Exactly, media controls the narrative and people en masse are gullible to manipulations. The stock market in the short term is at best a perception, perhaps only on the long term reflects a normalized, economic reality

GME is the way it was because it is, effectively, not an open market of buyers and sellers, due to deliberate (if decentralized) manipulation. This is in contrast to the vast majority of other securities.

"In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run, it is a weighing machine"