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Reddit's arrogance in all but ignoring the mods needs has resulted in only harming our users. This sub went dark due to the terrible handling of Reddit's API pricing changes and policy decisions. /Save3rdPartyApps/. Under duress and for the benefit of our users, we are reopening the Subreddit despite this issue not being resolved.
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submitted by over18forreal to u/over18forreal [link] [comments]2024.06.10 05:12 em-1119 my crazed and obsessive high school stalker
TWS: mental illness, obsessive stalking, threats of violence
hey courtney!!!! my name is ella. i love your videos and have been watching you for a very long time lol. this is insanely long so im so sorry😭 im a writer so i have a tendency to write in as much detail as possible lol. this is a story from a couple of years ago, my freshman year of high school and it centers mostly around my friend lily, but also involves me. i also want to mention i did get my friend's permission to tell this!!! my freshmen year, i took a fun and interactive art class where we had free range of where we wanted to sit. so we moved around a lot.
the class had around 15 people total and in the beginning, no one knew each other. there were about 4 other freshmen. me and this other girl named lily became friends pretty quickly. i also became friends slightly later with another freshman named carter. carter and lily weren't really friends. carter and i had 3 other classes together besides this art class, and we mostly talked in those classes and didn't really talk in art. carter had a couple of upperclassmen friends he spoke to. lily and i mostly just sat alone together.
we had gotten a couple of new kids in the class throughout the first semester and they had all been very nice and respectful people. but i would say around january, we got another new kid, a junior named robin. since writing this i have learned as a junior, robin was 19. so he had been held back a couple of times.
please keep in mind lily and i were freshmen at this time. i was 15 and lily was 14.
the way the art class is set up is there are two columns of 3 tables with a large space in between the columns to walk to each table. the right side of the room is where carter and most of his upperclassmen friends sat together, which was a lot of the class. the left of the room was completely empty besides the table in the front where lily and i sat. when robin joined the class he sat in the back of the class on the left side at a table alone he stayed there for a about 2 months.
it started off subtle. i would be standing somewhere in class, talking to lily, and he would join our conversation. i always tried to be polite and entertain the conversation, but lily was braver than i was and understood his off-putting vibes to be a tell-tale reason to be less polite to him. so she mostly gave him snappy responses or flat out ignored him. he would come up to us at the end of class, or while we were talking to carter or his friends.
when speaking to robin, he would try to shift the conversation to be about himself, he would brag about unlikely accomplishments he was achieving, like saying his mom was a famous director, and he was going to meet ryan reynolds, or he was going to be auditioning for juilliard because they specifically asked for him to. and if he wasn't talking about himself, he would ask lily and i questions about our personal lives, what was our life like at home, did we have boyfriends, were our parents married and such. now lily is gay and i did have a boyfriend. and we when told him this, it didn't seem to throw him off and he was not convinced this was true.
his incessant nagging to us was so frequent and was getting more frequent i guess, the more comfortable he was getting around us, and it was getting to the point where he would come up to us in the middle of working time and was disrupting our projects and time to work on said projects.
and if we had a substitute teacher, he would ask to sit with us while we did our busy work. and eventually it got to the point where he sat at our table all the time. next to lily. he would always try to touch her arms or legs and she would have to tell him to stop. and he would keep asking the both of us on dates, we always said no.
i don't even understand what he was trying to do here, date us both? go on a group date? or did he like, want us to fight for him? i still don't get it.
later on, carter and his senior friend in the class. whom i was also friends with, beatrice, started sitting with us as they saw and heard about our discomfort. i would say this was about march. this oddly, deterred robin greatly and he stopped sitting with us.
but his harassment didn't stop. he came up to me at one point and cornered me, i don't remember the exact reason, i believe he said he had a question he wanted to ask me later, but he wanted my instagram and i was cornered, so i gave it to him, i have a problem with being too polite. from there he found my boyfriend, trevor's instagram and starting relentlessly dming him. he accused me of cheating on trevor with him, and told trevor to break up with me. of course trevor knew of robin already, told him to fuck off, and blocked him.
i confronted robin with lily the next day and robin just said he was one hundred percent sure i liked him, and thought he was doing me a favor by setting me free. as why else would i have given robin my instagram? i told him to please leave my boyfriend alone, and i was interested in being his friend and nothing else. he didn't seem to buy it, but at this point he was way more infatuated with lily than me anyway.
he had found her instagram from mine, and she received a number of dms. this was going on while he was dming my boyfriend, i would say lily received up to 20 dms a day. and since she was single he just felt she had to want him, more than me, as i was in a relationship.
his dms to lily were mostly casual, he would tell her about his day, ask about hers, and ask her regular questions. she never accepted his request and ending up blocking him. robin over time, we think, became obsessed with lily. he would make fake accounts and tell lily she was his person and he really wanted to be with her. he would sent her unwarranted shirtless pictures and nude pictures. she eventually just deleted her instagram.
i think he just genuinely believed she wanted him and this was all what she wanted. he ended up learning her entire schedule and would just follow her to class. he even found a way to switch into one of her other classes to pester her even more.
it got to the point where in art, our table was full of carters friends just so he couldn't sit there. i told carters friends about his relentless stalking and any time robin came anywhere near the table, someone was ushering him away just as fast. carter walked lily to art and trevor had a class nearby her, so him and i walked lily to her next class after art.
lily's never reciprocating, and everyone telling him to leave her alone, over time, i guess, helped robin gain some sense of reality as he realized lily wasn't interested, so now, whenever he saw her and was able to get close to her,
he would just beg and beg her for a chance. to which she would ignore. robin found lily's job as a barista, and would sit at the counter and try to talk to her as often as he could. which since he could drive, was often. her boss had to get involved, but since he was an active customer, her boss didn't ban him, she just always had some extra security like older coworkers surrounding her and working with her at all times.
he never found her house, thank god. by the near end our freshmen year robin stopped caring that lily didn't want him and just starting acting like they were together, i guess he thought maybe she would just give in. but she was very brave and stoic. lily never communicated with him and looked at him. ever. she was very good with remembering that.
but she was suffering pretty greatly, her grades at dropped tremendously and she was so terrified to come to school she needed extra security through teachers and friends where she went, or she would panic.
my art teacher tried his best to help her, he tried to remove robin from the class, i think, three times, but since it was the end of the year, his requests kept getting denied. he was a lovely teacher, he genuinely cared and tried to help lily. but the most he could do but constantly ask robin to takes walks, move him to the second art room to do his work, which he couldn't do often, and keep him away from lily at all costs.
robin, through this, would post pictures of lily on his instagram, and claimed she was his girlfriend. he would try to grab her whenever he found an opportunity, but he was always immediately stopped by her or someone else with her.
there was multiple occasions where lily had caught his car following her bus home from school. luckily we live in a city and the bus lily takes home is a public bus service and lily knows the area well enough to get off a few stops down and loose him in alley ways and through other buildings.
by the end of the year, this whole situation took a wild turn. robin was expelled on the last couple of days of school for completely different reasons.
he was expelled for trying to steal a number of different teachers belongings (keys, phones, wallets) and a bunch of school owned items (calculators, pencil sharpeners), as the school has reason to believe he had intent to do harm with these stolen items.
he ended up being sent to a mental hospital and was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, OCD, and bipolar disorder, the only reason i know of all of this, is because the authorities contacted lily and i to let us know he had multiple albums of just pictures and gathered information on lily and i. mostly lily of course. i mean like hundreds to thousands of pictures and pages of information.
the pictures were mostly of zoomed in parts of her body, sometimes her back, arms, or even her butt and other private parts zoomed in. he took photos in art, in the hallways, lily walking to her bus. he had docs of master lists of information about us, from "favorite color" to "moms name". what was so creepy is he had titles like "address" with the info saying "to be determined" so robin did have intent to fully find all of our information.
it surprised to hear he still had tabs in me, at least somewhat. i guess trevor scared him off from doing anything too extreme in person, but his digital albums of me where still being updated.
at least until he was sent to the hospital. at the hospital, officials there told lily of his consistent mention of her, we don't know any details of what he said, but it mentioned that he spoke of lily quite a lot.
after some research, people with severe borderline personality disorder seem to hyperfixate on one person and they believe this person is their "person", we think he believed this person was lily to him.
i believe after he finished with his hospital time, his family and him moved away. we are in college now, and lily is doing better. she is in a relationship with her amazing girlfriend named kylie, she is living in a new state full time, she needed a lot of counseling and years of security wherever she went, but she is starting to heal.
although my friend never gave robin the satisfaction of reacting harshly to his endeavors, she was terrified, especially because how much he escalated in a couple of months.
i am also doing okay, i'm in college and although i am no longer with trevor, i am with a guy named tyler and he makes me feel just as safe as trevor did.
so, to the guy who relentlessly stalked my best friend and i and gave us extreme paranoia and a terribly fearsome high school career, let's absolutely never meet again, and i hope you get all the help you so desperately need.
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hey courtney!!!! my name is ella. i love your videos and have been watching you for a very long time lol. this is insanely long so im so sorry😭 im a writer so i have a tendency to write in as much detail as possible lol. this is a story from a couple of years ago, my freshman year of high school and it centers mostly around my friend lily, but also involves me. i also want to mention i did get my friend's permission to tell this!!! my freshmen year, i took a fun and interactive art class where we had free range of where we wanted to sit. so we moved around a lot.
the class had around 15 people total and in the beginning, no one knew each other. there were about 4 other freshmen. me and this other girl named lily became friends pretty quickly. i also became friends slightly later with another freshman named carter. carter and lily weren't really friends. carter and i had 3 other classes together besides this art class, and we mostly talked in those classes and didn't really talk in art. carter had a couple of upperclassmen friends he spoke to. lily and i mostly just sat alone together.
we had gotten a couple of new kids in the class throughout the first semester and they had all been very nice and respectful people. but i would say around january, we got another new kid, a junior named robin. since writing this i have learned as a junior, robin was 19. so he had been held back a couple of times.
please keep in mind lily and i were freshmen at this time. i was 15 and lily was 14.
the way the art class is set up is there are two columns of 3 tables with a large space in between the columns to walk to each table. the right side of the room is where carter and most of his upperclassmen friends sat together, which was a lot of the class. the left of the room was completely empty besides the table in the front where lily and i sat. when robin joined the class he sat in the back of the class on the left side at a table alone he stayed there for a about 2 months.
it started off subtle. i would be standing somewhere in class, talking to lily, and he would join our conversation. i always tried to be polite and entertain the conversation, but lily was braver than i was and understood his off-putting vibes to be a tell-tale reason to be less polite to him. so she mostly gave him snappy responses or flat out ignored him. he would come up to us at the end of class, or while we were talking to carter or his friends.
when speaking to robin, he would try to shift the conversation to be about himself, he would brag about unlikely accomplishments he was achieving, like saying his mom was a famous director, and he was going to meet ryan reynolds, or he was going to be auditioning for juilliard because they specifically asked for him to. and if he wasn't talking about himself, he would ask lily and i questions about our personal lives, what was our life like at home, did we have boyfriends, were our parents married and such. now lily is gay and i did have a boyfriend. and we when told him this, it didn't seem to throw him off and he was not convinced this was true.
his incessant nagging to us was so frequent and was getting more frequent i guess, the more comfortable he was getting around us, and it was getting to the point where he would come up to us in the middle of working time and was disrupting our projects and time to work on said projects.
and if we had a substitute teacher, he would ask to sit with us while we did our busy work. and eventually it got to the point where he sat at our table all the time. next to lily. he would always try to touch her arms or legs and she would have to tell him to stop. and he would keep asking the both of us on dates, we always said no.
i don't even understand what he was trying to do here, date us both? go on a group date? or did he like, want us to fight for him? i still don't get it.
later on, carter and his senior friend in the class. whom i was also friends with, beatrice, started sitting with us as they saw and heard about our discomfort. i would say this was about march. this oddly, deterred robin greatly and he stopped sitting with us.
but his harassment didn't stop. he came up to me at one point and cornered me, i don't remember the exact reason, i believe he said he had a question he wanted to ask me later, but he wanted my instagram and i was cornered, so i gave it to him, i have a problem with being too polite. from there he found my boyfriend, trevor's instagram and starting relentlessly dming him. he accused me of cheating on trevor with him, and told trevor to break up with me. of course trevor knew of robin already, told him to fuck off, and blocked him.
i confronted robin with lily the next day and robin just said he was one hundred percent sure i liked him, and thought he was doing me a favor by setting me free. as why else would i have given robin my instagram? i told him to please leave my boyfriend alone, and i was interested in being his friend and nothing else. he didn't seem to buy it, but at this point he was way more infatuated with lily than me anyway.
he had found her instagram from mine, and she received a number of dms. this was going on while he was dming my boyfriend, i would say lily received up to 20 dms a day. and since she was single he just felt she had to want him, more than me, as i was in a relationship.
his dms to lily were mostly casual, he would tell her about his day, ask about hers, and ask her regular questions. she never accepted his request and ending up blocking him. robin over time, we think, became obsessed with lily. he would make fake accounts and tell lily she was his person and he really wanted to be with her. he would sent her unwarranted shirtless pictures and nude pictures. she eventually just deleted her instagram.
i think he just genuinely believed she wanted him and this was all what she wanted. he ended up learning her entire schedule and would just follow her to class. he even found a way to switch into one of her other classes to pester her even more.
it got to the point where in art, our table was full of carters friends just so he couldn't sit there. i told carters friends about his relentless stalking and any time robin came anywhere near the table, someone was ushering him away just as fast. carter walked lily to art and trevor had a class nearby her, so him and i walked lily to her next class after art.
lily's never reciprocating, and everyone telling him to leave her alone, over time, i guess, helped robin gain some sense of reality as he realized lily wasn't interested, so now, whenever he saw her and was able to get close to her,
he would just beg and beg her for a chance. to which she would ignore. robin found lily's job as a barista, and would sit at the counter and try to talk to her as often as he could. which since he could drive, was often. her boss had to get involved, but since he was an active customer, her boss didn't ban him, she just always had some extra security like older coworkers surrounding her and working with her at all times.
he never found her house, thank god. by the near end our freshmen year robin stopped caring that lily didn't want him and just starting acting like they were together, i guess he thought maybe she would just give in. but she was very brave and stoic. lily never communicated with him and looked at him. ever. she was very good with remembering that.
but she was suffering pretty greatly, her grades at dropped tremendously and she was so terrified to come to school she needed extra security through teachers and friends where she went, or she would panic.
my art teacher tried his best to help her, he tried to remove robin from the class, i think, three times, but since it was the end of the year, his requests kept getting denied. he was a lovely teacher, he genuinely cared and tried to help lily. but the most he could do but constantly ask robin to takes walks, move him to the second art room to do his work, which he couldn't do often, and keep him away from lily at all costs.
robin, through this, would post pictures of lily on his instagram, and claimed she was his girlfriend. he would try to grab her whenever he found an opportunity, but he was always immediately stopped by her or someone else with her.
there was multiple occasions where lily had caught his car following her bus home from school. luckily we live in a city and the bus lily takes home is a public bus service and lily knows the area well enough to get off a few stops down and loose him in alley ways and through other buildings.
by the end of the year, this whole situation took a wild turn. robin was expelled on the last couple of days of school for completely different reasons.
he was expelled for trying to steal a number of different teachers belongings (keys, phones, wallets) and a bunch of school owned items (calculators, pencil sharpeners), as the school has reason to believe he had intent to do harm with these stolen items.
he ended up being sent to a mental hospital and was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, OCD, and bipolar disorder, the only reason i know of all of this, is because the authorities contacted lily and i to let us know he had multiple albums of just pictures and gathered information on lily and i. mostly lily of course. i mean like hundreds to thousands of pictures and pages of information.
the pictures were mostly of zoomed in parts of her body, sometimes her back, arms, or even her butt and other private parts zoomed in. he took photos in art, in the hallways, lily walking to her bus. he had docs of master lists of information about us, from "favorite color" to "moms name". what was so creepy is he had titles like "address" with the info saying "to be determined" so robin did have intent to fully find all of our information.
it surprised to hear he still had tabs in me, at least somewhat. i guess trevor scared him off from doing anything too extreme in person, but his digital albums of me where still being updated.
at least until he was sent to the hospital. at the hospital, officials there told lily of his consistent mention of her, we don't know any details of what he said, but it mentioned that he spoke of lily quite a lot.
after some research, people with severe borderline personality disorder seem to hyperfixate on one person and they believe this person is their "person", we think he believed this person was lily to him.
i believe after he finished with his hospital time, his family and him moved away. we are in college now, and lily is doing better. she is in a relationship with her amazing girlfriend named kylie, she is living in a new state full time, she needed a lot of counseling and years of security wherever she went, but she is starting to heal.
although my friend never gave robin the satisfaction of reacting harshly to his endeavors, she was terrified, especially because how much he escalated in a couple of months.
i am also doing okay, i'm in college and although i am no longer with trevor, i am with a guy named tyler and he makes me feel just as safe as trevor did.
so, to the guy who relentlessly stalked my best friend and i and gave us extreme paranoia and a terribly fearsome high school career, let's absolutely never meet again, and i hope you get all the help you so desperately need.
