Hacker Trends › Gamestop trend
Gamestop was mentioned 3,561 times on Hacker News between 2008 and 2026, peaking in Jan 2021 with 977 that month.
Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often Gamestop appears in Hacker News stories and comments. Each point is a live date-histogram over ~45M items, computed with Upstash Redis Search.
GameStop first appears in 2008 but was minor until the 2021 short squeeze. The curve spikes in January 2021 with 977 mentions, when Robinhood limited purchases of GameStop and related stocks, and the lifetime total is 3,500 mentions.
Nearly all top threads come from that episode: Robinhood’s trading halt and the resulting class action, the r/wallstreetbets mania around u/DeepFuckingValue, and framing it as “Rage Against the Financial Machine.” Attention dropped sharply after early 2021.
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