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Maybe Reddit as a whole, but what are your thoughts on WallStreetBets? It seems that WSB has all of the elements of a counterculture, although maybe diluted after the wide spread GME interest.


WSB is a shade of its former self now due to the onslaught of new members


Has a "what was WSB before the eternal September" escape hatch subreddit popped up yet?


Yes, /r/wallstreetbetsogs.


Check out /r/wallstreetbetsogs. It's an attempt to bring back the old school WSB.


I tried it out for a few days. It's also nowhere near the old WSB.


I think the thing that is/was countercultural were the actions taken by WallStreetBets, not the site itself.


Yeah because WSB uses another language that many do not know, or care to know.


I’m really not sure “diamond hands” and “retard” count so much as another language. I think the big gap between there and other places on the same subject is on “gambling logic”, not right or wrong, I’ve seen more people there admit that than “Wallstreet Types” who would be trillionaires if they actually knew how to win.


Fair. But there is also some assumed knowledge of what futures and puts are, no?


WSB seems like the definition of a smart hedge fund that managed to manipulate the market transparently. Everything there reeks of fake, manufactured and engineered "counter" culture




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