Thursday, January 28, 2021

What's with all the GameStop Store Front Photos?

Don't get me wrong, I am well aware of the news about the $GME stock squeeze and what r/wallstreetbets is doing to Melvin Capital and other predatory hedge funds. I even made a t-shirt to recognize the occasion. No, I'm not curious about why people are talking about the GameStop stocks; I'm wondering why almost every article I have seen has a photo of GameStop in the headline. 

Someone was paid actual money to take this picture this week. I guess to have an "up to date" picture of this crappy strip mall. 

My partner hypothesizes that it creates a good visual shorthand for the Boomers who are reading the paper. A sort of "Yeah, that GameStop, that store that you think your grandson would want to go check out, but he never seems to want to go in". But still, it's absolutely baffling to me that they are showing photos of the storefront when a picture of the logo would suffice. I don't know why this bothers me so much, but I think I've figured out why: it's because the fact that the stock is associated with GameStop literally changes nothing about the story. 

Monday, January 25, 2021

A Rebuttal to The 8 (Actually 11) Way's Millennials Accidently Ruin Their Finances, by FinanceBuzz

 I spend too much time on Facebook. Can you really blame me? I'm a social butterfly who run a quasi-legal advice blog, of course, I check Facebook often. It was while checking Facebook recently that this sponsored ad popped up on my feed. 




BS articles like this were the inspiration for Financial Pro-Tip, and I haven't really been seeing many of them recently. But I wanted to take this article, rip it apart piece by piece, and save you the trouble of actually reading it and, god forbid, giving this creeps more money. 

Let's begin. 


What's with all the GameStop Store Front Photos?

Don't get me wrong, I am well aware of the news about the $GME stock squeeze and what r/wallstreetbets is doing to Melvin Capital and ot...