Defiant amateur investors on Reddit say they are not backing down on their investments in GameStop — and even took out billboards in Times Square and across the country urging the faithful to continue holding the line.
“$GME GO BRRR,” blared a digital ad on the corner of 54th and Broadway in Manhattan. The ad ran for an hour on Friday and was a creation of digital billboard maker Matei Psatta.
The line refers to a popular internet meme that uses “Brrr” to signify the sound a money-printing machine makes. GME is the stock’s ticker symbol on the NY Stock Exchange.
Investors on Reddit have driven the price of GameStop — a dusty mall electronics retailer worth only $2.57 a share at one point last year — to astronomical highs in just days. From a value of just under $40 a share on Jan. 14, the stock skyrocketed to $483 a share. Though price swings have been extremely volatile, the stock has spent much of the last five days comfortably above $300.
nypost.com/2021/01/30/redditors-buy-times-square-billboard-as-gamestop-stock-saga-rages/
It's happening. At 3-4:30pm PST a plane will be flying a banner over San Francisco that says
"SUCK MY NUTS ROBINHOOD"
and I slid the pilot some extra $$ to circle right above RobinHood's HQ for a while. Go take some photos, I don't even live there 😂
Here’s the flight path: pic.twitter.com/iti3ik4or9
— Kaspar (@KasparCMS) January 29, 2021
When i die just put this video of a banner that says "SUCK MY NUTS ROBINHOOD" being flown over their HQ on my gravestone #SuckMyNutsRobinhood pic.twitter.com/oN82HI3NNp
— Kaspar (@KasparCMS) January 30, 2021
omg, there's now a billboard "$GME GO BRRR"t.co/VNj1UUUxWT
— annmarie hordern (@annmarie) January 30, 2021
h/t TeknaBuzz