internet disrupted everyday life.
GameStop wasn t the first populist uprising to spread from Reddit into the real world. Take a lot of anger, give it a place to congregate online, and after enough fomenting, it will spill into the street and
markets.
By now, the messaging platform - which declined to comment for this article - has had a years-long history of providing a platform for groups of people organizing their rage before collectively acting in real life. This time it was a brief but epic saga that introduced America to the wonders of the short squeeze, but mass movements are increasingly taking from the front page of the internet to the world beyond screens.