During the pandemic, a few key events were truly collective experiences as there was little else to do but observe what was happening.
One of the biggest examples was the GameStop stock situation, which sent Wall Street into a frenzy and received global news coverage for weeks on end.
The whole thing has now been documented in the upcoming film “Dumb Money,” which hails from director Craig Gillespie (“Pam & Tommy“).
It turns out, Gillespie had an intense, first-hand experience with the whole “meme stock” saga.The filmmaker recently spoke with People about the film, which is currently in limited release before expanding wide over the next couple of weeks.
During the conversation, Gillespie explained that one of his sons actually got involved in the whole GameStop stock situation after a YouTuber named Roaring Kitty and a Reddit page called WallStreetBets got a bunch of average Joes to drive the company’s stock through the roof.
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