I've also seen some speculation that Citadel may have been intentionally amplifying the short squeeze caused by Redditors, and then getting a sweet deal with Melvin capital by injecting money the latter sorely needed in exchange for a share of future revenue.

I don't understand exactly how the math works out there to be able to evaluate if it was an extra good deal or not, but I find it credible that institutional investors jumping on the Reddit hype would be necessary in ordet to sustain the kind of momentum we are seeing.

Edit - or as people on Twitter put it:

any story that doesn't say how, past the retail ignition, the rocket ship was mostly intra-fast money warfare, simply isn't telling the truth

https://twitter.com/zatapatique/status/1354904995901136896?s...