WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days
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Re: WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days
#2I don't see how is this news on hacker news.
It's PR. Good intentions. Green washing. Charity. Total BS. Philantropy. Anything you want.
But just because there is reddit in the title doesn't mean it's HN related, come on.
Next time, what? Twitter CTO helped a grandma cross the street?
Re: WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days
#3I don't see how is this news on hacker news. It's PR. Good intentions. Green washing. Charity. Total BS. Philantropy. Anything you want. But just because there is reddit in the title doesn't mean it's HN related, come on. Next time, what? Twitter CTO helped a grandma cross the street?
How is that greenwashing? Those are private individuals, not corporations.
Re: WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days
#4I don't see how is this news on hacker news. It's PR. Good intentions. Green washing. Charity. Total BS. Philantropy. Anything you want. But just because there is reddit in the title doesn't mean it's HN related, come on. Next time, what? Twitter CTO helped a grandma cross the street?
“Internet mob mentality” doesn’t exactly conjure a positive image. It’s interesting to see a case where it is genuinely, unambiguously a good thing.
Re: WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days
#5I don't see how is this news on hacker news. It's PR. Good intentions. Green washing. Charity. Total BS. Philantropy. Anything you want. But just because there is reddit in the title doesn't mean it's HN related, come on. Next time, what? Twitter CTO helped a grandma cross the street?
You can post here anything, "that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.". Which means not everything must be related on hacking.
Re: WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days
#6I don't see how is this news on hacker news. It's PR. Good intentions. Green washing. Charity. Total BS. Philantropy. Anything you want. But just because there is reddit in the title doesn't mean it's HN related, come on. Next time, what? Twitter CTO helped a grandma cross the street?
It's a unique social phenomenon that has been enabled by technology that some of us here helped create.
Re: WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days
#7I don't see how is this news on hacker news. It's PR. Good intentions. Green washing. Charity. Total BS. Philantropy. Anything you want. But just because there is reddit in the title doesn't mean it's HN related, come on. Next time, what? Twitter CTO helped a grandma cross the street?
How is that greenwashing? Those are private individuals, not corporations.
He is saying that it may or may not be greenwashing if that's the take you want to have but either way it's not relevant to Hacker News. Not sure whether I agree or not, just trying to explain the parent comment.
Re: WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days
#8I don't see how is this news on hacker news. It's PR. Good intentions. Green washing. Charity. Total BS. Philantropy. Anything you want. But just because there is reddit in the title doesn't mean it's HN related, come on. Next time, what? Twitter CTO helped a grandma cross the street?
You completely misunderstood what this is. Short explanation: GameStop holders on r/wallstreetbets refer to themselves as "apes" and decided to crowdfund actual gorillas.
This is internet culture 2021 in a nutshell.
Re: WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days
#9I don't see how is this news on hacker news. It's PR. Good intentions. Green washing. Charity. Total BS. Philantropy. Anything you want. But just because there is reddit in the title doesn't mean it's HN related, come on. Next time, what? Twitter CTO helped a grandma cross the street?
“Internet mob mentality” doesn’t exactly conjure a positive image. It’s interesting to see a case where it is genuinely, unambiguously a good thing.
It's likely that the "mob" who did this considers such action as a joke, they are not really people with good intentions, more like trolling intentions.
Even-though the outcome here looks positive, I don't think it's any good. They could as well have bought gallons of oil and spilled it in the ocean if it had been a good joke for them.
Re: WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
How is that greenwashing? Those are private individuals, not corporations.
He is saying that it may or may not be greenwashing if that's the take you want to have but either way it's not relevant to Hacker News. Not sure whether I agree or not, just trying to explain the parent comment.
Pretty sure parent thinks this is Reddit investors (as actual investors in the company, VCs etc) randomly funding a charity project, which I would agree could be a PR piece. What's actually happening cannot be greenwashing by the definition of the term.