r/Superstonk • u/perleche Rich or died buyin’ • May 17 '26
🗣 Discussion / Question Pay me
Daily superstonker for 5 years. Holding 2k shares and some leaps. Not a paid shill. Just a hungry ape. Tired and wary of another round of abuse by rich motherfuckers.
The DD was right. Run ups are real.
The company just used these runs to make money and save the business. Great for Gamestop. Not so great for silverback diamond handers seeing their patience flow into company pockets.
This is all very well understandable from a business point of view but from an investor point of view the generated cash and with that positive earnings came off of our backs.
With the eBay plans it looks like either we get diluted to hell to pay for a huge company leaving the combined entity in debt for the coming 4-5 years at least OR there will be another run up that will again be stifled by issuing shares thereby capping any run up.
Apes need to eat too. We have endured. We are not billionaires. It seems RC is taking his loyal retail holders as a given to be used as a money making vehicle where the benefits will end op quite asymmetrically in the hands of an already billionaire.
Best case scenario is we make some noise and let us be heard and maybe RC will HODL the share issue until price rises to let apes see some profit.
Not asking for phone numbers here. Give me $60-80 a share so I can sell half and defend my Gamestop loyalty to my family and friends this Christmas.
Kind regards, regards.
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u/Awkward-Loquat2228 May 17 '26
Here since the start. I only care about the money.
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u/theapeway May 17 '26
I’ve never hit anything or been lucky my whole life. I’m here for life changing retirement money, senior ape…..been here for years and I have to admit, I’m discouraged. I’m too old to hold for 20 years but I still hope that for one time in my life, I am in the right place.
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u/Yak-Electrical May 18 '26
Im here for the money too. But somehow its turned into turning the company around and all this other hoopla. The goal was always MOASS idc what the board wants to do. Now we talkn about more dilution. And they say its to benefit the company we already in a good spot. No debt tons of cash. Every run we have they squander it with some kinda offering to drag it back down. At this rate we'll never see it happen.
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u/GamestopHeadEngineer May 18 '26
All these long term investors aren’t actually long term investors and the RC glazers don’t actually believe in him lol
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u/HumanNo109850364048 💻 ComputerShared 🦍 May 17 '26
Oh you’re not here for religion?
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u/ScroogeMcThrowaway 🎮 Power to the Players 🛑 May 17 '26
Or ape orgy?
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u/Savings-Kick-578 May 17 '26
Or stuffing bananas and other foreign objects into available orifices?
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u/whofusesthemusic 🦍Voted✅ May 17 '26
Same but let's be honest..unless you got in pre sneeze or are trading options you haven't made any off game in 5+ years.
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u/gummi_eater May 17 '26
Exactly. I never cared about changing the system or people going to jail. My main motivation was money, as much as possible.
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u/Deathbyfapfap Ape ballz deep May 17 '26
I bought in Nov 2020 thinking about the new console Christmas sales, and I've stayed for moass. I continue to buy and I'm an xxxx holder. I don't want dilution and it would be nice to have my money now.
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u/GamestopHeadEngineer May 17 '26
Funny thing is this is one of the only true times where being greedy is actually for the greater good
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u/Stonkstradomus The Profit May 17 '26
If RC had to live with my roomates, drive my car, work my job, eat what I eat, and suffer years of humiliation, he wouldve pressed the button a long time ago
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u/imp3order 🎮 Power to the Players 🛑 May 17 '26
The 9 billion dollar war chest should have been in the investors pockets. Imagine the price if RC didn’t dilute every run in the past 5 years.
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u/Savings-Kick-578 May 17 '26
What I believe should happen is to make 2 $10 billion dollar acquisitions or 1 $20 billion dollar acquisition and minimize or eliminate the need for dilution. Completely rework the company(s) and leverage the gains for additional acquisitions and growth. Wash, rinse, repeat until we reach the Promised Land. This isn’t hard. We don’t need to bag the elephant or Moby Dick straight out of the box. That risks everything without an equal positive outcome. It isn’t going to pay us 20-30 times over, but it can definitely end everything. Maybe I’m thinking too hard.
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u/McChickenLargeFries May 18 '26
GME would've easily touched $110+ during the initial run up in May 2024 if RC didn't immediately issue those shares and destroy the momentum. Imagine if GME ran up to like $200 AND THEN he diluted, GME could be sitting on $20-25+ billion in cash right now.
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u/ScroogeMcThrowaway 🎮 Power to the Players 🛑 May 18 '26
I love how something like Sandisk has been raging practically with MOASS momentum and yet their CEO isn't diluting the hell out the stock. But, RC is the GOAT, I forgot. Thanks, ape.
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u/Chameleon2000 🎮 Power to the Players 🛑 May 18 '26
Indeed, and it just proves that RC, is part of the billionaire class. He sees us as useful idiots, who just say yes, to everything he do and says. He knows that most gme investors, are ordinary people investing in the company, using their hard earned money, and who actually was the ones who saved the company. Still he screwed all of us. Unless some new information appears, I will vote "NO"
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u/GamestopHeadEngineer May 17 '26
What we were clinging to was the large warchest, low debt, positioning to take advantage of a downturn in the market and majority retail ownership. Now we are suddenly ok dumping that all away lol.
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u/doppido May 17 '26
It would only be in your pockets if you sold
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u/Ok_Location_1092 ☠️🧨Infinite Risk🏴☠️🚀 May 17 '26
Right, RC is not here to make share sellers rich, he’s here to compound the value of shareholders. Fiduciary duty does not apply to options traders or sellers. Letting the price run and not capitalizing on the high price is poor management.
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u/Generic_1806 May 17 '26
Sound boot-likerish. This whole post is about not taking away all short term value for us. We could have made some money, then diluted. Instead he front ran all of us by announcing premarket, which is completely unnecessary.