2024.06.10 04:41 MilestoneFan Illumination's petty and shameless roasting of Marvel and superheroes to prop their dumb franchise up (and why I'm tired of the superhero bashing)
I know people despise Marvel and superhero franchises nowadays, but I had no idea it'd gotten THIS bad. Illumination just released an official promo about a "Minions Cinematic Universe" and in it, they tear apart the superhero genre. They've even gone so far as to create a website with a fake slate, and it specifically mentions "vibe shifts" and "superhero fatigue". Jesus. Why do so many people seem to derive a sick pleasure in tearing apart superhero franchises? Superheroes are such positive icons in the world, so I don't understand Hollywood's obsession with belittling them while simultaneously profiting off of them. I realize the genre is shamelessly exploited for profit, especially lately, but I also acknowledge that it's a genre crafted by hundreds of creative talents and beloved by billions of people worldwide. I don't think it deserves the hostility directed at it nowadays.
Lately, we've seen people take a massive dump on the genre, with even Ryan Reynolds poking fun at it in a recent Deadpool promo. I know people in the comments are going to tell me, "Grow thicker skin" or "Learn to take a joke", but I do believe that a line can be crossed. I mean, how exactly does going through all the trouble to create this fake "Megaverse" slate and website skewering Marvel and DC actually benefit anyone, including Illumination? Wouldn't that time and effort have been better served on the actual Despicable Me series or Illumination's other franchises? Besides, Despicable Me is a franchise that's been overexploited as well.
There've been countless genres and franchises that have been overexploited in the past and even now. Why is all of this hostility and toxicity primarily directed at superhero media? It's just baffling. This whole "Megaverse" bullshit campaign seems so unbelievably...shameless, as well as strategically malicious, especially when you realize that they're essentially tearing down and sabotaging another franchise simply to prop up their own. It's becoming more and more obvious how many people in the industry loathe superheroes (as if it wasn't obvious enough already). Regardless of your opinion on superhero franchises, Marvel (and DC) have done so much for the entertainment industry and for the representation of diverse actors and creators, including minorities and women, who otherwise would not have received nearly as many opportunities as they've been blessed with.
Iron Man saved Robert Downey Jr.'s career for God's sake. I realize it's popular to hate on superhero franchises now, but we shouldn't fail to acknowledge the ways they've benefited the larger entertainment industry, as well as advance acceptance of geek culture at large. Without Iron Man, would Robert Downey Jr. have made a career comeback, or would it have deteriorated even further? Without Marvel, would we have even gotten films like Black Panther and an African American Captain America movie? Without superhero media, would all of these diverse directors, writers, producers and actors have attained the careers and statuses they have now?
Look, I get it. Lately, it hasn't been a fun time for superhero franchises and the genre definitely collapsed last year. What we saw last year, and this year is essentially all of the pent-up frustrations and anxieties at the genre releasing all at once...and again, it's not a pretty sight to behold. But even so, Marvel and DC don't deserve anywhere near the vitriol they've been dealt, and their achievements and contributions should not be undermined and disregarded.
Anyway, I'm hopeful the superhero genre will make a massive comeback sooner rather than later. And it'll always exist in some shape or form regardless, but I don't know, guys. As much as I'm a fan of this genre, more and more I'm wishing it really would fade from the mainstream completely, so people would finally SHUT UP about it. Maybe then people would see how the industry would fare without superheroes...and perhaps, learn to appreciate them.
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Lately, we've seen people take a massive dump on the genre, with even Ryan Reynolds poking fun at it in a recent Deadpool promo. I know people in the comments are going to tell me, "Grow thicker skin" or "Learn to take a joke", but I do believe that a line can be crossed. I mean, how exactly does going through all the trouble to create this fake "Megaverse" slate and website skewering Marvel and DC actually benefit anyone, including Illumination? Wouldn't that time and effort have been better served on the actual Despicable Me series or Illumination's other franchises? Besides, Despicable Me is a franchise that's been overexploited as well.
There've been countless genres and franchises that have been overexploited in the past and even now. Why is all of this hostility and toxicity primarily directed at superhero media? It's just baffling. This whole "Megaverse" bullshit campaign seems so unbelievably...shameless, as well as strategically malicious, especially when you realize that they're essentially tearing down and sabotaging another franchise simply to prop up their own. It's becoming more and more obvious how many people in the industry loathe superheroes (as if it wasn't obvious enough already). Regardless of your opinion on superhero franchises, Marvel (and DC) have done so much for the entertainment industry and for the representation of diverse actors and creators, including minorities and women, who otherwise would not have received nearly as many opportunities as they've been blessed with.
Iron Man saved Robert Downey Jr.'s career for God's sake. I realize it's popular to hate on superhero franchises now, but we shouldn't fail to acknowledge the ways they've benefited the larger entertainment industry, as well as advance acceptance of geek culture at large. Without Iron Man, would Robert Downey Jr. have made a career comeback, or would it have deteriorated even further? Without Marvel, would we have even gotten films like Black Panther and an African American Captain America movie? Without superhero media, would all of these diverse directors, writers, producers and actors have attained the careers and statuses they have now?
Look, I get it. Lately, it hasn't been a fun time for superhero franchises and the genre definitely collapsed last year. What we saw last year, and this year is essentially all of the pent-up frustrations and anxieties at the genre releasing all at once...and again, it's not a pretty sight to behold. But even so, Marvel and DC don't deserve anywhere near the vitriol they've been dealt, and their achievements and contributions should not be undermined and disregarded.
Anyway, I'm hopeful the superhero genre will make a massive comeback sooner rather than later. And it'll always exist in some shape or form regardless, but I don't know, guys. As much as I'm a fan of this genre, more and more I'm wishing it really would fade from the mainstream completely, so people would finally SHUT UP about it. Maybe then people would see how the industry would fare without superheroes...and perhaps, learn to appreciate them.
2024.06.10 02:27 Hopsgenommen **The strategy of RC and DFV is actually obvious.**
This is a repost of German Spielstopp @
https://www.reddit.com/Spielstopp/s/4ThnfGBx9R
Ryan Cohen did not prevent the MOASS. Through the capital increase, he (perhaps) prevented a (possible) gamma ramp. I also doubt this because at least some of the options were held by SHF, who are still in control and could have pushed the price down again.
As a result, RC harmed people speculating with options. In my opinion, however, he is only enabling the actual short squeeze with his strategy.
BACKGROUND
SHF originally wanted GME to go bankrupt to make the shares worthless. This attempt failed, and the SHF have sold more shares than exist, which are covered not by real shares but by promissory notes.
SHF must keep the stock value below an (unknown) price that would trigger margin calls and lead to liquidation.
For this, they need to sell more shares they don't have, thus increasing their short positions. This is done by borrowing unregistered shares and creating promissory notes (IOUs). Shares that are not available for this purpose are those registered by insiders, institutional investors (especially Blackrock and Vanguard), and investors who have registered their shares or prohibited lending through their broker.
On the other hand, SHF must not let the price drop below a level where Gamestop (and/or one or more registered major investors) can buy all available shares with their own capital. This would make further shorting impossible and simultaneously reveal that the shares sold by the SHF do not actually exist.
Thus, SHF are in a channel defined by the following parameters:
So far, SHF have managed to avoid a short squeeze through shorting and "fake runs" because the gap between the LOWEST PRICE and HIGHEST PRICE was large enough to manipulate the price within this channel.
After his entry, Ryan Cohen initially conducted a stock buyback at a low price. He then conducted several capital increases, using the price rises from the "fake runs."
The ABSOLUTE LOWEST PRICE was $3.6 before the May capital increase and rose to $5.7 after the May capital increase. After the June capital increase, it will be around $8-11, at a sale price of $30-40, which is in a price range where the actual stock price was just six weeks ago.
The capital raised through the capital increases was not spent on substantial investments.
ASSESSMENT
For a strategic investor like Ryan Cohen, it is highly unusual to sit on idle capital for so long and repeatedly conduct capital increases before the money from the last one is invested. From my understanding, he is protecting the stock against price attacks from SHF and continuously pushing up the LOWEST PRICE. This is also a constant threat to SHF. He conducted a stock buyback immediately after his entry as CEO and has announced another stock buyback that can be carried out at any time.
Keith Gill has seen through and imitated the SHF's trading during the fake runs. With his position (5 million shares + 12 million call options), he can buy about 5% of the available shares. If he participates in the next "fake run" similarly, he could reach over 10%. This substantially reduces the number of AVAILABLE SHARES. Simultaneously, he increases the LOWEST PRICE and the ABSOLUTE LOWEST PRICE because fewer shares would need to be acquired from Gamestop's free capital.
If both sides continue this way, it means:
The ABSOLUTE LOWEST PRICE, below which the price theoretically cannot fall, continuously rises, thus also the LOWEST PRICE and the actual stock price.
The space between the LOWEST PRICE and HIGHEST PRICE, within which SHF can stage "fake runs" and make profits at the expense of small investors, continuously shrinks.
Thus, both Ryan Cohen and Keith Gill are pushing the LOWEST PRICE and the stock price towards the HIGHEST PRICE, which would trigger margin calls. For a short squeeze, it may not be necessary for the LOWEST PRICE to reach the HIGHEST PRICE; it might be sufficient if the channel below the HIGHEST PRICE narrows to a certain extent where the catalysts, which were previously insufficient, lead to a price rise above the HIGHEST PRICE. Additionally, Gamestop could trigger the price rise by conducting a stock buyback during this phase.
What does this mean for me?
Edit: SHF did not buy the shares but sold them short.
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Ryan Cohen did not prevent the MOASS. Through the capital increase, he (perhaps) prevented a (possible) gamma ramp. I also doubt this because at least some of the options were held by SHF, who are still in control and could have pushed the price down again.
As a result, RC harmed people speculating with options. In my opinion, however, he is only enabling the actual short squeeze with his strategy.
BACKGROUND
SHF originally wanted GME to go bankrupt to make the shares worthless. This attempt failed, and the SHF have sold more shares than exist, which are covered not by real shares but by promissory notes.
SHF must keep the stock value below an (unknown) price that would trigger margin calls and lead to liquidation.
For this, they need to sell more shares they don't have, thus increasing their short positions. This is done by borrowing unregistered shares and creating promissory notes (IOUs). Shares that are not available for this purpose are those registered by insiders, institutional investors (especially Blackrock and Vanguard), and investors who have registered their shares or prohibited lending through their broker.
On the other hand, SHF must not let the price drop below a level where Gamestop (and/or one or more registered major investors) can buy all available shares with their own capital. This would make further shorting impossible and simultaneously reveal that the shares sold by the SHF do not actually exist.
Thus, SHF are in a channel defined by the following parameters:
- AVAILABLE SHARES: Number of non-registered (real) shares available to cover shorts.
- HIGHEST PRICE: Stock price that would trigger margin calls.
- ABSOLUTE LOWEST PRICE: Price at which Gamestop alone can buy back all remaining available shares with free capital.
- LOWEST PRICE: Price at which all actually existing shares can be acquired by Gamestop and/or potential registered investors. SHF must not approach this price.
So far, SHF have managed to avoid a short squeeze through shorting and "fake runs" because the gap between the LOWEST PRICE and HIGHEST PRICE was large enough to manipulate the price within this channel.
After his entry, Ryan Cohen initially conducted a stock buyback at a low price. He then conducted several capital increases, using the price rises from the "fake runs."
The ABSOLUTE LOWEST PRICE was $3.6 before the May capital increase and rose to $5.7 after the May capital increase. After the June capital increase, it will be around $8-11, at a sale price of $30-40, which is in a price range where the actual stock price was just six weeks ago.
The capital raised through the capital increases was not spent on substantial investments.
ASSESSMENT
For a strategic investor like Ryan Cohen, it is highly unusual to sit on idle capital for so long and repeatedly conduct capital increases before the money from the last one is invested. From my understanding, he is protecting the stock against price attacks from SHF and continuously pushing up the LOWEST PRICE. This is also a constant threat to SHF. He conducted a stock buyback immediately after his entry as CEO and has announced another stock buyback that can be carried out at any time.
Keith Gill has seen through and imitated the SHF's trading during the fake runs. With his position (5 million shares + 12 million call options), he can buy about 5% of the available shares. If he participates in the next "fake run" similarly, he could reach over 10%. This substantially reduces the number of AVAILABLE SHARES. Simultaneously, he increases the LOWEST PRICE and the ABSOLUTE LOWEST PRICE because fewer shares would need to be acquired from Gamestop's free capital.
If both sides continue this way, it means:
The ABSOLUTE LOWEST PRICE, below which the price theoretically cannot fall, continuously rises, thus also the LOWEST PRICE and the actual stock price.
The space between the LOWEST PRICE and HIGHEST PRICE, within which SHF can stage "fake runs" and make profits at the expense of small investors, continuously shrinks.
Thus, both Ryan Cohen and Keith Gill are pushing the LOWEST PRICE and the stock price towards the HIGHEST PRICE, which would trigger margin calls. For a short squeeze, it may not be necessary for the LOWEST PRICE to reach the HIGHEST PRICE; it might be sufficient if the channel below the HIGHEST PRICE narrows to a certain extent where the catalysts, which were previously insufficient, lead to a price rise above the HIGHEST PRICE. Additionally, Gamestop could trigger the price rise by conducting a stock buyback during this phase.
What does this mean for me?
- The theoretical loss risk is limited by the LOWEST PRICE.
- Do not buy into a "fake run."
- Observe the cycles and buy after the "fake runs."
- Sell some shares during a fake run to buy more shares after the price drops. This carries the risk that it is not a "fake run" but already the short squeeze, so I would only do this with a small percentage of my shares.
Edit: SHF did not buy the shares but sold them short.
2024.06.10 01:20 La_Bonne_Nuit Appreciation
Hey, now during their Europe and Asia tour, I thought I also took the time to make an appreciation post.
Despite all the controversial things about, Carlos and James (and also to a lesser extent Kendall and Logan), I would like to say that they never took real advantage of someone or some drama, like for instance Justin Timberlake taking advantage of his breakup with Britney Spears.
I mean, in the case of James I have to think about the rumours about him dating Debbie Ryan or Elizabeth Gillies or Miranda Cosgrove. He could've easily taken advantage of these rumours. It would've helped his career. But he didn't.
Additionally, Carlos is happily married with Alexa and is taking care of his kids as a stay at home dad. This is not something I heard often from Dad's and I think this is very admirable. Also the fact that he is still happily married, is not sth which happens often.
I sometimes think about the reason why they never made it to the mainstream, and compared to stars like Justin Timberlake or Harry Styles, I think they never became as interesting like those two. They never had any real drama and no one did something real provocative, exept maybe questionable opinions, like Harry Styles and his outfits on Vogue (which was a smart move tbh).
But I think the fact that never something like this happened speaks volumes that they are not really bad people (these fanward things are a different topic though... maybe a little bit two-sided/questionable)
Maybe they are not very strategic/tactical or smart about their advertisement and so on. BUT they don't seem that fame hungry, that they would drag someone else down (like with Britney Spears).
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Despite all the controversial things about, Carlos and James (and also to a lesser extent Kendall and Logan), I would like to say that they never took real advantage of someone or some drama, like for instance Justin Timberlake taking advantage of his breakup with Britney Spears.
I mean, in the case of James I have to think about the rumours about him dating Debbie Ryan or Elizabeth Gillies or Miranda Cosgrove. He could've easily taken advantage of these rumours. It would've helped his career. But he didn't.
Additionally, Carlos is happily married with Alexa and is taking care of his kids as a stay at home dad. This is not something I heard often from Dad's and I think this is very admirable. Also the fact that he is still happily married, is not sth which happens often.
I sometimes think about the reason why they never made it to the mainstream, and compared to stars like Justin Timberlake or Harry Styles, I think they never became as interesting like those two. They never had any real drama and no one did something real provocative, exept maybe questionable opinions, like Harry Styles and his outfits on Vogue (which was a smart move tbh).
But I think the fact that never something like this happened speaks volumes that they are not really bad people (these fanward things are a different topic though... maybe a little bit two-sided/questionable)
Maybe they are not very strategic/tactical or smart about their advertisement and so on. BUT they don't seem that fame hungry, that they would drag someone else down (like with Britney Spears).
2024.06.09 21:31 No_Survey_9833 My Best Friend Ghosted Me
(LONG)
I (22f) have severe social anxiety and always struggled making friends or having “friends” that just use me anyway way they could before leaving. I never really had a true friend until my sophomore year of hs where I met my best friend Amy (fake name). Amy and I had a lot of similarities and things in common she was also shy and had sa. I’d say my friendship with her was a healthy, reciprocal friendship where it wasn’t one sided and I didn’t feel like i was being taken advantage of. Fast forward, I had to move back home from college due to some unfortunate events this year. But moving back home was really hard for me since I have toxic parents and I don’t really have a good relationship with them and as a adult it was hard for me trying to set boundaries for myself when they still tried to control/ disrespect me. I would vent to Amy about the stuff I was going through and she already knew I had problems with them.
I didn’t think it was an issue venting to her since I didn’t bring it up to her everyday and I didn’t want to seem like a Debby downer. When I vented I would always apologize to her and she’d always reassure me that it was okay and I could always talk to her whenever I needed. I noticed that she stopped reaching out to me and I didn’t think nothing of it at first since we’re both adults and have lives/ other responsibilities. I didn’t find out until I talk to one of her friends that she had ghosted and I address this to her telling her how hurt I was and she responded saying I was basically wearing her down with my issues when she was already dealing with her own problems.
