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Okay... Total stock trade noob here. More so: I don't intend to improve much (at least not to the point where I'm not gambling on whatever it is that makes prices rise or fall). But I do have a keen interest on the topic, often reading books by e.g. Stiglitz or Lewis (okay, and the freakonomics guys, if you count those).

I have, however, never heard of the word 'stonks' before the last couple of days.
From what I can Google, it's a meme-spoof on the word stock
(source : https://slate.com/business/2021/01/stonks-not-stocks-got-it.html). But while that source is informative, it doesn't really say WHY the word is becoming common good right now.

Hence this question : what did the word mean to you? Why do you use it?
 
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If you are searching for the origin, you need to search for the Memer man meme. Memer Man is a failed 3D rendition of a human head. The meme is basically the head with a poorly spelled word and the word kinda contradict the shown picture. For example, you could make a meme of a obese person who is eating a comically large pizza and drinks diet coke. Put a image of Memer man under it with the caption "Helth" and you have a meme.

Someone made a version of Memer man with stock prices in the background, a graph pointing up and the word "stonks", a misspelled version of stocks. Since then, the word stonks is synonym for when you obtain sudden riches IRL or in the Internet.

Found a coin? Stonks.
Got a voucher for your purchase? Stonks.
Crash a hedge fund by having diamond hands and profiting from it? You guesst it, that's stonks.
 
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Stonks is an intentional misspelling of the word "stocks" which is often associated with a surreal meme featuring the character Meme Man standing in front of a picture representing the stock market followed by the caption "Stonks." The picture began seeing use as a reaction image online in jokes about making poor financial decisions, or just for the sake of it, and so "Stonks" and its context related variants are now everywhere, because why not, right?

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"Stonking great" is also apparently British slang. I can't believe Yahtzee was the first to use the phrase, but you used to be able to get it on a T-shirt.
 
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VinsCool said:
Stonks is an intentional misspelling of the word "stocks" which is often associated with a surreal meme featuring the character Meme Man standing in front of a picture representing the stock market followed by the caption "Stonks." The picture began seeing use as a reaction image online in jokes about making poor financial decisions, or just for the sake of it, and so "Stonks" and its context related variants are now everywhere, because why not, right?

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Stonks is possibly my favourite meme of all time
 
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VinsCool said:
Stonks is an intentional misspelling of the word "stocks" which is often associated with a surreal meme featuring the character Meme Man standing in front of a picture representing the stock market followed by the caption "Stonks." The picture began seeing use as a reaction image online in jokes about making poor financial decisions, or just for the sake of it, and so "Stonks" and its context related variants are now everywhere, because why not, right?

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I always thought it came from the Scottish word for a drain. In the North of Scotland a drain is called a stonk and in other parts of Scotland a drain is called a stank.

When Scottish people piss their money away by buying unneeded shit or they make a poor investments ect we say they are throwing their money down the stonk or stank.

There probably is no connection to what we call drains here but it certainly still works when numerous people are throwing their money at stocks and watching their money go down the stonk :rofl2:
 
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Taleweaver said:
Okay... Total stock trade noob here. More so: I don't intend to improve much (at least not to the point where I'm not gambling on whatever it is that makes prices rise or fall). But I do have a keen interest on the topic, often reading books by e.g. Stiglitz or Lewis (okay, and the freakonomics guys, if you count those).

I have, however, never heard of the word 'stonks' before the last couple of days.
From what I can Google, it's a meme-spoof on the word stock
(source : https://slate.com/business/2021/01/stonks-not-stocks-got-it.html). But while that source is informative, it doesn't really say WHY the word is becoming common good right now.

Hence this question : what did the word mean to you? Why do you use it?
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Well, this whole thing is a huge meme, so it's only fitting.
 
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