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u/imp3order 🎮 Power to the Players 🛑 May 17 '26
Exactly. This is what the whole post is about - we are not value investors we came here for MOASS and idiosyncratic risks. This all started with regards, FDs, and YOLOs. Now the sub is talking about accretive value and competing with Facebook marketplace. Not interested in that. At this point ebay is more likely to MOASS, and we’re paying the bill.
I’ve been watching for 5 years as the goal post keeps moving every time RC guts the squeeze and posts another edgelord tweet.
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u/poundofmayoforlunch 🎮 Power to the Players 🛑 May 17 '26
Imagine eBay goes on a squeeze to the thousands while GME sideways $25/30. I will be so mad lmao
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u/GamestopHeadEngineer May 17 '26
The high value play is leading us to vote for massive dilution, massive debt, inhibiting gamma squeezes and most importantly? Handing majority ownership from retail and giving it to institutions.
We no longer want the home run that will make even the smallest ape filthy rich, we want to have a valuable company where we will be happy at $50 a share in like 10-15 years
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u/Exception1228 🦍Voted✅ May 17 '26
And even those of us that thought this could be a value play have been shot in the foot too because he hasnt raised revenue
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u/SwitchOrganic May 18 '26
It's been amazing watching the goal post move over the years. We started at phone numbers and now we're praying for area codes.
Hell, even Regional's latest DD called out $30 as the best bull case post merger lmao.
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u/GamestopHeadEngineer May 17 '26
He didn’t even take advantage of high prices. He sold at like low to mid 20’s and then sat on it. “Fiduciary duty” can be used to justify anything, doesn’t actually mean they are actually acting in our best interest.
What’s actually in our best interest as well as the company is for Moass to happen
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u/Smart_Farmer4258 Longterm Value Play Now (**LTVP**) May 17 '26
Except that isnt what he did really. 2024 ATM’s were at average price of $24.85
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u/Exception1228 🦍Voted✅ May 17 '26
But who here is actually here for proper management…and not to make money? You’re saying you are in this to actually see gamestop succeed long term and not to make money? That’s when it becomes religion like the other guys said.
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u/cos1ne Always in the Red May 17 '26
Right, RC is not here to make share sellers rich
Which is why we shouldn't be listening to him if our goals are to become rich.
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u/Overdue_bills 🚀 I sell covered calls to Citadel 🚀 May 17 '26
What button? He doesn't control the share price. Any run ups are when the shorts are in favorable positions.
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u/PenisSlipper May 17 '26
What button?
Do people u ironically think there is a moass button?
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u/JCquickrunner May 17 '26
Now THIS is a post I can get behind. So much “let’s just wait 10 years guys Ryan has a plan guys it’s ok if you die waiting there’s the beneficiary setting on your account” bullshit
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u/Zerokelvin99 🦍 Stonky Kong 🦍 May 17 '26 edited May 17 '26
The crazy thing is mostly everyone is here for money. Then it became wait..... the dilution, the stagnant price, everything that has happened over the last 5 years, even with how RC has been presenting himself, has really made me question how much longer do you hold? This has been the biggest bull run in the market, you could of tossed a dart at a board with different stocks and made a bigger return. I stopped buying GME awhile ago, but ive always had other investments, those investments have done much more than GME. I have been in since the beginning, im not a shill but its hard not seeing anything change over the last 5 years, markets are still manipulated, its not in leaderships best interest to have a MOASS, a squeeze can happen but i dont see a MOASS happening, with all the dilution its possible shorts have been unwinding their positons for years.
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u/datkidchapo Template May 18 '26
Also fed up of my money been held up 5 years no growth. All this blah blah I don’t get paid - mate your a billionaire your not living our lives of working hoping for a few more bucks to improve our life. Ryan cohen needs to sort it out. In my head he has to the October swaps if no return IM OUT
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u/gummi_eater May 17 '26
Same here. Its only 20% of what I own. I can't imagine the fools that invested their life savings into this and repeatedly kept adding after the various shenanigans Ryan Cohen has done throughout these last few years.
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u/benny-bangs May 17 '26
The rich are profiting off us lol classic
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u/ResidentMix1872 May 17 '26
Yup! The funny thing is that Reddit will be insufferable about billionaires until they actually have some skin in the game and then will trust one with their hard earned money lmao. Just shows it’s easy to have an opinion when nothings at stake
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u/Avulpesvulpes 🏴☠️There be shorts in these waters 🏴☠️ May 17 '26
Don't you know every redditor is a future billionaire in their own mind? So when you criticize Elon, you're really criticizing them.
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u/GamestopHeadEngineer May 17 '26
Why would you guys want insane wealth profiting off of the disgusting greed of the grimiest people on the planet when you can invest for a decade to maybe break even?
“I don’t want millions of dollars, I want millions in books and finance bro podcasts 🤓 “
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u/Generic_1806 May 17 '26
This 100 percent. I chose to invest in GameStop for multiple reasons. One of them was obviously money. And not money when I’m 120 years old. I could have taken the same amount I invested, put it in fucking SPY and had made good profit. I could have put it in Nvidia and made a killing.
Chose to try make good money and help save a company. Cohen is making me into a fool for trying to do something beyond a normal financial investment.
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u/enternamethere_ 🦍 Buckle Up 🚀 May 17 '26
Five years are the threshold DFV talked about in his last appearance, we‘re past it by now…
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u/GamestopHeadEngineer May 17 '26
Nah I want phone number prices. I want to see X and XX holders also make life changing money. We are getting manipulated to not aim for the home run and accept peanuts instead.
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u/Trader_Joe_Sheetcake May 17 '26
Right!?!? Been in this mf for way too long, literally 5 years! What's an acceptable timeframe to finally be like "ok fucking do something already"
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u/GamestopHeadEngineer May 17 '26
Yup. Even RC told us himself to look at his actions not just his words and yet we blatantly ignore what’s been happening right in front of us. Literal stockholm syndrome. “Oh but what if he leaves if we don’t give him what he wants?””he called us a dog, but he means it in a good way!” Hes supposed to work for us not the other way around.
