Send This to Anyone Who Wants to Know WTF Is Up With GameStop Stock

You have been sent here because your child, partner, or friend suggested that you invest your life savings into GameStop stock and you are curious what the f*** is going on. This post is long and thorough and mostly does not discuss memes and "the internet" until the end, but if you read it you will hopefully understand What Is Happening.

What is going on is that GameStop, a company that sells physical copies of video games next to Auntie Anne’s pretzel shops in dying malls, is the most highly...