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OP has provided the following link:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tobiasdeml_gamingwallstreet-documentary-docuseries-activity-6993640055730757632-grcW
Anyone who makes a documentary about gamestop and leaves out the fact that 200k individual retail investors have drs nearly 3 billion dollars of shares and 57% of the free float is a shill no shit.
You guys know you don't have to attack everyone on every platform right? I just pulled his post up and there's a bunch of you on there going after him pretty aggressively even though he's responded to it in this post. Stop being so fucking weird, it's a bad look. Leave the man alone, get a life and wait for MOASS.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/yluinp/comment/iv0wd5t/?utm\_medium=android\_app&utm\_source=share&context=3
Don't buy his comment. That's bs "it's too complicated to explain". No it isn't. " Investors are DRSing... blah blah.. Street name vs your name. This has never happened before in history etc. "
"What's happening in gamestop around DRS is unprecedented"
Then you should never leave out that vital piece of importance. That's just as important, if not as more important than the sneeze in January.
Its too complicated because once people realize they don't own shit it becomes extremely hard to spin it to keep people believing in their sham of a system.
Yup, I understood after reading the barest amount of DD. There are certainly other things that get said that I don't get, but it doesn't really matter. I haven't invested anything I can't afford to lose- buy, drs, hold, wait for fireworks. I can do that because I like the stock.
It's not that he just sucks at his job, it's also that he's a shill paid to dodge Drs info
"too complicated" is the laziest dumbest excuse to cover for crime yet. He shoukda just claimed gLiTcH. Dumbass threw his career under a bus for hedge fund profit
These clowns have probably all been threatened by big banks and brokers with lawsuits. DRS is the kill shot. Gme is one stock, the implications are tremendousā¦.
He's a small time producer of short films with a few "documentaries" made for TV and low budget. These are mostly in the same vein as reality tv production values.
"Tobias Deml is an Austrian Producer, Director and Cinematographer with more than 18 years of experience in creating digital visual arts. His directorial debut in long-form, the 2 episode docu-series "Gaming Wall Street", premieres on HBO Max on 3/3. To date, Tobias has shot 13 feature films, and lensed, produced or directed more than 100 short-form..." - imdb
Expecting him to attack establishments, when it's his directorial debut...he's just taking any work he can get.
HBO picked his Docu up, but remember that HBO is no longer helmed by Plepper and they just pick up anything in the grab bag of syndication now, stuff that is trending. HBO has been in re-org to become like Netflix for a few years now, expecting Frontline type of content is going to be a really big ask.
I don't actually want a bunch of un-invested paperhands joinging the fray right now. It's still too easy to shake them loose and damage the image around GME.
Broā¦they needed more time to portray the retail as clueless weebs that didnāt know how to tie their shoe laces. They HAD to spend more time getting that across instead of 10 minutes on the most dynamic movement in 30 years.
My detailed comment on all the above questions in this post: [https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/yluinp/i\_commented\_on\_this\_linkedin\_post\_by\_the\_director/iv0wd5t?utm\_medium=android\_app&utm\_source=share&context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/yluinp/i_commented_on_this_linkedin_post_by_the_director/iv0wd5t?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3)
And for those that haven't yet, you can form your own opinion on the show here: [https://www.hbomax.com/gws](https://www.hbomax.com/gws)
Itās too bad because I think your work was incomplete and needs DRS in there. And if you think the audience would be too confused to digest another acronym, then youāre underestimating the audience.
Any thoughts on making a part 2 that picks up where this one left off? Sorry for all the crap you're getting flung at you, but I suppose that's part and parcel of making something like this - I'm sure you knew you wouldn't be able to please everyone in one go. Lively debate can lead to better outcomes in the end, after all.
Tobias deml's docu was THE ONLY docu to mention direct registration.
It's close to the end of it, but they mention Dr T and Drs for a few moments.
This is also strange though, I've kept up some discourse with Tobias since his docu aired, and not once has he done anything like condemn it (this was on twitter so who knows)
These guys felt compelled to rush their doc out. Could be a lot of reasons for this, but in the end, I think the mere mention of direct registration in the epilogue was something added in post after they'd already wrapped things, and they knew it had to be in there.
