The hearing on how Reddit users banded together to squeeze hedge funds betting against GameStop and other companies will feature rare opportunities for U.S. Social media platforms including Youtube, where Gill is known as 'Roaring Kitty', and Reddit's Wallstreetbets discussion group level the playing field for small investors competing against hedge funds and other institutional investors, Gill said in a copy of his remarks here published by the House Financial Services Committee a day before the scheduled hearing. The 34-year-old from Massachusetts who became the Pied Piper in a massive GameStop rally fueled by a Reddit discussion group will tell a Congressional hearing on Thursday that his enthusiasm for the struggling videogame retailer is backed up by his own research. That is the key takeaway for Reddit’s Wallstreetbets army of retail traders to upcoming testimony to Congress from Gamestop super-bull Keith Patrick Gill. Reddit logos are seen displayed in this illustration taken February 2, 2021.