I responded and apologized for stressing her with my issues and promised that I wouldn’t mention anything related to that again and wanted to move forward with better communication and boundaries. After that conversation I gave her some space. our texts started becoming less and less. I noticed that she would only respond to me if I texted first and then after that would not reply unless I reached out again. I decided to stop doing that and she hasn’t msg back in a month. I feel hurt and abandoned especially since she knows my trauma with bad friendships/ghosting. I know I need to move on but this honestly feels like a breakup. I keep thinking maybe it’s my fault for how things ended like this and maybe if I didn’t tell her my problems our friendship could’ve been the same. I deleted sm because it hurts seeing that she’s active on there but ignoring me. I don’t know what to do or how I should cope
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I (22f) have severe social anxiety and always struggled making friends or having “friends” that just use me anyway way they could before leaving. I never really had a true friend until my sophomore year of hs where I met my best friend Amy (fake name). Amy and I had a lot of similarities and things in common she was also shy and had sa. I’d say my friendship with her was a healthy, reciprocal friendship where it wasn’t one sided and I didn’t feel like i was being taken advantage of. Fast forward, I had to move back home from college due to some unfortunate events this year. But moving back home was really hard for me since I have toxic parents and I don’t really have a good relationship with them and as a adult it was hard for me trying to set boundaries for myself when they still tried to control/ disrespect me. I would vent to Amy about the stuff I was going through and she already knew I had problems with them.
I didn’t think it was an issue venting to her since I didn’t bring it up to her everyday and I didn’t want to seem like a Debby downer. When I vented I would always apologize to her and she’d always reassure me that it was okay and I could always talk to her whenever I needed. I noticed that she stopped reaching out to me and I didn’t think nothing of it at first since we’re both adults and have lives/ other responsibilities. I didn’t find out until I talk to one of her friends that she had ghosted and I address this to her telling her how hurt I was and she responded saying I was basically wearing her down with my issues when she was already dealing with her own problems.
I responded and apologized for stressing her with my issues and promised that I wouldn’t mention anything related to that again and wanted to move forward with better communication and boundaries. After that conversation I gave her some space. our texts started becoming less and less. I noticed that she would only respond to me if I texted first and then after that would not reply unless I reached out again. I decided to stop doing that and she hasn’t msg back in a month. I feel hurt and abandoned especially since she knows my trauma with bad friendships/ghosting. I know I need to move on but this honestly feels like a breakup. I keep thinking maybe it’s my fault for how things ended like this and maybe if I didn’t tell her my problems our friendship could’ve been the same. I deleted sm because it hurts seeing that she’s active on there but ignoring me. I don’t know what to do or how I should cope
2024.06.09 19:01 No_Survey_9833 My “Best Friend” Ghosted me how do I cope?
(WARNING VERY LONG)
I (22f) have severe social anxiety and always struggled making friends or having “friends” that just use me anyway way they could before leaving. I never really had a true friend until my sophomore year of hs where I met my best friend Amy (fake name). Amy and I had a lot of similarities and things in common she was also shy and had sa. I’d say my friendship with her was a healthy, reciprocal friendship where it wasn’t one sided and I didn’t feel like i was being taken advantage of. It lasted all the way up to adulthood where we only grew closer together. Fast forward, I had to move back home from college and take classes online due to some unfortunate events this year. So I got to hang out more with Amy and things were going great. But moving back home was really hard for me since I have toxic parents and I don’t really have a good relationship with them and now that I was a adult coming back was hard for me trying to set boundaries for myself when they still tried to control/ disrespect me. I would vent to Amy about the stuff I was going through with them and she already knew I had problems with them.
I didn’t think it was a issue venting to her since I didn’t bring up drama to her everyday and I didn’t want to seem like a Debby downer. When I vented I would always apologize to her and she’d always reassure me that it okay and I could always talk to her whenever I needed. I noticed that she stopped reaching out to me and I didn’t think nothing of it at first since we’re both adults and have lives/ other responsibilities. But it started going from days to weeks that I didn’t hear from her so I reached out to one of her friends to ask if they heard from her. And her friend replied saying that she just spoke to her the day before and that crushed me. I sent her a long text message about how hurt I felt that she wasn’t talking to me and didn’t explain why and that I thought we had a better relationship than this. She replied with 3 long messages stating basically I was wearing her down with my family drama and she couldn’t take it anymore and that it was affecting her mental health along with her own issues that’s she’s already going through. She apologized for not being honest about her feelings when she would say i was okay for me me to vent. She didn’t want to hurt my feelings and didn’t want me to feel like she wasn’t there for me.
I responded and apologized for stressing her with my issues and promised that I wouldn’t mention anything related to that again and how this could be a learning experience for the both of us to set better boundaries and have better communication moving forward. After that conversation I gave her some space. our texts started becoming less and less. I noticed that she would only respond to me if I texted first and then after that would not reply unless I reached out again. I decided to stop doing that to see if she would msg me first and she hasn’t since May where I’m still left on read. I feel hurt and abandoned especially since she knows my trauma with bad friendships. I know I need to move on but this honestly feels like a breakup. I keep thinking maybe it’s my fault for how things ended like this and maybe if I didn’t tell her my problems our friendship could’ve been the same. I deleted sm because it hurts seeing that she’s active on there but ignoring me. I don’t know what to do or how I should cope
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I (22f) have severe social anxiety and always struggled making friends or having “friends” that just use me anyway way they could before leaving. I never really had a true friend until my sophomore year of hs where I met my best friend Amy (fake name). Amy and I had a lot of similarities and things in common she was also shy and had sa. I’d say my friendship with her was a healthy, reciprocal friendship where it wasn’t one sided and I didn’t feel like i was being taken advantage of. It lasted all the way up to adulthood where we only grew closer together. Fast forward, I had to move back home from college and take classes online due to some unfortunate events this year. So I got to hang out more with Amy and things were going great. But moving back home was really hard for me since I have toxic parents and I don’t really have a good relationship with them and now that I was a adult coming back was hard for me trying to set boundaries for myself when they still tried to control/ disrespect me. I would vent to Amy about the stuff I was going through with them and she already knew I had problems with them.
I didn’t think it was a issue venting to her since I didn’t bring up drama to her everyday and I didn’t want to seem like a Debby downer. When I vented I would always apologize to her and she’d always reassure me that it okay and I could always talk to her whenever I needed. I noticed that she stopped reaching out to me and I didn’t think nothing of it at first since we’re both adults and have lives/ other responsibilities. But it started going from days to weeks that I didn’t hear from her so I reached out to one of her friends to ask if they heard from her. And her friend replied saying that she just spoke to her the day before and that crushed me. I sent her a long text message about how hurt I felt that she wasn’t talking to me and didn’t explain why and that I thought we had a better relationship than this. She replied with 3 long messages stating basically I was wearing her down with my family drama and she couldn’t take it anymore and that it was affecting her mental health along with her own issues that’s she’s already going through. She apologized for not being honest about her feelings when she would say i was okay for me me to vent. She didn’t want to hurt my feelings and didn’t want me to feel like she wasn’t there for me.
I responded and apologized for stressing her with my issues and promised that I wouldn’t mention anything related to that again and how this could be a learning experience for the both of us to set better boundaries and have better communication moving forward. After that conversation I gave her some space. our texts started becoming less and less. I noticed that she would only respond to me if I texted first and then after that would not reply unless I reached out again. I decided to stop doing that to see if she would msg me first and she hasn’t since May where I’m still left on read. I feel hurt and abandoned especially since she knows my trauma with bad friendships. I know I need to move on but this honestly feels like a breakup. I keep thinking maybe it’s my fault for how things ended like this and maybe if I didn’t tell her my problems our friendship could’ve been the same. I deleted sm because it hurts seeing that she’s active on there but ignoring me. I don’t know what to do or how I should cope
2024.06.09 16:07 tc0n4 Build your Worst Couple
Who in your opinion would have the biggest trainwreck of a relationship?
I think the following could be pretty toxic.
Jan & Ryan
Michael & Kelly
Creed & Debbie Brown
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I think the following could be pretty toxic.
Jan & Ryan
Michael & Kelly
Creed & Debbie Brown
2024.06.09 11:43 madbunnny2 Omar
There's a "home movie" from 1998 on YouTube of Omer who was 12-13 at the time living in Jackson's house. There a weird vibe running through the video and Omer looked very withdrawn in the eyes.
So just what the f*CK was going on here? This was still in the the thick of the fake Debbie Rowe marriage I guess.
Graphic theory
Debbie wasn't just being used for insemination, she was being used at that time as well as a shield from the media so Jackson could likely demonstrate inappropriate behavior with Omer. He was a "married man" (though I'm not sure how many people back then bought their marriage as legit, I was a kid and don't remember any of it though). But still, the marriage helped some how because the media never caught onto the weirdness of the MJ-Omer relationship during that time.
Edit* Omer
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So just what the f*CK was going on here? This was still in the the thick of the fake Debbie Rowe marriage I guess.
Graphic theory
Debbie wasn't just being used for insemination, she was being used at that time as well as a shield from the media so Jackson could likely demonstrate inappropriate behavior with Omer. He was a "married man" (though I'm not sure how many people back then bought their marriage as legit, I was a kid and don't remember any of it though). But still, the marriage helped some how because the media never caught onto the weirdness of the MJ-Omer relationship during that time.
Edit* Omer
2024.06.09 08:00 BigDefinition390 Why The Growth Matrix? (Reviews)
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Males all over cross the world experiencing low sexual prowess due to unhealthy lifestyle, or old age. Many people try several different methods to boost their performance. most method are harm and not good waste of time money and effort so it is very difficult to other to fix there problem and looking for a serious and honest answer.
The Growth Matrix by Ryan Mclane is tested and proven to many people that use his simple method it will give you weekly gain and satisfaction about your problem it enhancement program that encompasses video tutorials, nutrition guides, and more to help members increase their penile size and girth naturally and in a non-invasive manner.
Benefits of The Growth Matrix It will help you to boost your confidence , healthy blood flow in your entire system of body No more Erectile Dysfunction , Low Libido and Testosterone Problem It will give you Guranteed Satisfaction.
Simple Join to Group to see who is using it and ask them a question and how satisfied all of them https://www.reddit.com/growthmatrix/
Link To Watch Video Tutorial https://growthmatrix.co/mdm
2024.06.09 05:16 No_Survey_9833 My “Best Friend” Ghosted me how do I cope?
(WARNING VERY LONG)
I (22f) have severe social anxiety and always struggled making friends or having “friends” that just use me anyway way they could before leaving. I never really had a true friend until my sophomore year of hs where I met my best friend Amy (fake name). Amy and I had a lot of similarities and things in common she was also shy and had sa. I’d say my friendship with her was a healthy, reciprocal friendship where it wasn’t one sided and I didn’t feel like i was being taken advantage of. It lasted all the way up to adulthood where we only grew closer together. Fast forward, I had to move back home from college and take classes online due to some unfortunate events this year. So I got to hang out more with Amy and things were going great. But moving back home was really hard for me since I have toxic parents and I don’t really have a good relationship with them and now that I was a adult coming back was hard for me trying to set boundaries for myself when they still tried to control/ disrespect me. I would vent to Amy about the stuff I was going through with them and she already knew I had problems with them.
I didn’t think it was a issue venting to her since I didn’t bring up drama to her everyday and I didn’t want to seem like a Debby downer. When I vented I would always apologize to her and she’d always reassure me that it okay and I could always talk to her whenever I needed. I noticed that she stopped reaching out to me and I didn’t think nothing of it at first since we’re both adults and have lives/ other responsibilities. But it started going from days to weeks that I didn’t hear from her so I reached out to one of her friends to ask if they heard from her. And her friend replied saying that she just spoke to her the day before and that crushed me. I sent her a long text message about how hurt I felt that she wasn’t talking to me and didn’t explain why and that I thought we had a better relationship than this. She replied with 3 long messages stating basically I was wearing her down with my family drama and she couldn’t take it anymore and that it was affecting her mental health along with her own issues that’s she’s already going through. She apologized for not being honest about her feelings when she would say i was okay for me me to vent. She didn’t want to hurt my feelings and didn’t want me to feel like she wasn’t there for me.
I responded and apologized for stressing her with my issues and promised that I wouldn’t mention anything related to that again and how this could be a learning experience for the both of us to set better boundaries and have better communication moving forward. After that conversation I gave her some space. our texts started becoming less and less. I noticed that she would only respond to me if I texted first and then after that would not reply unless I reached out again. I decided to stop doing that to see if she would msg me first and she hasn’t since May where I’m still left on read. I feel hurt and abandoned especially since she knows my trauma with bad friendships. I know I need to move on but this honestly feels like a breakup. I keep thinking maybe it’s my fault for how things ended like this and maybe if I didn’t tell her my problems our friendship could’ve been the same. I deleted sm because it hurts seeing that she’s active on there but ignoring me. I don’t know what to do or how I should cope
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I (22f) have severe social anxiety and always struggled making friends or having “friends” that just use me anyway way they could before leaving. I never really had a true friend until my sophomore year of hs where I met my best friend Amy (fake name). Amy and I had a lot of similarities and things in common she was also shy and had sa. I’d say my friendship with her was a healthy, reciprocal friendship where it wasn’t one sided and I didn’t feel like i was being taken advantage of. It lasted all the way up to adulthood where we only grew closer together. Fast forward, I had to move back home from college and take classes online due to some unfortunate events this year. So I got to hang out more with Amy and things were going great. But moving back home was really hard for me since I have toxic parents and I don’t really have a good relationship with them and now that I was a adult coming back was hard for me trying to set boundaries for myself when they still tried to control/ disrespect me. I would vent to Amy about the stuff I was going through with them and she already knew I had problems with them.
I didn’t think it was a issue venting to her since I didn’t bring up drama to her everyday and I didn’t want to seem like a Debby downer. When I vented I would always apologize to her and she’d always reassure me that it okay and I could always talk to her whenever I needed. I noticed that she stopped reaching out to me and I didn’t think nothing of it at first since we’re both adults and have lives/ other responsibilities. But it started going from days to weeks that I didn’t hear from her so I reached out to one of her friends to ask if they heard from her. And her friend replied saying that she just spoke to her the day before and that crushed me. I sent her a long text message about how hurt I felt that she wasn’t talking to me and didn’t explain why and that I thought we had a better relationship than this. She replied with 3 long messages stating basically I was wearing her down with my family drama and she couldn’t take it anymore and that it was affecting her mental health along with her own issues that’s she’s already going through. She apologized for not being honest about her feelings when she would say i was okay for me me to vent. She didn’t want to hurt my feelings and didn’t want me to feel like she wasn’t there for me.
I responded and apologized for stressing her with my issues and promised that I wouldn’t mention anything related to that again and how this could be a learning experience for the both of us to set better boundaries and have better communication moving forward. After that conversation I gave her some space. our texts started becoming less and less. I noticed that she would only respond to me if I texted first and then after that would not reply unless I reached out again. I decided to stop doing that to see if she would msg me first and she hasn’t since May where I’m still left on read. I feel hurt and abandoned especially since she knows my trauma with bad friendships. I know I need to move on but this honestly feels like a breakup. I keep thinking maybe it’s my fault for how things ended like this and maybe if I didn’t tell her my problems our friendship could’ve been the same. I deleted sm because it hurts seeing that she’s active on there but ignoring me. I don’t know what to do or how I should cope
2024.06.08 22:44 RandomRDThrowaway4 A schism is brewing in r/superstonk after GameStop goes against doctrine by diluting the redditor's holdings for 3 billion USD. The apes proceed to have a holy war against those without unwavering conviction in the Messiah
Context
Superstonk is a subreddit focused around the discussion of GameStop (Hereinafter "GME") the stock; it became the predominant forum for GME holders after wallstreetbets stopped the posting of GME.
Recently, the main influencer of GME, DeepFuckingValue, came back from a multi year hiatus and began posting again. Given the circumstances of GameStop stock suddenly increasing in value, the company decided to issue new shares in order to raise additional capital at the expense of diluting the share count.
Why are the apes particularly upset? For those not in the loop and to offer a grossly oversimplification, most of the apes believe that GameStop will eventually be worth trillions of dollars per share after the great M.O.A.S.S. event occurs. With this idea in mind, they have come up with a myriad of ways of trying to cause this event to happen. The primary method of which is to copy the language of cryptocurrency
For the sake of brevity, I won't be completely defining all of the financial words being used here, because it's quite frankly a vast rabbit hole that isn't needed to understand the drama taking place.
Sadly, GameStop distributed 45+75 million shares with the latest offerings, effectively negating over 3 years of accumulation by the apes in their attempt to cause M.O.A.S.S. through this method (Unless you put on the tinfoil and say that the DRS count is grossly underestimated), hence leading to this drama where the apes try to figure out what could possibly be going on.
Definitions
GME: GameStop's stock ticker
M.O.A.S.S. (Mother Of All Short Squeezes): The event that causes every holder of GameStop to become infinitely wealthy; This isn't a sarcastic, there is a non-minority amount of apes who believe in the ability for GameStop to be worth more than the GDP of the entire world.
RK / Roaring Kitty or DFV / DeepFuckingValue: Considered a figure in the community that apes follow, he will be mentioned in these posts as he recently came back from a multiyear hiatus, but otherwise all you need to know is that he's one of the two individuals that cannot be insulted.
