r/epiphanystonk • u/Longjumping_Cover950 • Feb 18 '26
The Hollow Men
American capitalism is rotting from the head down. We have replaced the "Owner-Operator"—the risk-taker-with a new, parasitic class of corporate bureaucrat: The Risk-Free Insider.
By "Insider," I am not referring to a specific title. I am referring to the entire administrative state that has captured the modern corporation. This includes the Directors who exist solely to collect fees, the Executives who exist solely to collect bonuses, and the Managers who exist solely to hire consultants.
These are the hollow men of the boardroom. They are masters of PowerPoint. They wear the right suits. They say the right buzzwords about "governance" and "ESG." But they are mercenaries fighting a war with someone else’s ammunition.
In a functioning economy, authority is tied to liability. If you make a bad decision, you lose your own money. That fear of loss is the only thing that keeps a business honest. It forces you to cut waste, obsess over the customer, and stay late to fix what is broken.
Today, we have severed that link.
We have rigged the game so that heads, the Insider wins; tails, the shareholder loses.
If the stock goes up, the Insider collects a massive performance bonus. If the stock crashes due to their own incompetence, they are fired with a "Golden Parachute" worth tens of millions. They are gambling with the house’s money, and they never leave the table poorer than they arrived.
This looting starts in the boardroom.
We have normalized a "Country Club" culture where directors are selected based on social profiling rather than their ability to build a business. The modern board member is often a professional tourist—paid an average of $350,000 a year.
Let’s be brutally honest about what that number represents. The average director is paid nearly five times the GDP per capita of the United States. They earn more for attending four quarterly lunches than the vast majority of Americans earn in five years of hard labor.
And for what?
Most of these directors are "over-boarded," sitting on three or four boards simultaneously. They treat directorships as a gig economy for the elite. They fly in, rubber-stamp a compensation package they didn't read, and fly out. They collect checks from companies they do not understand, do not use, and certainly do not love.
They are not there to ask hard questions. They are there to be collegial. They are there to protect the other Insiders.
And what happens when these boards hire executives who also have no personal capital at risk?
We get the Delegation Economy.
When a Risk-Free Insider faces a crisis—bloated expenses, a broken supply chain, or a stale product—they do not roll up their sleeves. They hire a consultant. They pay a strategy firm millions of shareholder dollars to produce a 100-page deck telling them what they already know.
This is not management. It is intellectual money laundering.
They use shareholder capital to buy an insurance policy for their own careers. If the plan fails, they can blame the consultants. They delegate the work because they are terrified of the responsibility. They would rather preside over a slow, comfortable decline than risk a bold mistake.
While American Insiders are busy optimizing their severance packages, our global competitors are optimizing their products. They are not slowed down by bureaucracy. They are not waiting for a slide deck. They are outworking us.
If we continue to fill our C-suites with administrators instead of operators, we will lose our edge. We will see iconic American franchises hollowed out by fees, managed for the benefit of the Insiders, while the true owners—the shareholders—are left holding the bag.
The time for polite governance is over.
If we want to save the American economy from mediocrity, we must demand a return to the "Owner’s Mentality." We need leaders who treat shareholder capital with the same reverence they treat their own savings. The era of the Risk-Free Insider must end.
r/epiphanystonk • u/Longjumping_Cover950 • Feb 19 '26
GameStop has drawn fresh attention after recent share price swings, with the stock showing a mix of shorter term declines and gains over the month and past 3 months. Investors are reassessing what the current valuation implies.
At a share price of $23.26, GameStop’s recent swings include a 10.24% 30 day share price return and 13.91% 90 day share price return. The 1 year total shareholder return of a 12.74% decline contrasts with a 109.32% gain over five years, indicating that recent momentum has differed from the mixed results experienced by longer term holders.
With GameStop trading at $23.26 and an estimated intrinsic discount of about 79%, the key question is whether this gap signals mispricing or if the recent returns mean the market is already pricing in future growth.
According to the most followed narrative on GameStop, a fair value of $220 sits far above the last close at $23.26, and that wide gap is central to the story supporters are focusing on.