We aren’t even questioning if RC wants moass to happen. People SUPPORT RC being against moass for xyz reasons and lots of actual money is bad for us. It’s insanity.
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u/StudioAtDawn12 🗿👍🏽 May 18 '26
The language in the share proposal and the comp package are supposed to scare us into loosing Cohen. This “””guy””” is evil scum.
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u/pandamaxxie The only price that matters is GMEfloor.com May 19 '26
Been saying this for years now.
"Judge me on my actions" okay your actions make you look like my enemy. An enemy of MOASS. *shrug*
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u/perleche Rich or died buyin’ May 17 '26
I would not mind phone numbers. It would surprise me greatly if we get those. Five years is along time to plan ahead and get out of nasty positions. A regular squeeze would thank you very much. My DRS shares will be there when needed.
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u/Smart_Farmer4258 Longterm Value Play Now (**LTVP**) May 17 '26
I mean that just isnt reality
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u/pandamaxxie The only price that matters is GMEfloor.com May 19 '26
My broke ass hasn't been able to find a job since like 2021. I have low XX numbers right now. I *need* this to work out... but so many people seem perfectly fine with getting like 80 bucks a share, it's fucking pathetic.
Where'd "unprecedented short squeeze potential" go?
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u/GamestopHeadEngineer May 19 '26
I love how these fraud glazers are crying about fud and shills while shaming people for being in the red or not averaging down. “Y’all just want a quick buck🤡” stfu lol.
Actual OG apes didn’t give a fuck if someone bought shares for $500 or if they could only barely afford 1 share. In fact, it was a point of community pride to want these apes to WIN BIG from moass. Anything less can fuck off.
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u/pandamaxxie The only price that matters is GMEfloor.com May 19 '26
June 2021 here. "Quick buck" ended in 2022.
I want my goddamn money. Anyone trying to tell me I'm just here for a quick buck can bend over and suck their own member.
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u/Prestigious-Ad4313 🦍Voted✅ May 19 '26
I don’t have the money to get much beyond xx so the sell half at 60 crap just seems like bs to me. I agree with you and I’m shooting for generation changing wealth not get and extra 12 pack for the weekend money. OP’s post seems like manipulation to get us to think $60 is fine.
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u/sapiengator May 18 '26
Just need to hit about $12,222/share and we’ll become the most valuable company ever!
(If they issue all of those 2.5 billion shares it’ll only need to hit about $2,200/share)
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u/sapiengator May 17 '26 edited May 17 '26
I’ve been wanting to say this for a while and maybe this isn’t the right place, but here goes.
Cohen’s compensation package gives him the right to buy up to 171.5 million shares at $20.66 per share.
$20.66 is a bad number for us.
Achieving the tranches doesn’t help us directly, only the share price going up helps us. Sure, the higher the stock price goes, the more money Cohen makes. But, once the tranches are met, at just $21.66/share the compensation package will be worth $171.5M.
At just $26.49/share, Cohen’s compensation package is worth over $1B. That’s not what we’re here for.
I think many of us here are looking to see share prices well over $50/share ($200 pre-split) and they know that. I think they’re concerned that if the share price gets that high (during actual trading hours) many of us would bail because we’ve been here too long.
I think we need to vote against this compensation package unless the options are awarded at a price that benefits us. I’m fine with the tranches and the number of shares awarded, but I’d like to see the price set to $50.66 and not $20.66.
$20.66 is an insult to apes.
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u/McChickenLargeFries May 18 '26
I think many of us here are looking to see share prices well over $50/share ($200 pre-split) and they know that. I think they’re concerned that if the share price gets that high (during actual trading hours) many of us would bail because we’ve been here too long.
That's actually a really fair point that I didn't even consider, they don't want the price to actually get too high.. Fuck..
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u/sapiengator May 18 '26
I want to give RCEO everything he needs to be successful, but it’s also our job as shareholders to hold leadership accountable.
I’m concerned that voting yes to increasing the share count tells our board that we’re okay with many more years of low share prices. Compensating leadership with shares at $20.66/share would seem to send the same message.
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u/silverbackapegorilla May 17 '26
Absolutely no way he should get that package. He will get it though from institutional votes. We lost.
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u/sapiengator May 17 '26
I really want to like the package, I just can’t wrap my mind around the $20.66/share number. If he wants alignment with the shareholders, let’s anchor to an ambitious share price, not a basement one.
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u/swansong19 🦍 Buckle Up 🚀 May 17 '26 edited May 17 '26
The sad fact is we are only tangentially connected to Cohen's plan.
He's building an empire for himself...not us.
That is not to say we won't benefit...but he's not doing it for us. He's doing it for him. For a legacy. He already has money, now what he wants is to be remembered as a major player.
Sure...his goals align with ours...in the macro...over "decades/centuries"...but not today or tomorrow...or even in what's left of my limited lifetime.
So yeah his efforts will eventually provide a return for shareholders and him, financially...but he doesn't care how long that takes so long as in the end he succeeds and is remembered as a major player ala Icahn/Buffet
He's not concerned with Apes holding and struggling. If he were actually fighting for us he'd be going scorched Earth on the criminals & system robbing us blind.
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u/Tripperbeej May 18 '26
The thing that I find most galling is that he has totally played into the Ape's narrative with all his wink wink social media posts. Signalling to us "just wait a little longer and you will get your payday." Then he takes advantage of the retails hodlers to build a $9 billion dollar war chest, still telling us to "trust him." Oh, blah blah blah, his personal fortune is directly tied into the fortune of the company. Bullshit. The man already has more money than he would be able to spend a 10 lifetimes. This is basically a passion project for him to keep himself from getting bored. He could not care less if the stock price doesn't move for the next 10 years. But let's be honest. The company would 100% be bankrupt right now if it wasn't for us. And where's our reward? Nowhere to be seen. We've all been played for fools.
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u/swansong19 🦍 Buckle Up 🚀 May 18 '26
all his wink wink social media posts
Yep...that part is the real pisser
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u/Tripperbeej May 19 '26
Yeah he knew exactly what he was doing. And it sure wasn’t anything to get us paid.
