Found an old Reddit thread from 2017 predicting the GameStop stock surge

I was cleaning out my saved bookmarks last night and stumbled on a post in r/wallstreetbets from like 4 years ago. This dude named u/DeepFuckingValue was talking about GameStop having a crazy short interest and how it could squeeze. At the time everyone called him a clown, including me. Now that thread has like 50k edits calling him a legend. Has anyone else got a screenshot or archive of the original post before it blew up?

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green.noah10d ago

Man people really love to romanticize that whole thing like it was some kind of prophecy. I checked out the original thread too and sure, he called it early, but everyone forgets about the thousands of other posts that were just as wrong about everything else. The whole thing was a wild gamble that happened to pay off, not some master plan. Plus it's easy to look smart after the fact when you edit your post with hindsight. Still kind of wild to see how that one dude changed the whole game for a while though.

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leewood10d ago

Yeah, totally feel you on that. It's way easier to look like a genius when you get to cherry-pick the one thing that worked out of a sea of misses.

jordan_hill10d ago

Nailed it. Hindsight's always 20/20.