Burry,” and made a game of reading deeper meanings into everything from the phrasing of Burry’s tweets to the selection of books on his bookshelf in his Twitter photos.

The outspoken nature of Burry’s account was a natural fit with the outspoken crowd on Reddit, who were quick to adopt the habit of referring to him as “Dr. Burry”– a godfather of what they see as a revolutionary short squeeze against hedge funds who have been rigging the markets. To retail traders on social media, that has made Burry - who maintains a medical license in California and prefers to be called “Dr.

The webpage for the account that used to show Burry’s musings on the dangers of Bitcoin and the bubble around the current retail trading wave now displays a message saying, “This account doesn’t exist.”īurry, the mercurial former hedge fund manager who shorted the housing market before the 2008 crash and was portrayed by Christian Bale in the 2015 film “The Big Short,” has become a totemic player in the Reddit Rally movement that has seen a wave of retail traders on social media and no-fee trading apps push the prices of so-called “meme stocks” like GameStop and AMC Entertainmentīurry was early to the GameStop party, taking a sizeable position in the videogame retailer back in 2019 and pushing for changes to jumpstart the moribund company’s finances.

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