It’s an upside down world.
People who buy stock in a company in order to save it from being destroyed by short sellers are now the villains, and the hedge funds making billions by destroying said companies are now the heroes.
I would love to see who has money in those hedge funds.
That might explain the targeting.
But the game is such that if you are not connected, you own all the losses. If you are connected, you get all the bennies. But the non connected can never take out the connected.
Since that is happening, there will be charges. The Reddit guy is going before the cameras basically pleading for his life. He knows that he just lost a lot of very powerful people a huge amount of money, and his time on earth as a free man is limited.