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by UncleMeat 1964 days ago
> Say 2 million of them bought some GME.

I think you are off by one or two orders of magnitude. I'd wager that a full half of the subscribers haven't even opened reddit in the last week.
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pcthrowaway 1964 days ago
Well considering it's currently at 7.8 million subscribers, and a week ago it was 2.1 million subscribers [1] I'd love to know how 4 million redditors subscribed without opening reddit

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20210125060034/https://www.reddi...

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UncleMeat 1963 days ago
Ok that's fair. New subs does mess with my estimate.

I'll still insist that only a small minority actually purchased GME.

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orestarod 1962 days ago
Don't know about that. I have never in my life bothered with stocks, and now I bought a share with all the spare money I could afford to lose. Me, a complete outsider. I can say at least 1M of the members hold stocks. And probably many more. I only got in the sub to watch how things unfold, intent on buying from the beginning. I don't think anyone would bother following WSB just for the giggles. Most of the posts are for the sole purpose of reaffirming our collective choice of holding GME.
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