It's no secret that prudent investments are key to financial security – and neither is that the notorious /r/WallStreetBets subreddit has never been about prudent investment. Instead, millions of Redditors gather here to gamble away their life savings by throwing them at popular stocks, and to boast their impressive gains and, more often than not, heartbreaking losses.

Those who have already gone broke – or are still too cautious to bet their yearly salary on stocks – also come here to share memes about gambling investing , hodling, Jerome Powell's money printer, Sam Bankman-Fried and Caroline Ellison and Elon Musk. Mr. Margin is calling – will you pick up?