The stonks meme is perfect for making (non)sense out of Wall Street nonsense.
The current crisis has thrown the world economies into a period of unprecedented uncertainty. One day stocks tank, then they soar, then they gyrate erratically like a zoomer on TikTok.
Amidst all the uncertainty one thing, at least, has become very clear: No one has any idea what’s going on. Supposed financial experts and market analysts are as clueless as anyone else as the house of cards that is the stock market continues to blow in the wind.
Luckily there’s a meme for that special combination of unearned confidence and total idiocy exhibited by Wall Street—the stonks meme.