“Inspired by him…hordes of young online traders took GameStop’s stock on a wild ride.”

Long before the GameStop-fueled market frenzy escalated into a full-blown revolt against Wall Street, there was Roaring Kitty—aka Keith Gill, a 34-year-old chartered financial accountant and a financial educator for an insurance firm based in Massachusetts, report Nathaniel Popper and Kellen Browning in The New York Times. They explain how Gill became a central figure in Reddit’s WallStreetBets community for “holding the line” (that is, not selling out) and turning his $53,000 stake into GameStop into over $48 million.

The ‘Roaring Kitty’ Rally: How a Reddit User and His Friends Roiled the Markets