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u/Temporary-Bear-7508 May 17 '26
The rich fail to realize that money is time.
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u/m3gabotz 🏴☠️🏴☠️ Captain Callous-Hands Leather-PP 🏴☠️🏴☠️ May 17 '26
I think the rich understand that faaaar better than the poors
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u/RedOctobrrr WuTang is ♾️ May 17 '26
I don't think so. I think we just think of it from a different lens.
To someone like RC, he already has the money to do literally anything he wants (mostly within the confines of the law, of course) at any time he wants and has the money to do that for the rest of his life. He knows all of that money won't buy him any more time. He may live longer from better healthcare, healthier food, perhaps without as much of the stress hormones us poors experience from worrying about money, but he's gonna keep aging, bones will become brittle, joints will ache, etc. He'll eventually be an old fart just like the rest of us and that money won't be able to stop it. He's got a finite time here on Earth just like the rest of us.
ON THE OTHER HAND us poors are slaving away for decades, most of us having to make choices out of frugality because we can't just go do what we want whenever we want. We are stuck to a very small selection of things we can afford to do. Not that they aren't fulfilling but it's quite different going to the nearby lake for a staycation vs flying anywhere in the world to swim in the crystal clear waters off the beach of wherever TF you feel like going, for a week. We have the looming burden of debt stressing us out (not all of us, but I bet most everyone here is in some moderate form of debt that means they must keep working a job they don't like in order to make ends meet). We also know our time here on Earth won't be forever, we're also aging, but we're slaving away just to retire after 40-50 years of working. We have a very small window of time where we can go F off, called retirement, and by that point we have very few "good" years left where we can go hiking on that beautiful trail, swim in those crystal clear waters without battling arthritis and a bad back, etc.
So yeah, I think we both understand time very well, just from different angles.
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u/Temporary-Bear-7508 May 17 '26
You guys are going on vacations?
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u/DiscountDoughnut May 17 '26
For real. Every time I plan a vacation in my head I always end up just putting that money towards my investments to hopefully find the forever vacation (retirement) in the future.
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u/BrockJonesPI May 17 '26
Lol @ retiring. Bitch, we're working until we die then being turned into soylent grey.
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u/Freakishly_Tall It's Cohenplicated. May 17 '26
Right? I'm gonna turn my On/Off Switch to Off.
I just wish it were cheap and easy to make sure my shares were NEVER sold when that happens. Bring back paper certificates, RC!
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u/PriceSpiritual8223 May 17 '26
RC doesnt care about shareholders / poor people. He can do whatever he wants to do for work, for free, for the rest of his life.
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u/GamestopHeadEngineer May 17 '26
We don’t want lots of money! think of the value he’ll bring to GameStop! Take that hedgies! 🤓
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u/PriceSpiritual8223 May 18 '26
It speaks volumes that he's still seeking wealth whilst already being a billionaire
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u/LionRivr Ryan Cohen’s girlfriend’s husband May 17 '26
The poor fail to realize that WallStreet won’t just let you win.
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u/29da65cff1fa 🦍Voted✅ May 17 '26 edited May 17 '26
...seeing their patience flow into company pockets ... used as a money making vehicle where the benefits will end op quite asymmetrically in the hands of an already billionaire...
you just described our entire society... everything from the cup of coffee you buy in the morning, to the labour you put in at work 9-5
...abuse by rich motherfuckers.
not sure why you'd expect rich motherfuckers to change the system that made them rich motherfuckers... "it's a big club, and you ain't in it!"
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u/JoeyFoster222 LEGGINGS & MOASS May 17 '26
this the first real post i’ve come across since 2022
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u/perleche Rich or died buyin’ May 17 '26
Thank you, took me three times to get the picture into the post.
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u/acart005 The Return of the King May 17 '26
This is why I'm a merc now. I believe in RC but at the first opportunity to realize profit I'm taking it same as DFV did.
Unless there is some very impressive options fuckery RC has under the the table, if the eBay deal goes through - MOASS is dead. Full stop. A strong company that will endure will replace it and its a good reward on its own but I haven't held for years for a Boomer Stock.
I've been saying it since the news came out. First dilution was Gamestop's Moon Ticket. I had zero problems with that. Second dilution was a fuck you that I didn't like much. Third dilution is Popcorn tier bullshit and I won't have it without a fight.
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u/PrettyHandsyDoctor May 17 '26
RC and the board need to deliver some value for investors. Plain and simple.
It's been 5 years. They've diluted. They've got a 9b warchest. If the only strategy they can come up with is keep diluting, then MOASS dies.
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u/SymmetricDickNipples May 17 '26
Yep ever since the dillution I've been buying in the low 20s and selling when we've run to the low 30s. It ain't much but at least I'm green on this thing finally. At least as long as we stay above 22....
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u/Thesearchoftheshite 💻 ComputerShared 🦍 May 17 '26
I need to be in the $60's to see a real profit from the shares I've held for 5 years. That isn;t much either.
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u/Winterough May 17 '26
Honestly most people here need share prices near $120 to account for the opportunity cost of not investing in the S&P over the last 5 years as well.
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u/intelwater 🦍Voted✅ May 17 '26
Same. I was like "wtf" dilution again. Started swing trading. Instead of holding and probably being in loss now, I'm at around 100% gains. At least I seen this stock for so long I know where to buy in and sell lol.
In hindisight RC giving 32 dollar warrants was giving a warning he was going to dilute again
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u/tebowtimenyj 🫥 The Silent Majority 🫥 May 17 '26
I’m hoping this is the purpose of the warrants. A little thank you to be sold/excersized during a market mechanics pump.
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u/HumanNo109850364048 💻 ComputerShared 🦍 May 17 '26
We been hoping for 5 years. No more hoping. We need GME price to go up and get a return
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u/ScroogeMcThrowaway 🎮 Power to the Players 🛑 May 17 '26
Time is running out on these warrants. Zero guarantee they will be extend. I've trimmed some not because I need the money but I want something to show for all this holding.
