement in Internet culture. It reminded me first and foremost of the old YTMND trend of “Lindsay Lohan never changes facial expressions”, where they made a rapid-fire GIF of publicity photos of LL aligned so her face was always in the same space and at the same scale. Here the same idea was implemented with text instead of a celebrity’s face.

Timestamp?

I can understand them spinning elaborate conspiracy theories to save face for having spent stupid money on worthless stock. It’s when they keep buying more stock that flummoxes me

Right? Like, it would actually make more sense to grab your panning gear and go try the creek in your neighbor's back yard or something. If there was a working gold mine there and then there stopped being one, you KNOW they looked for more gold, and they had a literal gold mine to finance those efforts. At least if you throw a dart at a map and pan there, you're probably checking somewhere that hasn't been checked dozens of times before. Now, if you're just kinda LARPing, if it's just a fun thing you like to do when you go hiking in the hills, great! That sounds like a lot of fun! You get to feel a connection to old-timey prospector dudes! I hope you grow a cool beard and wear suspenders too (if you want)! But if you're spending money you can't afford, yeah, that's sad.

Indeed, the "mother" in MOASS made me think of "motherlode", so I definitely had that thought, even if I have less of a direct connection to it.

Like the late, great Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens said, "History doesn't repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme."

They'd still collapse the economy though. They just wouldn't be the philosopher kings of the new world order

I think some of them were, indeed, short-sighted, but a good deal of the reasoning was less about gain, but the opposite, about sacrifice. Like people who believe the only way to revolution is to kill and die your way out of the status quo, these shills probably DEEPLY believe their literal economial death is worth destroying the capital status. Still short-sighted, though. I can't say I don't get it, because I do (I am more or less punkish and maybe anarchist in SOME aspects), but the status quo is hard to break even in the event of wars because it requires a lot of forethought and planning to effectively patch the holes. And we DO NOT have anything better than monarchies, communism, capitalism or anarchism. We only have human systems with human flaws that will always fail.

“The value of the money is functionally worthless” it’s almost as if the concept of an amount of stuff doesn’t have an objective worth outside of “our wet little meat brains know what 1 and 10 and 0 are intuitively, and unlike other animals who just know how to use math tangibly to do animal stuff, we’re sapient and can abstract math into theory and experiment. The human experience is a species that can compose formulas that express the ways reality builds itself got so absolutely fucked up over “one” “one what” “yes”

​@@LucifersfursonaHave you ever even taken an economics class?

​@@Hypogean7 I mean that's basically just a very crude version of the subjective theory of value

Well, yeah, those people are in fact fae creatures and must comply when bested at their game! They also must give you their gold if you answer their riddles and/or find it at the end of the rainbow. This is sarcasm.

@@Veelofarthis is a good comment

I should go look up if Apes have an answer to this, actually I probably shouldn't. But I am curious, it's been years, surely someone has asked 'so what stops the government from just killing us if it gets that far?' That person was probably banned 12 seconds later for FUD, but I'm devilishly curious to know what the answer would be.

Brain dead take. Surprising from a bear. The buy button was turned off because the retail investor found an exploit to their corrupt scheme of illegal naked short selling. If you DRS GME and refuse to sell, then those short sellers no longer can use those shares to close out their positions. And according to the quarterly report, we’re already 75+ million shares on the way there.

​@@GSDKXVtwo companies paused buying due to liquidity issues, but people could absolutely still buy GME from literally anywhere else. The 'turned off the buy button' narrative only works if you pretend that they paused buying of GME across the entire stock market, which is just ludicrous. Apes were simply inexperienced and/or incompetent enough to be stopped by one single hurdle. And Apes have only managed to DRS maybe a quarter of all shares, so.....

He's gaming the system.

​@@rabidfirefox8914truly, the IRS lost its fight with gamers

Just as wild as that time he made a nearly 2 hour documentary to advertise his modern mario houses.

Based Dan. Extremely based. He's gonna make it.

@@edgarallenhoe3518 dont forget he also made a 75 minute "documentary" that turns out to just be an ad for his hit book Stoicism for Pussies

Yeah it's basically how people view the society we've set up as some sort of hardcoded reality that we have no say in. It ultimately stems from a sense of lack of control and there are some actual points to made about democratic control over institutions and so on... But these people are ironically engaging in the problem in the most unproductive sheep-like way possible.

That's what happen when people start to believe that Capitalism is some sort of natural law. It isn't, power comes from violence and the rules of this world have been re-written multiple times by class violence.

Yeah exactly. Let’s say that everything about MOASS was true, that if some set of circumstances came to exist the US government would be obligated by some set of rules to give its entire gdp away to some redditors. Even in that ridiculous fantasy scenario they would still get nothing as the government would just change the rules.

I feel like this comparison is maybe too silly, since it's to fiction. But in the popular anime BOYS IN MECHS 2010s EDITION there is a villain who plans out and successfully organizes a long, complicated plan that enables him to unpopularly-but-legally claim the right to rule. And the government he has just legally taken over... Just ignores his claim. Because of course they would. Because a plan of victory that relies on a rules technicality is great for games, but does not work in real life.

