Yes it’s absolutely FUD. It’s everywhere on a Friday afternoon. The idea gained immediate traction in the middle of the day after a piece on CNBC. Do you know how hard it is to get a post to hot on Superstonk, let alone several? We should know the drill by now, weekend FUD is here.
Why would selling at $1000 even have to be discussed? None of you are selling at $1000. I know that you know that, why warn people not to fall for it then?
If apes think a squeeze is imminent they may slow down DRSing, the only thing we know will cause the squeeze that is under our control. The bystander affect is the only thing that has slowed us down in the past, don’t fall for it. They just want to live one more day! Finish the fight and DRS even harder!
This will just be a short opinion. I saw this ComouterShare post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/rh62de/computershare_opened_a_dedicated_gme_helpline_as
As you can see it seems like GME has asked CS to open dedicated lines for apes all over the world to help them DRS and for people who have questions about DRSing. Now why would a company ask CS to do that for their shareholders?
Also in their latest report they reported the amount of shares that were DRSed. This is definitely not something that is the norm when it comes to financial reports. I have never seen this before and I have been in this "game" for years. I am not sure it has ever be done but someone please correct me if I am wrong about this.
Now we know that GameStop can't come out and tell everyone to DRS but I believe that indirectly and without facing legal consequences this is their way of telling us that this might be the way. I can't imagine any other way they could be more clear without breaking the law or entering gray zones.
Some people (shills probably) who say "GmE doN't CaRe aBoUt ItS ShArehOldeRs" can't say anything like this anymore if you ask me. I believe GameStop is telling us that DRSing is the way.
I would like people who didn't DRS already to think hard and long about why they didn't yet. If you ask me DRS is the way. It took me as a Europoor more than two months to get access to my CS account. I also made the choice to buy shares in a taxable account instead of capital gains tax exemptioned account to be able to DRS. So if I can do it, you can do it too.
Edit: also don't forget the computer chair post that RC tweeted some months ago...
If you want to get shit done you have to call people out by name. Learn your everyone’s name and keep track of where they are. If you need a to build a HAB or something and you just say “someone build this HAB” sometimes everyone will think that someone else will do it and it won’t get done. Same goes for any order.
Like many others, I was hit by the "bystander effect", betting everyone else would get the job done. The Citashills putting in max effort to make as few people transfer, or only transfer a small amount, in combination with Ken Griffen rage tweeting, it's clear DRS is our move.
I called TDA, very quick 1-minute phone call. I said I wanted to transfer my shares to Computershare, the lady said she would email me a form I need to fill out and mail to them. Because there's an ink signature, I have to actually MAIL it. Okay, fine. 500 shares coming Kenny boi.
EDIT: 3:43pm ET - Apes are saying TDA can do it over the phone and I don't need to snail mail it. Looking into it.
This will be short. You’ve seen all the DRS screenshots but we only have a little over 300K CS accounts. If you’re expecting others to contribute for you, this will take longer to take off. There’s literally no risk (compared to the potential gains) to transferring and keeping shares in CS or buying directly from them. My post history will show I’ve contributed. Have you?
Edit: Obviously, if you can’t then you can’t.
Since the infamous Fidelity/Vanguard typo, it has delighted me to see more and more DRS posts flood my feed again. Really reminds me of the good old days all those years ago in September when we first started getting after it, does the heart good.
Unfortunately, a bad thought occurred to me and I want to throw it out into the ether to get thoughts and try to get ahead of it:
If I were a SHF who really didn't want us to DRS, would I sit back and wait while apes really got rolling on DRS again? Would I be satisfied with hoping they tire themselves out or get bored and slow down eventually?
No. I would have a contingency plan in the event that something happens which reignites their desire to DRS. But what would that contingency plan be?
I believe that plan revolves around making us think we're closer to locking the float than we are, all the while distracting us with other bullshit in the hopes that the DRS push loses steam and we forget about it eventually.
I think this plan worked the first time. You've probably noticed that every time we start picking up steam with DRS, some other bullshit pops up. Usually this other bullshit is in the form of insulting Ken or Steve or wild theories that vaguely tie disparate parts of the financial world to GME. Simultaneously, they flood the feed with 'whale' DRS posts, which make people think that others have it covered so they don't have to.
Not sure if it's just me, but I feel like there have been an influx of whale posts since the Fidelity scandal. I really hope these are real, and I bet most of them are, but if I were a SHF this is exactly how I would try to instill complacency and buy time.
