Doesn't WSB have a similar position as The Onion in the public conscious, in the sense that the vast majority of readers can tell that it's satirical and not something on which to base important decisions?
It was like that for a long time, with genuine nuggets of profound wisdom and DD, but that was years and years ago. Every single subreddit which crosses some threshold of subscribers turns into rubbish. No exceptions.
Used to be but it turned to q-anon tiered and gathered too many people there who didn't get the memo. It was a decent community at the beginning but turned to cesspool.
Not that I'm aware of. The people behind WSB are Wall St. pros and know what the hell they were doing. It's a social media based pump and dump scheme that prays on the young and vulnerable. That's why WSB stylized itself after 4chan, to attract that crowd. 4chan was already a hotbed of crypto scams and cryptobro true believers ripe for the picking so WSB swept in and showed everyone how the pros run a financial scam.