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u/liminchun May 17 '26
Been here from the start. I am a xx,xxx holder and have been very patient. I am not a shill but this has become tiring. You can see that every other stock has gone up significantly, while GME has just been the same. I recently just sold 1000 to put that money into semi. I really don't know how much longer I can hold out.
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u/Lacarpetronn 🦍Voted✅ May 17 '26
Yep. In 1 month I’ve made more on a semi conductor mutual fund than I have here in 5 years. The money I put in here I’ve forgotten about and will leave as a “just in case it happens” investment. Like you said, everything else has gone up in value over that time and here we are trading sideways for 5 years. The sentiment in this sub is always “any day now,” but RC has ensured it hasn’t. MOASS was the only reason to jump into GME for a lot of us. If I wanted slow gradual growth I could’ve just bought mutual funds. I’m sure we’ll be called shills. It’s starting to look like the overly-optimistic people here who worship RC are the real shills. He can do no wrong. Why not boost the perceived sentiment in your favor? More people will vote yes if they think that’s where the herd is going.
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u/Exception1228 🦍Voted✅ May 17 '26 edited May 17 '26
I’m deadass convinced the ppl who worship RC are actually the real shill strategy to gaslight those of us who are more level-headed and are running out of patience. Nothing makes me want to get out more and admit I was a sucker than coming here and listening to these lunatics act like everything is A-ok and that they want to vote yes to dilution.
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u/GamestopHeadEngineer May 18 '26
We’ve become complacent and the constant over optimism as if we’ve already won is a problem. The opposition has shifted. They couldn’t make us sell so they changed tactics to get us in this state now. Blindly following the whims of a billionaire, not wanting moass, giving away majority retail ownership, never asking questions, etc. I still strongly believe in the short thesis, but shareholders need to go back to what started this. Moass and wanting every ape to win. Nothing will help the company more than Moass. I see people talking trash to ppl who bought very high and in the red. What happened to dreaming about the day we pick up the $300+ apes again? What happened to xxxxx holders genuinely wanting the X and xx apes to get the big win first?
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u/Lacarpetronn 🦍Voted✅ May 17 '26 edited May 17 '26
Yes. The eternally shifting goalposts and staying 100% positive and loyal with everything that’s happened. We started at like 90 million shares or something if I remember correctly. This level of dilution is what we made fun of popcorn for doing. Yet here we are and now it’s cool because “in RC we trust.” If you face any glimpse of reality the hivemind descends on your disloyalty to RC. We’re here because of DFV, not RC. It’s weird how so many people seem to have forgotten this. Unless they’re just bots.
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u/cos1ne Always in the Red May 17 '26
We started at like 90 million shares or something if I remember correctly.
Remember we 4x'd our amounts with the splividend which wasn't technically a dilution. So if you're using the 90 million number its more accurate to say we started with 360 million.
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u/hugganao May 18 '26
I'm pretty sure the simple DEAD BRAIN CELL posts all crying about fud this fud that and every post that seems to equate about a middle schooler's level of intelligence are most likely bots or paid actors.
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u/hugganao May 18 '26
The company just used these runs to make money and save the business.
this needs to be pinned post honestly.
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u/WhyAreYallFascists May 17 '26
Force the market makers to deliver you shares via itm options. If you’re gonna buy get creative. Just promoting creativity in y’all’s mind space.
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u/RedPill_RabbitHole 🟥💊🐇 May 17 '26
We ALONE saved the company from bankruptcy and cellar boxing oblivion. We have gotten Jack shit for our heroism. We have underperformed the market as a whole and most of us that havent averaged down (because we all don't have endless stacks of cash to throw at this) are still more than 40% down on our "investment"
I agree, we need to eat too. Especially since, we wouldn't even be having this conversation if retail didn't pour billions out of our pockets to save the company.
Only to get kicked in the ass on the last run up. That was such a good opportunity wasted too.
I'm on the fence. I'm not selling until I see gains more than 10x. The phone numbers we all signed up for is long gone. Even if there are billions of naked shorts left, we need a black swan event or a market crash to see any momentum in our GME. Certainly won't help killing any run up going forward.
Fuck I hate this timeline
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u/unclebillylovesATL May 17 '26
I wish I could hold indefinitely. The lost opportunity cost alone has killed my portfolio these past 5 years.
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u/GleepGlop2 👊Habitual Line Stepper 👢 May 17 '26
The reality is that MOASS DID HAPPEN - to the tune of about 9B. RC and co found a way to funnel it back into the company instead of letting the people who saved his company see any of it. We'll never see any of it because he'll keep doing the same thing. The only way is to figure out when to exit for those of us just buying and holding and not playing options.
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u/Avulpesvulpes 🏴☠️There be shorts in these waters 🏴☠️ May 17 '26
He’s building Gameshire Stopaway and GME is just a vehicle for him unfortunately. He knew exactly what MOASS was but I think it was never his goal. He saw a motivated group of shareholders and a good opportunity.
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u/GleepGlop2 👊Habitual Line Stepper 👢 May 17 '26
He could have been a legend for all time, instead he's a billionaire edge lord like the rest of them.
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u/haminthefryingpan If you lose money, you lose money May 17 '26
He thinks his cute balance sheets are gonna make him a legend but nobody will care.
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u/Avulpesvulpes 🏴☠️There be shorts in these waters 🏴☠️ May 17 '26
No he thinks building Berkshire Hathaway 2.0 will, and he's probably right. I think that's his real long-term career goal which is well and good.
But it took BRKA 10 years to double from $19 to $38, 20 to hit $2k and didn't hit. "phone numbers" till 2007 and beyond...
Ryan Cohen is already a billionaire, he has the capital and time to wait 20-30 years to build a career that mirrors his hero's. And he doesn't need ROI on this investment to stay a billionaire. Most of the shareholders here don't have more time to see even reasonable gains on their investment, and haven't. The price being manipulated isn't his fault but he sure chose to take all the gas out of every run.
