Hello all! I'd really like to crochet a ub funkey because there's literally not much merch of them at all. I can't find a pattern so I figured I'd try and make one but I'm not sure how to go about it. Here's a picture of what I'd like to crochet! Any tips or tricks would be welcome!

Free handed, sorry no pattern

TLDR: I wached a lot of Ritas videos, and I think I resonate with more UP than I thought, but I am not sure I am understanding the language enough and I actualy fit LU or if I am more LD. I think I worry that my Stay at home mum life clashes with the UP of it all. But I never asked myself "am I cool enough" like Rita saied for RD. Its more like "thats overkill" or "that will get more attention than I can handel energy wise". Dressing and putting on makeup is actualy realy important to me to not get depressed. If I stop making an effort I start to feel bad and cynical.
🕳🖤🙃 Pictures are from family easter when I was my cranky and pissed 4months pregnant self that diden't want to go so I dressed up all black and heavy a d ended up having a great time blowing bubbles and being unapologetic about me being me.
Long thoughts:
I think UP cuz I think through my outfits. Like I had to learn to be ok with not having an outfit to run to the store and just wear leggins and sneakers and a shirt. But if the colors clash I can't stand it. My hair needs to be neat. I make an impact weather I want to or not. I like to be edgy and unapolegetic (siren?) I need a little extra pop. Mostly with statment earings and rings. For example I dress in something I feel like is quit low impact, moderate, normal and then ppl say I am overdressed, or its very noticable or edgy etc. In my teens I evdntualy ambrassed this never quit fitting in and leaned heavaly in to alternative fashion and avter that vintage styles. But I tried to fit a stereotypical femenin 1950ies ideal that wasen't realy me, so it always felt too costumey and it was a lot of effort. (Propably also very Right essence now that I am thinking about it) But I am thinking DOWN cuz I sometimes would love to have my outfit on but still be invisible. I need simplicity and minimal patterns and colors. I am very restrictive about how many things I am allowed to have. I need cloths to be practical and easy to carefore. (This all might just be lifestyle and less Up or Down-ness 🤔) When i think about others or what they might think or how i might comunicate something about myselfe i get overwhelmed. I have sensory needs and I am ver delicat in Ritas sens. I need to be comfortable in my cloths. I don't like too buissy patterns. For example For my birthday I tried to "tell a storry" about being this mothergoddess and thought about what might symbolise this to my guests. I came up with an outfit wanting it to be a red maxi dress that is very sexy and revieling but it just diden't feel right and no allternative felt good so I changed 10 times got stressed a d overwhelmed and ran out of time and eventualy wore something completly diffrent that was aligned with how I felt inside. Or I tried to "dress to impress" with a creative twist and end up feeling self concious or over the top for the whole evening.
My ideal thing is when I forget about the cloths on my body, mabye ppl do look but it dosen't make me feel self concious. and when I catch a glimps of me in a mirror or in a shopwindowe I go "oh yea! I do look realy good today". I am not sure what typ of "attention" I like recieving. I think it might be when ppl look but are bit intimidated in a good way. Like ppl take a glimps thinking "oh that looks realy cool" but don't want me to notice they have seen. I don't like to be guaked at or staired at or like I am a piece of meat that invites the attention in a sexual way. I think it might be more important to me that I realize to be "unaproachable". I hated when everyone smiled at me when I was pregnant and ppl thought it was so "cute". I don't want to be touched or commented on. Especialy not from man. I want to see a little fear next to the apriciation in ppls eyes and then be free to show them that I am actualy a very friendly and helpfull person. OMG it feels forbidden to say that outloud 🙈 The more impactfull looks I wore through out the years where only good if I cluld aligne with a IDGAF about your opinion attitude. So I could confidently say to myself "yea, go ahead and look!" When I felt ppl noticing me. So this all might be a confidence thing for me. That I am not actualy that down, but that I am disconected from my confidece and free selfexpression? 🤐 Postpartum, Corona and Religious deconstruction surly made for a good Identitycrisis in combo in 2021. I think I am still recovering. But that IDGAF attitude is only truely autentic when the outfit is autentic too. For example I wore a very EXTRA outfit with pink cargopants and a green tight knit top with black and white striped cuff and hemm details, boots and a big green velvet hat and silver white bleached hair and OFCOURS ppl looked. And I did realy like the outfit from how it looked but I felt self concious and it took me alot of energy to wear it and keep my inner mantra of "go ahead look" up and going. And whn I got a compliment on someone saying I looked so fresh, it was nice but it diden't feel good cuz I diden't feel fresh, I felt drained and wanted to go home and magicaly make it there completly invisible 😅 I think it was cuz it was so colorfull and bright. It was too connective. Louminous/showy not enough graphity or intimidation. When I wore the same pink pants with a dark teal oversized wool sweater and sneakers I felt much better and like me. I think showing and hiding is a big thing for me. But I don't know if that means I am LU or LD.