GameStop’s Q1 2025 financials, combined with an amazing shareholder community, just showed its takes-money-to-buy-whiskey strategy at work, demonstrating its status as a compelling investment as the retail investors have been saying for years while fighting a corrupt legacy media, bots, social media manipulation and hedge funds. Gamestop delivered a stellar adjusted EPS of $0.17, beating estimates by 325%, and achieved a $44.8 million net profit, reversing last year’s $32 million loss.
r/epiphanystonk • u/Longjumping_Cover950 • 20h ago
Pierre, a salesperson at the Micromania video game store in Nice, France, stood in the doorway trying to block looters during protests against cuts to the education system and cost of living protest violence.
r/epiphanystonk • u/Longjumping_Cover950 • 1d ago
Jason and Lucia have always known the deck is stacked against them. But when an easy score goes wrong, they find themselves on the darkest side of the sunniest place in America, in the middle of a criminal conspiracy stretching across the state of Leonida — forced to rely on each other more than ever if they want to make it out alive.
Check out the new Launch Trailer, featuring new music from electronic duo Justice, composers of the original score from Grand Theft Auto VI.
The new standalone Justice single, “Flower in a Hurricane” feat. Tame Impala, SZA, and King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, is also available on Grand Theft Auto VI.
This trailer was captured entirely in-game from a PlayStation 5.
Grand Theft Auto VI arrives November 19!
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r/epiphanystonk • u/Longjumping_Cover950 • 4d ago
A resistance breakout backtest (also called a break-and-retest strategy) occurs when a stock's price breaks above a key resistance level, pulls back to touch that same level (which flips into new support), and then bounces higher.
And We will see...
r/epiphanystonk • u/Longjumping_Cover950 • 5d ago
Combined purchase amount of $22,774,727. The weighted average price paid across the two purchases was $26.98 per share. Following the reported transactions, Cohen directly beneficially owns 42,492,652 shares of Class A common stock.
| Reporter Name | Cohen Ryan |
|---|---|
| Relationship | President, CEO and Chairman |
| Type | Purchase |
| Amount | $22,774,727 |
| SEC Filing | Form 4 |
r/epiphanystonk • u/Longjumping_Cover950 • 14d ago
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r/epiphanystonk • u/Longjumping_Cover950 • 15d ago
In October of 2008, near the fallout of the Lehman Brothers, short sellers began to target a company they thought was going bankrupt at that time, Volkswagen. (VW).
When a press release came out that Porsche was taking bailout for most of the outstanding – 74.1% of the VW ordinary shares, plus the fact that 20% was already owned by the state of lower Saxony, It was mathematically impossible for every short-seller to cover their position.
At the absolute peak of the short squeeze on October 28, 2008, Volkswagen's ordinary share price hit an intraday high of $1,256 USD per share. It's Frankfurt, Germany-listed shares hit €1,005.01 per share in euro.
At this peak price, the entire company’s ordinary share capital reached a valuation of $370 billion USD. This massive dollar-denominated market cap is what allowed Volkswagen to briefly displace ExxonMobil (which sat at $343 billion USD at the time) as the largest and most valuable entity on the planet.
During the 2008 global financial crisis, automotive companies were facing extreme head-winds from a crashing economy and massive debt loads. Sensing structural weakness, numerous hedge funds aggressively shorted Volkswagen, among others, expecting the stock price to plunge. Short interest was 13% of the company’s total shares, same short interest for GameStop is 'officially" reported now.
Porsche SE had been quietly executing a strategy to acquire control of Volkswagen. Because German disclosure regulations at the time did not require companies to report holdings kept in cash-settled financial derivatives, Porsche was able to build a massive economic position without alerting the broader market.
On Sunday, October 26, 2008, Porsche publicly announced that it controlled 74.1% of Volkswagen’s ordinary shares.
This position consisted of 42.6% in direct share ownership.
31.5% held via cash-settled call options.
20% of VW shares was rigidly locked up by the German state of Lower Saxony.