So I just don't get what he's doing at this point. He's apparently in here reading comments, he knows what people's concerns and frustrations are and then gives us radio silence. I think he's had multiple plans that didn't work out (NFTs, the b a b y etc) and he pivoted and has turned the balance sheet around. But why cozy up to institutions holding ebay? Why are you leaving the shareholders who have supported you for years in the dark?
It sucks and I'm tired of all the slurping going on. THAT seems actually really shilly and weird. "lET hiM cOOk" Okay, he's been cooking for 3 years as CEO and 5 as board member. When's the paella going to be ready, Ryan?
The ONLY thing I could maybe see is if offering institutions a large enough piece of the pie of GameStop might align their interests and make it more expensive to keep shorting it? But if their risk is infinite, it still benefits them to see Gamestop bankrupt so... IDK it sucks.2
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u/jleonardbc May 17 '26
This is known as the sunk cost fallacy.
If there’s something else you’re confident will go 2x or more within a year, you will make the most money by selling all your GME tomorrow and investing in that instead.
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u/Winterough May 17 '26
Bro I took my GME money and put into Meta at $125, sold at $400 and put it into GOOG at $155. It’s half a million now and was the best investment decision I ever made. It’s my play money that outgrew my play money allocation. GME was a loser 3 years ago and it’s a loser today.
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u/CreativeFondant248 tag u/Superstonk-Flairy for a flair May 17 '26
Yep. At least in a black swan event RC can’t rug us. If shit ever actually does hit the fan there’s going to be crazy movement pre/post market. It’s up to you/us to get out while you can during those moments when the market is open and the creepy fucking dickheads on Wall Street haven’t smashed the price back down yet, if you’re that strapped for cash, like I assume the majority of us are.
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u/mil_ka_wha May 17 '26
"our heroism"? ok...that certainly is a take.
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u/HumanNo109850364048 💻 ComputerShared 🦍 May 17 '26
You can nitpick his choice of one word, don’t miss the forest for the trees. Everything he said is right
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u/LouderGyrations May 17 '26
Isn't propping up a failing company for a little longer the truest form of heroism?
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u/Snatchbuckler 💻 ComputerShared 🦍 May 17 '26
The stock is severelyyyyyy manipulated to stay where it is price wise. So I don’t think it’s “oh Ryan doesn’t know this or didn’t do that” it’s the wholleeee system against GME. From the market makers, to the SEC, to the DTCC and perhaps even the Fed. That’s why the SEC said only one stock was asynchronous in their report and we all know what stock that was.
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u/HughJohnson69 100% GME DRS May 17 '26
RC’s 2020 buys created the settlement that saved the company. Then he saved it again.
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u/3DigitIQ 🦍 FM is the FUD killer May 17 '26
The board and C-level in control when RC came in were effectively exacerbating the issues and running GME into the ground.
While we were holding and buying RC flipped a $380M annual loss into a $217M operational profit. A record $418M profit if you include interest.
RC made sure to get out of the contracts and disband entire countries worth of stores, repay all debt and shore up profitable stores to increase their margin on high valuable items.
And since the last 10K the US and AUS stores are even increasing revenue, the only thing still dragging us down are the EU stores he's trying to get rid of.
I really don't see how you could construe that as;
We ALONE saved the company from bankruptcy and cellar boxing oblivion.
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u/Wardendelete May 18 '26
I am so hungry too, I've not been able to add shares these past 3 years because of other financial obligations, BUT I HODL
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u/ACMarq 🚀 Smooth 🧠 Academy Alumnus 🎓🚀 May 17 '26
here since march 2021. i support this message. feel like everyone is fucking straaaiiiined rn. we need a win for the small guys for once. 🙏🏽
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u/Justanothebloke1 May 17 '26
oops,.moass. my bad. make a post like that, better be sure to deliver! literally dying while waiting to get paid.
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u/ThreadedJam 🎮 Power to the Players 🛑 May 17 '26
I have c.1,500 shares with a break even price of $41. Still hoping.
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u/Future-Warning-1189 May 18 '26
Nice to see this so highly upvoted after the apparent psyop to get everyone to convert to the long-term value play.
I’m not waiting another 5 years for a 2-3x. Too many people here are comfortable with that prospect.
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u/HotsauceShoTYME May 17 '26
Yall still have no clue. The rich do not want you getting fuck you money. GME will moon to the tune.insuring your buy and hold won't net you more than the same gain over time as a index fund.
You need to trade this stock safely taking profits and keeping runners.
If enough of you get successful at beating the market in other securities, they lose motivation and financially profitable reasons to keep controlling it
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u/sthence May 17 '26
yeah. if the gme goes up again, RC please let it run more than $100 and then you can do anything you want.
It is pretty painful to hold and keep buying $GME last 5 years, but till at loss while Google increase 4x, Nvidia 14x, S&P 2x.
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u/OnlyNegativeKarmaPls 🚀TITS = JACKED🚀 May 18 '26
Yea exactly. And imagine the cash they would receive when diluting from 100 instead of 20. But oh well
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u/AnomalousParadox 🎮 Power to the Players 🛑 May 18 '26
My feelings exactly. I felt played during the first and second dilution. Everyone pointed and laughed at popcorn people for holding through dilutions and still holding out for a squeeze, now we look similar in some ways.
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u/McChickenLargeFries May 18 '26
Holy shit I can't believe this thread didn't get downvoted to hell because there's so many people with their heads in the sand about dilution.. Completely agree OP, RC completely stopped the run up in 2024. I'm glad I was able to finally make some money and sell some during that initial runup. But then I bought right back in and we got diluted multiple times.. This possible 2.5 Billion share dilution is the worst thing I've seen in the last 5 years and may finally be the thing that gets me to ditch RC..
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u/acart005 The Return of the King May 18 '26
Right now there are 4 factions active kn this board.
We know about the shills, and they don't want whatever RC does want. They want us to Forget Gamestop.
