<story><title>The nihilism of r/wallstreetbets</title><url>https://jeromysonne.com/the-nihilism-of-r-wallstreetbets/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vorpalhex</author><text>This post is a great tutorial in why we shouldn&amp;#x27;t derive meaning from expressed language. Imagine if you sat in a room of software engineers and tried to make conclusions about their life views based on their jargon: &amp;quot;I think what they&amp;#x27;re saying is you just need to form a single value store and react to it, dividing life into small composable micro components that are DRY. We can really comprehend how this minimalism impacts engineers...&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Language like WSB uses is meant to frustrate outsiders and limit posers. It makes it hard for the media to reprint things that are said, and even if it does, it would be nonsense. That&amp;#x27;s intentional.&lt;p&gt;And yes, there&amp;#x27;s double meanings and jokes to some of this language. Many WSB&amp;#x27;ers comprehend the gambling-esque nature of what they do, and how many of their strategies aren&amp;#x27;t traditionally recommended.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>whoknew1122</author><text>Language like WSB uses is meant to amuse edgelords and (hopefully) upset &amp;#x27;normies&amp;#x27;. When normies are offended by cavalier use of slurs and labels (and if you&amp;#x27;re offended, you&amp;#x27;re by definition a normie), the edgelords point and laugh at the normie who doesn&amp;#x27;t share their same nihilistic worldview.&lt;p&gt;WSB is what happens when immature, nihilistic, overly online middle class boys grow up into immature, nihilistic, overly online men-children. The only thing that changed as they aged is now they have to hide their power level while in normie society.</text></comment>
<story><title>The nihilism of r/wallstreetbets</title><url>https://jeromysonne.com/the-nihilism-of-r-wallstreetbets/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vorpalhex</author><text>This post is a great tutorial in why we shouldn&amp;#x27;t derive meaning from expressed language. Imagine if you sat in a room of software engineers and tried to make conclusions about their life views based on their jargon: &amp;quot;I think what they&amp;#x27;re saying is you just need to form a single value store and react to it, dividing life into small composable micro components that are DRY. We can really comprehend how this minimalism impacts engineers...&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Language like WSB uses is meant to frustrate outsiders and limit posers. It makes it hard for the media to reprint things that are said, and even if it does, it would be nonsense. That&amp;#x27;s intentional.&lt;p&gt;And yes, there&amp;#x27;s double meanings and jokes to some of this language. Many WSB&amp;#x27;ers comprehend the gambling-esque nature of what they do, and how many of their strategies aren&amp;#x27;t traditionally recommended.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nostromo</author><text>This comment reads like a &amp;quot;they&amp;#x27;re really playing 4-dimensional chess&amp;quot; moment.&lt;p&gt;There are definitely some smart people on wsb, but I very much doubt the use of silly language (like, say, calling bears &amp;quot;gay bears&amp;quot;) is anything other than users being intentionally ridiculous and funny.</text></comment>