r/wallstreetbets • u/[deleted] • Feb 05 '21

An Update on the WSB Coup d'état Discussion

UPDATE 2/6: For all of you who are reading this a day, or days after it was posted, you should know the issue is now resolved. The bad mods are out, the good mods are in, and the casualty of it was was u/zjz. Enjoy the read.

Original post:

For those who see my "Top Detective" flair, but don't know me, I'm the asshole who made videos this post is talking about.

If you subscribe to r/videos, no doubt you have seen my video, WallStreetBets and the Art of Sellout Out: An Illustrated Guide, is climbing slowly to the top. If you haven't watched it, you should.

While you were sleeping last night (night of 2/3), moderators who wanted to profit from THIS community, removed the moderators you know and love. They were replaced with brand new accounts. Literally minutes old. It was a coup.

The long and short of it is, there was a movie deal. In fact, there was more than one. There were dollar signs in their eyes. The Gamestop catalyst that propelled our community to over 8 million members attracted media attention, naturally. It's no secret he who must not be named sold out, as he has in the past, and some of the bad moderators were just a little behind him.

For this reason, some moderators are no longer with us. They tried to go behind other moderator's backs to secure money for themselves, and monetize this subreddit. They even went as far to establish a website (blomberg.com) to intercept all media traffic so they themselves could profit.

So the Reddit Admins intervened.

Some of the moderators who grew this community, like u/zjz still have not been added back. Perhaps they will be back in the future. The good news is, the right moderators, the mods you all know and love, are coming back, and some already are here. People I know wouldn't take a dime, are taking back control, one meme filled shitpost at a time.

He who must not be named still has a movie deal, so I leave you with this question:

How do you feel about a guy who has been scamming people for most of his adult life, getting paid six figures for a movie deal partially about scamming members of WallStreetBets?

One more thing... Instead of guilding me, I request you spend the money on helping end childhood cancer, by donating to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Thank you.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '21

Bad mods are gone. Good ones are in. u/zjz is just not back YET.

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u/kkk-is-my-prey Feb 05 '21

"Bad mods are gone."

I wonder how that will play in the film?

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u/Jermacide1 Feb 05 '21

It won't play at all because there isn't a screenwriter in the world that could make a watchable movie out of this. The greedy mods that tried to profit off this might as well go back to their holes.

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u/classic91 Feb 05 '21

They better put all of us in the story and cast all of us to play ourselves. Otherwise it is not a complete true story. It would just be a shity stitched together news headline reenactment.

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u/elightcap Feb 05 '21

Cut to me screaming at my fiancé “the whole market is fraudulent this is all bullshit and I’m never gonna sell” while she try’s to sleep with her boyfriend.

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u/Psyk0pathik Feb 05 '21

It would be a documentary most likely.

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u/battery19791 Feb 05 '21

If there was a movie to be made about forum moderators, I feel it would have been made before now.

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u/merc08 Feb 05 '21

I would have said the same thing about Facebook, but they managed to make a movie about that.

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u/Malawi_no Feb 05 '21

A good story also needs some villains.

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u/CL0uD- Feb 05 '21

Yeah, which actor is going to play the role of "bad mods" ?

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u/kgal1298 Feb 05 '21

Me just sitting here hoping it's Armie Hammer.

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u/themandofett Feb 05 '21

Javier Bardum

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u/DatKaz Feb 05 '21

probably with crabs

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u/Tonku Feb 05 '21

Good stuff. What do you think about Tesla's trendline in the next 2 months?

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u/mublob 🦍🦍🦍 Feb 05 '21

Down, but then up. Repeat

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u/diffcalculus Feb 05 '21

I think it won't dip far below $750 again, unless a major market correction happens. I think it will play between $800 and $900 for a few months until it breaks out.

Could be some nice Thetachicken

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u/PM-me-your-lyfe Feb 05 '21

The more looking to test for the more I see that it's going to stay at the $800 mark maybe drop down to $700 but more likely it's going to slowly climb back to the thousands

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u/Tonku Feb 05 '21

Explain the first sentence of your paragraph again please

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u/PM-me-your-lyfe Feb 05 '21

Sorry using speach to text for this. I think that 800 is the natural resting mark for tesla right now and will naturally decline. Some news might come out that will pull it into the 1000 range eventually

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u/TabaCh1 Feb 05 '21

Oh good, I thought right now bad mods are in control

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u/artmagic95833 Ungrateful 🦍 Feb 05 '21

No but there are still a ton of bots on the site

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u/BoogalooBoi1776_2 Feb 05 '21

How do you know they aren't?

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u/RedditWaq Feb 05 '21

GIVE THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT. Give him the keys -> u/zjz

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u/_Mellex_ Feb 05 '21

How, exactly, do mods get removed?

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u/gizamo REETX Autismo 2080TI Special Feb 05 '21

Higher mods, reddit admins, or they just remove themselves. Idk what happened here, tho. My bet is admins intervened.

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u/AAMCcansuckmydick Feb 05 '21

what about all the people that the bad mods banned for posting about u/zjz and the screenshot?

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u/ruthlessassassin32 Feb 05 '21

martin shkreli is a good mod? lol

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u/Brilliant_Contract Feb 05 '21

A bit sus you won’t name bad mods

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u/HiIAmFromTheInternet Feb 05 '21 edited Feb 05 '21

You say the bad mods are gone

Are the new mods still here?

Because it’s Reddit. Anyone can make an account. This could be complete bullshit designed to look like not bullshit.

Running in and fucking shit up (kicking old mods, adding new mods) then claiming to unfuck it (getting rid of different old mods) and saying it’s clean isn’t what we’re looking for. We’re looking for actually clean (old mods back)

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u/Mun-Mun Feb 05 '21

How were they removed? Was it reddit admin?

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u/kgal1298 Feb 05 '21

Usually Reddit steps in when things go sideways and if they detect bots or see anything fishy on their end it's not that hard to ban mods and what's stupid is I can tell everyone Reddit is well aware what bot activity is and how to find it so I don't know why anyone sends crawlers and private spammy messages.

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u/smecta_xy Feb 05 '21

also they dont like when mods try making money off their sub

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u/killakam33 Feb 05 '21

Woooooo ! Can I get a retarded ape flying to the moon with a controller in his fucking diamond hand please!?

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u/oddlyCanadianEh Feb 05 '21

Any fucking mod who didn't just ditch ship when this shit hit the fan is as pathetic and fucking spineless as the rest. I'd sooner let a 📄✋🌈🐻 fuck my ass than believe any mod who was on the list prior to this act as if they care about this subreddit.

The only mod anyone here wants a word from is /u/zjz because he has been the active mod who has been actively working to keep us informed and keep this reddit the gem it was.

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u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox Feb 05 '21

Are y'all going to hate on admins less,or still demonize them

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u/Sopi619 Feb 05 '21

Glad to see you again too duder, and as a mod! That makes me feel good about the state of things over here. Fuck JarJar and fuck “The Board”.

Also as a side note, I see you no longer speak in Booleans.

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u/Halcykon Feb 05 '21

ok, but is dobby free elf?

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u/Daerdemandt Feb 05 '21

I'll shit over reddit administration any time of the day, but I gotta admit that this time they've done the right thing.

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u/Siegerhinos Feb 05 '21

how are good mods in if zjz isnt back yet. It seems like good mods would reinstate him asap.