@@IAmOfAll it goes back far beyond that - for a while it was a real trend in cartoon/comics to have these kinds of plots, including a very famous Disney/Donald Duck story (that I believe was the impetus for those other stories): The basic setup is something along the lines of "he who has that relic/gets that signiture/finds that document becomes king of the US/America/owns all the land" and everybode really believed that. Everyone genuinly believed if you get that crown you become king... because it was a childrens story (though even in the original story there was the implication that in-universe they were all just too mad with power to realize how crazy it is).

I like to think that this was Dan's internal monologue the whole time he was researching this vid.

This is the darkest timeline.

They’re right, once their wives see how much they’ve lost they’ll dip

I would just like to credit you on the comedy of how you paced your response in the edits. (I apparently did the same in my running commentary when watching Good Omens, Season 2, Episode 6)

​@@GSDKXVit's not dehumanization it's saying these schizophrenic weirdos are annoying

@@GSDKXV Spoken like someone who's never been held hostage by a customer who has decided to bombard you with their insanity. I say held hostage because they will be fired for asking these people to like... stop bothering them while they're working. Your pearl clutching is pretty pathetic.

@@GSDKXV cope harder

​@@GSDKXV you have the charm of chronic arrested development

@@GSDKXVdid you not watch this video? The guy in this video is 1000% bombarding a GameStop employee with their insanity

Failing upward i guess 😅

@@SammaS423I don’t think being worshipped by lunatics disconnected from reality counts as “upwards”. And I think Keith would agree given how he handled that.

Real-life Life of Brian shit

The guy gave a pretty convincing and respectable speech in front of Congress, those damn dirty apes didn’t deserve him and frankly are slandering him by association lol

I must be so *strange* to find yourself in that position; where a load of unstable people are picking apart everything you say for clues.

At least they got good seats

Is that really what the heck $APE was?

@andyes4556 - What happened when the three people showed up? How did they act/take it? And, were you guys (as the employees) aware something like that might end up happening, or was it a total surprise on the day? Sounds like such a crazy experience!

*chef's kiss* Couldn't have put it better myself.

@@novalinnhe the managers definitely let us know beforehand that the theatre was supposed to be sold out, so they told everyone to prepare for the worst because they're not as internet savvy and didn't really know about the empty crypto bubble thing. so we were fully staffed, fully doom prepared and then- nothing. the three people showed up, and they honestly weren't all that rude at the employees- they just seemed genuinely surprised. a guy was like "wow, this was it? i thought there was supposed to be more people" and he walked into the theatre with a bucket full of popcorn even though he was watching in real time as the movement had left him behind. a girl came up to the front desk a couple days later insisting that amc was running a different crypto/nft thing because she saw it on twitter, and the employees had to tell her we didn't know a thing about it. and i think the thing these people didn't want to know is that not only do we not get told anything about amc social media trying to lean into it expecting a larger demographic, but that we don't care. amc made more money appealing to swifties than it ever did trying to appeal to apes which. yeah theres not much else to say is there

Somehow in this ocean of nonsense and cringe, that guy stands tall as the absolute most pathetic part of it.

also proof he's never worked a retail job

@@trouty606I was genuinely scared he might try to hurt that poor employee.

Because 15 year old minimum wage employees are privy to all their employer's secrets and will be happy to tell you about any global financial conspiracies they are involved in.

@@lauriepenner350 ngl, if I was a 15 year old min wage employee and I actually did know about a global conspiracy, I 100% would off hand mention it to customers as if everyone knew it and refuse to elaborate. I think that'd be funny.

​@@GSDKXVCohen has decreased losses by slashing employee benefits and closing stores. That can't carry on forever. Their total sales are lower now than at their peak fifteen years ago when the share price was lower than what it is today. Most people buy games online, either digitally or through online retailers, and the vast majority of people purchase gaming peripherals from places like Amazon. Cohen dumped millions into revitalization efforts, but those plans failed. He brought in a team of experts to right the ship, all of whom are gone now. The trend over the last three years has been down, and it's clear to everyone who isn't drenched in Ape nonsense that, while GameStop may manage to carry on, it is drastically overvalued. MOASS is a fantasy. Anyone who bought in at triple digits is just fucked, and frankly so is anyone who bought in over $20. You aren't who this documentary is for, you're in much too deep for that, but you are absolutely who it's about.

​@@GSDKXV :> ~Hush~

@@GSDKXVhope you manage to travel to the parallel dimension where moass will happen

@@GSDKXV the validity of DRS as a way of registering shares is probably the least contentious thing about what APES advocate.

@@kevinstephenson3531 hey look another bot deflecting with nothing of substance yet again 😂 75+ million DRSed shares buddy cope and seethe

It's an Anime thing, right? What exactly does it mean?

​​@@baguettegott3409A tsundere is a character whose inner sweetness (usually romantic feelings) is masked behind a rude, unfriendly facade. This archetype usually shows up specifically in romance anime, or at least romance plots.

@@baguettegott3409 As noesun said. It's basically boys pulling girls' pigtails because they're too imature to say they like them.

he mispronounced it though. which invalidates his whole argument

@@mycophobia I did consider mentioning that I've never once heard it pronounced like that.

I've gone my whole life not understanding what short selling is and just resigned to thinking of it as "shady thing stock people do". This is the explanation I needed.

