Power to the Players by Rob Smat, Now Available from Histria Books
2 min readLas Vegas, NV, December 04, 2023 — Histria Books is happy to announce the launch of Power to the Players: The GameStop Phenomenon and Why It’s Only Getting Started by Rob Smat. This inside take a look at the Game Stop scandal that rocked Wall Street is revealed by Gaudium Publishing, an imprint of Histria Books devoted to excellent works of non-fiction in quite a lot of fields.
Before, Redditors have been solely a nuisance to the establishment. Now, they’re inevitable. In Power to the Players, witness firsthand the actual and totally ludicrous hive thoughts that introduced Wall Street to its knees in January 2021, and discover out why GameStop was solely the starting of an much more unprecedented retail contagion, one which is able to problem the whole lot you assume you recognize about our markets (over again). If the meme mania of 2021 drew blood from Wall Street, what follows is the Shakespearean realization that Reddit’s blade was in reality poisoned.
In a digital world of ceaselessly deleted, revised, and buried data, precisely piecing collectively occasions as they occurred is sort of unimaginable. Other authors and journalists have understandably struggled, however not writer Rob Smat, who has been a witness to each a part of the GameStop phenomenon, having lived it himself.
Power to the Players is as a lot an unabridged historical past of the GameStop “sneeze” as it’s a roadmap of how retail merchants regrouped in the months and years that adopted, when everybody else thought the story had led to calamity. The truest of diamond fingers by no means offered, and their energy has solely grown stronger since.