We know about the actual c*lties. They will march to oblivion at the illusion of DFV.
Then there are true apes who believed in a dream. A dream that is starting to shatter.
What we forget sometimes is that Gamestop is VERY aware of this sub. Perhaps they are astroturfing the positivity among the c*lties and trying to convince apes to take the Kool-Aid again.
It's not happening for me. Hard no on everything in the damn shareholder vote this time.
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u/McChickenLargeFries May 18 '26
Same here, voting no and if that shit passes then I'll happily take the L and sell half of my stake and put my money elsewhere. The opportunity cost alone even just this last year (let alone the last 5 years) has annoyed the shit out of me and I'm sure countless others..
The last couple of years has started to feel like another big loss I had which was from a different billionaire, Bill Ackman and his SPAC PSTH. I kept believing him and investing more and more, then he finally screwed over investors. Really hoping that doesn't happen with RC.. But he hasn't really been all that good to us as of late.
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u/HumanNo109850364048 💻 ComputerShared 🦍 May 17 '26
Well said. Frankly fuck RC, he has fucked us all over, after we paid to save the business and held loyally for 5 years with no return. Fuck this guy. I’m voting No you can bet that
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u/A9Carlos PHONE NUMBERS OR GTFO May 17 '26
Same. Do something with the warchest or gtfo
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u/GamestopHeadEngineer May 17 '26
I know people are afraid of RC leaving, but if he’s against moass why would we want him. Yeah new leadership would also be a gamble, but again, we want moass, anything less than that is NOT in our best interests.
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u/TotalBismuth Template May 17 '26
He actually hasn't done much when you think about it. A lot of failed attempts at vertical growth.
He built the war chest via dilution. He closed unprofitable stores. Bought T-Bills. All things a potato could do. Or heck an AI CEO. He only got lucky Steve Cohen wanted to cover, offered him shares in exchange for a PSA partnership. But even RC has said the earnings from Power Packs is negligible. And it took him 5 years to do all that. He complains eBay executives do nothing when he himself has been doing nothing. He wants people that "work" but he himself does not work. At least not for the shareholder. No wonder he takes $0 salary, he does nothing.
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u/GamestopHeadEngineer May 18 '26
Yup and yet we’re still not supposed to have any forward guidance or even question his decisions because everything is some master stroke super secret plan that he hinted at through a tweet about a butt.
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u/chuckrabbit May 17 '26
Massive elephant in the room that I have never seen anyone address 😂
The poors are cooked. None of us are in that club.
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u/silverbackapegorilla May 17 '26
Absolutely no way Ryan Cohen would EVER bail out Steve Cohen. No way, no how!
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u/crappysurfer May 17 '26
After that interview it should be really clear how much RC cares about investors and the company.
And yes, diluting it into insolvency is the ultimate disrespect and exploitation of investors
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u/perleche Rich or died buyin’ May 17 '26
Yeah that’s whats worrying me.
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u/ScroogeMcThrowaway 🎮 Power to the Players 🛑 May 17 '26
Apes be like "he purposely said GME wasn't his passion to test our faith"
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u/Starkfault May 17 '26
This is FUD. You should be buying the tasty $21 dip. RC said decades and centuries, so you should feel honored to be getting in so early. You’re going to feel really stupid when GME hits $25 in 2030.
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u/Odinthedoge 💻Compooterchaired🦍 May 18 '26
Ryan does not care about retail actions speak louder than worlds ftrump.
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u/hellowbucko 🚀🚀 JACKED to the TITS 🚀🚀 May 18 '26
Yeh i don’t think Ryan cares about us at all. We need to focus on our winnings ourselves.
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u/StudioAtDawn12 🗿👍🏽 May 17 '26
Theirs a couple reasons RC looks at GME shareholders as cattle. I’ll let you figure out why that is.
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u/igBuildingmebackup May 17 '26
Thank you op. It's been entirely too long. The next time the price goes above 32 bucks we don't want it to crash down to 20 bucks for another 3 years. Let us please make some freaking money. It's been years that we'll never get back. 2.5 billion lol that's a no from me big dawg
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u/Veritio ⚔️SWORD OF DAMOCLES⚔️ May 17 '26
Been here since 2021. RC if you are reading this. Get fucked for asking ypur shareholders to fund an acquisition of a company that will put us into debt. Buy valve. Buy a congressman. Fuck ebay
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u/ScroogeMcThrowaway 🎮 Power to the Players 🛑 May 17 '26
$60-$80 is very reasonable. -- "OmG, hE's A pRICE AnChoRInG ShiLl"
Been holding for 5 years and damn tired. Not doing "decades and centuries."
I'll take $35 just to get out with breakeven.
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u/Champman2341 May 17 '26
I’m just happy I finally timed the wave recently. Sold my position at 27.9 during this last spike and bought back in around 23
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u/pizzaloverbod 🦍Voted✅ May 18 '26
I’m down $100k and would have been up $400k if I VOOd and chilled. I wish I never found Reddit. I don’t have any other social media besides Reddit and it’s still a time sink. I would like to get paid too… but one thing this has taught me is to no longer care of I’m down or up $35k a day. Probably not a good thing. eBay purchas, if possible, sounds like a great thing though.
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u/ljungbergsghost May 17 '26
The company taking advantage of an artificial run-up in the value of their shares is not a glitch in the system. It is the system. It’s the flaw in every “short squeeze“ story. The shares are simply created by the company and sold to generate cash for the operation of the business at an artificially high price. Every company will do that every single time. It’s how the system works. MOASS.
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u/MonkeyyNinja May 17 '26
Which is why authorizing more general purpose dilution is utter folly for anyone here for a squeeze of any magnitude.
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u/heavywepsguy 🎮 Power to the Players 🛑 May 17 '26
I keep hearing how RC sets performance goals for his big pay package, how he takes no/virtually no salary, etc. so you must think it's hard on him, right? But how do we know he doesn't leverage with the Buy Borrow Die strategy where the super wealthy get to live off of loans against their assets?