Thank you. Im- as the apes say- incredibly fucking smooth brained

Good explanation. What would make it complete is to explain why the owner of the stock would lend it out. In your example, the lender lost $700 in stock value. Because the lender did not possess the shares, they could not sell while the shares were losing value. Because of this risk of loss, the lender will demand to be paid fees to compensate. In the movie "The Big Short," these fees are why Burry and all the other short sellers are panicking at the climax of the movie. The fees are eating away at their portfolios, and there is no sign that any of the securities they are shorting will drop in price in time before they go broke.

also explains why those companies collapsed during the GME short. if they borrowed millions of shares at 5 bucks a pop, but then had to pay back 500 bucks per share, they'd immediately collapse. shorts seem like the surest thing if you know of the impending doom of a company, but if something like GME happens, you can lose infinite money. it's insane.

​@@JohnnyAdroitAs an addition to this, one of the main reasons why they lend their stock is that the holder has a longer timeframe. If you're holding an investment for 5 years, how do you make money in the short term? You could wait and just receive dividends (though many companies do not give dividends and instead spend that money growing). But what if someone comes by and offers you money to borrow your stock for a month? You were holding for 5 years, so you aren't affected by a small monthly dip. Though there is an issue if the stock plummets, that is pretty unlikely.

Yeah, the most insidious conspiracies are ones that have some individual elements that aren't wrong. "Wall Street is super greedy and there's not enough regulation" is just demonstrably true. But then it uses those elements to lead to foolish conclusions, like the oddness of "So hold onto these Gamestop stocks and eventually it will lead to unlimited profit" Good on you for getting out.

Good luck to you!

It makes me very happy to see this comment, hope you can spread the word and good luck!

That’s really cool of you for bothering to listen, dude. It can be really difficult to bother giving consideration to opposing viewpoints sometimes, I know I have trouble with it.

especially when they’re presented as flatly as this was

Another commenter I read said something like "They forgot that games are designed to be winnable" that's really the point missed by these people. The stock market is a gamble, but it's not a game in the sense that there will be a designated winner, or that you can simply brute force your way to it. You can beat an MMO if given enough time, but even if you sink your entire net worth into stocks there's zero guarantee you'll make any profit on it.

Also, something I don't see pointed out often enough: do they think other people don't also grind away at things? Do they not think of football players spending hours in the gym and practice field, artists practicing character studies, writers churning out chapter after chapter... at all? And the interesting thing is all the other people are grinding away to *improve* - they do it to practice, to explore new things, and train their real-life skills. But grinding a game is by nature repetitive and not improving anything but a number on a screen. If anything, video game players should be the *worst* group for grinding away at a real-life goal.

The grind concept goes back before video games. It was used most commonly in the ghetto.

​@@trouty606That's literally not how MMOs work though. Beating an MMO is already a dubious concept as is but even given infinite time you're not going to beat the endgame using time alone. If you're simply worse than your opponents you lose whilst they win.

the sadder thing is, they keep bragging about how they keep grinding no matter what just for trivial gains. which is, you know, a behavior that a lot of games exploit for profit. like you just admitted to have the mentality that Genshin Impact uses as their main source of revenue. don't brag about it too hard.

And we got to watch the Dan Train cause total carnage as it plowed through NFTs, a bad crypto video game cosplaying as the Matrix, and ghost-written audiobook grifts along the way! I'm pleased Mr Olson has set himself up in such a socially responsible yet entertainingly informative niche. :)

dont forget the flat earth video@@sixstringedthing

And I'm absolutely here for it. Pipe dream is a partnership with either the Green brothers, Kyle Hill, or both.

I'm hungry, what should I eat?

No. He pretty chalked the whole thing up to chance & pretends that wallstreet bets didnt know exactly what they were doing.

The biggest sign of that is that, in the past two days, no post on r/gme (the subreddit dedicated to the gamestop stocks apes) ever broke the 300 upvotes threshold. But the top posts of all time are in the tens, the dozens of thousands upvotes. The movement IS losing members, but the one that remain are the ever more fanatical.

​@@arthenosthefirst8176It's interesting how the trajectory of online cults is almost the reverse of traditional, in person ones. IRL cults have to start small and slowly expand, growing more or less on a linear trajectory until they collapse or get shut down. Online cults, on the other hand, tend to balloon in size very quickly, and then slowly haemorrhage members as the cult passes through more and more self-selection filters and the less radical, less fanatical members get filtered out. QAnon went the same way, they exploded onto the scene very quickly, ballooned in size between 2017-2020, and have been losing steam and members since the election.

There is still a community loss, just not one as all encompassing as a in person cult. But for members who feel they have no future, no life, no friends without WSB, it can be difficult to leave. And those who leave have to live with a certain emptiness until they create new meanings and passions

The apes and GME have been banned from wsb a long time ago. They congregate in superstonk and other GME centric subs.

yeah, only the people who become figureheads and show their face or use their voice on videos and such are the ones who have a hard time getting out. but as we see from the flat earth video, a lot of the cult members just jump ship to another cult/conspiracy theory.

Considering these are people who are into Alternative Reality Games and deep diving into game lore, see Five Nights at Freddy's, this is pretty normal.

@@ronnickels5193 there a difference between analysing fiction for figure out lore and whatnot and analysing belt buckles for financial advice

​@@ronnickels5193 yeah, but FNAF is MEANT to be pried open and scraped for clues. These are _kid's books _

​@@ronnickels5193 yeah, but diving into FNAF is the point. It is designed to have lore to be examined. Not so here.

