In the wild realm of online finance, a new king was crowned not with a crown, but a meme. Enter the world of Stonks Memes – where “stocks” is purposely misspelled to celebrate the most ridiculous, nonsensical, yet in a twisted way profitable, moves in investing. Stonks Memes are the universal language for when your horrible decision somehow yields profit.
Here are 5 funny Stonks Memes that perfectly capture that chaotic energy:
1. The Stonks Face
The original meme that started it all
The OG Stonks meme has a businessman displaying such a perfectly smug, confused expression. The face says, “I have no idea what I’m doing, but it’s somehow working.” This meme was the genesis of all subsequent Stonks Memes, signifying investments that happen to succeed by pure dumb luck, not strategy!
2. The Bailout Stonks
When failure turns into success.
This ingenious variation displays the ease in which the failed investment is than entirely saved by outside forces. This meme follows that reasoning: “Make a bad trade → Lose money → Company gets government bailout → STONKS.” This meme is the ultimate example of some of the Stonks Memes’ ability to capture the unrealistic risk mitigation of modern finance.
3. The Emotional Hedge Stonks
Can’t lose if you have both sides covered.
One of the more brilliantly dumb Stonks Memes suggests to buy stock in companies that you despise. If the price goes down, you are happy the company is going out of business, if the stock price goes up, you make money. It is the ultimate emotional hedge strategy that only sounds reasonable in the world of Stonks Memes.
4. The Ape Revolution Stonks
When Reddit broke Wall Street.
The GameStop phenomenon created some of the most historic Stonks Memes. Retail traders (as apes) vs hedge funds became the real life manifestation of these memes. The trade was easy: “I just like the stock” became the rallying cry that turned into astronomical profits.
5. The Time Travel Stonks
An Investor’s Greatest Wish
Every trader has fantasized about fulfilling their quest, as depicted in Stonks Memes: get a time machine, go back to 2010, and buy Bitcoin. It was just convenient that the impossibility of the solution made it the perfect closing of our analysis of Stonks Memes – representing the ultimate “what if” scenario that a trader would want to fulfill.
From speculative purchases to mocking the stupidity of investing and/or feedback that was based in response to a petty measure everyone can empathize with, these Stonks Memes should add humor to an often and serious trade, which can remind us that sometimes it doesn’t make sense on the stock market- but that’s the funny part.
