After a three-year hiatus following one of the most revolutionary stock market culture sweeps in recent memory, the standard-bearer of 2021ās GameStop surge, Keith āRoaring Kittyā Gill, has returned to social media.
As trading opened this morning, May 13, news of Gillās reemergence has caused GameStop stock ($GME) to surge upwards of 70 percent, at time of writing.
Roaring Kittyās return to social media was sparked late last night when he posted the well-known meme of a gamer sitting up in their chair with an arrow pointing forward. He later followed up this morning with another meme reel, capped off with a scene from X-Men Origins: Wolverine, in which Wolverine rises out of a submerged water tank and roars, fully signaling that heās back and out of his slumber.Ā He also posted a scene from Breaking Bad in which Walter White threateningly tells Saul Goodman “we’re done when I say we’re done.”
Although Gill has not made any official statement as of yet, and his YouTube channel hasn’t been uploaded to since 2021, heāll likely post some sort of update to his legion of fans within the coming days. The folks over on the WallStreetBets subredditāwho practically worshiped Gillās original analysis and amassed by the millions during the original GameStop popāhave already begun to slip back into their 2021 form.
Countless posts of traders āyoloingā their money on GameStop calls and purchases have begun to flood the subreddit again, just as they did three years ago. Rallying cries of āwe are so backā have driven the conversation over there en masse during todayās trading day.
![A screenshot of RoaringKitty Keith Gill on his livestream analyzing Gamestop stock](https://dotesports.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image-66.jpg?w=640)
In the down years since Gill took his hiatus from the internet, his storyāand the stories of countless winners and losers from the great GameStop saga of 2021āwas adapted into a feature film, Dumb Money, which starred Paul Dano as Gill alongside Pete Davidson, Shailene Woodley, Seth Rogen, and others. The film signaled a happy ending for Gill, who very happily sold a portion of his shares for millions of dollars and disappeared from the face of the Earth. But a return today could signal another chapter in the traderās story.
In addition to GameStop, other āmeme stocksā pioneered by internet communities, notably those on Reddit, including AMC ($AMC), Build-a-Bear Workshop ($BBW), BlackBerry ($BB), and others, were positively impacted by some traders back in 2021. AMCās stock has already risen 33 percent today as well, at time of writing.
Published: May 13, 2024 10:53 am