RC / Ryan Cohen: The current CEO of GameStop; the other individual that cannot be insulted and will be the main target in the upcoming linked drama, as he's the person with the power to cause the dilution in the first place.
Paperhands: To sell your holdings; selling is a socially discouraged move
DD: Generally used as broadly gesturing "there's due diligence that supports/rejects your conclusion"
Popcorn: Referring to AMC Theaters
AA - Adam Aron: The CEO of AMC, usually referenced in these discussions because he "sold out" the popcorn apes by diluting the AMC stock for money.
Shill: You might already know the definition of this word, but apes usually use this word for people against the idea of MOASS
Short(s): A financial term for describing someone that would make money from a stock given the stock falls in price. MOASS requires that shorts exist and in large amounts, because otherwise it would be real hard for a MOASS if there was no short squeeze. Can also be used to describe someone against GME
Hedgies: Shortform for "hedgefunds", a catch-all term for any organization against the success of GME / MOASS
HODL / Diamond Hands: Cryptocurrency and wallstreetbets lingo for "not selling"
Float: Financial term for the amount of shares that are distributed to investors for purchasing and moving around; MOASS requires that the float be 'small' or 'locked up' by people
The arguments are many
Serious talk about the share offering (13,057 points, 85% upvoted)
Thank you. This place is an echo chamber borderline cult mentality. RC himself said judge me on my actions not my words. Well his actions don’t seem to be in my favor.
How did this post with minimal content get 2,800 upvotes in a little over an hour at midnight when the sub is mostly dead??? Were these upvotes paid for or is some actor pushing this to the top of SuperStonk forcing the masses to think this is the subs consensus?
Sounds like you should sell and move on. Not me, tho.
If you don’t have conviction in RC and board to turn the company and deliver the short killshot. What the fuck have you been doing the last 3 years? I have conviction. I buy when the value is attractive. I hold. I’m chill. Cheers everyone.
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Superstonk is a subreddit focused around the discussion of GameStop (Hereinafter "GME") the stock; it became the predominant forum for GME holders after wallstreetbets stopped the posting of GME.
Recently, the main influencer of GME, DeepFuckingValue, came back from a multi year hiatus and began posting again. Given the circumstances of GameStop stock suddenly increasing in value, the company decided to issue new shares in order to raise additional capital at the expense of diluting the share count.
Why are the apes particularly upset? For those not in the loop and to offer a grossly oversimplification, most of the apes believe that GameStop will eventually be worth trillions of dollars per share after the great M.O.A.S.S. event occurs. With this idea in mind, they have come up with a myriad of ways of trying to cause this event to happen. The primary method of which is to copy the language of cryptocurrency
BuyAs a result of this mentality, many apes have committed to DRSing their shares, which primarily has an effect of making it vastly harder to sell their shares and providing GME the opportunity to report how many DRS'd shares exist. This kind of The latest documents pertaining to how many reported DRS shares listed 75 million shares (at 15.5 USD per share) representing a portfolio of over 1 billion USD at the time of reporting. The apes theorized that this method will eventually help cause MOASS by 'proving' something (Naked shorts, fake shares, float is locked etc.)
HODL until the great wealth transfer and/or reckoning
For the sake of brevity, I won't be completely defining all of the financial words being used here, because it's quite frankly a vast rabbit hole that isn't needed to understand the drama taking place.
Sadly, GameStop distributed 45+75 million shares with the latest offerings, effectively negating over 3 years of accumulation by the apes in their attempt to cause M.O.A.S.S. through this method (Unless you put on the tinfoil and say that the DRS count is grossly underestimated), hence leading to this drama where the apes try to figure out what could possibly be going on.
Definitions
GME: GameStop's stock ticker
M.O.A.S.S. (Mother Of All Short Squeezes): The event that causes every holder of GameStop to become infinitely wealthy; This isn't a sarcastic, there is a non-minority amount of apes who believe in the ability for GameStop to be worth more than the GDP of the entire world.
RK / Roaring Kitty or DFV / DeepFuckingValue: Considered a figure in the community that apes follow, he will be mentioned in these posts as he recently came back from a multiyear hiatus, but otherwise all you need to know is that he's one of the two individuals that cannot be insulted.
RC / Ryan Cohen: The current CEO of GameStop; the other individual that cannot be insulted and will be the main target in the upcoming linked drama, as he's the person with the power to cause the dilution in the first place.
Paperhands: To sell your holdings; selling is a socially discouraged move
DD: Generally used as broadly gesturing "there's due diligence that supports/rejects your conclusion"
Popcorn: Referring to AMC Theaters
AA - Adam Aron: The CEO of AMC, usually referenced in these discussions because he "sold out" the popcorn apes by diluting the AMC stock for money.
Shill: You might already know the definition of this word, but apes usually use this word for people against the idea of MOASS
Short(s): A financial term for describing someone that would make money from a stock given the stock falls in price. MOASS requires that shorts exist and in large amounts, because otherwise it would be real hard for a MOASS if there was no short squeeze. Can also be used to describe someone against GME
Hedgies: Shortform for "hedgefunds", a catch-all term for any organization against the success of GME / MOASS
HODL / Diamond Hands: Cryptocurrency and wallstreetbets lingo for "not selling"
Float: Financial term for the amount of shares that are distributed to investors for purchasing and moving around; MOASS requires that the float be 'small' or 'locked up' by people
The arguments are many
Serious talk about the share offering (13,057 points, 85% upvoted)
Check my post history. I've been here since the beginning and imo I am about as far from a shill as one can get without being DFV or one of the top wrinkle brains.Author's note: Drink a shot every time you see a loyalty test
Thank you. This place is an echo chamber borderline cult mentality. RC himself said judge me on my actions not my words. Well his actions don’t seem to be in my favor.
RC is a billionaire, you do not become a billionaire without exploitation. You should have known he was not your ally.People have high high cost basis. Shutting down every volatility by issues shares is no better than popcorn. Fuck this shit
I think we know more about our CEO than the user that has not been in this sub at all over the last three years. Are you even a GME investor or you just show up now to start talking fud? The DD still stands.
You’re exactly the problem that the OP is addressing
For pointing out that accounts claiming to have “been here from the beginning” have not, actually, been here at all? We’re all individual investors. If you or OP or anyone else has lost faith that the company aligns with your interests, don’t let us crayon eaters stop you. By all means, sell your position and walk. Short it, I don’t care. Coming here and screaming the roof is on fire over something we voted to let the company do? When their plans aren’t yet known? Over a failed gamma ramp that’s just another in a long line of failed gamma ramps? Sounds like this isn’t the investment for you, bye ✌️.
Are you really comparing popcorn to gme? GTFO. Man, between the shills, cry babies, and delusional people, this whole thread is a mess. You think it's the company's fault? If you have a high cost basis? Nobody made you buy at any price point. Literally a month ago shares were selling for $10. Now they made a bunch of money and the shares are 2.8 times what they were selling for a month ago. What in the hell you talking about?1. MOASS is not guaranteed. I would lean more towards unlikely. 2. RC's job, as CEO, is the future of the company. Not short term holders and squeezes. Downvote engage. I like the stock.
Meh. I’m not a shill. You’re kind of a jerk if you get bent out of shape at people if every time GME seems poised to run, the company issues more shares. That’s about the only thing popcorny here.
"Every time". LOL. Please, lay out your examples. This is absolutely not true. Gme has run up and come back down a number of times without any action or intervention by the company at all. I'm not going to argue with you about me being a jerk. Sometimes I am. You definitely have memory issues or are delusional though. Seriously, lay out for me the dates when gme was poised to run up and then the company diluted the stock "Everytime". I've been following the stock for years man. A line like that might work on somebody new but anybody who's been following the stock knows you're full of BS.
Said if. You’re a jerk. Blocked
I'm a long-term holder and have been for over 2 years, holder of GME for over 3. The fact that you can even say MOASS is not likely and be fine with it is disturbing. I didn't buy into GME for some regular long-term play. I bought GME for MOASS. No MOASS and I'm gone.Upvote only if you still believe MOASS is still coming (24,864 points, 76% upvoted)
Then you should be gone? MOASS is only possible, like in the real world where real numbers and real money exists, if the entire financial industry crumples, and the federal government pays out people who own one particular stock, but not the rest. You have to believe in a world where Intel, Boeing, Ford, et al would be last in line for federal guarantees, but GameStop would be first. You have to believe all of that for MOASS to be real. So, why are you still holding?
Lol I'm not entertaining an actual shill comment. I'll disagree and argue with other apes but you can fuck right off.
How did this post with minimal content get 2,800 upvotes in a little over an hour at midnight when the sub is mostly dead??? Were these upvotes paid for or is some actor pushing this to the top of SuperStonk forcing the masses to think this is the subs consensus?
I’m not a bot or shill. You can check my post history. I never expected this to blow up either. Figured posting late on Friday was going to be pretty dead but just seeking some consensus of thoughts based on todays eventsMOASS being in question at all is pretty telling that people are nowhere near as committed to GME as they claim.
In the last 14 minutes this post has gone from 2800 to almost 3700 upvotes (1:16am to 1:30am). You also have over 250 comments and you’ve only replied to 4. 3 of them are accusing you of bot upvotes and karma farming. The 4th one asked what price you plan to sell at and you answered that you have a price in mind with 3 digits. Sorry you’re sus. That upvote rate seems unrealistic this late at night, and your few responses to comments are sus. Mods if you see this might want to look into this post and guy. For reference, I posted a Happy Birthday post to DFV with a clip from his stream today not long after this post. DFVs birthday got 160 upvotes in the same time (while being #1 in rising), yet you got 3700 with no content, just doesn’t make sense.
No asking questions allowed! Only blind, cultish faith!How will it be coming when the company themself decides to fuck us over with dilution? Everything was aligned, we had momentum with all the speculation around earnings, DFV positions etc, but they decide to completely wreck it by diluting our shares. Not to mention years of DRS work were also wiped out just within a month. There’s no chance that RC isn’t fucking with investors at this point. Getting stabbed by the company themself rather than the enemies really hurts
Never said that, but you do you. I'm not "questioning" leadership until there is a concrete reason to. Hardly cultish faith.
Plenty of concrete reasons to. But if you’re holding your ears and eyes closed, you can’t tell the difference
Are you so regarded that you think companies can magically transform their business without cash???Why Not Wait Until Tuesday To Dilute? (40 points, 57% upvoted)
You are missing his point. This is about giving lives to short when they appeared to be cornered. Not once, twice, but 3 times. RC couldve done it at any other time but at the short killing momentum. How do we know if the 4th aint coming? What would you say if the 4th one is coming at the next up?
I'd say fuck yes, keep generating cash?
That is not a retail friendly way to generate cash my guy.
Maybe RC can start an onlyfans? How else would you propose we generate 5 billion dollars?
Sounds like you should sell and move on. Not me, tho.
Sounds like you should team up with Jim and suck some horses!We're in the Endgame now. (5,017 points, 86% upvoted)
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Buddy, if you don't know what you've invested in, maybe that's a sign it isn't for you. For me I know I've invested in a company with management I personally trust, transitioning away from a legacy business with a rabidly passionate investor base. There's also an added bonus of Wall Street likely being heavily short the stock which may accelerate the timeframe on my ROI.
Added bonus? You got the whole story wrong here, buddy. We are here for the MOASS,the business is the added bonus. Not the other way around. No one was thinking about the business in January 2021, no one was kissing RCs ass, we came for the MOASS and to punish some hedgies. I don't know how you got it all mixed up.
If you don’t have conviction in RC and board to turn the company and deliver the short killshot. What the fuck have you been doing the last 3 years? I have conviction. I buy when the value is attractive. I hold. I’m chill. Cheers everyone.
Short kill shot? He did the opppsite lmao. He gave them shares to get out without a squeeze. Literally did The opposite of a killshotMy favorites are the shills who claim to be OG apes. Just a couple hours ago, one got pissy when I called him a shill and responded with "I've been holding longer and gave more shares!" 🤣
The only killshot is turning the company around into a successful profit churning machine. Why would shorts ever close otherwise? They would just short the top of the squeeze again and walk away with more.
lol. Do you not see how ridiculous you sound? This sub is one million strong. Do you think this sub has a million people because “GME is a long term investment”? Honestly this is peak delusion. There are literally hundreds, if not thousands of company that have a better growth prospect than GameStop. You’re fucked if you can’t see that. Like this sub has more people subscribed than the NVDA sub, but you’re actually regarded if you think GME has a better growth prospect than NVDA. There is no reason to be here if you want to invest in GME long term. They don’t even have a fucking plan lmao. But yea, blindly trust Ryan Cohen. GME is dead if there is no MOASS.
What is a shill to you though? Anyone who doesn’t share your sentiment? Because that’s what I’ve been seeing on this sub for a long time. I have been here for 3 1/2 years and I am pissed about the share dilution. That doesn’t make me a shill, it makes me a human being with an opinion. Jesus Christ.Endgame my ass!! This is bullshit that they chopped the legs outta momentum. For all you fucks that say options are bad your the real shills. Buying calls is a bullish sign. Time decay happens and when you fuck it up people have aright to be pissed. Golden opportunity pissed down the drain by the timing of the announcement
The ones who are now saying they don't trust RC. Here's something to consider: The Hedgies were definitely gonna short it & drive the price down before, during & after the live stream. Absolutely no question about that. GameStop announced the ATM, and have either sold or not sold. If they sold, they did it when the momentum was gonna get killed, anyway. Which is really the best time to do it. Sort of like ripping the band-aid off all at once. They raise capital & won't have to worry about killing momentum later. If they didn't sell, then all of Friday's movement rests squarely on the Hedgies manipulating the price. Retail didn't cause those moves. This just further proves the manipulation. Plus, GME can now sell 75 million shares during MOASS to create a HUGE war chest for future improvements.
ShillTHE ENDGAME AGAIN - IM HERE TILL THE END
Hey shill check your post from 2 yrs ago that’s how I feel today but not by some big bad hedgies it’s worse it was done by my CEO.
The fact that you bothered to go through my posts that long is a strong indication you’re not a regular person because nobody who isn’t paid is going to that effort. This is the last response I’m bothering to give you
Lmao shill ass dude
get a real job
Actually this time is different RC printing shares and diluting. Dude literally scraped away all DRS value. Not shitting on GameStop but definitely want to know why he scraped $3-6 Billion away from shareholdersThey came out full force yesterday. Haters, shills, and anyone who came in for a quick buck are pissing their pants from a small dip. Diamond hands.
Then why do yall worship the guy?
He’s a fucking ceo of the company we invested in. Worship is such a loaded word that is meant to cause an emotional reaction in us and you. You’re actually the deluded one if you think about it for a few minutes… he’s our ceo and we trust him.
Its not a loaded word lmao. You dont treat RC the way you have ever treated the ceo of literally any other company you ever invested in, and you know that. You can pretend that you just love the company you havent shopped at for years all you want. You're in this sub for the squeeze just like everyone else.
So you think being pissed about share dilution is a shill tactic? Guess what. When I woke up yesterday morning and saw the news I knew the price was going to drop and kill the ITM options. I didn’t care about that. What I cared about was the dilution. No one told me this, no one shilled. I came to a realization on my own. Share dilution sucks. The good thing is that if gme has 5 billion in the bank, that means that there are almost 12 bucks per share and nearly no debt. So that should be the absolute minimum it can go now. Bad thing is that our shares are each a smaller percentage of the company and if we want to 100% lock the float we have to buy up more than 100 million more shares. That sucks. I’m also pissed about the timing. That sucked too. I hold but I’m tired. I think we deserve answers soon. We’re not just a billionaires cash machineYou say shills but it’s most likely regular people just tired
You have to break a few eggs if you want to make an omelette. I think there's a lot more to this situation than any of us know. We'll find out in due time.
There’s always a super secret plan that we can’t tell you until it’s time. I hope you’re right but I’m starting to get tired of this
Then bail out. Seriously. If you don't trust the leadership and you don't trust RC and you feel negative about the company then why are you invested in it? I don't get it. What's with you people who think RC and the leadership is terrible, but you're invested in them? Never invest in a company that I didn't trust the leadership. That would be insane. No offense but if you feel that bearish then why don't you get out? Personally after yesterday I'm even more bullish. More bullish than I ever have been before and I'm very excited about the next two weeks.
You know what? This place Is a fucking cult! “Leave if you don’t like it!” Jesus bro.
If you really don't trust them then it is very good advice to not invest. Why would you invest in a company that you don't trust? Seriously! I would never never never do that. I do trust the leadership and that's why I'm here.
Blind trust is absolute stupidity
I agree with you. Are you commenting on yourself?