Day one of 'owning the economy' they would buy slaves and pay them nothing

I mean, let's be honest... you guys wanted everyone fired and forced to stay home for years. Until whenever Fauci said it was okay to work and earn a living again to feed your family. The left has 0 principles they stand by when the chips are down

Everyone is just upset they aren't wearing it. Some just hide it better than others...

​@@esmeecampbell7396Speak for yourself. Plenty of us dream of a world with no boots at all

​@@esmeecampbell7396plenty of people do not want to be the ones wearing the boot, but would rather the boot didn't exist. If you think everyone wants to wear the boot, that says more about you.

Truer words are seldom spoken.

I'm imagining a scenario where Citadel finds out that theyre up against RuneScape players and everybody in the office freaks out and starts sweating, frantically making calls

Tbh I read that as self depreciation rather than a brag.

​@@breadguy325 Citadel is just the zezima bro

At least it was not a Eve Online player. (speaking as one who won Eve years ago, we be a crazy messed up bunch)

How exactly was his theory about GameStop being undervalued wrong? There's a difference between that being true, and GameStop now being overvalued. (I do get what you mean by the plan being right without his work, because the apes basically did the work, especially in pushing it to insane levels.)

@@luv4hutch His theory was basically GS is undervalued because GS always gets a revenue bump on console generations, and people are too pessimistic about physical media. The pandemic put that theory to an end. Without the pandemic, it may have proven to be right or wrong. But in our reality, the pandemic ensured that there was no GS bump because of next-gen consoles. His theory about the future was wrong. GS did in fact go up in price, but for *none* of the reasons he said it would. He got the right answer, but used the wrong reasoning.

Saying "he was wrong because COVID" is a mere technicality. His theory was actually pretty sound, especially because I personally prefer physical media, for example. And there was great reason to think there would be a bump, even WITH COVID, because the trend was very strong and reasonable. (How were we to know that corporate America didn't upgrade the supply chain for decades and just let it rot?) Especially because things that year were only as bad as they were because of Trump. A Hillary presidency would've been very different. Let's also not forget that he only predicted a very modest bump, which did fit the true value, not the absurd runup, which he, like you said, had nothing to do with. Or how it's overvalued despite being roughly that same price due to a split-adjustment. So, I would basically say he was right overall, but that he of course got distorted to bejeezus and back by the apes. None of that is his fault. Dan certainly has it right in saying that "fundamentals" and "market value" don't matter as much, as invariably correct, as people like to pretend. After all, you can have a very valid analysis saying Disney is overvalued, and an analysis just as valid saying it's undervalued. "Figures lie, liars figure," after all. @@GeneralBolas

​@@luv4hutchI think you should reread the OP

supply chain issues were very, very, very well known before the pandemic, this wasn't some sort of open secret. It wasn't on the front page of reddit, but if you worked for a company that made anything, or were INVESTING in a company that made or sold anything, then it was something you knew. That's the basis of due-diligence, and he was missing a good chunk @@luv4hutch

Yes theses kind of theories scratch an itch ! There are multiple work of arts that play with this notion and invite the user to engage with theory crafting. Like the Bloodborne or Dark Souls game, it feels so good to understand something vaguely hinted in the game. But these are works of fictions ! Made by real people who left holes in there stories for interpretation !

Legit kind of what I was thinking. I was present in the fandom for the tail-end of the Gravity Falls run, just before the final episodes were getting released, and I had a lot of fun with the theorizing. It was all the same, picking the tiny clips of the show apart for the most miniscule of clues, symbols, turns of phrase. I was watching these segments and I really thought, "wow, maybe these people just really need to get intensely into online fandom". It scratches the same itch, without the disastrous stakes

Literal kids books...

@@agnieszkasalach4395 honestly yeah. The current version of that is definitely Deltarune, it’s gotten to the point where someone can mention how “Spamton’s a cat” and everyone just nods in agreement like “well yeah we know but what about it?” Plus instead of waiting for a mythical MOAS, you’re just waiting for yknow The next part of a game to come out.

This particular one was actually the other way around - it was started off by people well aware that it was about making money, then when Melvin Capital imploded it got dressed up as righteous vengeance against Wall Street with a side order of unimaginable wealth, both of which naturally got exaggerated further and further as the group think set in.

"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss." The overwhelming majority of revolutionary movements turn into little more than a changing of the guard, often with a significant accompanying downturn. It's the same shit that happened in russia in 1918, 1990, and 1999.

It's also funny to accuse the establishment of terrorism while (ineffectually) relishing the role of...being a terrorist.

All animals are equal but some are more equal

@@asteroidrules just posted a laughably gross but all too common oversimplification of history. It's not insightful; it's just vapid.

Where does he say that? I missed it

@@Chimera-man-man 2:22:30 is best timestamp. You can search the transcript found in the description for any specific term or word.

@@dominictemple thank you

bro didn't even pronounce it right i'm dead LMFAO

Ooooh, that's what he was saying! I went back like 4 times and I still had no idea.

A better term for most apes would be wife finding money

Same here

Same here. I've memorized the entirety of 'The Nostalgia Critic and The Wall'

Oh man same though.

Gotta watch them on 2x speed. Maybe ChatGPT v6 can summarize videos in the future.

Aren't you ripped out of the doziness when the clips of other people play?

What do they even mean by wife changing money?

