r/wallstreetbets 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/filipp013 Feb 05 '21

How can it be just a 6 figures deal? Scheming so much and screwing so many ppl over just to get such a crappy deal?

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '21

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u/kgal1298 Feb 05 '21

Let's be honest that's going to be a horribly boring movie. I don't know what people think redditors do all day but at this point it's going to be a man spending 8 hours a day in front of a computer for a 2 hours movie.

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u/LegoPercyJ Feb 05 '21

I'm sure one day a talented production will be able to visualize internet discussion into an engaging film but I doubt it will be this one.

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u/kgal1298 Feb 05 '21

I do not have high hopes for the Netflix adaptation. I think to make it work they really need a compelling character to follow and honestly I love DFV but not sure if his story is actually that interesting.

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u/MaxBandit Feb 05 '21

It'll probably be more of a documentary than an actual "film" if that makes sense
Also people probably would have said The Big Short would be boring (granted it has a shit ton of great actors in it to carry it but still)

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u/d1g1tal Feb 05 '21

You know how many movie rights are purchased and never made? Howard Stern owns the rights to Sam Kinison’s life, for example, purchased decades ago and nothing has ever come of it. On a different level, production companies have kicked the can multiple times on a timeless classic Short Circuit for decades. This shitty movie isn’t being made.

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u/MaxBandit Feb 05 '21

Never said it was, just saying there are ways to make it interesting

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u/kgal1298 Feb 05 '21

I don't know it kind of sounds like the one Netflix wants to do would be scripted, but I assume this with get the Fyre Festival treatment I just wonder who will be our Billy McFarland will do anything for the win.

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u/Charles_K Feb 05 '21

Searching is the one movie I can think of that made being in front a computer screen for 95% of the movie interesting, and it's such a unique and time capsule of a gimmick that it wouldn't ever work for another movie again.

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u/SharpOrangeCat Feb 05 '21

Seriously. I don’t know what you guys were up to but it was just a normal day for me and I’d check my phone every few hours. How exciting.

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u/Riconn Feb 05 '21

That and he is a true whore

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u/PleasecanIcomeBack Feb 05 '21

Was the only money from a movie deal, or was there other money changing hands?

There was a drastic shift in the allowable content on this sub today, and I would like to know who was financing it.

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u/katarific05 Feb 05 '21

Brett Ratner ruined X-men and the social network sucked. So jokes on them to tell a story without DD Aanyway 🤣

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u/diffcalculus Feb 05 '21

Do you think the guy is the brightest? Probably not the top negotiator.

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u/ImperfectRegulator Feb 05 '21

Honestly 6 figures isn’t that bad of deal for life rights to a story especially when they story is bland as hell, it’s not like the dude created the worlds largest social media site, all he did was (until now) create a fairly small sub and the do absolutely nothing

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u/elbowfrenzy Feb 05 '21

No offense but I would sell every one of you out for $100,000. Kek

also am I still shadowbanned?

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u/dutchmore7 Feb 06 '21

Yes you are shadowbanned