‘Roaring Kitty’ Came Out of Hibernation. Is the Meme Stock Craze Back?
Wall Street Journal
All it took was a tweet. Shares of GameStop and other pandemic-era meme stocks took off. Keith Gill’s social-media accounts had been dormant for years. Known as “Roaring Kitty” on YouTube and “DeepF—ingValue” on Reddit, Gill helped direct the world’s attention to GameStop in 2021, inspiring hordes of amateur traders to band around shares of the struggling videogame retailer. On Sunday night, an X account associated with Gill posted something for the first time in nearly three years: a picture of a man leaning forward in his seat.