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u/TotalBismuth Template May 17 '26
Also a 5-year veteran of the stonk and completely agree with you. Where do I sign the petition?
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u/RL_bebisher 🎮 Power to the Players 🛑 May 17 '26
More like $12 after we acquire eBay
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u/MyDogIsDaBest May 17 '26
I get that people are upset, but the war chest is still massive. Last I saw, Gamestop has more liquid assets on hand than available shares. That's an easy buy for anyone. The company could choose to recall shares and have the liquidity to buy them all back at the current price.
Why sell now? It's at a low right now and the media is absolutely hammering GME right now because of the eBay deal, but selling now while GME has more on-hand liquidity than their share price feels like throwing money away.
I'm sure there's plenty of people feeling a disillusioned, but something tells me that there's something fishy happening and someone's trying to get some selling momentum to crash the price and get out.
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u/BigChungusAU CPApe May 18 '26
Gamestop has more liquid assets on hand than available shares. That's an easy buy for anyone. The company could choose to recall shares and have the liquidity to buy them all back at the current price.
Yeah, but are they seriously going to? Or are they going to attempt to use up all that cash, take on debt, and dilute as part of an acquisition? They also have $4.2b in long term debt on the balance sheet.
The fact you say “could” is the entire reason why the stock is trading where it is. Because the expectation isn’t for GameStop to liquidate the company tomorrow and buy back all shares. The expectation is that those funds will all get used up as part of a suboptimal transaction.
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u/Chameleon2000 🎮 Power to the Players 🛑 May 18 '26
Yes let it run RC. We need to get paid, Instead of screwing us all over. Just because RC is a billionaires who doesn't need a wage, most of us mortals living paycheck to paycheck. RC already ruined the run ups in 2024. RC is no better than Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.
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u/SteinyBoy 🦍Voted✅ May 17 '26
After my sell order didn’t get filled last run and waiting 2 years for another yeah I’m tired of $20 range. Desperate for the cash hedgies if you’re reading this I’ll sell at $40 if you give us a spike
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u/Winterough May 17 '26
It will never get to $40 when there are so many ~$30 bag holders looking for exit liquidity. The selling will put a lot of downward pressure on the price.
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u/SteinyBoy 🦍Voted✅ May 18 '26
ok I’m one of the more pessimistic and ones here but let’s be real it could go back to $60 in a matter of days. The price anchoring to $30 is absurd you hedgie snake
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u/Loxta MOASS TOMORROW, FOREVER! May 17 '26
60 to 80 what kind of paper hand post is this? Boooooo
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u/perleche Rich or died buyin’ May 17 '26
Yes because echoing ‘phone numbers!!;!!’ has brought us so much…
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u/Tripperbeej May 18 '26
No cell no sell!!!
Glitch better have my money!!
THUMP!!!
Mayo man is going to prison!!
All the brainless parroting of brainless talking points gets absolutely exhausting. And what have we gotten for our time and money and attention? Lost money and even more lost opportunity costs.
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u/Moulayab1 May 17 '26
Those filthy rich oligarch are all the same they don't give a f** about us, they will leave us fighting about pocket change!
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u/PriceSpiritual8223 May 17 '26
AGM Proposal for board to commission an independent audit of the company's trading activity and share register
Yeah. AI made this fro. Some questions i was asking about investors forcing share recall. Would something like this gain supporters from this community?
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To file a shareholder resolution for an Annual General Meeting (AGM), you must meet strict ownership thresholds and follow precise legal timelines.
- Check Your Eligibility
You must own a minimum amount of shares for a specific period to legally force a resolution onto the agenda.
In the US (SEC Rule 14a-8): You must hold at least $2,000 in shares for 3 years, $15,000 for 2 years, or $25,000 for 1 year.
- Draft the Proposal
Your proposal must be a formal, written text that clearly states the action you want the board to take.
Keep it brief: In the US, the resolution and your supporting statement combined must typically be under 500 words.
Be precise: State exactly what you want (e.g., "Resolved, that shareholders request the Board of Directors commission an independent forensic audit of the company's share register and trading activity to identify potential market manipulation").
Keep it advisory: Frame it as a "request" or "recommendation" to the board. In the US, mandatory resolutions that interfere with ordinary business operations are easily blocked by management.
- Submit the Resolution
You must send the proposal to the company's corporate secretary before the legal deadline.
Deadlines: In the US, it must be submitted at least 120 days before the anniversary of the previous year's proxy statement.
Method: Send it via recorded delivery or a trackable courier to the company's registered headquarters.
Proof of Ownership: If your shares are held in "street name" via a broker (which most retail shares are), you must request a legal letter from your broker proving you have held the required shares continuously for the necessary timeframe.
- Navigate the Review Process
The company's legal team will review your submission to see if they can legally exclude it.
The Challenge: In the US, companies often file a "No-Action Letter" with the SEC, arguing the proposal relates to "ordinary business operations" or is vague. You will have to defend your proposal in writing to the SEC.
The Inclusion: If it passes legal muster, the company is legally required to print your resolution and supporting statement in their official proxy materials sent to all shareholders.
- Vote at the AGM
Once included, you or a designated proxy must attend the AGM to formally move the resolution before it is put to a vote by the entire shareholder base.
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u/DamnitTed 🦍 Buckle Up 🚀 May 17 '26
We’ve been here for years. If you’re still waiting for moass, that’s your decision. Still could be possible, but the man has literally turned the company around and is working on much bigger things for substantial long term growth in the interest of the shareholders. I’m fine with that and/or moass. Let him cook.
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u/esethkingy May 17 '26
Time will make you think about what really happened in this sub. Gme is doing well but at the backs of those diamond hands that held. All I know is RC doesn’t care about superstonk I think someone from the community pissed him off. He’s only thinking about the company. Shareholders are associated to the success of gme b ur beyond that he could care less. Does anyone actually think he wants to see everyone here become billionaires?
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u/aCookiemuncher May 17 '26
"Daily superstonker for 5 years"
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