​@@lighthouse6543Because their relationships with their wives become so strained after being caught spending all their money in this weird cult, they are basically saying that when MOASS finally 'hits' and they get rich, they will divorce them and 'change wives'.

​@@lighthouse6543Enough money for the wife to forgive and admire them or enough to find a new wife

​@@lighthouse6543I assume they'll marry someone better looking if they get really rich

@@lighthouse6543 I suppose they think that once they get their big bucks, they'll be able to trade in the old wife for a hot new gold digger wife

Did you get your car back?

What the fuck man

How *dare* you just drop that into the comments and peace out without elaboration? :P

Holy shit Years later, you finally get an answer as to the utter insanity of that day

wtf??? wow.. tell us more.

If you were 22 at the time of GME at peak, that means you're still pretty young in the grand scheme of things. You're at the right time of your life to really be understanding those aspects of your personality and getting that introspection, so honestly sounds like you're doing fine. Took a couple hundred bucks loss to learn a lesson that clearly a lot of people never learned and only kept on digging themselves in deeper. I think that's what really shows you'll be someone who actually learns and grows and understands their personal flaws and works to overcome them, opposed to apes who just bunker down and refuse to accept reality. It takes more strength to admit when you're wrong or beaten and pick yourself up and learn than it does to refuse to accept it.

Good on you for knowing and seeing your personal pitfals. Keep with the introspection and willingness to be wrong and you'll go far.

Those are personality flaws, just realize they're pretty much 100% universal to humans. The addictiveness thing is on a spectrum so that's good to keep an eye on, but everyone's got weak spots to exploit, can be people pleasing, guilt, brain freeze during stress etc etc. When I was 21 I put $600 into some pyramide scheme "stocks" because the most stereotypical sleazy sales guy pitched it to me and some friends for like two hours. (I didn't know what pyramide schemes were back then... I knew I didn't feel like recruiting people to it however, but then he presented this wonderful opportunity to get in on their "stocks", and it seemed like, if there's a 1/100 chance it's not bull I should take it... lol). I'm now 41 and have managed to tie my shoes daily and not join any cults or get majorly scammed since. Can still happen, but, have hope 🙂

You learned, and admitted your faults and mistakes. Im proud of you, keep on doing it and you’ll be less likely to fall for this stuff in the future

At least you learned.

Huh? I don't get it.

@@stuflames4769 I'm pretty sure that's a hilarious joke, but I physically cannot stop myself from explaining it's because of the person saying "to an autist all words have meaning, every single one"

@@jamesnurgle6368 😜

When I got diagnosed with autism I instantly understood this video in it’s entirety

​@@fart63you forgot to add that you understood this video in its entirety WITHOUT EVEN WATCHING IT! That's super important, because we all know that autism gives you superpowers. You become forspoken, clairvoyant, far seeing even. Although your autism can't make you fly because that would just be ridiculous... 😅 (/s for those who have trouble parsing these kinds of comments. I'm being very silly and unserious, outright stupid some people might say.)

Would be HILARIOUS if anyone normal reading this took a look at Jon Stewart interviewing Jim Cokerat. Or S1E5 from The Problem.

​@@GSDKXVyou keep posting this, what do you expect people will get from that interview that relates to the video? It's not a secret that wall street is full of greedy assholes and idiots like Cramer, it doesn't mean everyone who thinks they're fighting against them is right

Calling Qanon secular is... quite funny

@@damien678hes never rly done a vid on qanon, just mentioned it adjacent to other topics. but also qanon being described as secular doesnt seem totally ridiculous to me, i do think particularly at its inception it was more of a secular conspiracy theory and then eventually satan became an intrinsic part of it

@@vlad5042 the flat earth video wasn't really about flat earth, it was an essay/documentary on qanons, the flat earth stuff was just a segway/intro.

Apes often use art of the rapture in their moass memes. They are somewhat self aware about it

@@YOSSARIAN313 literally never happens 🤡 you’re not even good at spreading misinformation

@@GSDKXV man so much coping and seething from you in this comment section

@@YOSSARIAN313 Not. A. Cult.

@@GSDKXV citadel is fine. They are still incomprehensibly wealthy

I was literally just thinking the same thing, I'm so glad I'm not alone. I have watched this video dozens and dozens of times. I can speak his words along with him now. There's just something really comforting/satisfying about it.

Y’all are WEIRD AF Anyway DRS GME

Legit came to drop a comment that I'm on my like 8th watch 😂 I already watched this twice last week, it's just so well-done and fascinating. Cheers fellow serial-watcher, enjoy your upcoming viewings!

Regardless of what he's talking about Dan is just a comfy looking and sounding guy. I think that is it part of it.

Same! This video is on my list of many of Dan's vids that I comfort-rewatch. I think at least partly it's because of how hilarious I find his deadpan, straight-faced sense of humor. :)

Because they're already in the car and are headed towards a wall. There's a saying. If you're falling, you may as well try to fly; you've got nothing to lose. The problem is that the delusion they've picked is one where, in order for the ground to open up, they *must* drive *faster* towards that wall. And that they must convince others to start doing the same.

@iuffcgpuu I don't think you can make sense of a non-nonsensical comment by breaking it down. Whatever sense you do find by doing so is coincidental. In actuality, it's 100% delusion.

