Katherine Hamilton
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654 appearances
14 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2024
last heard Jan 2025
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YouTube and Reddit are the ones we hear about a lot, especially, for example, during the meme stock craze in 2021.
Those two platforms were really big in terms of communities that came together, talked about the meme stock GameStop specifically, and helped create that run-up that we saw.
A lot of young men get their start on these online platforms from video gaming.
So starting out when they're younger, there are a lot on YouTube, Reddit, and Discord dedicated to video gaming.
And that's where a lot of young men find community and then often end up also getting investing advice.
And you can also see both YouTube and Reddit, the users skew younger and male.
Right now, the returns are unprecedented.
So I created this hypothetical portfolio that includes equal parts cryptocurrency, gold, the meme stock GameStop, and the stock for the sports betting company DraftKings.
And the returns on that portfolio were around 62% for the first 11 months of 2024.
And that compares to about an 18% return for a more traditional investing portfolio.
The research shows that young men who value traditional masculinity strongly but feel that they themselves are falling short of traditional masculinity, those are the most likely to own crypto and meme stocks, both of which are really risky investments.
So that kind of suggests that there's a correlation about feeling like you're falling short of masculinity and making risky investments.
That echoes some of those anecdotes that I heard about men feeling like they can't reach those traditional milestones, like being the sole breadwinner.
family or owning a house.
There were different surveys asking men to rate how they feel about traditional masculinity.
So for example, do you think it's okay for men to watch soap operas?
Do you think it's okay for men to cry?
And then in terms of rating themselves and how they see their masculinity, that sort of showed whether these men thought that they were falling short.
Most of these investors that I spoke to are pretty confident, especially this year.
They're seeing big gains, so that sort of boosts their confidence.
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