Logic wise left seems to work well, but I am not sure how LD and LU logic differs realy. The BIGEST thing for me is weather or not I pay attention to how I feel internaly or not. But I do always incoperate little ways that will show this feeling in my cloths visualy. If I feel vulnerable and want to feel enveloped, I will not just wear something that is cozy but also symbolicaly fits. Like a dark color. And add in jewelery that communicates the theme of "night" or "celestial". It might not be understood or evdn picked up by others, but IF they would ask, I could explain why that neckless today. Why that color.
🖤🕳🙃 Or I feel like I don't want to go to a family easter celebration and I feel very low energy and like I want to disapear, and I am kind of annoyed that I can't cancel it and have to conform to the norm of showing up on easter, I'll dress all black and put on a black leather jacket and heavy boots and my chunky silver earings. And then I don't realize untill way avter that its not exactly "apropriate" or "aproachable" or "low impact" to show up on easter dressed all black like a punk on a funeral. But I was realy comfortable and connected with myself and actualy had a realy good time despite not wanting to go becaus of being connected to my feelings and not being apologetic in it and trying to be something I am not. So this could be UP-ness too, even though there are no loud colors or patterns and the outfit isn't super extra in siluet or artsy.

The Crossed Cluster Stitch is the perfect crochet stitch for blankets! It is easy, similar on both sides and has beautiful drape. I love the subtle texture and look forward to trying it out in a project soon! The free crochet pattern is here: https://richtexturescrochet.com/crossed-cluster-stitch-how-to-crochet/

Servus Werte Affen des deutschen GameStop Unters. Was für eine verrückte Woche. Ich habe mich ein bisschen mit den DRS zahlen beschäftigt und bin mir ziemliche sicher wir haben wesentlich mehr als 75 millionen aktien DRSt. Habe aber leider nicht genug Karma um in Superstonk zu posten. Entschuldigt daher bitte den angelsächsischen Pfosten. Falls gewünscht kann ich noch eine Zusammenfassung auf Deutsch schreiben. Ich wäre euch sehr verbunden wenn ihr diesen Post dem englischen Unter zuspielen könntet.
Introduction
In this post I perform an analysis of DRS numbers with the result that the true DRS numbers might be much higher than 75 million. I discuss the implications of this finding to address recent uncertainty around the recent share offering by GameStop.
TADR: Shills try to anchor DRS numbers => We might have already locked the float => RC knows we did => RC has proof of a short scheme => Dilution does not matter => Hedgies are fucked
Currently negative sentiment in all GameStop subs is based on the following 3 points:
1. “Ryan Cohen betrayed our trust; Ryan Cohen killed the momentum.” Which momentum? The stock goes up like many times before. This is not a squeeze. No one is getting margin called, I don’t see any phone numbers. RK’s stream showed that in the range of 30-60$ they are very much able to drop the price any time they want.
