His name on social media is Roaring Kitty and he has hedge funds shaking on Wall Street. GameStop continues on the front line.
The Reddit Rebellion that keeps GameStop on the rise on Wall Street had a YouTuber for its brains. His name in networks is Roaring Kitty, the roaring kitten, Keith Patrick Gill's alter ego.
34-year-old financial advisor, originally from Massachusetts and former employee of the insurance company MassMutual, as well as married with children, his movement has Wall Street shaking.
Thanks to him, millions of users in the Reddit WallStreetBets community bought shares in the downcast GameStop. This video game store had succumbed to online purchases, so hedge funds always had it down.
Until January.
Allied to revive GameStop, WallStreetBets users began to buy its shares. They went from $ 2.57 in April 2020 to $ 483 last Thursday, January 28.
On Friday they closed at $ 325 and waiting for the market to open on Monday, February 1, they are at $ 317.44.
Roaring Kitty roars for GameStop, but does not speak to the press
Roaring Kitty and DeepFuckingValue (both are the same Gill, according to the Daily Mail), drove the campaign for GameStop's rescue. Other companies benefited, such as AMC and BlackBerry.
Reuters was in charge of identifying Roaring Kitty, after analyzing that in New Hampshire there was a company -now dissolved- with the same name and email address of the YouTuber.
On YouTube, Gill said, "I don't give personal investment advice or stock recommendations during the flow." However, he has not responded to interview requests from Reuters or the NY Times.
Relatives like his brother and mother have recognized that it is him, and they are proud of his movement.
According to Reuters, Gill started investing in GameStop in 2019 - he did so with $ 3,000. According to the user, he currently has 48 million dollars in shares, after the Reddit Rebellion. The news agency could not confirm whether this was true.
This is the link to his YouTube channel, which currently has 279 thousand subscribers.
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