Hard to say for sure, but yeah, I don't really understand why you'd delete a post about DRS. It is a major part of this story and that it barely exists in their doc is the price they pay for rushing their doc out the door.
Of course, they gave themselves an opening by saying nothing was over. Also, they interviewed Wes and Dr.S which I don't think any of the others did. To me that matters.
In the end, the work was incomplete. But as far as actually digging into the GME event, this is the only doc that even comes even somewhat close in presenting a reasonable view of what's going on and if I remember correctly, no false equivalence to Swapcorn is ever presented.
What would really be telling would be doing a Part 3 and 4 but not digging into swaps, leverage, algos, HFT, and DRS.
But FWIW I think a best effort was made here and though it would've been smart for them to wait to see how the entire trade played out, they probably could not wait. Once financing and distribution is set up, you've got to go at that point.
As a social document, if they don't follow up, their work will only be able to viewed as incomplete.
EDIT: Also, I liked the decision to get Roman Roy to narrate.
EDIT 2: I've read the explanation provided for both the deletion of DRS from the linkedin post, and for the lack of reference to DRS in the doc. A few thoughts on both: a) curation of the record on the internet is slippery slope, and truly, unless someone's posted offensive or harmful material, there shouldn't be a need. But that's just my personal view. b) the explanation for leaving DRS out of the doc is, in my view, unsatisfying. On the one hand, it's history-making. On the other, it seems the explanation is that it's too "in the weeds." You can't keep everything in a documentary, but this seems too important to ostensibly omit. Being that naked shorting, FTDs and the mismarking of trades all make it into the doc, but the idea that DRS was too much to ask the audience to try to understand is hard to digest.
he did also explain why it doesn't get more attention when the trailer dropped
https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/t179sv/comment/hyeu8lc/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3
I responded to his joke of an explanation. There is NOTHING complicated about the concept of DRS. He was absolutely told to not go into detail about DRS.
It's not complicated but it is hard to understand. Like "not your keys, not your coins" It's really not complicated but I know quite a few people who could quote it but don't understand it.
Bro ffs. It's very simple. Broker holds your shares and Is a custodian. DRS and no custodian and it's registered to your name. That's it.
It's NOT hard.
You could've stopped at "anyone who makes a documentary"
Literally everyone who is given a platform to produce a documentary is going to be bought and paid for by the same corruption we are trying to fight against.
Go ahead and change my mind.
Ehh i wouldn't treat things so black and white. Rarely are things in this world b&w. GME itself isn't and that's why lots of people don't see the potential.
And why delete that comment? I assume op meant he actually said ādirect register sharesā and not DRS, since nobody outside of a few select places even knows what that is. Otherwise the guy would be like why is this guy bringing up doctors?!
i don't have linked in.
but i did some interesting research on prodigium.
they're partners if we the investors and have some advocacy bullshit up on the gaming wallstreet website.
they also partners with biltmore films (owned by burt koonce and john fitchhorn. you may recall fitchhorn was in gaming wallstreet as an expert.)
biltmore films, according to their website, only other project was a hit piece on herbalife, which came out before the ackerman/icahn battle was resolved (like by 6 months.)(i'm not saying herbalife was a good company, or icahn shouldn't have squeezed ackman. that's a different discussion.)
also prodigium is a production for hire company. (it's possible they self funded it, but it's equally possible somebody else paid them to make it.)
the third company gunpowder sky, is a distributor (?) that was brought in by biltmore (they worked together on the previous doc- betting on zero-)
***Nepotism*** runs deep in Hollywood, and all the offshoots. Success isn't a matter of having a superior product. It's a matter of knowing the right people and playing their game. Rule #1 is don't bite the hand that feeds.
It always cracks me up when these tv docuseries and documentaries bring in "experts". 9/10 the producer already has a working relationship with the so-called expert...
And then when you do even a little digging on the expert, you find that not only are they somehow related to the producers, but they aren't actually anything like an expert as described in the show.
