The Antisocial Network: The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders That Brought Wall Street to Its Knees (or simply The Antisocial Network) is a 2021 non-fiction book by Ben Mezrich about the GameStop short squeeze. The 2023 film Dumb Money is based on the book. The book covers the events of the GameStop short squeeze, which saw the collapse of Melvin Capital as users of r/wallstreetbets and other retail traders initiated a short squeeze on stocks like GameStop, AMC and Bed, Bath & Beyond. It was published by Grand Central Publishing in the United States on September 7, 2021. HarperCollins published the book in the United Kingdom on September 16, 2021. The book had a mixed critical reception.
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The Antisocial Network was adapted into a 2023 film.
Dumb Money2023 · film · 105 min · dir. Craig Gillespie · IMDb ↗Vlogger Keith Gill sinks his life savings into GameStop stock and posts about it. When social media starts blowing up, so do his life and the lives of everyone following him. As a stock tip becomes a movement, everyone gets rich—until the billionaires fight back, and both sides find their worlds turned upside down.
