The forum’s 600,000 members dub satirical options-trade commentary over scenes from TV shows like It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and rant about a loss that caused a member to get their “face ripped off.” Toss in a smidge of casual racism and a whiff of locker-room misogyny, and WallStreetBets is a window into the back rooms of a seedy stock-market casino with no Burry to be found. The sub-Reddit WallStreetBets, with the tagline “Like 4chan found a Bloomberg terminal,” is rarely any of those things. Burry’s posts were thoughtful, well-reasoned and showed deep research. Before he became famous for the big short in the 2000s, Michael Burry discussed stock trades on online message boards.
