by Dalila Da Silva Lopes
Toward the end of January 2021, the stock market experienced something quite unprecedented, “Amateur” investors (as the mainstream media has branded them) gathered together on the Reddit platform and created chaos in the stock market by artificially pumping up the share value of GameStop. The struggling gaming retailer’s share price saw a high of $483 on Thursday as Redditors drove the company’s stock price by thousands of percent in just one day.