Yeah I'd like to caution that approximately everything reported about this is basically incorrect, even from reputable media. That includes PnL stuff but equally applies to...well, all the other stuff. I can't even count the number of conspiracies I've seen repeated.

I get that hedge funds are categorically unsympathetic characters in this play. But people are so angry that fact checking doesn't seem to matter. It doesn't help that a lot of things financial mechanics are esoteric and not commonly known, or that most people don't know the difference between hedge funds, banks, market makers and brokers.