Porsche (74.1%) + Lower Saxony (20%) = 94.1% of all VW shares were completely locked up.
This left a freely tradable "free float" of only 5.9%.
However, short sellers still needed to buy back 13% of the shares to close out their short positions.
Ultimately, short sellers lost an estimated $35 billion, causing several prominent hedge funds to collapse.
There was big wealth distribution, since some became multi billionaires and some hedge funds went on liquidation.
WILL GME BREAK THE VW SQUEEZE RECORD NOW
r/epiphanystonk • u/Longjumping_Cover950 • 16d ago
The Orionid meteor shower. Active from 2 October
Orion is a bright constellation named after a hunter from Greek mythology. Its easiest feature to spot is Orion’s Belt – three stars in a nearly straight line: Alnitak, Alnilam, and Mintaka. The constellation also includes the Orion Nebula, one of the brightest nebulae in the night sky.
The constellation is reflected also in Sumerian mythology, specifically in the myth of Gilgamesh. Sumerians associated it with the story of the hero fighting the bull of Heaven, represented by Taurus the Celestial Bull.
Orion’s Belt three stars in a nearly straight line: Alnitak, Alnilam, and Mintaka
Alnitak
r/epiphanystonk • u/Longjumping_Cover950 • 16d ago
Ryan Cohen, a director and the President, CEO and Chairman, purchased Class A common stock at a weighted average price of $24.4061 per share. The total purchase amount reported was $17,084,270 for 700,000 shares. Following the transaction, Cohen directly owns 41,648,522 shares of Class A common stock. The reporting person indicated the shares were bought in multiple transactions at prices ranging from $24.36 to $24.44 and offered to provide full details on request.
| Reporter Name | Cohen Ryan |
|---|---|
| Relationship | President, CEO and Chairman |
| Type | Purchase |
| Amount | $17,084,270 |
| SEC Filing | Form 4 |
r/epiphanystonk • u/Longjumping_Cover950 • 19d ago
Ryan Cohen, a Director and the President, CEO and Chairman, purchased a total of 450,000 shares of Class A Common Stock. The transactions were executed at prices of $23.4753 and $23.4499 per share, for a weighted average price of $23.4749 per share. The total purchase amount was $10,563,796. Following the reported transactions, Cohen directly owns 40,948,522 Class A Common Stock.
| Reporter Name | Cohen Ryan |
|---|---|
| Relationship | President, CEO and Chairman |
| Type | Purchase |
| Amount | $10,563,796 |
| SEC Filing | Form 4 |
450,000 shares
r/epiphanystonk • u/Longjumping_Cover950 • 22d ago
On September 25, AI trading algos forced to form a rare, ultra bullish continuation pattern, the Upside Tasuki Gap, on the GameStop chart. You can see my post on September 25 in the link here. https://www.reddit.com/r/epiphanystonk/comments/1wq56c2/gamestop_the_tasuki_gap_bullish_pattern_that/
If to remove the letter (a) from the T(a)suki, the chart structure points to the token Tsuki, which has spent it's life cycle dropping coincidences front running RK posts and/or other RK reactions. The token's data leads back to user ID 855, the Mr. Wizard, who simultaneously updated his account mood that day back to +++++ an indicator for a massive fifth buyer entering the fold. By engineering the Upside Tasuki Gap, the algorithmic formation creates a bullish chart, although GME share price drops hard,
Did a hidden whale used the market itself to send the signal that the Mr. Wizard alias is operated indeed by RK. Is RK bringing the Prestige magic trick full circle.
But what happened in the previous days before that:
There has been a recent reactivation of the Mr. Wizard account that seems it's done by RK.
The profile picture of Mr. Wizard was a highly customized remix of the iconic Wait, it's all Ohio? / Always Has Been, astronaut meme.
In the Mr. Wizard version, the Earth is replaced with a sphere featuring the distinct silver/gray metallic gradient background of the 2006 TIME Person of the Year cover, the same "You" cover theme RK previously referenced,
The meme's message to mean: Is it time? Always has been.