I’m the one asking questions, ya dumb shit
Shill
Yea I’m the shill look at my post history 😂
Not going to waste effort but if you’re tired of holding just sell and get out. Spending your free time trying to spread angst is weird as fuck when the scenario objectively has never been bullish
2024.06.08 22:09 batmanbury On the Psychology of GME Holders - Zen, Fear & Doubt, GameStop's Destiny, and Black Holes
 | Psychology of GME HoldersIn the context of recent events—Roaring Kitty's livestream coinciding with another GameStop share offering "resulting in" (i.e. having absolutely nothing to do with) a significant drop in price—and seeing all the same old mixed emotions manifest throughout our community, I'm reminded of a certain quote by Sam Harris (philosopheneuroscientist/author).From a 2016 podcast with retired Navy SEAL, Jocko Willink, on bravery: "Bravery is this maybe unique emotion in that you can’t fake it, because faking it is actually bravery. If you’re terrified and you’re merely acting brave and going through the motions and putting yourself in harm’s way—that is what bravery is. For a great many other emotions, the counterfeit version of it is, in fact, the counterfeit. But it’s the real thing if you’re terrified and you’re then doing the thing that you’re terrified to do.""Yes, yes," Jocko replies, "To fake bravery is in fact to be brave." This got me thinking of what we really mean when we tell each other to be "zen." None of us—or, none that I know of—are Buddhist monks, but many of us claim and potentially do feel a kind of zen calm regardless of how GME behaves. Nonetheless, the fated return of our wizard "DFV the White" genuinely tested our resolve. We knew "something" was going to happen. We know now "something is happening." Even while watching this all unfold, knowing all we need to do is to remain zen, that's much easier said than done. \"Is this what it feels like to be zen?\" With this in mind, I took a step back from my memory of the past two or three days, took a step back from myself, and tried to examine what's really going on, not just in our beloved company and our stock, but in my own head. Because, despite all my best efforts to maintain "zen" as a sort of detached observer of happenstance, I found myself completely exposed to generating the very same thoughts that some said "shills" force us to reconcile. If I were truly zen, would I still have these thoughts and questions? Or does being zen simply mean being unaffected by their appearance in my mind?
\"Coulda shoulda woulda\"
Zen, Fear & Doubt are not Mutually ExclusiveWhat does it even mean to say "I could have done otherwise" or "I should have known this?" If I could actually rewind the clock, go back to the state of the universe at the time these events began to unfold, I actually could NOT have done otherwise. I would NOT have known anything. The state of my mind would be just as unprepared as the first time things happened. "Could have" and "should have" are just words we apply to the present moment when we let doubt and regret overcome our minds.And this is where the above idea about bravery applies. You can't stop certain thoughts from arising in consciousness. It doesn't mean you are not and will never be zen. However, if you can fake bravery while running terrified into a burning building and have that be true bravery, then you can fake being zen while observing—terrified—the volatile swings of GME, and have that become true zen upon reflection. It may take days or weeks of reflection, or it could be a matter of hours or minutes, but if reflection regardless of lag time yields acceptance and understanding of these events and oneself, then you have successfully sought out the zen we are claiming to have. You cannot be zen without having thoughts of doubt to overcome. You cannot be zen without having fear to overcome. Having fear doesn't mean you cannot be zen. But fear is the mind-killer as we know. And all you need to do is allow it to pass over you and through you, so that only you remain—zen. In the end, it is much more productive to have these thought experiments about the future, not the past. The Destiny of GameStopWe envision a bright, powerful, wealthy and influential future for this company. We envision ourselves also becoming wealthy, powerful, and influential members of our respective communities. We see all the necessary components for this future to manifest currently falling into place. They may be scattered, or the vision may be blurry, but we trust in Ryan Cohen to organize them into the most powerful force the world has seen, akin to today's Google of the internet, or like the Amazon of the retail world, but even more powerful. Maybe even a new kind of entity no one has thought about.\"Imagine a world without hedge funds\" This is not exaggeration, because as we know, the amount of wealth that has been poured into shorting GME, into trying to profit from killing this company, is so vast that we need astronomical analogies to begin conveying it, to picture it properly. Imagine a futuristic civilization that has harnessed the raw power and energy of its local star by constructing a spherical world around it — a "Dyson Sphere." Then, let's say that rather than allowing their magnificent technology to just passively collect solar radiation to benefit their world, they discover a way to aggressively and greedily "extract" even more energy from their Sun than it would output naturally. To their dismay they realize this accelerates the natural aging of the star, faster and faster, towards a state of instability. The outward force of nuclear fusion can no longer occur when all the lighter elements have been extracted and only the iron core remains. (Iron cannot be fused into heavier elements to produce energy) So the star reaches a critical point where the outward force of fusion stops and no longer counteracts the inward force of its own gravity. \"Greedy Dyson Sphere\" The star is massive enough to form a singularity. The civilization and its Dyson Sphere world at the event horizon is pulled towards the black hole, and all energy, minus any waste heat and light, that was extracted from their Sun throughout the ages goes back, whence it came. As it will be with GameStop. This powerful hedge fund civilization is sophisticated. It has constructed an elaborate shorting system made to perfectly but greedily extract the wealth and energy of companies, accelerating them towards quiet, cellar-boxed deaths. And there are a reasons they do not construct these systems around companies like Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, Google, etc. Those companies provide enough "radiant" wealth that simply holding their stock passively is quite profitable. Trying to extract even more out of those companies would cause problems, because they would defend themselves (easily) and may even turn the tables on them. GameStop was a perfect target. A little white dwarf that had basically exhausted all its fuel. A pathetic heat-death was just a matter of time. It could never go supernova, and most certainly was not massive enough to form a black hole. And yet, that little white dwarf did something impossible. It started to grow...brighter? Larger? \"Hedge Fund Collapse By Black Hole\" Large enough and bright enough that the system—which had already been constructed around it, and cannot merely be deconstructed—is now trapped inside its gravitational pull. The system is doomed. Whether the fate of the system is death by Supernova, or death by Black Hole remains an open question. Death, all the same. And with the death of that system comes the true rebirth of GameStop, and maybe even of our civilization, as all the wealth and energy previously extracted is pulled back in, whence it came. TL;DR:Buy, Hold, DRS.Zen. |
2024.06.08 21:42 Rosta6550 Die Strategie von RC und DFV ist eigentlich offensichtlich
Ryan Cohen hat den MOASS nicht verhindert. Er hat durch die Kapitalerhöhung (vielleicht) eine (mögliche) gamma ramp verhindert. Ich bezweifle auch das, weil mindestens ein Teil der Optionen von SHF gehalten wurde, die weiterhin in Kontrolle sind und den Preis wieder hätten drücken können.
Dadurch hat RC Leuten geschadet, die mit Optionen spekuliert haben. Den eigentlichen short squeeze ermöglicht er nach meiner Meinung mit seiner Strategie aber erst.
HINTERGRUND
SHF wollten ursprünglich den Bankrott von GME, um die Aktien wertlos zu machen. Dieser Versuch ist gescheitert und die SHF haben mehr Aktien verkauft, als existieren, die nicht mit echten Aktien, sondern mit Schuldverschreibungen gedeckt sind.
SHF müssen den Wert der Aktie unter einem (nicht bekannten) Kurs halten, der Margin Calls auslösen und zur Liquidation führen würde.
Hierfür müssen sie weitere Aktien, die sie nicht haben, verkaufen und erhöhen damit ihre short-Positionen. Das geschieht, indem nicht registrierte Aktien geliehen und Schuldverschreibungen (IOUs) erstellt werden. Nicht verfügbar hierfür sind registrierte Aktien von Insidern, von institutionellen Investoren (insb. Blackrock und Vanguard) und von Anlegern, die ihre Aktien registriert oder bei ihrem Broker das Verleihen untersagt haben.
SHF dürfen den Kurs andererseits nicht unter einen Preis sinken lassen, bei dem Gamestop (und/oder ein oder mehrere registrierte Großanleger) alle verfügbaren Aktien aus eigenem Kapital kaufen können. Das würde weiteres shorten unmöglich machen und gleichzeitig offenbar werden lassen, dass es die von den SHF verkaufen Aktien gar nicht gibt.
Die SHF befinden sich also in einem Kanal, der von folgenden Parametern bestimmt wird:
Bisher ist es den SHF durch das shorten und die „fake-runs“ gelungen, einen short squeeze zu vermeiden, weil der Abstand zwischen TIEFSSTPREIS und HÖCHSTPREIS ausreichend groß war, um den Preis innerhalb dieses Kanals zu manipulieren.
Ryan Cohen hat nach seinem Eintritt zunächst einen Aktienrückkauf bei niedrigem Kurs durchgeführt. Anschließend hat er mehrere Kapitalerhöhungen durchgeführt, bei denen er jeweils den durch die „Fake-Runs“ erhöhten Preis genutzt hat.
Der ABSOLUTE TIEFSTPREIS lag vor der Kapitalerhöhung im Mai bei 3,6 $ und ist durch die Kapitalerhöhung im Mai auf 5,7 $ gestiegen. Nach der Kapitalerhöhung im Juni wird er bei einem Verkauf zu 30 - 40 $ bei ca. 8- 11 $ liegen, also einer Preisregion, in der der tatsächliche Aktienkurs noch vor sechs Wochen lag.
Der durch die Kapitalerhöhungen eingenommene Kapital wurde nicht für substantielle Investitionen ausgegeben.
EINSCHÄTZUNG
Für einen strategischen Investor wie Ryan Cohen ist es absolut ungewöhnlich, solange auf totem Kapital zu sitzen und immer wieder neue Kapitalerhöhungen durchzuführen, bevor das Geld aus der letzten investiert ist. Nach meinem Verständnis schützt er damit die Aktie gegen die Preisangriffe der SHF und schiebt den TIEFSTPREIS kontinuierlich nach oben. Zugleich ist das eine konstante Drohung gegenüber den SHF. Er hat ja gleich nach seinem Eintritt als CEO einen Aktienrückkauf durchgeführt und auch jetzt ist ein Aktienrückkauf bereits angemeldet, so dass er jederzeit durchgeführt werden kann.
Keith Gill hat den Handel der SHF bei den Fake-runs durchschaut und imitiert. Durch seine Position (5 Mio. Aktien + 12 Mio. Call-Optionen) hat er die Möglichkeit, ca. 5% der verfügbaren Aktien zu kaufen. Wenn er den nächsten „Fake-Run“ in gleicher Weise mitmacht, könnte er auf über 10 % kommen. Er reduziert damit substantiell die Zahl der VERFÜGBAREN AKTIEN. Gleichzeitig erhöht er damit den TIEFSTPREIS und auch den ABSOLUTERN TIEFSTPREIS, weil aus dem freien Eigenkapital von GAMESTOP entsprechend weniger Aktien erworben werden müssten.
Wenn beide Seiten so weiter machen, bedeutet das:
Der ABSOLUTE TIEFSTPREIS unter den der Kurs schon theoretisch gar nicht fallen kann, steigt kontinuierlich, dadurch auch der TIEFSTPREIS und der tatsächliche Aktienkurs.
Der Spielraum zwischen TIEFSTPREIS und HÖCHSTPREIS, innerhalb dessen die SHF „Fake-runs“ inszenieren und Gewinne auf Kosten der Kleinanleger machen können, verkleinert sich ebenso kontinuierlich.
Sowohl Ryan Cohen als auch Keith Gill schieben also den TIEFSTPREIS und den Aktienkurs in Richtung HÖCHSTPREIS, der Margin Calls auslösen würde. Dabei ist es für einen short queeze wahrscheinlich nicht erforderlich, dass der TIEFSTPREIS den HÖCHSTPREIS erreicht, es dürfte ausreichen, wenn der Kanal unterhalb des HÖCHSTPREISES bis zu einem bestimmten Grad verengt wird, bei dem die Katalysatoren, die bisher nicht ausreichend waren, zu einem Kursanstieg über den HÖCHSTPREIS führen. Außerdem könnte Gamestop in dieser Phase einen Aktenrückkauf durchführen und damit den Preisanstieg auslösen.
Was folgt daraus für mich?
Edit: SHF haben die Aktien nicht gekauft, sondern leer verkauft.
Edit: Zu den Zyklen gibt es auf Superstonk, eine gute DD "The Dateless Cycle" von TiberiusWoodwind. Die wird auch im Video E320 von Richard Newton besprochen. Wir sollten also die FTD Zahlen, die am Samstag verfügbar sein werden, im Auge behalten.
Edit: Eine Ergänzung aus dem Thread, die ich für wichtig halte:
Wir wissen nicht, ob RC schon angefangen hat zu verkaufen. Richard Newton hat im Video E322 darauf aufmerksam gemacht, dass am Freitag das short volume extrem hoch gewesen ist, was nicht dazu passt, dass die Aktien aus dem ATM verfügbar waren. Daher folgende These:
submitted by Rosta6550 to Spielstopp [link] [comments]
Dadurch hat RC Leuten geschadet, die mit Optionen spekuliert haben. Den eigentlichen short squeeze ermöglicht er nach meiner Meinung mit seiner Strategie aber erst.
HINTERGRUND
SHF wollten ursprünglich den Bankrott von GME, um die Aktien wertlos zu machen. Dieser Versuch ist gescheitert und die SHF haben mehr Aktien verkauft, als existieren, die nicht mit echten Aktien, sondern mit Schuldverschreibungen gedeckt sind.
SHF müssen den Wert der Aktie unter einem (nicht bekannten) Kurs halten, der Margin Calls auslösen und zur Liquidation führen würde.
Hierfür müssen sie weitere Aktien, die sie nicht haben, verkaufen und erhöhen damit ihre short-Positionen. Das geschieht, indem nicht registrierte Aktien geliehen und Schuldverschreibungen (IOUs) erstellt werden. Nicht verfügbar hierfür sind registrierte Aktien von Insidern, von institutionellen Investoren (insb. Blackrock und Vanguard) und von Anlegern, die ihre Aktien registriert oder bei ihrem Broker das Verleihen untersagt haben.
SHF dürfen den Kurs andererseits nicht unter einen Preis sinken lassen, bei dem Gamestop (und/oder ein oder mehrere registrierte Großanleger) alle verfügbaren Aktien aus eigenem Kapital kaufen können. Das würde weiteres shorten unmöglich machen und gleichzeitig offenbar werden lassen, dass es die von den SHF verkaufen Aktien gar nicht gibt.
Die SHF befinden sich also in einem Kanal, der von folgenden Parametern bestimmt wird:
- VERFÜGBARE AKTIEN: Zahl der für das Decken der shorts verfügbaren, nicht registrierten (realen) Aktien
- HÖCHSTPREIS: Aktienkurs, der Margin-Calls auslösen würde.
- ABSOLUTER TIEFSTPREIS: Kurs bei dem Gamestop alleine aus freiem Kapital alle noch verfügbaren Aktien zurückkaufen kann.
- TIEFSTPREIS: Kurs bei dem alle tatsächlich existierenden Aktien von Gamestop und/oder möglichen registrierten Investoren erworben werden können. Diesem Preis dürfen die SHF nicht nahekommen.
Bisher ist es den SHF durch das shorten und die „fake-runs“ gelungen, einen short squeeze zu vermeiden, weil der Abstand zwischen TIEFSSTPREIS und HÖCHSTPREIS ausreichend groß war, um den Preis innerhalb dieses Kanals zu manipulieren.
Ryan Cohen hat nach seinem Eintritt zunächst einen Aktienrückkauf bei niedrigem Kurs durchgeführt. Anschließend hat er mehrere Kapitalerhöhungen durchgeführt, bei denen er jeweils den durch die „Fake-Runs“ erhöhten Preis genutzt hat.
Der ABSOLUTE TIEFSTPREIS lag vor der Kapitalerhöhung im Mai bei 3,6 $ und ist durch die Kapitalerhöhung im Mai auf 5,7 $ gestiegen. Nach der Kapitalerhöhung im Juni wird er bei einem Verkauf zu 30 - 40 $ bei ca. 8- 11 $ liegen, also einer Preisregion, in der der tatsächliche Aktienkurs noch vor sechs Wochen lag.
Der durch die Kapitalerhöhungen eingenommene Kapital wurde nicht für substantielle Investitionen ausgegeben.
EINSCHÄTZUNG
Für einen strategischen Investor wie Ryan Cohen ist es absolut ungewöhnlich, solange auf totem Kapital zu sitzen und immer wieder neue Kapitalerhöhungen durchzuführen, bevor das Geld aus der letzten investiert ist. Nach meinem Verständnis schützt er damit die Aktie gegen die Preisangriffe der SHF und schiebt den TIEFSTPREIS kontinuierlich nach oben. Zugleich ist das eine konstante Drohung gegenüber den SHF. Er hat ja gleich nach seinem Eintritt als CEO einen Aktienrückkauf durchgeführt und auch jetzt ist ein Aktienrückkauf bereits angemeldet, so dass er jederzeit durchgeführt werden kann.
Keith Gill hat den Handel der SHF bei den Fake-runs durchschaut und imitiert. Durch seine Position (5 Mio. Aktien + 12 Mio. Call-Optionen) hat er die Möglichkeit, ca. 5% der verfügbaren Aktien zu kaufen. Wenn er den nächsten „Fake-Run“ in gleicher Weise mitmacht, könnte er auf über 10 % kommen. Er reduziert damit substantiell die Zahl der VERFÜGBAREN AKTIEN. Gleichzeitig erhöht er damit den TIEFSTPREIS und auch den ABSOLUTERN TIEFSTPREIS, weil aus dem freien Eigenkapital von GAMESTOP entsprechend weniger Aktien erworben werden müssten.
Wenn beide Seiten so weiter machen, bedeutet das:
Der ABSOLUTE TIEFSTPREIS unter den der Kurs schon theoretisch gar nicht fallen kann, steigt kontinuierlich, dadurch auch der TIEFSTPREIS und der tatsächliche Aktienkurs.
Der Spielraum zwischen TIEFSTPREIS und HÖCHSTPREIS, innerhalb dessen die SHF „Fake-runs“ inszenieren und Gewinne auf Kosten der Kleinanleger machen können, verkleinert sich ebenso kontinuierlich.