I think another aspect is that Apes think they are the protagonists of reality, and our society has brought them up largely fostering that. Everyone's the hero of their own story, they just take it to an uncommon but not unprecedented extreme. See also "Every other generation of human beings that has ever lived has died, but we will not; Jesus is coming back to get us before we die, because we are the most special people that have ever lived."

If they love a shitty book...

I can sorta see where that sentiment could arise from as a frustation with society's general refusion to be even the least bit accessible to autistic people you just completely reject neurotypical ideas of communication and assert your own as correct. Basically getting frustrated because one too many English teachers insisted that the curtains being blue has an obvious meaning without ever explaining the concept of a metaphor.

A lot of these people seem incredibly self-centered. I'm guessing that person thought all other autistic people think exactly like them without checking. A community that obsessed with secret meanings would probably draw in people who like that kind of thing.

Yep, when I saw that I had to pause the video to process just how wrong they were

@@henryokeeffe5835 I think what they meant is that autistic people sometimes have trouble expressing themselves, or are fully nonverbal, and these autistic people rely on more indirect ways of communicating. Like, instead of saying "I love you," I'll go up to someone and lean against them until they take the hint. But yeah, this person seems to be projecting their personal experiences.

​@@koboldcatgirl Nah. That fella straight up said that us autistic peeps are masters of code. We. We really arent. I had to teach myself to understand sarcasm and I still need to ask if someone made a joke or not. Though I can concur we have our own ways of communicating, code is NOT one of them

I want to make sure I'm understanding, they basically heard "more than 50% voting shares present for this vote" and thought/dreamed it meant "there's more than all possible voting shares present"?

@@SashaMinkh Not only that, but a few seconds later they had convinced themselves that they had LITERALLY heard the words "more than issued voting".

That one hurt. "Sweet summer children, WHERE DID YOU THINK THE WORD MAJORITY CAME FROM IN THIS CONVERSATION IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE IT WAS THE WORD USED!!!"

Imagine, being so mentally NPC that even your magical thinking is about mundane and boring things, which can lead to contrived and boring "end of the world as we know it" result. World of Bobby only he dreams about stonks.

Not as bad as some of the other stuff, like the recent BBBY shares being cancelled post-bankruptcy has apes like "It says share CANCELLATION, not DELETION, that's different somehow!"

Predictive timing & ordering. The problem with the Simian idea is that they're only operating with maybe a screw.

It is so confusing that it has retroactively make me question if I understand what a heat lamp is. (My native language isn't english so that just makes things harder)

​@@misteraskman3668if it helps, english is my native language and its like... *technically* accurate but just a bad analogy. (if it helps, heat lamps are specialty lamps which give off heat, but in my experience tend to be more associated with animal husbandry over food, as foods kept under a heat lamp tend to be greasy, unhealthy, old, or from a source you shouldnt trust with that kind of food, like a gas station. Seems kinda apt, but not intentionally lol)

Through the tears really. It’s genuinely the Greek tragedy of our modern times. I may say, a tiny violin is in order.

Um, yeah, definetily me laughing, I doubled my money and sold. Why wouldnt I laugh?

@@sevent1116 This is my favorite part of crypto and apes. Gamblers thinking we're going to stop laughing at them because they won. No shit, sometimes the roulette wheel does in fact land on your number. You're still either a moron or an addict for playing, just like the ones who lost, and chances are you're going to gamble those gains away later, because you're a moron or an addict.

@@sevent1116 If you sold, you’re not the one this is about, paper hands.

@@sevent1116 you should laugh. Congrats on getting paid. This video isn't about those that use the stock market normally.

They literally described the opposite of autism.

As someone who is also on the spectrum, part of me really doubts the person who made that post is actually autistic; they have clearly shown themselves to have a very poor understanding of what ASD even is and the effects it has on people. Anyone with any familiarity with the autistic experience would know that's not how it works. It's either they are intentionally lying about ASD, or they're pretending to have a mental disorder they don't even understand (or deluded themselves into thinking they have it when they don't).

@@Pickle_Candy exactly. the idea that people who have a communication disability would love speaking in codes is absolutely wild to me.

This 100%. I like to watch Dan Olson’s stuff in the background but that quote is so unsettling and cringy that I have to skip through it. I’m on the spectrum too; we don’t get a +50 to our stenography skill. Instead we get a -50 to our social skills and view the basic social comprehension we manage to occasionally do like it’s DaVinci Code levels of complex subtleties.

@@BestBetterBestest Right? Like, if you are not 100% direct with me about the message you are trying to get across, chances are I will miss it. I've had to train myself to catch a lot of the subtleties and nuisances of social interactions, and even then there's so much I still don't understand and what little I do understand I'm constantly doubting myself on. To see someone take my disability and to essentially say that it actually gives them an heightened ability to read between the lines is frankly rather insulting. Nothing in this video pissed me off more than that one comment.

The movie doesn't even leave it to subtext; Brad Pitts rant about rising suicide rates coinciding with major recessions is what shuts those two mini-Hedge Fund dudes up when they wanted to celebrate the deal of their lives. The only guy who isn't emotionally affected by it all is Ryan Goslings character, and that guy was framed as a massive dick from the beginning.

@@Donnerbalken28 and yet, Ryan Gosling is hot and when he is emotinally disaffected it looks Cool and Powerful, the message is lost in that. He still Wins, if only for a while. Apes want to Win, they dont want things to be good.

