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DFV never said a thing about short squeezing. Watch his content, don't trust the media. He bought the stock as a long term investment because he thought it's severely undervalued and it will rise with new leadership.

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> DFV never said a think about short squeezing.

But did Keith Gill?

All the argument here tends to treat "/u/DeepFuckingValue" as the sole authority of what this guy did, and in context that seems outrageously naive.

Accounts all over WSB were pushing this stock like crazy, and this guys Just So Happens to have been a huge beneficiary, when he was absolutely expert enough to have understood the bubble (and importantly, how the bubble was driven by the WSB community misunderstanding short trading)?

Again, his expertise and the incentives just don't line up here. That's not proof, but it's pretty good justification for suspicion. Occam's favorite explanation has to be that this guy ran a pump and dump.

Eh, no, please don't try to do this, that's the first step towards a really terrible world. We always assume innocence first, there needs to be proof to claim otherwise. There were many more people who invested at the same time and got big profit just like he did. DFV didn't even sell even a portion of his position anywhere near the top (he sold a small portion near one of the much lower highs, around $100 IIRC).

You could make this argument about literally anyone on Youtube or TV talking about stocks. Don't, please.

DeepFuckingValue(Reddit username), Keith Gill and Roaring Kitty(youtube username) are the same person.

I think that's clear to OP. What OP is getting at is what else did/could keith be doing, how many other reddit accounts did they have, how many botnets, etc all possibly pumping this. That's for discovery and courts to decide. Maybe Keith is only DFV and none of that other stuff exists, or maybe DFV is just one of many keith's tactics to pump this thing.

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