Sowohl Ryan Cohen als auch Keith Gill schieben also den TIEFSTPREIS und den Aktienkurs in Richtung HÖCHSTPREIS, der Margin Calls auslösen würde. Dabei ist es für einen short queeze wahrscheinlich nicht erforderlich, dass der TIEFSTPREIS den HÖCHSTPREIS erreicht, es dürfte ausreichen, wenn der Kanal unterhalb des HÖCHSTPREISES bis zu einem bestimmten Grad verengt wird, bei dem die Katalysatoren, die bisher nicht ausreichend waren, zu einem Kursanstieg über den HÖCHSTPREIS führen. Außerdem könnte Gamestop in dieser Phase einen Aktenrückkauf durchführen und damit den Preisanstieg auslösen.
Was folgt daraus für mich?
- Das theoretische Verlustrisiko ist durch den TIEFSTPREIS begrenzt.
- Nicht in einen „fake-run“ hineinkaufen.
- Die Zyklen beobachten und nach den „fake-runs“ kaufen.
- Im Fake-run einen Teil der Aktien verkaufen, um nach dem Sinken des Kurses mehr Aktien zu kaufen. Birgt natürlich das Risiko, dass es kein „Fake-run“ ist, sondern schon der shortsqueeze, daher würde ich das immer nur mit einem geringen Prozentsatz meiner Aktien machen.
Edit: SHF haben die Aktien nicht gekauft, sondern leer verkauft.
Edit: Zu den Zyklen gibt es auf Superstonk, eine gute DD "The Dateless Cycle" von TiberiusWoodwind. Die wird auch im Video E320 von Richard Newton besprochen. Wir sollten also die FTD Zahlen, die am Samstag verfügbar sein werden, im Auge behalten.
Edit: Eine Ergänzung aus dem Thread, die ich für wichtig halte:
Wir wissen nicht, ob RC schon angefangen hat zu verkaufen. Richard Newton hat im Video E322 darauf aufmerksam gemacht, dass am Freitag das short volume extrem hoch gewesen ist, was nicht dazu passt, dass die Aktien aus dem ATM verfügbar waren. Daher folgende These:
- RK kündigt den Livestream an. RC kündigt 75m Dilution an.
- Beides wird in die Algorythmen der SHF eingegeben, die deswegen am Freitag wie verrückt shorten. Sie verkaufen in großem Umfang Aktien leer in der Erwartung, dass es durch das neue ATM ja genug geben wird.
- Die Aktien wurden aber noch gar nicht verkauft.
- Damit ist die Dilution zwar schon eingepreist aber noch gar nicht durchgeführt.
- Dann könnte RC sie bei höheren Preisen verkaufen oder als Versicherung gegen eine feindliche Übernahme zurückhalten
2024.06.08 21:30 Magical_Narwhal888 Thank you mods and thank you to this sub
 | This morning I woke up to what seemed like a never ending stream of negativity and FUD in other subs that I’m not seeing here. So I wanted to say that I really appreciate that this community hasn’t descended into a bunch of negative, destructive, and argumentative posts. submitted by Magical_Narwhal888 to Teddy [link] [comments] https://preview.redd.it/hdy7z9m6ge5d1.jpg?width=512&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=13415ca1e1ede4e708749b3f41f2fa07d98db7fe I don’t mean that there’s no room for discussion or disagreement, nor that people shouldn’t be able to question the choices RC makes, but the posts I’m referring to leave no room for discussion, they just serve to sow negative sentiment. For that reason, I’m sure many of the negative posts are disingenuous and posted by bad actors, but other mods haven’t seen fit to weed those out. It’s as if somehow people on these subs haven’t been researching and studying these plays for over three years and haven’t experienced letdowns like this before. There have been warnings that there would be false starts, fake squeezes, sharts, and massive FUD along the way, and I for one think yesterday fell into one of those categories and even though I’m tired boss, I am here for the long haul. A positive and confident mindset is so important when you’re hodling something that so many people in other spaces and the media are so negative about. It’s hard not to let yourself get down when a price drops or shares disappear out of accounts and the process you thought would be over in months is in its fourth year, but this sub as well as many subs along the way are full of well thought out and well researched due diligence that give me great confidence in the plays I’ve chosen to participate in. I’ve mentioned this in other posts, but I created this account to make posts a couple of months ago after lurking since January of ‘21 on my personal account, and have seen my fair share of subs descend into a shadow of their former selves, but people always move on and build something new and better. Thinking back to where this all started it feels like a world away, and the journey has been a long one, far too long for me to just give up on when the MOASS didn’t materialize on the heels of a series of articles hyping up DFV’s stream and without any catalyzing statement from RC, GameStop, Teddy or any official player in the process. The VW squeeze only happened after Porsche disclosed their position. Yes the SHF might try to get out of some of their positions to be the first ones out of the gate, and there might be spikes like there have recently been, but I imagine the world won’t see any true MOASS happen without official news to be the catalyst. Don’t get me wrong, I fight the temptation to be negative, too - it’s been a long and difficult four plus years for me aside from this, and I have a lot riding on these plays, but at the end of the day I’m able to look at the whole picture and shore up my confidence in the thesis (theses). I don’t mean to say that anyone should stick their heads in the sand, and everyone must make their own decisions, but all of the negative posts I’ve seen elsewhere seem to have forgotten a few things of note that have been discussed of late: GME has their annual meeting next week on the 13th, Chubb just settled their claim after Buffett kept his position secret for so long, the WuTang album is going to bring more visibility to this, whether it’s officially related to GameStop or not, just to mention a few. DFV’s stream and the potential ramp yesterday isn’t the only potential catalyst on the board, and I’m sure he didn’t want to be seen as the catalyst, because he doesn’t want to spend the next 5 years of his life in a legal battle or worse. Ryan Cohen started Chewy to provide a better shopping experience for pets, and as a fuck you to Jeff Bezos, he saw something in GameStop when most people didn’t, and has made it a profitable company, and he made it clear that he wanted Buy Buy Baby on more than one occasion, and in my opinion he didn’t just give up and walk away from that fight when faced with a disagreeable board. Something of this magnitude takes time to finish. Carl Icahn started buying TWA stock in 1984 but didn’t complete the full leveraged buyout until 1988. And during the intervening years TWA sued him to try to keep him from buying shares and fought him the entire way. In the case of BBBY, Ryan Cohen didn’t have the same luxury of time, and therefore wouldn’t have had the opportunity to continue buying in and fighting the fight from the inside. He probably saw the writing on the wall, and knew the board was running it into the ground and rapidly steering the ship towards bankruptcy, so in my opinion he had to find a different way but given the situation he can’t telegraph his moves. Whether Icahn is involved or not, RC admires him and has learned from him or learned by example, and neither of them like short sellers. So I choose to trust that when Carl says he’s planning on “doing something the short sellers will never forget,” and when Ryan Cohen registers a company in the name of his beloved father that just so happens to name the items Baby sells amongst its list of eligible products, not to mention all of the other breadcrumbs that have been found along the way, that there is something going on behind the scenes, that when it’s revealed will change the lives of everyone involved. Thanks for reading this wordy post if you’ve made it this far, and thank you again to the people on this sub and the mods for helping keep things in perspective. I’m really looking forward to hearing all of the post-moass stories of people doing good in the world with their money and showing the former billionaires how it’s done! 🎮🦍🍼🦋🧸🚀🌕🪐 |
2024.06.08 21:09 SanderSo47 Directors at the Box Office: Ang Lee
 | https://preview.redd.it/3ey3xk1cce5d1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=013619527a9526a4c1a28fce38d2b1320c6e7192 submitted by SanderSo47 to boxoffice [link] [comments] Here's a new edition of "Directors at the Box Office", which seeks to explore the directors' trajectory at the box office and analyze their hits and bombs. I already talked about a few, and as I promised, it's Ang Lee's turn. Lee's father, a respect principal, was hoping that his son would become a professor. But he was disappointed when his son failed his high school exam twice, forcing him to attend a less privileged university. Seeing Ingmar Bergman's film The Virgin Spring was a formative experience for him. After finishing his mandatory military service, he moved to the United States to complete his studies. He wanted to become an actor, but his struggle with English made him move into directing. After finally meeting a few contacts in the industry, he started working as a director. From a box office perspective, how reliable was he to deliver a box office hit? That's the point of this post. To analyze his career. Pushing Hands (1991)His directorial debut. It stars Sihung Lung, Lai Wang, Bo Z. Wang, Deb Snyder and Haan Lee. It follows a Chinese tai chi master living in New York, who struggles to find his place in the world. The film shows the contrast between traditional Chinese ideas of Confucian relationships within a family and the much more informal Western emphasis on the individual.Lee graduated from New York University Tisch School of the Arts in 1984, but had failed to find career opportunities since, working almost full-time as a house-father. During the intermediate six years, he became interested in martial arts, specifically tai chi, after reading the wuxia novel Jianghu qixia zhuan. This motivated him to write a screenplay, which brought the attention of Hsu Li-kong, a recently promoted senior manager in a major studio who had a strong interest in Lee's unique style and freshness. He invited Lee to make his directorial debut. It had a very limited release, and it was reported that it made just $152,322 domestically. But it received acclaim in the United States and Taiwan. And that allowed Lee to finally get a chance to expand his horizon.
The Wedding Banquet (2023)"You are cordially invited to a wedding where everybody wants to kiss the bride... except the groom."His second film. The film stars Gua Ah-leh, Lung Sihung, May Chin, Winston Chao and Mitchell Lichtenstein. The story concerns a bisexual Taiwanese immigrant man who marries a mainland Chinese woman to placate his parents and get her a green card. His plan backfires when his parents arrive in the United States to plan his wedding banquet and he has to hide the truth of his gay partner. Neil Peng approached Lee with the idea in 1986 by revealing to Lee that one of their mutual friends had moved to the United States and was in a same-sex relationship without the knowledge of the man's parents. Lee and Peng began writing the screenplay two years later and were soon joined by James Schamus. Schamus wrote that the film was "first drafted in Chinese, then translated into English, re-written in English, translated back into Chinese, and eventually subtitled in Chinese and English and a dozen other languages." The film was critically acclaimed, and became a sleeper hit, earning $23.6 million against a budget of just $1 million. Lee was on the rise.
Eat Drink Man Woman (1994)"It's hard to tell where sex stops and food begins."His third film. It stars Sihung Lung, Wang Yu-wen, Wu Chien-lien, and Yang Kuei-mei. It follows four members of the Zhu family as they navigate the challenges of love, life, tradition and family. This film deals with the transition from tradition to modernity. It is Lee's first (and to date, only film) to be shot entirely in his native Taiwan. Like his previous films, another critical and commercial success. Lee quickly made himself a household name.
Sense and Sensibility (1995)"Lose your heart and come to your senses."His fourth film. Based on the novel by Jane Austen, and it stars Emma Thompson (who also wrote the screenplay), Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman. The story follows the Dashwood sisters, members of a wealthy English family of landed gentry, as they must deal with circumstances of sudden destitution. They are forced to seek financial security through marriage. In 1989, producer Lindsay Doran suggested adapting the novel to her colleagues. She was a lifelong fan of the novel, and vowed to make a film adaptation if she ever made it into the industry. Looking for a writer, Doran read screenplays by English and American writers until she came across a series of comedic skits, often in period settings, that actress Emma Thompson had written and decided that that was the direction she wanted for the film. As they were working on the film Dead Again, Doran hired Thompson to write the film, even though she never wrote a feature-length film before. Thompson spent five years writing and revising the screenplay, both during and between shooting other films. Believing the novel's language to be "far more arcane than in [Austen's] later books," Thompson sought to simplify the dialogue while retaining the "elegance and wit of the original." Despite Doran's confidence, studios were reluctant to pick up the film, as Thompson never wrote a film. Columbia Pictures executive Amy Pascal supported Thompson's work and agreed to sign as the producer and distributor. In 1993, Lee was hired to direct, basically for his work in The Wedding Banquet. Even though he was not familiar with Jane Austen, Doran felt that Lee's films, which depicted complex family relationships amidst a social comedy context, were a good fit with Austen's storylines. Viewing it as a "director for hire" job, Lee spent six months in preparing for the film, as it would have his largest budget ($16 million) by that point. Doran and Columbia asked Thompson to play Elinor herself. The film received widespread critical acclaim, and was included on more than a hundred top-ten of the year lists, as well as one of the best Austen adaptations. It was a huge box office hit, earning $134 million worldwide. It received 7 Oscar nominations, including Best Picture and Best Actress. Thompson won Best Adapted Screenplay, making her the only person to have won an Oscar for both her writing and acting (she won Best Actress two years prior). However, Lee was not nominated for Best Director, a decision that was criticized by many as Hollywood's racism against Lee and Chinese cinema in general. Lee sought to avoid turning his omission into a scandal and specifically asked the Taiwan state media not to make it a "national issue", explaining that he endured more pressure when forced to act as his country's representative.
The Ice Storm (1997)"The American Dream was over. But the hangover was just beginning."His fifth film. Based on the novel by Rick Moody, it stars Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, Tobey Maguire, Christina Ricci, Elijah Wood, Katie Holmes, Glenn Fitzgerald, Jamey Sheridan and Sigourney Weaver. Set during Thanksgiving 1973, it follows two dysfunctional New Canaan, Connecticut, upper-class families who are trying to deal with tumultuous social changes of the early 1970s, and their escapism through alcohol, adultery and sexual experimentation. The film ended Lee's winning streak at the box office, but it was still critically acclaimed.
Ride with the Devil (1999)"In a no-man's land between North and South, you didn't fight for the blue or grey, you fought for your friends and your family."His sixth film. Based on the novel Woe to Live On by Daniel Woodrell, it stars Tobey Maguire, Skeet Ulrich, Jeffrey Wright, Jewel, Simon Baker, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, James Caviezel, Thomas Guiry and Jonathan Brandis. Set during the American Civil War, it follows a group of men who join the First Missouri Irregulars, also known as the Bushwhackers — guerrilla units loyal to pro-Confederacy units of the state — and their war against Northern Jayhawkers allied with the Union army. Despite commanding a $38 million budget, the film had a very limited three-day run, making less than $1 million. It also received mixed reviews from critics.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)"A timeless story of strength, secrets, and two warriors who would never surrender."His seventh film. Based on the Chinese novel serialized between 1941 and 1942 by Wang Dulu, it stars Chow Yun-fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, and Chang Chen. Master Li Mu Bai, a warrior, is about to retire and gives his sword to his lover Yu Shu Lien to keep it safe. However, the sword is stolen and now an embittered Li embarks on a mission to find it. The stunt work was mostly performed by the actors themselves and Ang Lee stated in an interview that computers were used "only to remove the safety wires that held the actors" aloft. "Most of the time you can see their faces," he added. "That's really them in the trees." The film specifically targeted Western audiences rather than the domestic audiences who were already used to Wuxia films. As a result, high-quality English subtitles were needed. Ang Lee, who was educated in the West, personally edited the subtitles to ensure they were satisfactory for Western audiences. Whatever were the expectations for this, the film exceeded them by a large margin. After a limited release, it earned $8 million in its first wide domestic opening weekend. But the crazy thing was how insane were its legs; it didn't hit a sub $4 million weekend until its 12th wide weekend, and it even increased from some weekends. It closed with a colossal $128 million domestically, becoming the highest foreign-language film in United States, a record it still keeps, and it's twice as much as the second place, Life Is Beautiful. Worldwide, it earned $213.9 million worldwide, becoming a worldwide phenomenon and Lee's highest grossing film. The film was widely acclaimed across the world, hailed as one of the greatest films of the century. The film led to a boost in popularity of Chinese wuxia films in the Western world, where they were previously little known, and led to films such as Hero and House of Flying Daggers, both directed by Zhang Yimou, being marketed towards Western audiences. It received 10 Oscar nominations (the most for a foreign film), including Best Picture and Best Director for Lee. It won four: Best Foreign Language Film, Best Art Direction, Best Original Score, and Best Cinematography. To this day, one of the most iconic foreign titles. Lee made history.