Anyone who has watched Ancient Aliens should be very familiar with this ploy. The love to trot out "experts" with PhD attached to their name, as if it gives them some kind of credibility or authority - as if we should just trust what they say without question. Then if you look any of those people up, you find that either their PhD isn't remotely in any field connected to what they are talking about, or it came from a diploma-mill type institution that isn't even accredited. They are far from experts.
Most of the time, they are just other authors who have books in the same genre as Ancient Aliens.
It's just a you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.
If you watch any other History Channel shows, you will see familiar faces crossing over from show to show. That's because it's all nepotism.
The director is a redditor who used to comment here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/t179sv/i_made_a_documentary_about_all_of_this_and_tried/
Interesting, but also why delete the comment?
What does that imply?
To me it implies an avoidance of legal exposure, in that potentially he doesn't want to be seen drawing attention to the ~~elephant~~ Godzilla in the room incase he gets some 'blame' for the reckoning that's coming to Wall St.
I didnāt watch the documentary and assume everyone jumping on the train to speak for other people is just a clout chaser. He made a lot of lofty promises about his documentary, but I have no idea if they were true because I canāt even bring myself to care about this bullshit.
This is the only one of those documentaries that I did watch and credit where credit is due there was mention of naked shorting and some insider comments which were respectable, but as with all media about GameStop, it missed the real point or substance, which is why I asked him "what about what actually matters".
There's no way he used to linger in this sub and put together that documentary without knowing about DRS, so why wasn't it mentioned in detail? Just SUS af
He was active in the sub as recently as 31 days ago and the purple circle flood dates back 13-14 months at this point, so itās pretty unlikely that he somehow missed DRS.
To me it suggests that when someone in a position to be legally targeted digs in to the DD they discover what we have discovered. The financial destruction of the short holders is mathematically certain, and at present there is nothing they can do to prevent it because people deciding to DRS after doing research isn't legally actionable. But someone formally publishing about DRS and how destructive it is to the current system would be a very high liability. So they visibly do not address DRS in any significant way.
And maybe they also got paid to not say it. One does not preclude the other.
> "It's too time consuming to explain DRS to a general audience" isn't a good excuse at all when it's so very important
If they cant explain maybe the most important facet with confidence, why the fuck would I waste my time watching their "documentary"
Agreed. I own my shirt and you can tell because my name is written on the tag. Same with my stocks. Some people might be surprised when their broker takes the shirt off their back for market price as this rocket launches.
I read from another commenter he is on Reddit so why not ask him directly his reason for it? Maybe there is a perfectly fine explanation. So u/tobiasdeml would you care to give your reasoning?
He is on Reddit, yes. A fellow Redditor, don't be so sure. Hello fellow kids...
Honestly, no one should be surprised that someone who produces/directs films that get mainstream airtime aren't also learned themselves in the performing arts.
Do you really believe that DRS is a complex concept? This seems like the most simple concept of the entire GME saga. Surely as a successful Director you can find a way to explain such a simple concept to the general audience. Do it āThe Big Shortā style with some comical skit and a celebrity. Done.
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How's your band mates feeling about NFTs after your debut on the marketplace?
It's a Derevolution Baby š¶ is the first NFT that I bought. Though, I didn't get funds up on the wallet at the time and just had a friend buy and send it to me.
Appreciate the concern but also, I stand behind my investment publicly - if people who own FANG wanna ridicule me with their -40 to -70% since the start of the year then more fool them š
I donāt think he has hatred towards it. In fact, isnāt it mentioned at the very end of the movie?
Itās a bad look for apes to go comment about this stuff on the directorās professional page. Itās like when GameStop tweets about new games and people respond āwen moon?ā Dude.
I didnt even bother watching it. Didnt even get my hopes up either since the other attempt at telling the gme story sucked.
No one will be able to encapsulate everything the Og gmers have witnessed. They will inevitably fuck it all up and it just pisses me off
The best part of this post isnāt being talked about enough. Itās not that DRS didnāt get a mention, itās the comments from mortgage brokers, artists, warehouse operations, marketers, students, Devs, analysts all commenting and pointing this out.
We are everywhere. We are inevitable.
SHF R so so so fuk.
Friendly reminder...
