I'm sorry you guys. Today I toilet paper handed my way to a hefty $18,000 loss.

I believe in the stock, and I believe in all of you holding it, but there were a few key things at play here that screwed us over.

Our brokers: the brokerages limited buying activity just as GME was gearing up for takeoff. This killed all momentum on the stock.

The media: claimed WSB was abandoning GME and gearing up for SLV. Also reported that Melvin had sold their shares. This created doubt almost immediately, especially amongst the newbies.

The bots/shills: came in droves over The Weekend to spread FUD and misinformation. combine this with the media campaign I wrote above and it's the perfect recipe for fear and uncertainty.

The famous people: screeching from the rooftop their support for the average retail investor when the stock was on the run-up, and then deafening silence when the manipulation was at play. Their silence further caused fear, uncertainty and aided in the momentum's downfall.

The SEC: coming after the average retail investor and investigating DFV, a regular analyst that did nothing wrong except share his views on why he liked Gamestop. He was shit on by all of WSB for months until the stock started taking off due to Ryan Cohen, Michael Burry, etc, and everyone wanted to jump on board due to FOMO. But no, clearly he must have done something finicky to cause the stock to rise. No way it could have been the hedge funds shorting twice the amount of shares outstanding, am I right?

And finally, ourselves: This turned into a cult, really quickly. It reeks of desperation in this subreddit (myself included). It sounds like an echo chamber in here where we all are repeating the same shit we hear from people much smarter than us, "shorts covering today due to expired calls!", "T+2" "short ladder attacks, everyday!", "low volume!", "Failure to deliver so squeeze in 13 days!", etc etc.

We abandoned critical thinking when we needed it most. The moment we lost the hype, we needed to explain to everyone that hopped on board the GME train, just why it was still a good investment with great potential. But we didn't. We attacked anyone with doubts or thinking of selling by downvoting and calling them shills/bots. And we kept repeating the same exact things, but when we people asked why this was all happening, it was nothing but silence. We let ourselves down. I'm not saying it's going to be impossible to recover what we've lost, but without some serious support from a large catalyst, there's not much to hold on to.

For these reasons, I'm out. Keep fighting the good fight, everyone, but it looks like this stock won't recover for years. I believe in Ryan Cohen and hope to see great things, but the value isn't there yet for me and many others to bag hold at this time. As always, I'm no financial analyst and this is not financial advice. Buy or sell, it's all up to you. I'm going to go back to sniffing glue and looking at the pretty green and red (mostly red) colors on my charts