GameStop briefly spikes as tweets from @TheRoaringKitty, aka Keith Gill, appear then disappear on X

Shares of GameStop briefly mooned after-hours before erasing the entire advance after posts from @TheRoaringKitty appeared, then disappeared, from the social media platform X.

@TheRoaringKitty is the account associated with Keith Gill, the messiah of GameStop’s meme stock moment in 2021, who returned in 2024 to kick off another parabolic rally in the shares.

The tweets came and went before I could lay eyes on them, but Bloomberg tells me there was “one depicting a cat, and another with a picture of the online character Pepe the Frog wearing Roaring Kitty’s trademark red bandanna” around 5:40 p.m. ET. A screenshot posted of one tweet showed that it included a string of text (ending in “pump”) that appears to be the wallet address for a meme coin called “Red Kitten Crew.”

The market cap of the coin briefly jumped to about $12 million around the time of that tweet before cratering to about $2.6 million thereafter.

The emergent consensus on the r/Superstonk subreddit, which is dedicated to discussions of GameStop, is that the account was hacked. The more tinfoil-hatted members, meanwhile, are suggesting that not only is this a hack, but a hack intended to somehow thwart GameStop’s attempt to purchase eBay.

And on that note, GameStop also released a filing after the close of its letter to shareholders regarding their upcoming annual meeting, asking them to approve CEO Ryan Cohen’s proposed pay package as well as an increase in the authorized share count, which is one of the hurdles that would need to be cleared in order to complete the deal with eBay.

Anyway, all these hacked account scams on X are really interfering with my ability to get people to vote for me to be a major podcast host.