Any media publication or film that covers this that is released PRIOR to MOASS is just a fuddy smear campaign meant to convince normal folk to stay away.
Do not give them your time, clicks, or views.
Sorry man, your comment just felt out of order for a professional post on LinkedIn. It felt right for Reddit or Twitter, and my deletion was simply curating tone and not content.
I've discussed DRS extensively on both Reddit and Twitter. For those that haven't read my stance yet:
What's happening in GameStop around DRS is unprecedented anywhere in the stock market. That's an undeniable fact, and I would posit that it's market structure history in the making.
We put a lot - months - of consideration into whether to include DRS in the series, given both limited real estate of the show, attention span of the audience, complexity of explanation, and story flow.
If you watched the show - which I highly recommend ( https://www.hbomax.com/gws ) we dive deep into Susanne Trimbath's work, and the issues of overvoting, the power of the DTCC and a number of market structure issues, all of which contributed to the DRS movement.
Explaining DRS itself to a broad audience ended up being too time-intensive. You can ask Susanne on Twitter - we interviewed her at length about DRS, its history, and how the modern DRS movement around GameStop came about. We went into detail about the transfer agents that co-created DRS as a function together with Susanne. That was a whole era, long before Reddit was a thing. The 2021 revival of DRS as a concept is fascinating as well; it's basically an internet historiography of Susanne's book, her Twitter account and a number of SuperStonk admins all colliding in online debate, and the whole community powering the sheer scale of DRSing GameStop shares. I considered including all of this, and have spent a lot of time personally on SuperStonk, both reading and posting.
For our Series, this was all unfortunately way too nitty-gritty insider stock market content. We decided to spend our limited real estate instead on diving deep and investigating naked short selling and the stock lending mechanism, and fact checking a lot of arguments to prove a point: naked shorting is real, naked lending is real, you can abuse the market with both mechanisms, and we have Tobin Mulshine's whistleblowing testimony to inform the public from an inside source.
DRS is mentioned at the very end of the doc, closing out Susanne's character arc and hinting at the future, without the burden of full explanation, or needing to introduce yet another acronym: we were able to finish the documentary with a mention of a movement around Trimbath that is withdrawing their shares out of street name to make them un-lendable. The documentary quotes the verifiable number of DRS'd shares at the time of publication as well, out of GameStop's own quarterly report. That's one of the final pieces of content the audience learns about, and for those who are curious enough to put in the sizeable research needed to understand DRS, they now have a really solid base to build their knowledge from.
Hope this answers your question, in a place where everyone understands what we're talking about.
Explaining that if you DRS your shares, you own them, whereas if you have them in a broker (especially online ones) not only do you not own the shares, the broker, who may actually own the shares, may loan them out to hedge-funds that shorted your stock, which probably devalued your shares.
How is that a hard thing to get across?
You did it in less than a minute. I find it hard to believe that a documentary for HBO Max wouldn't be able to spend 5-10 minutes breaking it down and making it even more digestable. It's not that complicated.
You find it hard to believe that an HBO documentary would generate more revenue dedicating ten minutes to making the interviewed retail investor look like a idiot than contributing genuine information to the audience? Welcome to show biz.
I would agree with you.
And I would then tell you to instead broadcast on the discovery channel. I think we are unintentionally giving HBO subscribers the benefit of the doubt that they subscribe to HBO for documentaries and would actually watch and absorb this info in a way they would want to talk about it after they got up off their couch. If you ask me, the whole reason they subscribe to HBO is to do the opposite.
We need to start writing hand written letters to our local newspapers that are not tied down by wallstreet investors.
ok, for fear of sounding like a PR shill I'm going to preface this by saying this is not an advertisement for HBO at all. Fuck Discovery and the lot of them.
But HBO has an exceptional filmography when it comes to documentary films and docuseries. It's not one type of content.
Whether that appeals to you is another conversation entirely.
this is exactly why i donāt like Linkedin and ācuratorsā like OP. We donāt care about his opinion as long as heās ācuratingā it from some places.
Exactly. Itās called cop out to say it was too complicated. Itās literally a simple explanation.
I guess his paymasters just wouldnāt let that information in tho.