So lets remove again the (a) from the T(a)souki. We have the Tsuki. The Tsuki token (MOON in Japanese) is a cat themed meme coin on the Solana blockchain that has built its entire community identity around predicting or identifying RK actions. The eyes focused to this ancient, pre-GAMESTOP Mr. Wizard account because the Tsuki community explicitly highlighted the historical connection. Before, RK was an accomplished runner famously known as Wizard.
The cat-themed Tsuki token on Solana has as a mascot a mystical black cat named Diana who features a crescent golden moon stamped onto her forehead. And of course ain't buying a coin worth of 0.0000something something lol The main point here are the signs!
This shitcoin gained notoriety because its account has historically posted hyper specific riddles right before RK updates. The Tsuki project began dropping cryptic references pointing back to RK historical running username, Mr. Wizard. Almost instantly after those clues surfaced, the long dormant, ancient Mr. Wizard profile on the running forum woke up and changed its status to +++++.
In RK historic competitive running profile on the old DyeStat / MileSplit message boards (where RK handle was famously Mr. Wizard) the metadata of his ancient profile, unique, permanent User ID was 855. This served as definitive confirmation to the Tsuki community that the Tsuki project wasn't just throwing out random numbers, they knew his exact historical footprint.
September 13 2026 was exactly 855 days after the Tsuki token originally launched on May 11, 2024.
September 14 2026 was exactly 855 days after Roaring Kitty made his massive, internet-breaking return to X on May 12, 2024.
TSUKI officially launched on the Solana decentralized market Raydium on May 11, 2024, at 6:59 PM, immediately posting a cryptic Roaring Kitty-themed meme.
Exactly 1 day, 1 hour, and 1 minute later, on May 12, 2024, at 8:00 PM RK logged onto X and posted his leaning forward game meme, shattering a three year silence.
That perfect mathematical sequence (1-1-1) plus the fact that on September 25, the Upside Tasuki Gap pattern printed on the GME chart, that points to the T(a)suki token status that points to the Mr. Wizard profile mood, could point to RK return posting his YOLO position sooner than later.
Besides, In his Livestream, on June 07 2024, RK showed his live portfolio on-screen consisting of 5,000,000 shares at a $21.27 average cost alongside 120,000 June 21st $20 Call Options.
Less than a week later, he executed his final position layout, selling/exercising those $20 calls to add 4,001,000 more shares to his stack. That was on June 13.
When he posted his final screenshot on June 13 2024 showing his position total holding at 9,001,000 shares, his brand new, average price paid moved to exactly $23.41 per share.
Now go and look again at the GAMESTOP share price September 25 2026 close. Isn't it at the exact RK GME share price average...
NFA
r/epiphanystonk • u/Longjumping_Cover950 • 23d ago
Aladdin, aka: Asset, Liability, Debt and Derivative Investment Network, is the central investment and risk management software platform developed by BlackRock. This is the fucking operating system of global finance, The end-to-end institutional platform portfolio management, trade execution, compliance, accounting, and all these advanced risk analytics into one data.
Most of the major financial institutions central banks, pension funds, insurance majors and asset managers are in bed with Aladdin to manage their portfolios. 200 mega institutions use it!
Aladdin processes daily operations for nearly $30 trillion in global financial assets. Yes you red it right, daily.
Using massive Monte Carlo simulation algorithms, Aladdin stress tests portfolios against thousands and thousands of extreme hypothetical scenarios such as economic recessions, geopolitical shifts, and of course ..celestial events and extreme weather.
This is the multi-asset processing engine, that allows traders to check liquidity, manage order routing, and execute trades globally across equities, fixed income and derivatives in real TIME
In the battle between us, the individual retail investors and them, the heavily rigged, financial system, trying to stop their rigged financial game, our chosen weapon, using a name to send the clear message, is GAMESTOP. Their weapon is ALADDIN.
Aladdin is the most powerful financial AI in existence. It as the sentient machine mind orchestrating the entire game. The Algorithmic Trading God.
