The Reddit "stonks" story is so powerful, it sucked Jon Stewart onto Twitter

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What is it about this Reddit/WallStreetBets/Robinhood stock story that gives it such a pull on the relics of our long-distant and ridiculous past? DogeCoin, “stonks,” brick and mortar retail businesses: All these artifacts of a bygone era have been drawn inexorably into the conflagration of memes, populist anger, and endless—like, just fucking relentless—metaphors for what “shorting” a stock is. (If we have to imagine one more monkey borrowing one more banana from another monkey, we’re going to lose our minds.) Now we can add yet another long-absent god to our list of deities resurrected by this ongoing story: Jon Stewart, who joined Twitter today and, sure enough, issued this as his first tweet: