It is in a way amazing how much more crazy the 'we are going to beat the shortsellers by using reddit' memestocks have gotten.
E: this yt vid shows just how crazy one person got from the bed bath and beyond memestock stuff. It is really sad (and scary, this guys delusion was BBBY, but there are people who get similar delusions about other things or even people).
Bbby is dead. They were our customer, we lost hundreds of thousands, and are still in the process of fighting to get a fraction of it. But, there is still A BBBY company, but they are in Mexico. Might be a different company all together.
this company is dead dead dead and cut up for parts, most of which nobody would buy at any price. the brand and IP were sold to Overstock who have no liability in the BBBY ch 7.
between business decisions like that and their weird relationship with crypto, I’m expecting Overstock to be the next meme stock that does nothing but lose money (but you need to buy in now or you’ll be left behind when shorts close, check the DD, it’ll be the biggest transfer of wealth since Tyler Durden blew up all those IBM mainframes that one time)
I just got a 15% off coupon for them the other day. Someone is operating their website and keeping the name and spirit alive. It’s just a web retailer now, and I doubt it has any connection besides the name to the original company, but the way the coupon reads it’s like a “not dead yet” situation. This could be part of what’s giving some idiots hope.
my brain always tries to read BBBY as BBBlackberry because I still cannot conceptualize the mentality needed to not only get excited about Buy Buy Baby fucking Bed Bath & Beyond (I legitimately forgot which oversized waste of retail space these fuckers were obsessed with), but think that owning shares in it is an economy-shattering financial hack opposed only by the billionaires they claim to hate and yet cannot wait to become
Yeah called this dude out just the other day. Hes definitely a shill and his buddy wild gaselle is posting similar shit on another sub. All we can do is wait, all of the negativity is just that, negativity. If there weren’t so many ppl ready to crucify pulte and pp I might be nervous, but it’s insane how much hate they get. Very similar to DFV in his day.
this is what psychosis inflicted by capitalism sounds like, and I hope that one day we’re distant enough from the system that pushes folks into these thought patterns to prevent anyone else from being afflicted
in 2007, [BB&B] acquired Buy Buy Baby, a chain of baby supply stores founded by Feinstein's sons
I agree though. It's not hard to imagine a crowd of mostly millennial redditor men get nostalgic for companies like Gamestop, AMC, Blockbuster or Blackberry, but I didn't exactly imagine them being a demographic big into a big box furniture and interior decoration store. Ikea, maybe.
Liberalism failed to end history after all, so anticapitalism is popular again. You don't have to be a leftist or even have a coherent political worldview at all to resent the billionare caste. "It should have been me" is more than good enough for many.
right! like gamestop almost makes sense (til you get into the meme stock psychosis bits) — a bunch of gamers with zero experience with stocks buy GME because they want to save the company (somehow forgetting how consistently godawful gamestop was as a chain of sleazy gaming pawn shops) and end up in over their heads. but the waste of space retail stores you enter once when you first buy a house and/or buy a baby and never again?
“I’ll be the only good billionaire” is such a seductive fantasy for a certain personality type, and it’s impossible by definition — the only way you keep the billions is by being a lying, cheating leech on society. doing the right thing with the money implies giving up the vast majority of it, but somehow that never factors into the power fantasy for these types of folks
I didn’t exactly imagine them being a demographic big into a big box furniture and interior decoration store. Ikea, maybe.
Not even furniture, really. It's more like sheet sets, comforters, bed skirts, faddish kitchen utensils, small cheap appliances, towels, toothbrush racks, etc.
I expect a lot of BBBY nuts are the "mattress on the floor with no fitted sheet" type, but they probably spend money on desk/chair and living room media furniture.
I know it sounds like copium, but I wonder if this language of "the BBBY shares are worthless and cancelled and not coming back" is a roundabout way of saying "the original securities you bought are not coming back and are worth nothing; however, new securities can be awarded in their place, the value of which is to be determined".
He's being factually correct, which corresponds to the mountains of DD that have been done. Bed Bath and Beyond is no longer a company in the sense that it's branding belongs to Beyond/Overstock and any assets worth carrying over were turned into DK Butterfly, which is effectively just a core accounting department so far as we currently know. Of course, what isn't said is often the most important part of a conversation. While it's true BBBYQ shares were canceled, that's a different conversation than the issuance of new securities.
oh for fuck’s sake, these are both sitting at 33 points
I realised that meme stocks were on-topic here, but we hadn't posted any. The trouble is that the meme stock alternate universe is on so many layers of self-delusion that the lols are very high effort. This one is pretty straightforward though.