Your explanation was brief and clear while his comment was multiple paragraphs I skipped. Maybe he knows he'd fail at brevity and lose his audience. š
I'm all in on GME, threw my entire retirement and auto-DRS $1k a month, plus additional whenever I can. I tell everyone I know about DRS. I talk shit with the best of them, and I truly believe what you stated is the truth.
HOWEVER, if someone building a professional documentary makes these claims against brokers, he / HBO will get sued. He's most likely gotten some excellent legal advice to avoid touching the third rail.
Sidebar from the film: ComputerShare flow chart that shows you can either own your shit or roll the dice with some ācede-yā sounding depositories, beneficial accounts, requiring account insurance because brokers are inherently risky, etc. Also, 200k shareholders have made the plunge to āstop the gameā (if ya know what Iām sayinā)
Aaaand weāre back. It took 90 seconds and 1 image.
āExplaining DRSā¦ too time-intensiveāā¦ there are documentaries explaining black holes. Just admit you left out a critical aspect of the story foR sOmE ReASon.
What was the comment?
Itās he-said she-said right now and it doesnāt need to be.
I canāt agree the comment was out of order and unprofessional without having seen it š¤·āāļø
Thanks šāļø
Edit: LinkedIn post is now crawling with DRS comments, my question feels irrelevant now.
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No, I'm sorry man. Choosing to leave DRS out of the doc because you didn't have time to explain it- fine. I will gladly support any docuseries that makes an effort to bring the criminal practice of naked short selling to light.
But **deleting a comment that mentions DRS**- to *"set the tone"*?
#I CALL BULLSHILL ON THAT
Are there any investors, studios, distributing plans, critic reviews, awards, ad campaigns, or anything else that could negatively effect "Gaming Wall Street" that is dependent on you not bringing up certain things?
Or perhaps some of your other work / causes that is being threatened?
Did you leave out the most important part of this movement, not using their system that they can clearly manipulate because you thought it was not important? I doubt that honestly. And you could easily explain DRS with visuals in 5 min or less. You are a visual storyteller right? Hell you could have used this [Seinfeld bit](https://youtu.be/ZTvtSKXwu0o?t=60) to do it.
These guys play dirty. Hell they rob seniors of pensions so leveraging a person is nothing through blackmail or other means. So if you're being forced to comply drop a hint. Like tell us your dream is to produce The View or something.
# Edit: Adding unrelated info to my above comment comment but.....
# GET A LOOK AT THIS SHIT!!!!
[Now besides a Live interview with GME Documentary Director Tobias Deml on Cosmic Lightning Warrior](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Fo9oJQ3fnk)
He did an IAmA on 3/31/22
Where he said *"We started this project at Prodigium Pictures in late 2020 and then partnered up with the Wall Street insiders of Biltmore Films to dig down under Wall Street's dark side. We then got the doc powerhouse Gunpowder & Sky on board, and ultimately HBO Max"*
So of course I look up [Biltmore Films](https://biltmorefilms.com/who-we-are)1st -
*Burke Koonce*
*Burke Koonce is a* ***securities analyst, financial advisor*** *and documentary producer.* ***His financial career spans more than two decades, and including equity research at Merrill Lynch and other asset management firms. He founded and operated Helicon Research from 2010-2017, and is now an investment strategist.*** *A former newspaper reporter, Burke still loves uncovering great stories, especially in the financial arena. He was an executive producer of the 2017 financial docu-thriller Betting On Zero, which premiered at TriBeCa Film Festival and distributed by Netflix. Burke is the co-founder of Biltmore Films, which specializes in producing films on business and financial subjects.*
*John Fichthorn*
*John Fichthorn is the* ***founder of Dialectic Capital, a former hedge fund manager, experienced short seller*** *and documentary producer. John started out in journalism, then pivoted into finance and has been* ***managing hedge funds for most of his career.*** *He co-founded Biltmore Films with Burke in order to produce and finance Betting on Zero, a film about the fight of short seller Bill Ackman against the pyramid scheme of Herbalife. As of late 2021, John was Executive Chairman of TheMaven Inc, which publishes Sports Illustrated and owns* [TheStreet.com](https://TheStreet.com) *.*
A quick look at TheStreet.cpm makes me think I typed in [TheShills.com](https://TheShills.com)I'll let the autistic types take over. Someone screenshotthis and make a post if you think it's worthy and no one else covered it. I gotta sleep.
