https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjpx8w/how-chaotic-redditors-made-gamestop-stock-skyrocket-and-made-short-sellers-cry > GameStop is a company on the brink. In August 2020, its stock was in the toilet and trading at around $4 a share. Today, the stock is worth ten times that amount. Much of that rise occurred last week. Why? A subreddit that describes itself as ‘4chan with a Bloomberg terminal' is buying shares to drive up the price. > The story of GameStop stock, which uses the ticker "GME," has gone viral on Reddit and TikTok and in various finance communities. This is for good reason: The story is crazy, and lots of Redditors just got rich at the expense of institutional investors who had been betting on the company to fail.