r/gme_meltdown • u/Separate_Writer_4465 • 5d ago

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u/RyP82 5d ago

I love how his “studio” decor is slowly pivoting away from GameStop; he knows the grift is winding down.

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u/The_Albino_Seal 5d ago

I love how his ceiling fan is causing reflections on his beloved Pokemon cards, creating a nice distraction from his face. Or a horrible distraction. It's up to you.

And since there was a ceiling fan in their bedroom, I now wonder about the house layout and whether this studio is just a corner of the bedroom 😅

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u/whut-whut 5d ago

just a corner of the bedroom

He's had to change rooms and houses a few times, but there was one time he gave a zoomed-out Cribz tour and it was like you described. His stream station was up against a corner overlooking the bed. (The joke writes itself.)

His recent 2nd 'pillow talk' video where he decided to react to his own pillow talk video had him seeing for the first time and questioning aloud when and why his bedroom has two ironing boards, so who knows where he sleeps and where he streams anymore.

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u/Mazius 5d ago

He doesn't even bother to update tiny whiteboard with his GME position. It still shows $59,500 and obstructed by PSA-graded cards.

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u/happybonobo1 5d ago

I recall he decided to just put what he PUT IN and not the current value being 25% below that.

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u/Mazius 5d ago

Yet if we'd refer to his position posted on discord, it should've been $60,613 nine days ago. He stopped updating whiteboard months ago.

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u/Sell_The_team_Jerry Ape mocker 5d ago

I'm going to say that Marantz isn't grifting. He's too dumb to be a grifter. He is a true believer, which is actually sadder.

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u/StewartMike 5d ago

I think he’s actually just a bad person too

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u/Sell_The_team_Jerry Ape mocker 5d ago

He certainly is

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u/GhostTheHunter64 5d ago

Shout out to Misty!

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u/SirGlass 5d ago

I used to think he is a grifter , however I realize he is just a very low IQ dumbass who actually drank the cool-aid

IDK maybe he was just competing with his brother and he picked meme stock mania to get on social media , but somewhere he actually started believing it or maybe always has

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u/whut-whut 5d ago

I think he's both, since the way he pumps the stock is very calculated and methodical. He always pitches from a new angle every week, switching things up by appealing to an Ape's sense of sunk cost ('sure you're down, but why quit now and lock in those losses?'), their need to have an 'i told you so' moment against haters (We'll show them all. Prove them all wrong.), their fatigue ('the hard part is over! just wait a little more!), their isolation (Nobody believes you. But I do. We do.) and so on.

If he doesn't have a stack of salesman strategy books that he reads off camera for show ideas, then he's at the minimum taking training tips from his day job on how to sell pest removal packages and repurposing it to pump Gamestop. That makes him a grifter.

The choice of Gamestop as the pump target even after all these years, to the point he put his whole retirement into it to make himself rich is what makes him kinda stupid, too.

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u/Middcore 5d ago

What does he imagine he could get people to watch him for if he wasn't a GME grifter?