Most conspiratorially minded individuals also have no media literacy, see The Matrix, American Psycho and obviously The Big Short. The original Matrix movies are used by far right misogynists who want to reinstate the patriarchy and repeal queer rights for LGBTQIA+ communities when the movies themselves were written by trans-women as a allogory for gender exploration and 'waking up' from the matrix of binary gender expression and heteronormativity, instead choosing to live in a shitty real world as yourself where the world itself is hostile and alien (eg homophobia and transphobia), rather than a fake world where you pretend to be okay with existing as a cog without identity (eg pretending to be straight or gender conforming). American Psycho is used as a ideal to aspire too, where Patrick Bateman is potrayed as a idol, when the movie was a critique on the overly macho male fantasy of financial, sexual and violent freedom, how Patrick Bateman was really a pathetic loser poser, where his 'murders' were most likely made up in his head out of frustration and inferiority, where the man literally enters a dick measuring contest using the font, cardstock and colour of buisness cards, the cards themselves being utterly worthless pieces of paper and cardboared yet Patrick cares so much about literal paper that he begins to shake and go crazy, illustrating the fragile masculinity and utter impotency of men like Patrick, grandstanding, macho, violent and sexual men, being utterly useless and incapable of doing anything (aside from picking on the weak and underprivileged who cannot and will not be defended by the system, people like the homeless man and dog, the 2 struggling sex workers, the only truly confirmed kills), and the writer of the book the movie was based on is literally a gay man, the antithesis of the 'macho' male Patrick Bateman that this new generation of 'Sigma' men look up to. I haven't watched the Big Short like the other 2, but I have seen the clip your talking about, and the point is literally yelled at the viewer, 'The system sucks! People die! Stop being so self centered and actually look around yourself!'. Honestly conservatives have like 0 brain cells in the literacy department, they hear whatever they want to hear and see what the want to see and thats it.

This reminds me of a joke from Clone High: "I saw the first two thirds of the MC Hammer 'Behind the Music', and if there's one thing I learned, it's that the money never runs out!"

Another irony is that apes say they HATE shorts. But of course they dont really, they only hate it when it affects their money. They were 100% fine with the people who shorted the banks in the movie.

Literally same. Had xx shares and was convinced I had basically lost that money

Honest question, What information did this video give you as to why the stock went back to 52?

​​@@Andum48 DFV tweeted, that's it

@@fakenamerealchungus9851 I appreciate the response, doesn't explain the 150% move before he tweeted. Anyway it's still good to know the narrative being thrown around.

Good for you! I'm sure those still holding will get those phone book numbers (lol) but don't let the fomo fool ya. You did good. Gz

I thought it was called "Going public".

Never forget: Mitt Romney killed toys r us.

Its the entire plot of "the hudsucker proxy". Good movie.

...But i also dont understand how shorting a stock is designed to manipulate the price down...

@@emptiester yeah they don't know how shorts work. I also don't know how shorts work. As a result I own no stock in any company. There are two kinds of people.

They were scouring literal children's books for clues, and you have unhinged lunatics like Kais who will harass and stalk employees with no qualms. Keith would've had a lot of power with the memestock cults, but no privacy, and he would be forced to have some measure of responsibility for the cult members who might do something criminal

Well a big part of that is, because of the Congressional inquiries in March, he basically had to gag himself (I'm guessing per lawyer's advice) as he was being investigated in breaking some finance laws of his own. But yeah, I don't think Keith ever wanted to do anything but make some dosh, maybe with some other funny folks on the internet if they bought in with him.

It’s rare for someone who’s not a convert to get elected. Typically, it’s someone with prior cult experience forcing themselves into the role. I can’t think of a single case of a 3rd party except Haile Selassie and he had prior political incentives to sorta play along.

​@@CraigKeidelI don't think he really broke any laws is the thing. He made a bet. Get wealthy as fuck off of it but it was on the back of Apes doing.... Ape things. When he realized what was going on he peaced out quick like.

Man saw a 20+ year prison sentence if he went down that road, and chose to avoid it.

That bit actually made a lot of sense to me. Look up "autism high masking". From google: "High-masking Autistic people possess an exceptional ability to observe and analyze social cues, meticulously studying how people move, talk, and interact. It's as if we have taken on the role of social detectives, mastering the art of fitting in." So yes, it can be harder, that's why many of us are conditioned to try so hard to pay extra attention to things, otherwise we can't fit in, and we're very aware of that. So that's how we see things that neurotypical (NT) people miss. As a high masking person, I'm looking at everything through a microscope. Basically, human behaviour is a hyper fixation. Ofc we still miss a LOT that NTs pick up automatically, but that's the point: It's not automatic to us, so we have to work harder to manually notice things.

Yeah! Well, mostly yes. I vaguely recall some anecdote about autistics and codebreaking during a world war. Understanding _people_ is right out, but interpreting/extrapolating a message (written/drawn/recorded?) _might_ be a real thing that could happen. Regardless, if I were involved in their community the constant attempts to 'change reality using the words meant to describe it'* would make my autism go nuclear. *Not sure how to accurately phrase this concept, but it's made my skin crawl since I was a child.

@@Jikkuryuu That's a pretty good way to phrase it tbh. Paints a suitably scary picture of the ramifications of groups like this.

there's a real phenomenon about autistic ppl and symbology, we love finding abstract ways to communicate ig, but thats typically the sort of thing u funnel into an artistic pursuit or a study of actual cryptography instead of reddit numerology

@@ckorp666Yeah, exactly. The “autism superpower” thing is getting out of hand.

