The Antisocial Network: The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders That Brought Wall Street to Its Knees

This is an account of the wildest story of the year—the David-vs.-Goliath GameStop short squeeze. This tale of fortunes won and lost overnight has the potential to forever change Wall Street.

Over the course of four days, Wall Street big names reckoned with a formidable force they barely understood, let alone saw coming: everyday men and women on subreddit WallStreetBets like nurse Kim Campbell, student Jeremy Poe, and the Keith “RoaringKitty” Gill whose unfiltered livestream videos captivated a new generation of stock market enthusiasts. Initially, WallStreetBets was a joke—a meme-filled, freewheeling platform where investors shared wild investment tips, and laughed about losses. The unlikely focus of this battle: a struggling brick-and-mortar store catering to teenagers and outsiders that had somehow managed to survive as the world rapidly transitioned online.

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