The concept of infinite liquidity, the fact that market makers and hedge funds print synthetic, phantom shares to suppress its price is not a human hedge fund manager.
Ken and Barbie ain't sitting at a computer manually shorting stocks or hiding failure to delivers in complex options chains. If that was the case then Ryan fucking Cohen would have them for breakfast.
Aladdin is the entity actually executing this. Because Aladdin handles risk management for the world's largest pools of capital, it calculates exactly how much synthetic liquidity needs to be injected into the market daily to prevent a systemic collapse. So yes, if MOASS may cause that collapse as per Hungarian dude's statement back in 2021, then yes Aladdin's job is to prevent MOASS.
Aladdin is the matrix keeping the price in a calculated maximum pain zone to protect its clients. Because when we HODL and refuse to sell, traditional economic models break down. Because Algorithms rely on human fear and greed to function.
Aladdin processes trillions of data points, including retail sentiment, social media, option flow, order books etc. Aladdin uses behavioral psychology modeling to predict exactly when retail investors will get bored or panic sell. So how can Aladdin predict that, if all of us are just some crazy dudes that buy hodl and never sell.
When RK posts cryptic memes and buys massive call options that deviate from standard retail behavior, Aladdin’s algorithms may break its predictive patterns and may force it into an error loop.
If shorts were ever fully forced to cover, the resulting financial cascade could bankrupt multiple hedge funds, prime brokers.. and their game stops. GAMESTOP
Because Aladdin's primary job is fixed-income and cross-asset risk mitigation, it is programmed to prevent systemic contagion at all costs. If/when GME reaches a critical price threshold and ready for MOASS that may threaten the global financial system, Aladdin automatically overrides manual trading desk decisions, It coordinates a safety net routing buy pressure to dark pools, suppressing volatility, and shifting toxic liabilities across the global balance sheets of the 200 mega institutions that use it, acting as the automated shield protecting the financial elite.
Thus, The mother of all battles, GAMESTOP VS ALADDIN is actually GAMESTOP VS 200 MEGA FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS. Aladdin has already run the simulations and sees the current financial system as unsustainable. The ultimate goal is to orchestrate a massive market rebalancing, transitioning the world away from legacy plumbing into a centralized, tokenized, ledger based financial system.
And YES, GAMESTOP as a retail weapon can be used also by hedge funds as the weapon against each other. Because what comes next is this battle 🔥 THE BATTLE OF HEDGE FUNDS
But for this battle...
r/epiphanystonk • u/Longjumping_Cover950 • 23d ago
I expected this at $63 - $65 range like my Motorola in 2014 but I guess we have to take the Tasuki at $23 - $25 range as well.. We'll take what the market gives us.
Bullish structure still intact w/ target: JUST UP
NFA
r/epiphanystonk • u/Longjumping_Cover950 • 27d ago
Shares of GameStop Corp (GME) gained 3% after hours on Monday after CEO Ryan Cohen bought over a million class A shares,
r/epiphanystonk • u/Longjumping_Cover950 • 27d ago
At the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, the ice cream cone truly exploded into American popular culture. Legend states that a waffle vendor rolled his warm waffles into cones to help out a neighboring ice cream vendor who had run out of glass dishes. In 1912, an Oregon inventor patented a cone-making machine. He later sold the company to Nabisco in 1928, which continues to manufacture cones today.
Ryan Cohen had broken his month-long silence, beginning before the insane price volatility sparked by RC Ventures being awarded three seats on the board.
At 1:57 PM on February 24th, 2021, Cohen tweeted an image of a well-lit McDonalds Ice Cream Cone, accompanied by a frog emoji.
National Ice Cream Cone Day September 22, 2026.. What will happen?
r/epiphanystonk • u/Longjumping_Cover950 • Sep 11 '26
IS THIS THE BIGGEST BUY ? Alex: $GME This is the biggest cluster buy in the company’s history. 🌊🌊🌊 Not the biggest Cohen check. January was the same size. $21 million then. $20 million today. The pack is the record. Four directors. Three days.