Hulk (2003)"Unleash the fury."His eighth film. Based on the Marvel Comics character created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, it stars Eric Bana, Jennifer Connelly, Sam Elliott, Josh Lucas, and Nick Nolte. The film explores Bruce Banner's origins. After a lab accident involving gamma radiation, he transforms into a giant green-skinned humanoid with superhuman strength known as the Hulk whenever stressed or emotionally provoked. The United States military pursues him, and he clashes with his biological father, who has dark plans for his son. Since 1990, Avi Arad and Gale Ann Hurd were working on a Hulk film, but Universal was struggling in finding the right script. Hurd brought her husband Jonathan Hensleigh as co-producer the following year, and Universal hired Industrial Light & Magic to create the Hulk with computer-generated imagery. Joe Johnston was hired as director, but he eventually left to work on another film, while Zak Penn was brought to rewrite. Hensleigh subsequently rewrote the script with J. J. Abrams. Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski were also brought on board to rewrite, with Hensleigh deciding to direct the film himself despite not having directed before. By 1998, Universal put the film on hiatus due to its escalating $100 million budget and worries of Hensleigh directing his first film. $20 million was already spent on script development, computer animation, and prosthetics work. Hensleigh immediately went to rewrite the script to reduce the budget. In 2001, Lee and his colleague James Schamus signed for the project, after Lee chose not to direct Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. He was dissatisfied with the script and commissioned Schamus for a rewrite, merging Banner's father with the Absorbing Man. Lee cited influences from King Kong, Frankenstein, Jekyll and Hyde, Beauty and the Beast, Faust, and Greek mythology to interpret the story. Schamus said he had found the storyline that introduced Brian Banner, allowing Lee to write a drama that again explored father-son themes. Schamus admitted to feeling pressure after the release of Spider-Man. Eric Bana commented that the shoot was "Ridiculously serious... a silent set, morbid in a lot of ways." Lee told him that he was shooting a Greek tragedy, and that he would be making a "whole other movie" about the Hulk at Industrial Light & Magic. An example of Lee's arthouse approach to the film was taking Bana to watch a bare-knuckle boxing match. Bana would later disfavorably reflect on his experience making the film as the majority of the time he was working indoors while the rest of the cast interacted with a CGI recreation of the Hulk, somewhat limiting his screen time. After the colossal success of Spider-Man, Universal mounted an extensive marketing campaign, which also highlighted Ang Lee's involvement. The film opened with a huge $62.1 million in its first weekend, the biggest June debut and the 16th biggest ever. However, the film had absolutely no legs at the box office. In its second weekend, it dropped a colossal 69.7%, which was the biggest for a film that opened above $20 million. In its third weekend, it fell another steep 56.3% and it kept falling until it left theaters, becoming the largest opener not to earn $150 million. It closed with $132 million domestically and $245 million worldwide. Good enough to be the 15th highest grossing film of the year and Lee's highest grossing film, but not a hit given its $137 million budget. If Spider-Man was an immediate crowd-pleaser, Hulk was the exact opposite. It received polarizing reviews; while its ambition and style was praised, a lot criticized its CGI and very limited action ("too much talking and not enough smashing"). In subsequent years, some have praised the film as an ambitious film that deviated from the superhero formula, although it's still not widely considered as a beloved film. Lee admitted the challenges of the film, but stood proud of the film and its fans.
Brokeback Mountain (2005)"Love is a force of nature."His ninth film. Based on the short story by Annie Proulx, it stars Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway, Michelle Williams and Randy Quaid. Its plot depicts the complex romantic relationship between two American cowboys, Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist, in the American West from 1963 to 1983. Screenwriter Diana Ossana discovered Annie Proulx's short story in October 1997, just days after its publication. She convinced writing partner Larry McMurtry to read it, who thought it was a "masterpiece". The pair asked Proulx if they could adapt it into a film screenplay; although she did not think that the story would work as a film, she agreed. The big challenge wasn't the script, it was about getting the film made in the first place. Gus Van Sant attempted to make the film, hoping to cast Matt Damon and Joaquin Phoenix as Ennis and Jack, respectively. He also considered Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Ryan Phillippe and Josh Hartnett. Damon, who previously worked with Van Sant on Good Will Hunting, told the director, "Gus, I did a gay movie (The Talented Mr. Ripley), then a cowboy movie (All the Pretty Horses). I can't follow it up with a gay-cowboy movie!" James Schamus, who was now the CEO of Focus Features, optioned the film rights in 2001. Pedro Almodovar was approached, but he felt he couldn't get his artistic freedom respected. At Ossana's request, Schamus showed the story and screenplay to Lee. Lee decided instead to make Hulk, and that film's experience left him exhausted, to the point that he considered retiring. When he was offered Brokeback, he changed his mind and agreed to direct. He was particularly drawn to the authentic rural American life and repression depicted in the story. Ossana and McMurty suggested Heath Ledger, but the film studio thought he was not masculine enough. Regardless, Ledger got the script, who thought it was "beautiful" and put himself forward. Gyllenhaal reacted to the script positively and signed on for the role; he also did not want to miss the opportunity working with Lee and friend Ledger. Lee met with Mark Wahlberg for a role in the film, but Wahlberg declined as he was "creeped out" by the script. Gyllenhaal admired Ledger and described him as "way beyond his years as a human". Other actors were considered for the leads but Lee said they were too afraid to take on the roles. You have to consider that while the world progressed a lot in the past years, 2005 was a very different era, so a film like Brokeback Mountain had a tough hill to climb. Some countries refused to play the film, while others censored it. LGBT films weren't big at the time, so it felt like there wouldn't be a big audience here. And they were proven wrong. The film debuted with $547,425 in 5 theaters, a huge $109,485 per-theater average. It had fantastic legs, eventually closing with a huge $83 million domestically. But the big surprise is that it was bigger overseas; it made $178 million worldwide, becoming Focus Features' highest grossing film. The film received universal acclaim on its release, touted as one of the greatest films of the century. It received 10 Oscar nominations, including Best Picture. It won three: Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Original Score. In a shocking decision, it lost Best Picture to Crash, a decision that has been reviled ever since. We'd like to say it's a polarizing decision... but let's face it, there are no Crash fans nowadays. Or at least, none that prefer that to Brokeback. But at the end of the day, it doesn't matter; Brokeback may not have won the Oscar, but it won over the general public. It wasn't the first LGBT film, not even close. But it might have been the most influential and a huge landmark.
Lust, Caution (2007)"The trap is set."His tenth film. Based on the novella by Eileen Chang, it stars Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Tang Wei, Anupam Kher, Joan Chen, Wang Leehom and Shyam Pathak. The film is set in Hong Kong in 1938 and in Shanghai in 1942, when the city was occupied by the Imperial Japanese Army and ruled by the puppet government led by Wang Jingwei. The film depicts a group of Chinese university students from The University of Hong Kong who plot to assassinate a high-ranking special agent and recruiter working for the puppet government by luring him into a honey trap. The actors who played university classmates, spent six months of preproduction in Hong Kong just to get into character and understand the period before filming. During this period the group of actors, including Tang Wei and Wang Leehom became very close friends. Both Tang Wei and Tony Leung Chiu-wai were asked whether the sex scenes in the movie were unsimulated. Tang Wei responded, "In the movie, we are just doing what we should do to have a baby." As for Tony Leung, he responded, "When the bodies collide with each other, it is indeed like a fake show!" The film was rated NC-17 in North America for its explicit sex scenes, and Lee made it clear he would not re-cut the film. Despite that, the version released in China was cut by about seven minutes (by Lee himself) to make it suitable for younger audiences, since China has no rating system. The film won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, where it received critical acclaim. Due to the rating, it only earned $4 million domestically. But it was much bigger overseas, where it earned $67 million worldwide, becoming the highest grossing NC-17 film (a record it still keeps).
Taking Woodstock (2009)"Take the trip."His 11th film. Based on the memoir by Elliot Tiber and Tom Monte, it stars Demetri Martin, Paul Dano, Dan Fogler, Henry Goodman, Jonathan Groff, Emile Hirsch, Eugene Levy, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Imelda Staunton and Liev Schreiber. Elliot's parents own a motel in Catskills, New York. To overcome the family's financial crisis, Elliot offers the organisers of the Woodstock music and art festival boarding and lodging in the motel. The film received mixed reviews, and bombed at the box office.
Life of Pi (2012)"Don't lose hope."His 12th film. Based on the novel by Yann Martel, it stars Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Tabu, Rafe Spall, Gérard Depardieu and Adil Hussain. The storyline revolves around two survivors of a shipwreck who are on a lifeboat stranded in the Pacific Ocean for 227 days. One is a sixteen-year-old Indian boy named Pi Patel and the other is a ferocious Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. Fox 2000 Pictures executive Elizabeth Gabler acquired the film rights in February 2003. M. Night Shyamalan was attached to direct, and he was expected to film it after The Village. But he dropped to instead make Lady in the Water, "I was hesitant [to direct] because the book has kind of a twist ending. And I was concerned that as soon as you put my name on it, everybody would have a different experience." Other directors considered were Alfonso Cuarón and Jean-Pierre Jeunet, both of which declined. In 2009, Lee was hired, but the film was stuck in development hell when he asked for a $120 million budget. But the revival of 3-D motivated Fox in greenlighting the film under Lee's terms. As Lee started casting, one of the actors involved was Tobey Maguire, who would play a reporter. But it was later reported that Lee chose to cut his scenes, feeling he wanted to emphasize an entirely international cast. His scenes were re-shot with Rafe Spall. Fox mounted an extensive marketing campaign selling the film as "the next Avatar" in terms of visuals and 3-D. And it fucking killed it at the box office. It earned $124.9 million domestically, which was considered a soft performance. But the real money was in the rest of the world; the film broke records in countries like China, United Kingdom, India and Mexico. It earned a colossal $609 million worldwide, easily becoming Lee's highest grossing film. An absolutely insane performance. The film also received critical acclaim, praised for its CGI and 3-D. It received 11 Oscar nominations, including Best Picture. And it won four: Best Cinematography, Best Visual Effects, Best Original Score, and then Lee himself won his second Oscar for Best Director, becoming the first Asian to win the award twice. And just like that, he cemented himself as one of the greatest filmmakers of our era. And here's how he celebrated it; going to In-N-Out.
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2016)"To walk the path of a hero, you have to see how it all began."His 13th film. Based on the novel by Ben Fountain, it stars Joe Alwyn, Garrett Hedlund, Kristen Stewart, Vin Diesel, Steve Martin, and Chris Tucker. After a horrifying battle in Iraq, Private Billy Lynn and his fellow comrades are brought home for a victory tour. Soon, he recollects the harsh realities of the war and struggles to cope with life. The film used an unprecedented shooting and projection frame rate of 120 frames per second in 3D at 4K UHD resolution, which Lee terms the "whole shebang". It is the first feature film ever to be shot in such a high frame rate, over twice the previous record (Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, shot at 48 fps) and five times the standard speed of 24 fps. Lee undertook such a bold step after reading the book since he wanted the film to be an "immersive" and "realistic" experience of the reality and emotional journey of soldiers. Due to the complexity involved in shooting at a very high frame rate, Lee could not afford to do many takes even for a single scene. Every shot was difficult and at the same time precious. He would rehearse every scene beforehand and would conduct regular morning meetings with the key crew members to highlight things they needed to be alert on. Shooting close-up shots in 3D with such high resolution meant the cast could not wear make-up and could not deliver less-than-authentic performances. Since no make-up was allowed, make-up artist Luisa Abel spent months of preparation on their skin tones. Throughout filming, the production team had to rethink everything, including different approaches to lighting as the camera needed extra lights due to the higher frame rates. Due to the complexity of the film's unprecedented high frame rate and the cost of installing equipment capable of projecting the film in its intended format, only five theaters globally were equipped to show it at its highest resolution and maximum frame rate: two in the United States (one at a theater in New York City's AMC Lincoln Square where the film had its world premiere and the other in Los Angeles's the ArcLight Hollywood), and one theater each in Taipei, Beijing, and Shanghai. The film opened in 2 theaters (New York City's AMC Lincoln Square and Los Angeles's the ArcLight Hollywood's Cinerama Dome), which were the only ones in the country to play the film at 120fps and the ticket prices at both locations running $20 or higher. It made a pretty great $114,129, which made for a fantastic $57,064 per-theater average (the third best of the year). But when it hit wide release, the film was dead on arrival. It made just $901,062 in 1,176 theaters, which was one of the worst wide debuts ever. And then, despite having its second weekend fall on Thanksgiving, it collapsed by 77.3%. It closed after just 3 weeks with only $1.7 million domestically. It fared better overseas, where China made colossal $23.7 million. Worldwide, it made just $30.9 million, making it a box office flop. Reviews were mixed, and people were polarized over the high-frame rate; some deemed it immersive and impressive, while others found it distracting and flat.
Gemini Man (2019)"Who will save you from yourself?"His 14th film. It stars Will Smith, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Clive Owen and Benedict Wong. The film follows a retiring Force Recon Marine scout sniper who is targeted by a much younger clone of himself while on the run from a corrupt private military company. In 1997, Darren Lemke sold his pitch for Gemini Man after impressing Don Murphy with an unproduced spec script. Warner Bros. Pictures pursued the project, but Walt Disney Pictures ultimately won out and Tony Scott would become attached to direct. Complications soon arose when the studio were planning how to make the film. The producers toyed with the idea of an actor play both roles through the use of visual effects, but Scott moved on from the film before any progress could be made. The project was stuck in development hell, and saw many actors considered, such as Mel Gibson, Harrison Ford, Chris O'Donnell, Nicolas Cage, Sean Connery, Clint Eastwood and Jon Voight. Many directors were also considered, before Lee finally signed in 2017, with Smith also joining. Like his previous film, the film was shot digitally at an extra-high frame rate of 120 frames per second (fps), modified for 3D, this time on modified ARRI Alexa cameras mounted on STEREOTEC 3D Rigs. Again, due to the requirements needed, only 14 theaters in North America could show the film at a 120fps 2K 3D high-frame rate (two in Los Angeles, two in Chicago, and one each in Miami, Orlando, New Orleans, Denver, New York, San Francisco, Atlanta, Las Vegas, Baltimore and Houston). Even then, the film was shot at 120fps 4K 3D, which means no theater showed its intended vision. Lee said that 120fps 2K 3D felt like the necessary avenue to make “Junior,” Smith’s digital avatar, a soulful character who could also appear to beat the living crap out of a real actor in the film’s many fight sequences. The film received negative reviews, particularly for its CGI and story. And like his previous film, the high-frame rate received polarizing reactions. Despite the presence of a big star like Will Smith, the film flopped with just $173 million worldwide, against its $138 million budget, and losing an estimated $111 million for Paramount. Lee's attempt at high-frame rate was just not clicking with the public.
The FutureHis next film, as confirmed in November 2022, is a Bruce Lee biopic. The lead actor will be Mason Lee, Ang's son. And he suggested he's not done with the 120fps high-frame rate, claiming he would continue using it in his next film for action sequences.MOVIES (FROM HIGHEST GROSSING TO LEAST GROSSING)
The VerdictDespite his past two films getting two of the worst reviews in his career, Lee has proved himself to be a very reliable director.Something impressive about him is the versatility in his resume. A comic book film, a survival film, a LGBT film, a wuxia film, a sci-fi film, a post-war film, a Jane Austen film, a noir film, an erotic NC-17 thriller, a Western, and some romantic comedies. Even if some don't fully work, there's still some good and interesting aspects in him. And of course, the first Asian director to win 2 Oscars for Best Director. So if he wants to continue with the controversial 120fps high-frame rate, let him cook. Hopefully in more and more theaters worldwide. Hope you liked this edition. You can find this and more in the wiki for this section. The next director will be Zack Snyder. Oh boy. This is where the fun begins. I asked you to choose who else should be in the run and the comment with the most upvotes would be chosen. Well, we'll later talk about... John McTiernan and Rob Reiner. Whaaaaat? Two posts for the price of one? You're welcome! It was a very tight race, and it was tough to choose one or the other. The former has the dishonor of going to director jail and real jail, while the latter had an incredible run before completely crashing with one of Roger Ebert's most hated films. This is the schedule for the following four:
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2024.06.08 15:13 markimdreaming I never left The House
My name is Lucija, and I have no idea of what my life even means. I think I’m somewhere around 18 years old, from what I saw on the internet, it seems to match me, but no one ever told me my age, or my birthday. Apparently, most people celebrate their birthday by gathering people together and eating, at least that’s what I understood, I’m still figuring things out. I should probably start from the beginning, I’m losing myself here.
As far as I remember, I always lived here, in The House, and I never left it. The grown ups around us always told us that there was nothing to see outside of it, and that it was for our own safety that we were kept here, and honestly, until these last few weeks, I never questioned it. I have one room to sleep, one room to wash myself, one room to eat, one room with computers, and one room where I went when they had to check on us.
I shared all these rooms with Peter. Peter is the only person I’ve known for my whole life. The grown ups that take care of us, they come and go, I think I’ve never known one that stayed more than 6 months maybe, apart from Tyler and Debbie, but Peter, he’s like me. I think he’s around my age, again, I’m not sure. We always got along, Peter is nice, he’s my friend, and we know everything about each other, I really like him.
All of our days were always the same. We woke up to the sound of an alarm and got dressed. After that, we went to the checking room and grownups were looking at all sort of things on us. They were inspecting our skin, the inside of our mouths, listening to our heartbeats, and many more things. It always ended with an injection. They never told us what was in these shots that we always got, just that it was necessary. After the check, it was time to eat. The food was good, but it’s all I ever had, so I can’t really tell if it’s that great.
When we finished eating, it was time for the longest part of the day. We got out in the yard and waited. The yard had a bench, a climbing wall, a space to play basketball and soccer, and that was pretty much it. There was just one more thing: the whole yard was surrounded by buildings, except for one side, where there was a high fence. On the other side of it was a road and other buildings, and all day long, people would be there, watching us. Some were talking, others writing or taking pictures. They never stayed longer than 15 minutes, and when someone left, someone else was taking his place.
Our instructions were the same since we were little: ignore them. You might think it’s hard to do, but when you’re used to it, it’s actually not that hard. Peter and I spent hours trying to reach the top of the climbing wall, playing soccer (he’s better than me) and basketball (I’m better than him), talking. It was boring sometimes, but we found ways to make it entertaining.
