^ "Why Are People Referring To "Stocks" As "Stonks"?".
"What are 'stonks'? History of GameStop-linked meme explained". "What We Talk About When We Talk About Stonks". ^ a b "Surreal Memes Are the Last Escape the Internet Has"."Meme Dankness: Floating Glittery Trash for an Economic Heresy". List of Internet phenomena – List which covers many popular internet memes.Vaporwave – A microgenre of electronic music, and visual art style characterized by a nostalgic or surrealist engagement with the popular entertainment, technology and advertising of previous decades.Rage comic – A meme which uses copies of black-and-white Microsoft Paint illustrations to illustrate emotional states.In 2021, the multiplayer video game Fortnite released the playable character "Diamond Hanz", based on the design of Meme Man, as a joke for April Fools Day. Immediately afterwards, shares in GameStop rose 157 percent in extended-hours trading, which some linked with Musk's tweet. Įlon Musk has used both Meme Man and the "stonks" meme as a reaction on Twitter, and on January 26, 2021, he tweeted the word "Gamestonk!!" with an attached link to r/wallstreetbets. On August 27, 2020, a tweet by user comparing Meme Man to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos went viral, accumulating over 400,000 likes as of July 30, 2021. shares soared he tweeted "stonks" and the website featured this meme.
On February 1, 2019, Elon Musk bought the domain name "" according to his tweet. The meme went viral and became a common reaction image on Reddit and Twitter. On June 5, 2017, the artist uploaded an image of Meme Man overlaid on top of a stock photo of a man in a business suit with arms crossed and a chart pointing upwards behind him, and the caption "Stonks", a deliberate misspelling of the word "stocks". The first usage of him as a recurring character was on the Facebook page of the artist "Special meme fresh" starting in 2014, and soon spread to become "one of the only consistent stylistic elements" of the surreal memes aesthetic. During the 2021 GameStop short squeeze, Meme Man was popularized by users of the subreddit r/wallstreetbets as the face of the "stonks" meme.
He was popularized in the mid-2010s by the artist "Special meme fresh", and became a common character in many surreal memes, a genre of internet humor inspired by surrealism. He is depicted as a 3D render of a smooth, bald, and often disembodied blue-eyed male head. Succ and the Stonks guy, is a character often featured in internet memes. Meme Man, sometimes also referred to as Mr. For stocks popularized by Internet memes, see Meme stock.
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