WSB Ticker mentions
WSB subreddit is data mined by quantitative fund to try to get some value out of it. On the day GME reached $100+, wsb was spammed by obvious bot about some other stocks ( NOK, BB, etc) The community think that that originated from the shorts on GME (Melvin) trying to divert the attention away from GME. I suspect, part of the spam bot come from basic users trying to influence the hivemind, but also some Quant fund trying to feed false information to other quant fund. I suspect, Quand fund use the tactic on all social plateform (hence the number of bot on twitter) not much to drive interest on a stock but to feed unusable noise to the concurrence (but I have to admit I'm a bit paranoid, and of course really really retarded) My point is.. half the mention of tickers on wsb are from bot! The problem is knowing which half