After something like 6 hours in the yard, we were allowed back inside, in the room with computers and books, and CDs. It was our favorite moment of the day. We listened to music, played games on the computers. We had internet, but they said it was all fake, only made for entertainment in the past. Basically, they explained that what was on the internet was all from a long time ago, and that nothing we saw there still existed. It didn’t really matter any way, we were happy to play games and watch videos. However, we were strictly forbidden to interact in any way. We especially liked videos with animals, it was fun. After a few hours in that room, we had learning time, where we watched videos that were teaching us different things, like talking properly, counting to 100, things like that, then it was time to eat again, then another check, another injection, after which we had to wash ourselves, before going to sleep.
So, as you can see, our lives weren’t exactly thrilling. I can count with my fingers every time something was just a little different.
I remember a few years ago, instead of grownups, there was a group of kids on the other side of the fence. They stayed for a few hours, and we were told that we were allowed to talk with them. Peter and I were pretty excited, so we went closer from the fence than usual and waited. We didn’t exactly knew how to engage in a conversation, so we just kind of sat there, waiting. Most of the kids were laughing, I think they were mocking us from what I understood, but a few of them actually talked with us. They asked us various things, like our favorite song, what we liked to eat, our daily lives. We asked them the same kind of questions, to which they answered for the most parts. They apparently couldn’t talk about their lives. It’s one of my favorite memories ever.
Since these last two years, we also have Tyler and Debbie. They’re the only grownups that we know the name of. They bring us our food, take us from one room to another, ask us if we need anything, and, once a week, they come in the yard with us for a few hours. They play soccer and basketball with us, it’s a lot of fun. They’re the first grownups that we’ve really known ever, and with who we have actual conversations.
A few years ago, I think 3, there was also an “incident”. It had been a while that I was looking at Peter a bit differently, and he kinda was too. When we where showering, we were looking at each other’s bodies a lot, and we didn’t really knew why, I personally simply couldn’t help it, it felt weird. Once, we talked about it in the yard. We both felt like we wanted to touch the other one for some reason, and to be very close from each other, especially in the shower. He didn’t understand why either. That same day, when we went in the shower, we started to get closer from each other, and eventually we were touching each other. It felt weirdly nice. We were stopped pretty fast by grownups and put in separate rooms. We waited for maybe an hour, before they brought us together in our room. A woman sat in front of us and started to talk to us. She explained that what we were feeling wasn’t wrong, and that it was normal, but that they couldn’t let us do these kinds of things with each other. Since then, we didn’t shower at the same time, but another thing was also added to our daily routines: before going in the shower, we were both took in a separate room where we were given pictures. He had naked woman, and I had naked men. We were given an hour. At first I didn’t really knew what to do, but with time, I started to have my habits, that I won’t explain here.
Another time when things weren’t like usual was the time when nobody came on the other side of the fence. Of course it wasn’t the first time it happened, but the other time was because it was raining a lot, or snowing, but that one time, there was nothing that explained it, and also, we weren’t told that there wouldn’t be anyone, the grownups acted like it was a normal day.
So, that’s always been my life, until these last few days.
Things started to get different 6 days ago. It was a morning like any other. We got dressed and went in the checking room. They checked everything they always checked, but when came the moment to get our injection, we got two shots. It was the first time they ever gave us more than one. We asked why it changed, but they only answered that it was like that now.
After that we went to the room where we ate. Tyler and Debbie looked way more anxious and stressed than usual, and they looked tired too. We noticed it immediately but didn’t ask anything. The rest of the day went as usual, but there were way less people on the other side of the fence.
The next day went exactly the same way, and the one after that too.
Three days ago, there was even less people on the other side of the fence. We also started to hear screams. They sounded like screams of pain, or screams of rage sometimes. We had no idea who was screaming like that, but it was seriously scaring us.
Two days ago, there was almost no one left on the other side of the fence. I think we got something like 10 people for the entire day. The screams continued and got more intense and louder.
Yesterday, things went the same way they did the day before. We got two shots, we ate, Tyler and Debbie looked exhausted like never before, and we went in the yard. That was the day when Tyler and Debbie came with us. The screams were louder than ever. As we were sitting in the yard, we dared to ask them what they were, but they answered that they didn’t know what we were talking about. We didn’t insist, but they were clearly lying, as they reacted to each scream like us. They didn’t have the strength to play anything, so we just waited. Nobody came to see us, all day.
Tyler and Debbie spent most of the time talking together, until just before the end. It was almost time to get back in when they asked us to come closer to them. They told us that we couldn’t tell anyone about anything they were going to tell us. They told us that we couldn’t trust anyone in here except them, and that things were slowly starting to go sideways, putting us in danger. They said that they couldn’t explain too much, as no one could know that we knew anything. They told us that something very bad might happen that night, and that we had to protect ourselves. They discretely handed us two pills. They explained that if we were too scared that night, we had to eat these immediately, and that it would save us. On that, the door to get inside opened and we had to go back. Tyler and Debbie left and we were told that today, we wouldn’t get time in the computer room, or alone time, they gave us our injections, and we had to go to sleep just after. It was vey rushed, and after what Tyler and Debbie told us, we were very anxious when the lights turned off.
We really wanted to sleep close from each other, but it was forbidden since what happened 3 years ago. We talked a bit, but none of us really knew what to do of the things we were told earlier. We couldn’t find some sleep, so we just stayed awake for a few hours.
Eventually, we started to hear screams. It was close. They were screams of pain, and they were getting closer and closer from our room. None of us said anything, we were petrified. The door was locked, and we had no idea of what was going on. The screams were now clearly coming from the hall just outside of our room. They were people running, other screaming for help, and we could also hear screams of anger. Whatever was happening behind the door, we were praying that it would stay there. After some time, the screams slowly stopped, before it went silent. It was suddenly completely silent. I stayed like that for almost two minutes, during which Peter and I were trying to make the less noise as possible.
Without any warning, something started to hit our door. It was punching it, smashing it, screaming. The door was going to break at any moment. We couldn’t hide our fear and started to scream for help, both of us were crying. It was a matter of seconds before it broke, and Peter yelled at me to take my pill. I took it out of my pocket, looked at him, and we both swallowed it.
My last memory is the screams getting louder and then, it’s the blackout.
I woke up in my room today. I was devastated to find that Peter had disappear. The door was broken, and I had access to the hallway. I slowly got out of my bed and walked carefully towards it. Nothing could have prepared me for what I saw when I reached the hall. The whole place was covered in blood, everywhere. I never saw that much of blood, it was on the wall, on the floor. I was a bit shocked, but I soon realized that there was absolutely no bodies. I thought it was weird. I yelled for help, hoping that Peter, Tyler or Debbie would answer, but I had no answer. I walked towards the other rooms. There was still power but all the rooms that I had access to were empty, there was absolutely nobody. There were other stains of blood all around the place, but not as much as in the hallway.
I took the time to eat something fast, as the door to the kitchen was opened. I grabbed some bread and stuffed it in my mouth before exploring more. The only places that I had access to were the one that I was using in my daily life, and the kitchen and some offices in the hallway that were usually locked. I had access to the yard too. I wandered more when I saw something moving behind the climbing wall. I approached slowly, and found a girl. She was probably, 9 years old. She was wearing the same thing I was, and she looked terrified. She was dirty, and way too skinny. I tried to reassure her, and to know her name, but soon found out that she wasn’t talking. I don’t know if she can’t talk, or if she just doesn’t want to, but she didn’t say anything.
My first instinct was to bring her some food. She ate a whole bread and some apples. I tried to communicate, to ask her who she was, what happened last night, but had no answers. At least, after I made her eat and brought her back inside, she didn’t seem to be scared of me anymore.
I tried to look everywhere for more people but didn’t find anything. I eventually decided to tell my story here. I don’t know if what they told us about the internet being something from the past is true, but I guess I’ll find out by posting here if someone answers. I have no idea what to do now, so, if someone reads this, I’m open to any form of advice, thank you.
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As far as I remember, I always lived here, in The House, and I never left it. The grown ups around us always told us that there was nothing to see outside of it, and that it was for our own safety that we were kept here, and honestly, until these last few weeks, I never questioned it. I have one room to sleep, one room to wash myself, one room to eat, one room with computers, and one room where I went when they had to check on us.
I shared all these rooms with Peter. Peter is the only person I’ve known for my whole life. The grown ups that take care of us, they come and go, I think I’ve never known one that stayed more than 6 months maybe, apart from Tyler and Debbie, but Peter, he’s like me. I think he’s around my age, again, I’m not sure. We always got along, Peter is nice, he’s my friend, and we know everything about each other, I really like him.
All of our days were always the same. We woke up to the sound of an alarm and got dressed. After that, we went to the checking room and grownups were looking at all sort of things on us. They were inspecting our skin, the inside of our mouths, listening to our heartbeats, and many more things. It always ended with an injection. They never told us what was in these shots that we always got, just that it was necessary. After the check, it was time to eat. The food was good, but it’s all I ever had, so I can’t really tell if it’s that great.
When we finished eating, it was time for the longest part of the day. We got out in the yard and waited. The yard had a bench, a climbing wall, a space to play basketball and soccer, and that was pretty much it. There was just one more thing: the whole yard was surrounded by buildings, except for one side, where there was a high fence. On the other side of it was a road and other buildings, and all day long, people would be there, watching us. Some were talking, others writing or taking pictures. They never stayed longer than 15 minutes, and when someone left, someone else was taking his place.
Our instructions were the same since we were little: ignore them. You might think it’s hard to do, but when you’re used to it, it’s actually not that hard. Peter and I spent hours trying to reach the top of the climbing wall, playing soccer (he’s better than me) and basketball (I’m better than him), talking. It was boring sometimes, but we found ways to make it entertaining.
After something like 6 hours in the yard, we were allowed back inside, in the room with computers and books, and CDs. It was our favorite moment of the day. We listened to music, played games on the computers. We had internet, but they said it was all fake, only made for entertainment in the past. Basically, they explained that what was on the internet was all from a long time ago, and that nothing we saw there still existed. It didn’t really matter any way, we were happy to play games and watch videos. However, we were strictly forbidden to interact in any way. We especially liked videos with animals, it was fun. After a few hours in that room, we had learning time, where we watched videos that were teaching us different things, like talking properly, counting to 100, things like that, then it was time to eat again, then another check, another injection, after which we had to wash ourselves, before going to sleep.
So, as you can see, our lives weren’t exactly thrilling. I can count with my fingers every time something was just a little different.
I remember a few years ago, instead of grownups, there was a group of kids on the other side of the fence. They stayed for a few hours, and we were told that we were allowed to talk with them. Peter and I were pretty excited, so we went closer from the fence than usual and waited. We didn’t exactly knew how to engage in a conversation, so we just kind of sat there, waiting. Most of the kids were laughing, I think they were mocking us from what I understood, but a few of them actually talked with us. They asked us various things, like our favorite song, what we liked to eat, our daily lives. We asked them the same kind of questions, to which they answered for the most parts. They apparently couldn’t talk about their lives. It’s one of my favorite memories ever.
Since these last two years, we also have Tyler and Debbie. They’re the only grownups that we know the name of. They bring us our food, take us from one room to another, ask us if we need anything, and, once a week, they come in the yard with us for a few hours. They play soccer and basketball with us, it’s a lot of fun. They’re the first grownups that we’ve really known ever, and with who we have actual conversations.
A few years ago, I think 3, there was also an “incident”. It had been a while that I was looking at Peter a bit differently, and he kinda was too. When we where showering, we were looking at each other’s bodies a lot, and we didn’t really knew why, I personally simply couldn’t help it, it felt weird. Once, we talked about it in the yard. We both felt like we wanted to touch the other one for some reason, and to be very close from each other, especially in the shower. He didn’t understand why either. That same day, when we went in the shower, we started to get closer from each other, and eventually we were touching each other. It felt weirdly nice. We were stopped pretty fast by grownups and put in separate rooms. We waited for maybe an hour, before they brought us together in our room. A woman sat in front of us and started to talk to us. She explained that what we were feeling wasn’t wrong, and that it was normal, but that they couldn’t let us do these kinds of things with each other. Since then, we didn’t shower at the same time, but another thing was also added to our daily routines: before going in the shower, we were both took in a separate room where we were given pictures. He had naked woman, and I had naked men. We were given an hour. At first I didn’t really knew what to do, but with time, I started to have my habits, that I won’t explain here.
Another time when things weren’t like usual was the time when nobody came on the other side of the fence. Of course it wasn’t the first time it happened, but the other time was because it was raining a lot, or snowing, but that one time, there was nothing that explained it, and also, we weren’t told that there wouldn’t be anyone, the grownups acted like it was a normal day.
So, that’s always been my life, until these last few days.
Things started to get different 6 days ago. It was a morning like any other. We got dressed and went in the checking room. They checked everything they always checked, but when came the moment to get our injection, we got two shots. It was the first time they ever gave us more than one. We asked why it changed, but they only answered that it was like that now.
After that we went to the room where we ate. Tyler and Debbie looked way more anxious and stressed than usual, and they looked tired too. We noticed it immediately but didn’t ask anything. The rest of the day went as usual, but there were way less people on the other side of the fence.
The next day went exactly the same way, and the one after that too.
Three days ago, there was even less people on the other side of the fence. We also started to hear screams. They sounded like screams of pain, or screams of rage sometimes. We had no idea who was screaming like that, but it was seriously scaring us.
Two days ago, there was almost no one left on the other side of the fence. I think we got something like 10 people for the entire day. The screams continued and got more intense and louder.
Yesterday, things went the same way they did the day before. We got two shots, we ate, Tyler and Debbie looked exhausted like never before, and we went in the yard. That was the day when Tyler and Debbie came with us. The screams were louder than ever. As we were sitting in the yard, we dared to ask them what they were, but they answered that they didn’t know what we were talking about. We didn’t insist, but they were clearly lying, as they reacted to each scream like us. They didn’t have the strength to play anything, so we just waited. Nobody came to see us, all day.
Tyler and Debbie spent most of the time talking together, until just before the end. It was almost time to get back in when they asked us to come closer to them. They told us that we couldn’t tell anyone about anything they were going to tell us. They told us that we couldn’t trust anyone in here except them, and that things were slowly starting to go sideways, putting us in danger. They said that they couldn’t explain too much, as no one could know that we knew anything. They told us that something very bad might happen that night, and that we had to protect ourselves. They discretely handed us two pills. They explained that if we were too scared that night, we had to eat these immediately, and that it would save us. On that, the door to get inside opened and we had to go back. Tyler and Debbie left and we were told that today, we wouldn’t get time in the computer room, or alone time, they gave us our injections, and we had to go to sleep just after. It was vey rushed, and after what Tyler and Debbie told us, we were very anxious when the lights turned off.
We really wanted to sleep close from each other, but it was forbidden since what happened 3 years ago. We talked a bit, but none of us really knew what to do of the things we were told earlier. We couldn’t find some sleep, so we just stayed awake for a few hours.
Eventually, we started to hear screams. It was close. They were screams of pain, and they were getting closer and closer from our room. None of us said anything, we were petrified. The door was locked, and we had no idea of what was going on. The screams were now clearly coming from the hall just outside of our room. They were people running, other screaming for help, and we could also hear screams of anger. Whatever was happening behind the door, we were praying that it would stay there. After some time, the screams slowly stopped, before it went silent. It was suddenly completely silent. I stayed like that for almost two minutes, during which Peter and I were trying to make the less noise as possible.
Without any warning, something started to hit our door. It was punching it, smashing it, screaming. The door was going to break at any moment. We couldn’t hide our fear and started to scream for help, both of us were crying. It was a matter of seconds before it broke, and Peter yelled at me to take my pill. I took it out of my pocket, looked at him, and we both swallowed it.
My last memory is the screams getting louder and then, it’s the blackout.
I woke up in my room today. I was devastated to find that Peter had disappear. The door was broken, and I had access to the hallway. I slowly got out of my bed and walked carefully towards it. Nothing could have prepared me for what I saw when I reached the hall. The whole place was covered in blood, everywhere. I never saw that much of blood, it was on the wall, on the floor. I was a bit shocked, but I soon realized that there was absolutely no bodies. I thought it was weird. I yelled for help, hoping that Peter, Tyler or Debbie would answer, but I had no answer. I walked towards the other rooms. There was still power but all the rooms that I had access to were empty, there was absolutely nobody. There were other stains of blood all around the place, but not as much as in the hallway.
I took the time to eat something fast, as the door to the kitchen was opened. I grabbed some bread and stuffed it in my mouth before exploring more. The only places that I had access to were the one that I was using in my daily life, and the kitchen and some offices in the hallway that were usually locked. I had access to the yard too. I wandered more when I saw something moving behind the climbing wall. I approached slowly, and found a girl. She was probably, 9 years old. She was wearing the same thing I was, and she looked terrified. She was dirty, and way too skinny. I tried to reassure her, and to know her name, but soon found out that she wasn’t talking. I don’t know if she can’t talk, or if she just doesn’t want to, but she didn’t say anything.
My first instinct was to bring her some food. She ate a whole bread and some apples. I tried to communicate, to ask her who she was, what happened last night, but had no answers. At least, after I made her eat and brought her back inside, she didn’t seem to be scared of me anymore.
I tried to look everywhere for more people but didn’t find anything. I eventually decided to tell my story here. I don’t know if what they told us about the internet being something from the past is true, but I guess I’ll find out by posting here if someone answers. I have no idea what to do now, so, if someone reads this, I’m open to any form of advice, thank you.