This could be entirely in my head, because after 11 months of this shit I don't even know if I'm a shill. Either way, I think the best course of action is to DRS like you're the only one doing it. DRS like your [financial] life depends on it, because it does.
Lots of people are DRSing? Great. DRS more to celebrate. Not enough people DRSing? Bummer. Better DRS more to make up for it.
We cannot lose focus. I think many of us have grown accustomed to the distractions they plant here, but I'm not sure many are on the lookout for this sneakier/potentially imaginary tactic. I don't know what's real anymore but I do know that DRS is all that retail can do and therefore it is all that matters.
Its not my intention to spread any fud or urgency, however I think this needs to be said.
Nothing will happen untill the float is locked in Computershare. Its been close to a year, and they've managed to close the FTD cycles by using swaps. If you want MOASS to happen, you need to DRS most of your shares, and help others (for educational purposes) aswell.
I truly believe bystander effect is real. My observation is that a lot of people are afraid to ask for help. I commented this yesterday aswell and offered help (for educational purposes) to people who had questions or needed guidance, I got around 30 upvotes, and 7 people asking me questions in DM. All of them have initiated their transfer now. Id say thats a pretty good succes ratio, with limited reach.
We need to reach lurkers, and make it easy for them to DRS. Keep on making simple guides, and giving people a chance to ask questions 1 to 1, and get the help they need and deserve.
I, as always cant reach everyone, however, everyone is free to tag me as a guy who can help with providing step by step guidance. Apes are also always welcome to hit me up on chat, and ill happily guide them through the process..this goes for both US and NON-US apes. There is a way for everyone (besides retirement accounts which might be tricky).
Apes who have their shares locked up in brokers that won't let you transfer broker to broker or DRS transfer, should really consider changing brokers slowly. Im sorry to tell you, but these brokers might fuck you over like they did in January.
Again, im here most of the time, and I answer maximum within 9 hours. I encourage others to make posts and comments offering 1-1 help and guidance.
ApeTogetherStrong Lets lock the float.
Disclaimer: none of this is financial advice, and is meant for educational purposes. I use we as in me as a shareholder, together with other shareholders who might have the same opinion
Edit: Feel free to make similar posts. Id love this idea to reach as many as possible. Also, if you need help, DM me..I am discrete, have heard all "stupid questions" (there are none), and dont judge anyone.
Just a quick reminder to new and old apes alike. Even if only a few of you see this. The influx of purple circle posts over the past couple of days could very well be partly a shill attack meant to try and create the bystander effect.
Don't stand by and think everyone else has got this. DRS your shares as well. Even if it's only 1 or 2.
You've also probably already seen this message in a million posts so far, but the more we talk about it and bring it to light, the less hold the bystander will have on individual investors on this sub.
Theory: RC latest tweet is warning us not to fall into the Bystander Effect. Its great seeing all the COMPUTERSHARE DRS posts. Keep them coming.
But EVERY. SINGLE. SHARE. COUNTS.
YES, that means you count. All apes matter.
To DRS literally takes a few minutes and involves no risk. Never have I seen this much FUD, forum sliding, blatant shilling and harassment over a simple move. DRS literally has the HFs by the balls and its a matter of time until them testies burst!
Lets encourage and eighten our fellow apes to keep DRSing our shares through Computershare and lets win this battle together!
Hey Kenny….. Checkmate bitch! 😏🙌
Hello,
While I'm all very happy that apes are finally doing the DRS through ComputerShare (and I wish I could do the same from France -- the only country that's left outside).
I think it's probably the way to initiate the MOASS, and own/reduce the "real" float leaving no room for lending shares.
I think we cracked the code... yet, there's a big risk of killing the momentum.... and I would do the same if I were a SHF.
If I were a SHF, I would make shills post tons and tons and tons of screenshots of registering/transfering/buying their shares through ComputerShare.
This way, it would trigger a very well known effect in psychology called the "Bystander effect".
For example, you see an accident on the road, you see dozen of people around you, and.. you move on. You're saying to yourself "nah, it's good, people in front of me have probably called for help already".
The more the people, the more the bystander effect happens. There's a lot of studies on it, based mainly of the very well known case of the murder of Kitty Genovese.
The poor woman, screamed, shouted, yelled all the way... at least 38 people interacted with her, yet... no one called the police. Everyone thought the next person had already done it.