AMC was always trash to anyone that can read a balance sheet. Only GameStops ceo and board continue to BUY into their company, unlike that trash popcorn stock where board members and the CEO SOLD. Ryan Cohen refuses to take a salary out of a genuine commitment to grow the business instead of trying to fleece its investors.

​@@GSDKXVGameStop has long since lost to Steam and Valve.

Glad you got out, hope you didn’t lose any money!

Did anything in particular happen?

@@blakksheep736 google “Keith Gills”

​​@@blakksheep736RoaringKitty posted some cryptic messages on his socials so GameStop's stock price went up. Although, no-one knows whether it was actually him or whether his account was hacked. Also, he was the guy who originally pumped the stock back in 2021.

Nowadays I'm not surprised by anything, young people are in depressing positions at an era where everything's rapidly changing. Lots of people are gonna do crazy things...

It's not? Damn

@@zaidlacksalastname4905 spoilers for two hours in, the phrase "wife changing money" is real and refers to how much they resent their spouses, often lying or obfuscating what their investment actually is worth and how much of the shared account they threw away. it's hard to tell, but either the phrase implies that the money will change their spouse's mind, or it will allow them to divorce their current spouse and marry a trophy wife

I held on to my faith in humanity for 2h and told myself I must be mishearing him. G u e s s n o t.

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To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer's head. There's also Rick's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realise that they're not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Rick & Morty truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humour in Rick's existential catchphrase "Wubba Lubba Dub Dub," which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev's Russian epic Fathers and Sons. I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Dan Harmon's genius wit unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools.. how I pity them. 😂 And yes, by the way, i DO have a Rick & Morty tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid 😎

@@Whitecroc uh huh

@@JaydonTobler (It's a copypasta meme! Don't worry.)

@@Whitecroc fhew, I had a feeling because I wondered how someone with these opinions would have even found this video lol

Rick and Morty had an episode where they resolved the plot by making money worthless, but I don't think that was even in the meme displayed in this vid!

I love how it builds a little story, he starts off saying theres news of something big coming and shows the bed bath and beyond price. It ends with him looking out of his window and getting a card saying,”sorry for the BBBankruptcy”, I realized this could have a double meaning. Sorry for the bankruptcy of bed bath and beyond and the headband dan’s bankruptcy. Looking out of his pricy hotel room window, wondering what happens next. Stuff like this makes the documentary amazing each watch

Wait a minute...is Headband Dan the reincarnation of Hat Dan, the Dan with a Hat???

He either got removed or deleted everything

@@overestimatedforesight rip

@@mycophobia They're still around, they just delete some of their comments every once in a while. We'll probably notice some reply from them in the coming days when they try to push DRS again

​@@overestimatedforesighthe deletes his comments when he gets roasted

@@mycophobia He's back after the latest pump and dump.

Not to mention they operate in an environment designed for them to succeed.

My first thought was "Someone should tell them there's no respawning when their life savings hit zero."

@@vaiyt So if the stock market isn’t designed for people to succeed, why invest?

@@GSDKXVI’m no financial expert, but I think it’s because of the chance you could succeed, like gambling, except you can somewhat predict what your best bet is going to be.

@@GSDKXV Insofar as the stock market is supposed to follow the general trend of growth in a market, it is in fact 'designed' for people to succeed. With a reasonable strategy and good knowledge, you can perform just as well as or considerably better than the market. The apes... do not have a reasonable strategy or good knowledge.

I dabbled with the GME shit but hadn’t actually heard that phrase until this video. Its disgusting, an absolutely repulsive thing to say and repeat as a “meme”

Technically, having no money can also be "wife changing money". Especially if they have to find out themselves after the fact.

I never heard that before so for a moment my brain short-circuited when he said it, it feels so unreal people actually use that in real conversations, even online.

@@Moonhermit- And given how conspiracy minded people often are or end up being divorcees, it's got a strong case for that interpretation.

@@aidanm8009100%

This is your lucky day kid, I wanna buy that trout for $Infinity.99

@@placeholderdoe you know i was gonna turn it down, but the .99 just convinced me. deal.

If they cant pay then wouldn't they just... go bankrupt? And if they do, shareholders are the last ones who would be made whole from their assets. Of course, if moass weren't made up nonsense, if the global economy were at risk, wouldn't the US govt just force GameStop into bankruptcy? I mean, the US overthrew a country on behalf of a fruit company's profits, so... ​@@GSDKXV

​@@GSDKXVwhat's more likely? The people shorting gme are going to pay 10 million a share, or they will just walk away from their position and cut their losses?

@@placeholderdoe Don't listen to them, I must have that clay trout for $Infinity+1

We're all waiting for the biggest crossover episode in history: the Andrew Callahan/Channel 5 interview of that guy who wrote the "DRS" banger where he freestyles live for everyone.

And its not even _good_ rap.

At least the rhymes for the NFT/Crypto raps that Dan used in his Line Goes Up video were pretty good. Cringe, but still showing an almost Weird Al Yankovic kind of craftsmanship and talent

It seems like every inherently cringe thing that comes up in culture inspires a whole genre of hip-hop dedicated to it. For instance, all of the MAGA rappers.

Rapping takes no practice and cobbling a beat together is trivial.