On Friday, October 27 2023, Pulte goes in to a GameStop store to do some “damage.”
This was posted in at least 2 subreddits, notably theppshow and superstonk.
The interesting part, to me at least, is once again the different kind of reception that content like this receives in various subreddits, not so different than the time that @GameStop tweeted butterflies.
Pulte:
- is a GME shareholder and has repeatedly demonstrated support for GameStop and the GME community.
- supports DRS and has DRS’d at least some of his shares of GME.
- has made it publicly known on more than one occasion that he shares a pair of well-known activist attorneys with Ryan Cohen
- is one of the few individuals that RC repeatedly Likes on X/Twitter.
- is in a GameStop store, for whatever reason, and makes this hype video.
Superstonk mods didn’t like this. The post was removed from Superstonk for violation of Rule 2, that posts in that subreddit must be relevant to GME.
“Posts should further contribute to the shareholders’ discussion around GME. We appreciate Pulte likes the stock, but so do so many other wonderful stockholders. Let’s not narrow our circle of celebration by focusing on just one person 🙏”
Superstonk mods clearly demonstrate that their definition of “relevant to GME” is ambiguous and always shifting. “Relevant to GME” is whatever they want at any particular moment.
The community clearly felt it was worth posting and discussing. How was this not related to GME? Why not just leave the post up? What was the actual problem that mods had with this post? Why would they go out of their way to make sure a post like this gets removed?
I believe that the reason that Pulte in a GameStop store was something that was celebrated in the pp show subreddit and community is the very reason that superstonk mods removed it from their subreddit.
At some point along the line, among competing narratives, superstonk mods decided that they don’t like the pp show community, and since Pulte has been giving that community a bunch of attention, he is guilty by association.
I think that this observation is worth consideration.
Look even at the comments in that superstonk thread. Look at all of the hostility and vitriol towards Pulte, a GME shareholder and supporter. The comments kind of give the narrative away, they reveal the narrative that is being pushed, and that narrative is clearly that Pulte is bad because it is already a foregone conclusion that the pp show community is nothing but grifters without any merit.
Superstonk mods are in harmony with this narrative, and they duly removed this GameStop-related Pulte post.
“Let’s not narrow our circle of celebration by focusing on just one person” actually means: “Stop focusing on Pulte, because we the almighty mods have decided that we do not like him here.”
To me the funny part is that Pulte never even held any shares of BBBY/BBBYQ, yet does holds GME and supports GameStop and makes it clear that he is a big fan of Ryan Cohen, and yet you’ve got people trying very hard to push that narrative that Pulte is somehow complicit in perpetrating a grift.
I know that everyone here already knows about this kind of nonsense that happens from the superstonk mods and that another post like this isn’t really required to prove that point. I for one am kind of sick of even talking about it at all. But I believe it is important, for the purpose of having an accurate historical record, to keep tabs on these obvious demonstrations of bias and censorship, so that as narratives continue to evolve, we can look back at these receipts and see clearly the various ways in which worthwhile information was censored and contained by a group of unaccountable mods that didn’t want the community to know about it.
What was Pulte’s intention on making this video?
Some believe that it is deliberately tinfoil-related.
in the post in the pp show subreddit, the top comments there discuss that Pulte is brandishing an interesting stork logo on his sweater. A stork is delivering a package.
In a Twitter/X spaces call several days later, somebody asks Pulte where they can get a sweater like that, and Pulte revealed that this sweater was something that he had custom made.
So, Pulte custom makes a sweater with a peculiar logo and ensures that this logo was clearly visible in the video. For all we know, this could have been Pulte’s entire purpose for creating this video, to show viewers this logo as a way of dropping a clue, in the tinfoily sort of way that some investors tend to look for.
what gets me is that, discussing this kind of tinfoil used to be cool and fun and commonplace in superstonk. Much of what superstonk used to believe was based on nothing but pure speculation and belief in tinfoil clues. but at some point along the way, something has changed, and this kind of tinfoil is now considered unacceptable lunacy if it in any way connects to BBBY. Like, it was totally okay when GME investors dissected Ryan Cohen’s tweets and attempted to interpret the different possible meanings that RC might have been signalling. Pure, unadulterated grade AAA tinfoil used to be totally acceptable, and outsiders would often call superstonk and GME investors delusional cultists for possibly believing in this kind of speculation.
But, that same type of speculative tinfoil, when applied to the situation surrounding the Bed Bath and Beyond bankruptcy, is suddenly too far. The same kind of rhetoric used against GME investors (delusional, cultists, grifters, bagholders) for believing in speculative tinfoil is now being used among GME investors in places like superstonk against BBBYQ investors. And I just find this kind of ironic and also quite restrictive, probably deliberately restrictive.
It is almost as if the same forces that always opposed the GME investor community are trying very hard to make sure that nobody gives any attention to what is going on with the BBBY situation, and it is for this reason that I believe the post was removed from superstonk by the mods there. the funny thing is that, to me, the more they try and censor these kinds of conversations and drive a wall up between communities, the more it tells me that there is something important worth looking at.
A lot of times the tinfoil stuff on superstonk was directly or indirectly linked to hype dates, which has put me off and potentially others as well. All I know is buy, drs, and hold.
Hype dates can be fun if not taking seriously / used as a meme, like Tuesday Morning.
Other than that I prefer just buying and holding in Pure DRS whenever my budget allows.
Preposterous…
“We appreciate Pulte likes the stock, but so do so many other wonderful stockholders.” … and Pulte content is removed, so any stockholder content is off limits by that logic.
PS. I would’ve missed this if not for your post, thank you for capturing and sharing!!!
Posts should further contribute to the shareholders’ discussion around GME. We appreciate Pulte likes the stock, but so do so many other wonderful stockholders. Let’s not narrow our circle of celebration by focusing on just one person 🙏
What a bullshit excuse for censorship! Can you imagine @Chives saying that?
As I recall, last Christmas, Citadel took their employees to Disney World. Somebody posts, “I don’t believe they really went.” And then a moderator for r/wallstreetbets posts a photo from the Citadel party at Disney World. The implication being that this moderator is a Citadel employee at the party. This is reposted on r/superstonk. Riot ensues. Mods must have been out for Christmas. Maybe also at the Citadel party? And then the next day, every post and every comment on this topic is deleted. “This content is not appropriate.” I confirmed on reveddit at the time, but I’m recalling from memory now. Does anyone else remember this?
Yup. I have a recording from the WSB daily space/call from the morning after where they coyly allude to it while also denying it
Can you post the recording?
Are you in this discord? If not, I can find another place too upload it…
https://discord.com/channels/955819881989808128/1059573570122023022/1060301849695105036
Is this the DRSyourGME Discord? I tried to follow your link, but it said, “No text channels. You find yourself in a strange place. You don’t have access to any text channels, or there are none in this server.”
It’s the older one that was made for actual collaboration on the drsgme.org website.
I’ve re-uploaded it to my Google drive: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gqT4UdIoURT_LFZko3tpnfqzNc7pffcc/view?usp=sharing
Got it –– good find!
It’s obvious there’s something wrong with the moderation on Superstonk; likely both incompetence and corruption with heavier weight & emphasis on corruption.
Happy to see this post.
Reminder: Superstonk mods auto-bot remove and also censor any mention of “Lemmy.”