Imagine we are not 38, but 600K+ people in here. It's even worse and this is the big risk in here. If ComputerShare DRS is really the MOASS. Then by flooding the sub with many-many-many people doing that.... you might think "nah, I'm good, no need to do that, other apes are already doing it".
That's how they can fuck us, big time.
It's only my 2 cents and of course, not saying all the apes posting their registration are shills. I deeply thank you for your service and would do the same if I could from here.
But no one should think that it's "enough", because the SHF could win very-very big this way.
Cheers !
Hi all, wanted finally to get on board doing the right thing and DRS my shares but all I found is incomplete transfers. Im from finland if that helps and want to start the process. Do I need IBKR or can nordnet transfer straight to computershare? Some posts said that citibank is nordnets processing bank and theyr pissed and fucked and wont do Jack shit to help, even refuse any help regarding to international DRS transfers progress.
Fuck em, let me have my things In my name and stop fucking my investment by backstabbing me giving SHFs shares to loan and pocket the difference.
A. People rush to assist an elderly woman who has fallen down.
B. People ignore an elderly woman who has fallen down.
C. A man alone in his office building investigates a fire alarm.
D. A man goes home early from volunteering because the remaining volunteers tell him they are happy to finish the work.
In the final scene with Gi-hun and Il-nam, the two men see that there's a man out in the cold, drunk and at risk of dying of hypothermia. Il-nam makes a wager with Gi-hun that nobody will help the drunk man. He says that he will only give Gi-hun an explanation if he agrees to the wager. Gi-hun agrees, and Il-nam gives the explanation.
This begs the question: why didn't Gi-hun simply leave the apartment and help the homeless guy? He could have won the bet just by doing that, and he himself would have proven Il-nam wrong. Instead, Gi-hun and Il-nam both stay there and bet on the man's life as spectators.
Il-nam's reason for playing this final game was to see if there are any good-hearted people in the world who would help a dying man. By remaining in the apartment, Gi-hun is also testing that premise for himself. But I think Gi-hun's inaction actually confirmed to Il-nam what Il-nam believed. After surviving Squid Game, after seeing all that went on and the horrors of selfishness, Gi-hun still does nothing and instead stays. Intent on satisfying his own desire for knowing the purpose behind the cruelty, Gi-hun himself becomes a cruel spectator, betting on a man's life and taking no action.
At midnight, the freezing man finally gets help. Gi-hun apparently gets his answer: that there are good people in the world. But the implicit narrative of the show tells us that for every good-hearted person in the world, there are two more people in the world willing to do nothing and wait until that person shows up. While Gi-hun may have had his faith in humanity restored, we as the audience get the opposite message, the same message that Il-nam has believed this whole time. In the end, both Gi-hun and Il-nam become examples of the bystander effect.
While I can't be completely sure, I'm pretty confident that this was an intentional choice by the show writers. Regardless, the inaction of Gi-hun was very thought-provoking for me and I wanted to share the insight.
This is my counter to the following post. I wanted more people to see this because I think u/soconnoriv was right about these posts negatively affecting others, but the math below is proof that people shouldn't feel that way. I kinda figured this out as I was writing it on my phone, so sorry if it feels clunky.
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Well you have causality and intent mixed up I believe. I don't think people being excited that they're exercising their shareholder rights are inherently and intentionally depriving smaller holders of that privilege.
HOWEVER, it does make sense that people could feel that way. And you're absolutely correct that this is the bystander effect in action.
NOW, You could try to weigh the net change of initiative by comparison of the bystander effect vs. the bandwagon effect. By definition, these are two opposite effects arising from the same influence.
I think if considering the relationship between these two, it's necessary to estimate if the number of shares held would influence whether someone would lean toward Bystander or Bandwagon. And I feel there's a strong correlation here. For example:
- someone posts "Registered XXX shares!"
- someone with X shares would likely think "Then mine don't matter"
- someone with X,XXX shares would think "I can 1-up that 10x!"
Ok, so that makes sense. So, do the people with X and XX shares really matter?
YES! This DD has been done!
https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/p7o4yn/we_own_the_float_yet_another_methodology/
[https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/oxjv1n/google_survey_update_gme_ownership_w_aapl_control/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf](https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/oxjv1n/google_survey_update_gme_ownership_w_aapl_control/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=io
... keep reading on reddit ➡
So shills start to flood us with DRS posts. Ok. And? I hear and see more people scrambling to get shares to register than people beeing sad.
Its like everyone is running for the rocket at full speed, hoping to carry more bananas with them.
To me it seems the desired effect is having the opposite effect. Lol
