One community member who adopted a mountain gorilla under the name "F*ck Melvin Capitol"-a reference to one previously-targeted hedge fund-told Newsweek the trend started after user pakistani_in_MURICA posted their gorilla adoption certificate.
But they definitely surprised and overwhelmed us over the weekend," The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund's Twitter account said Monday, adding that the conservation effort had received more than 2,000 new donations in three days.Ī message of thanks to from Ape Initiative president and director - 🦍🚀 #WallStreetBets #ApesTogetherStrong /zwDNXZP3Ha- Ape Cognition and Conservation Initiative March 15, 2021 "It's safe to say that the investor community on is not traditionally who we think of as our supporter base.
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Within hours, r/WallStreetBets, which has over nine million members, was full of posts from others who were adopting animals-and raising money for charities. The trend started on Saturday last weekend after a user shared an image of an adopted gorilla made under the donor name "GameStop," a reference to the stock trading frenzy in January that saw r/WallStreetBets users disrupt hedge fund short sellers. The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund and Ape Cognition and Conservation Initiative highlighted the work of the community this week after a wave of the Redditors symbolically adopted gorillas and posted images of their donation certificates to the messageboard.Ī representative for The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund told Newsweek that r/WallStreetBets members had raised at least $333,000 as of Tuesday.
Ape charities have thanked the subreddit r/WallStreetBets after its members raised hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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