The group’s potential influence is enormous. In the joke, a manchild relies on his mom for everything, throws tantrums, and is rewarded for good behavior with “Good Boy Points” (GBP), which he redeems for his favorite food: chicken tenders, a.k.a. Commenters call themselves “degenerates” or “apes.” Reddit posts hype up how many “tendies” a person will get from their investments, a phrase that comes from old 4chan greentext stories about manchildren living in their mom’s basement. They insult the “paper hands” who crumple and sell their shares at the first taste of money or scary drops. Strings of rocket emojis signify how the group wants to send GME’s price “to the moon.” Users encourage each other to have “diamond hands” (represented in emojis, of course), a riff on the strength of diamonds and a user’s strength to last through big market swings. Tendies, rocket ships, diamond hands - this is the language of WallStreetBets (WSB), the white-hot subreddit powering the GameStop (GME) frenzy on the stock market. And, at first glance, they’re speaking a foreign language. With 8 million members - as of this writing, and the group is still growing - it’s as if 1 in every 40 Americans is standing in a giant room talking. It’s hard to overstate how big the WallStreetBets group has gotten.