2. “GameStop/Ryan Cohen have no plan and have done nothing in the past 3 years.” We simply have to be patient before we can draw a conclusion on this point. But let’s revisit the 2023 annual report on page 4 “Business strategy”: Achieve Profitability in fiscal 2023 and streamlining the business. The company achieved profitability and although revenue went down in 2024 so far, percentage wise spending goes down faster. All according to plan. Since the goals for 2023 were achieved and more cash was raised, the chances of GameStop announcing new plans and pivoting towards a growth strategy are high in my opinion. However, note that in last year’s shareholder meeting nothing with regard to the strategy was mentioned.
3. “The share offering is diluting and undoing DRS progress and making it impossible for us to ever achieve the goal of locking the float. DRS is dead”. If you believe that shorts have not closed, dilution is not a big factor compared to the dilution from naked short selling.
So, what about DRS?
Why do all the negative posters point out we “only” DRSed 75 million shares and that it will be “impossible” to DRS the float? Let us reiterate what we know about DRS:
1. The last official and reliable DRS numbers are from April 2022 (recall the DRS Rugpulls in the following 2 quarters and the following stagnation ever since).
2. GameStop changed the official communication multiple times after October 2022, obfuscating the true DRS number, likely because of external pressure. They went from reporting the accurate CS number to an approximate based on DTCC reported numbers (304 million outstanding shares – 206 million DTCC reported shares = 75 million).
3. However in March 2023 Gamestop gave us one new datapoint: the number of record holders which was 197058.
4. GameStop and Computershare know the true DRS numbers.
5. To my knowledge there is no proof that locking the float will cause MOASS. It has always been the goal but we simply don't know what happens.
6. We need to BOOK shares at Computershare, otherwise there are still ways to mess with our shares.
7. We know that DRS takes away liquidity (falling volume over the years) and hurts the shorts. Every time shill attacks occur, they target DRS. For example, they tried to spread FUD during the move to book our shares which was obviously good for retail investors once we learned about it.
I believe that the current shill strategy is to demoralize by anchoring 75 million as the default DRS number and that it is not moving up at all. Conveniently the latest share offering is also 75 million shares. Surely DRS must be dead if we make no progress right?
But what if the true DRS numbers are much higher? The number being stuck just does not make sense, many fellow apes, including me, are still buying and DRSing, which implies that there must be an equally large amount of people selling DRSed shares. And you are telling me that for more than 2 year there has been almost perfect balance between buy and sell side on CS? Talk about trading sideways…
Especially puzzling is that the DRS numbers on computershared, which have been very accurate initially, have still gone up before a short time later the reddit API was shut down and the DRS bot stopped working. Very convenient that we lost the ability to estimate DRS ownership around the same time the numbers began to be obfuscated.
Method
Just focusing on the DRS numbers for prediction is not very precise. Additionally, we cannot really trust the numbers reported after April 2022 so we don't have many datapoints. Instead, I propose to look at the amount of money apes spend on DRSing shares and extrapolate that. It is a number with much more meaning to the individual investor, subject to less noise and tied to the true stock price we can observe. The method works as follows:
1. Compute how much the average CS account owner spent per quarter on GameStop Shares based on the past reliable DRS numbers. (based on facts)
2. Extrapolate the average spend for quarters in which DRS numbers stagnated. (approximation)
3. Use the official number of record holders and the true stock price to predict growth in DRS numbers. (based on facts)
In doing so we are making the least amount of assumptions by using official numbers whenever we can: the official number of record holders, the stock price and the DRS numbers from computershared when they matched the official numbers.
Figure 1 - DRS extrapolation. Red: share price, Green: DRS number, Orange: Number of CS accounts, Purple: Average quarterly spend on DRS
In Figure 1 I plotted in red the share price from before the sneeze in 2021 until Friday 7.6.2024 (6/7/2024 for the US apes). The green and orange lines show the DRS estimate and number of CS accounts from computershared(dot)net. In purple I plotted the amount of $ spent per CS account that had to occur to achieve the increase of the green DRS numbers in the preceding quarter based on the average price during that period.
