Someone explain the joke pwease
It’s an electron microscope of a violin built with individual atoms, as in “I will play the smallest violin in sympathy”
Violins are traditional instruments of cinematic mourning, either as background melody or very famously used literally in Titanic where the orchestra kept playing right up until the ship went down (historically accurate).
Spongebob Squarepants later had a one-off gag where Mr. Krabs wanted to express insincere mourning, so he pulled out a finger-size violin and said something to the effect of “Oh boo hoo. Let me play you a sad song on the world’s tiniest violin”
Of course, being Spongebob Squarepants, the gag was executed so flawlessly that it was immediately seamlessly integrated into internet culture.
Damn, thanks for the exhaustive explaination. The internet needs more people like you
Is inaccurate tho
Oh, damn
Turns out the internet has tons of people like them. People who state things authoritatively but are actually just saying things without doing any verification or checking.
Still grossly overvalued.
Remember, this motherfucker bankrupted THREE casinos!
There is no limit to how badly he can fuck up a business.
Ha, fucking ha.
Putting aside any feeling you may have for or against Trump, WTF does TMTG do? From what I can tell, it runs Truth Social and is planning to launch a streaming service.
I did some quick googling and Truth Social appears to be a mastodon instance with a non-default backend that is free to use with 600k active monthly users.
Facebook alone (not including other META products) has 2.9 billion active monthly users.
What’s so valuable about it? Sure, they are probably running ads. But why would someone advertise on Truth Social over Facebook? Is the conversion rate somehow better on truth social?
Oh come on just because we hate Trump doesn’t mean we should kid ourselves, there’s a lot of value to having access to 600k of the easiest to scam rubes on the planet.
Money + laundering of said money = most shit Dump has his name on
600k active accounts. Maybe half of them are real Americans.
What’s so valuable about it?
Nothing.
It’s a very unusual situation.
It’s basically a proxy for a bet on whether Trump will get a second term. That’s why it took a dump after the debate didn’t go well.
Supporters want to say they have some TMTG shares, and are happy to pay absurd prices for shares without reference to the actual value.
And outside the cult, it’s a bet that Truth Social would become a vector for bribing the president of the United States. If people are going to bribe Trump by pumping his share price, you can get a cut.
Money laundering.
From stock sales? Are they buying directly from the company? If not, I don’t think the company sees the money
The idea was that the Saudis and Russians pump money into the stock to keep the price propped up until Donny can cash out, but that only works if you have enough cash to backfill the volume ratio as needed. It would work a lot better if they could have been quieter about it, but Trump basically makes billions as long as the price doesn’t actually go to zero since his shares are grants for using his “brand.”
It’s not so much money laundering as a completely legal path for foreign agents to buy favors from a possible US President.
Sounds over-priced.
People are treating the “dump” part of a “Pump and Dump” like it’s some kind of a vindication, when suckers were already fully fleeced back at its $7B market cap peak.
It’s a Mastodon instance with a few thousand users trading at $16/share. Absolutely insane that anyone was buying this garbage at any price.
Absolutely insane that anyone was buying this garbage at any price.
That bribery money wasn’t going to launder itself.
It matters because Trump becomes free to sell his shares on September 19 (a week from today). I, for one, am hoping that the price goes to $0 and it gets delisted by then!
He’s been able to borrow against them for some time. Someone is already holding the bag.
