Also attending was the investor who spearheaded the frenzy on the r/WallStreetBets Reddit forum, Keith Gill ... along with Melvin Capital. Gill and Reddit CEO Steve Huffman, however, felt less ...

Keith Gill, who goes by "Roaring Kitty" on YouTube, stressed in his congressional testimony that he is not a professional investor and does not provide investment advice in exchange for fees.

(Kayana Szymczak for The Wall Street Journal) Keith Gill’s early taste for GameStop shares and his swashbuckling red headband made him famous on WallStreetBets, the subreddit community that ...

“Indeed, in order to motivate amateur traders, Gill fashioned himself as a kind of Robin Hood and characterized ... Thursday alongside Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev, billionaire investor Ken Griffin ...