Analysys
We can see that in the initial DRS period apes spent on average $20k on DRSing shares. This number is likely inflated because people did not just DRS new shares but also shares accumulated since the sneeze in 2021. But for the following quarter we can see that money spent to DRS new shares was around $5000 in March 2022 decreasing to $1800 in March 2023. This comes down to the OG apes spending about 600$ per month to DRS the float. Pretty reasonable number imo. The decrease of spending over time is just natural as engagement with the stock decreased during a long period of the price slowly going down. Actually, the decay of spending matches exactly the decrease in activity of the Superstonk sub:
Figure 2
BUT the price decreasing at the same time with a similar decay pattern has interesting effects. Even when the average spend on DRSing goes down, the net number of shares that were locked away might have increased linearly.
In Figure 1 in light purple I show my extrapolation of the average quarterly spending. I assumed a decrease in the willingness to spend of 10% every quarter, going down to an average quarterly spending of $1000 as of today. At the same time, I assumed no new apes DRSing and modelled apes going inactive by decreasing the net amount of CS accounts by 5% per quarter. Hence the dashed orange line is trending lower since the last official number we got. The numbers give us predictions that follow the trendline from the purple slowly decreasing true average quarterly spending.
Now on to the final observation. Even with conservative estimates of no new apes coming in, existing apes going inactive and the interest in DRS decreasing during the period from March 2023 to now, we have most likely DRSed almost the entire float of 153 million Shares (shown by the light green dashed line) or we are at least significantly above 100 million. Interestingly we were likely close to locking the entire float this May, right when volume increased, the price skyrocketed, DFV returned, and GameStop issued more shares.
Limitations
We cannot really model the selling pressure from apes selling DRS shares, but it is quite likely that the buying pressure was higher than my conservative prediction and that new apes started DRSing.
This method assumes that the stagnation in reported DRS numbers starting 2023 is not accurate.
This method extrapolates the average quarterly spend and the number of CS accounts.
The method is based on the DRS estimates from computershared during the time they matched the officially reported DRS numbers.
There are simplifications like averaging price over a quarter and not taking into account volume.
Discussion
In a free and transparent market, the price of a stock is determined by supply and demand. DRS is reducing the Supply of shares and creates a baseline of demand. Assuming we reduced the supply to a small fraction of the outstanding shares, the price should rise. But we know that the price went down during the entire time we DRSed shares. This implies that there is either no demand at all or heavy dilution from short selling counteracting the DRS movement.
And RC proved that there is in fact high demand, leaving only short selling on the table. In May 2024 the company heavily increased the number of outstanding shares with the 45 million share offering (potentially up to120 million). According to the supply and demand model, the price should decrease. But oh wait, the price has tripled during that time on no news or fundamental changes (GameStop even says this in one of their latest filings). RK shows on stream he is just a goofball, has not yet exercised his calls and that the price can be manipulated at a whim. This means there is demand not tied to RK or business fundamentals that far surpasses the 45 (or 120) million new shares offered and that the price is most likely manipulated by short selling.
What is RC’s perspective?
He would know the true DRS numbers and if we really locked the float in the last 3 years, he would have proof of a short selling scheme against the company following the above simple logical argument. With this proof this would allow him to raise billions in cash for the company without compromising MOASS because further dilution is dwarfed by the amount of naked shares which must exist to explain the recent insane volume on no shares available. Furthermore, the share offering raises the minimum price per share to $10-$12, completely killing the short thesis. Overall the DRS numbers are important for exposing and combating the rampant short selling by reducing supply of shares.
Finally, to show how ridiculous the stagnant 75 million DRS number is:
Figure 3
The number of active CS accounts would need to decrease 25% every quarter and the average monthly spending on DRS to go down 50% every quarter to 50$ per quarter for the remaining accounts to achieve such a stagnation.