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Quest for Hollywood fame splits Redditors fuelling market frenzy

The WallStreetBets fight is the latest twist in the saga of an online army of investors who have roiled Wall Street over the past 10 days

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The moderators of the Reddit message board WallStreetBets battled over movie deals after their sudden fame with the GameStop mania

Nathaniel Popper, Taylor Lorenz & Matt Phillips | NYT
Late on Wednesday, a moderator of the popular Reddit message board WallStreetBets posted several screenshots on the chat app Discord. They showed that other moderators had quietly started talking among themselves about landing a movie deal.
 
“What’s our cut?” one of the moderators had asked in a Discord chat, according to the screenshots.
 
By Thursday morning, that quest for Hollywood riches had exploded into an ugly battle, giving a glimpse into the unruly nature of a suddenly famous Reddit community. That was when the WallStreetBets moderators who were considering the film deal began booting out other moderators who