Since then, Dian Fossey has received thousands of new adoptions and more than $333,000 in donations, compared with around 20 adoptions in a typical weekend, according to a spokesperson. It all started Saturday, when a member of WallStreetBets adopted a baby gorilla named Urungano from the organization on behalf of GameStop. Why gorillas? It’s a bit of an inside joke: WallStreetBets members refer to themselves and others on the page as “apes,” as part of the group’s internal lingo. (AMC) and other meme stocks - rallied over the weekend to use their earnings to symbolically “adopt” gorillas through donations to the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund. Members of the Reddit group - who gained national attention for their role in pumping up the January trading frenzy of GameStop But its latest investment target isn’t a stock, bitcoin or even NFTs.
The WallStreetBets community is moving beyond GameStop and AMC.
