WILMINGTON, Mass. (AP) “IF HE S STILL IN, I’M STILL IN,” was the constant refrain from followers of Roaring Kitty, the YouTube personality whose enthusiasm about buying stock in video-game retailer GameStop made him an icon in the social media frenzy that shocked Wall Street last week.
His hometown newspaper in Massachusetts dubbed him a “Brockton legend,” stirring dreams about how the former high school running champion might use his newfound riches to build the city an indoor track. Hollywood studios started sketching out movie proposals about the small-pocketed investors who banded together on social media to vault a troubled brick-and-mortar chain “to the moon” and punish hedge funds that were betting on its failure.
Massachusetts resident known online as ’Roaring Kitty’ became an icon in GameStop saga but did his followers do well?
Updated Feb 05, 2021;
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By Matt O Brien | The Associated Press
“IF HE’S STILL IN, I’M STILL IN,” was the constant refrain from followers of Roaring Kitty, the YouTube personality whose enthusiasm about buying stock in video-game retailer GameStop made him an icon in the social media frenzy that shocked Wall Street last week.
His hometown newspaper in Massachusetts dubbed him a “Brockton legend,” stirring dreams about how the former high school running champion might use his newfound riches to build the city an indoor track. Hollywood studios started sketching out movie proposals about the small-pocketed investors who banded together on social media to vault a troubled brick-and-mortar chain “to the moon” and punish hedge funds that were betting on its failure.
Feb 5, 2021
In this June 7, 2003, photo, Brockton High School runner Keith Gill finishes the boys mile race at the 2003 All State Meet Championship in Norwell, Mass. Gill, a YouTube personality known as Roaring Kitty, became a figurehead in the January 2020 social media-driven GameStop stock-buying frenzy. (Craig Murray/The Enterprise via AP)
WILMINGTON, Mass. (AP) “IF HE’S STILL IN, I’M STILL IN,” was the constant refrain from followers of Roaring Kitty, the YouTube personality whose enthusiasm about buying stock in video-game retailer GameStop made him an icon in the social media frenzy that shocked Wall Street last week.
His hometown newspaper in Massachusetts dubbed him a “Brockton legend,” stirring dreams about how the former high school running champion might use his newfound riches to build the city an indoor track. Hollywood studios started sketching out movie proposals about the small-pocketed investors who banded together on social media to vault a troubled
GameStop booster did well; many devotees won t as shares sag
by Matt O Brien, The Associated Press
Posted Feb 4, 2021 1:50 pm EDT
Last Updated Feb 4, 2021 at 1:58 pm EDT
In this June 7, 2003, photo, Brockton High School runner Keith Gill finishes the boys mile race at the 2003 All State Meet Championship in Norwell, Mass. Gill, a YouTube personality known as Roaring Kitty, became a figurehead in the January 2020 social media-driven GameStop stock-buying frenzy. (Craig Murray/The Enterprise via AP)
WILMINGTON, Mass. “IF HE’S STILL IN, I’M STILL IN,” was the constant refrain from followers of Roaring Kitty, the YouTube personality whose enthusiasm about buying stock in video-game retailer GameStop made him an icon in the social media frenzy that shocked Wall Street last week.
Roaring Kitty goes quiet as regulators circle
Keith Gill’s cheerleading of GameStop stock made him an icon among Reddit-based traders during the recent meme-stock rally, and may have minted him a fortune on paper at least. But Massachusetts authorities are now looking at whether he broke securities rules, The Times’s Matthew Goldstein reports, as regulators there and at the federal level investigate possible market manipulation in the trading frenzy.
At issue is Mr. Gill’s side gig as a stock commentator. Until last week, he worked in marketing at the insurer MassMutual and he’s a registered securities broker. But he was better known to the outside world for his Roaring Kitty YouTube channel and his posts on Reddit’s WallStreetBets under a profane name unprintable here, in which he talked up GameStop stock. (His YouTube videos contained a disclaimer that viewers should consult a financial adviser before investing.) He hadn’t disclosed all that to MassMutual or to the