This is Financial Advice

Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended as a thorough, sober critique of meme-stock culture and a good starting point whenever GameStop news appears.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Folding Ideas

Topic

gamestop meme stock culture

Format

documentary

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

9

HN mentions in dataset

12

Recommendation years in dataset

2023–2026

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• Dan Olson covers NFTs very solidly in "Decentraland is a dead mall" ( [LINK] ) and "Line Goes Up" ( [LINK] ). Both as well worth watching. Since this is also about GameStop specifically, his "This is financial advice" video addresses the GameStop cult, and …

• The newfound hype around DRS arises as a meme directly out of the Gamestop crankfest/fever-dream. It is harmless, but also meaningless; equities are not any more "yours" because of undertaking the timewaster of DRS and the concept is in current discourse as a shibboleth for …

• > If that is the case half of the superstonks subreddit would have to be charged. You could make a compelling argument that they should be. Superstonks doesn't just post their positions. They, too, try to manipulate the market by hyping up GME. I would …