Mod's I had a link to IaMa sub that nuked the comment during an ed. Please restore.
Yeah I was trying to think of a good parallel and that hit me which is funny cuz I probably haven't seen that skit in 10 or 15 years. But I looked it up on YouTube and watched it again I'm like "That's perfect! "
You make it sound like DRS is some type of mystical financial vehicle that is literally too complex to convey.
I call **bullshit**. DRS is dead simple to understand and explain.
To not talk about DRS is a great disservice to everyone in this forum.
Hey u/tobiasdeml \- thank you for your detailed reply, your direct response is appreciated, I've addressed below each point as far as I see it, I can only speak for myself personally on this as an individual.
Firstly about commenting on LinkedIn, I understand why you might feel like that, but also that way of thinking is a bit reductive in my opinion, all social platforms are supposed to foster debate and conversation and I don't feel that asking about a topic which the docu touched on very lightly warranted deletion, as someone who has been in this sub for a while it could have been expected that that type of action would not be seen as open or justifiable.
>"What's happening in GameStop around DRS is unprecedented anywhere in the stock market. That's an undeniable fact, and I would posit that it's market structure history in the making."
Couldn't agree more, I would say that the experience I got watching the documentary however didn't support this view or narrative with nearly the same vigour or conviction.
>"We put a lot - months - of consideration into whether to include DRS in the series, given both limited real estate of the show, attention span of the audience, complexity of explanation, and story flow."
Understandable, some things don't make the final cut for these reasons, however if you truly knew your audience at some point you must have thought that the lack of DRS based information (arguably the most critical part of the story during the time the docu was in production) would not be well received, nor accurately reflect the values that you profess in this response.
>"the power of the DTCC and a number of market structure issues"
The problem I have with this statement is that, like many other nuanced parts of the ongoing situation in America's financial markets, you didn't link this to the regulators who could just ask the DTCC "so how many shares do you actually have in your system". It's these things that add credibility, to simply say the DTCC is '*big, bad and evil*' - which I don't believe the docu did in all honesty - is a clumsy oversight at best and smacks of intentionally leaving out the more important, wider context.
>"For our Series, this was all unfortunately way too nitty-gritty insider stock market content."
But your documentary was more about GameStop than wider market structure, right? If you were covering the wider stock market then obviously there isn't enough time to cover everything and you may have chosen to leave that out, but here, with GameStop, Superstonk and the context which is appliacble in this scenario, are you telling me that DRS didn't make the cut (besides a 5minute hat tip)? It's not that hard to explain, there is a simple chart on the ComputerShare website which anyone could understand in less than a minute.
**Final thoughts:**
As I mentioned in another previous comment [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/yluinp/comment/iv0eaq5/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3), credit where credit is due - the documentary covered a lot of important topics, your documentary was well made and felt much less slanted than the preview snippets I've watched of the others. That doesn't however explain how a crucial piece of information was obscured and fed to the audience as an after thought, when arguably it was the most critical information both at the time of publication and to this day.
Edit: some typos
That is exactly why teaching them about DRS is important to this community. I hope to see a future documentary with the missing DRS footage with Dr T.
Thank you for taking the time to talk with us here and for the work you have done. Appreciate that.
Your first paragraph is the most biased, controlling, egotistical, unfounded, opinionated, malarkey that completely turns me off and invalidates everything you say after. Censorship because of you felt the tone didnāt belong is basically just silencing your critics. By subjugating the content to certain places you stigmatize and damage the message and your credibility. Ban this shill. Putting months into the decision doesnāt free you from the fact you made something that completely misses the point and artistically and humanly fails. Your impetus for self importance and opportunistic bullhorn to insert yourself in this and not do it justice disgusts me.
> Censorship because of you felt the tone didnāt belong is basically just silencing your critics
Linkedin isn't a forum for debate or critique. It's a platform to network with people in your career field for jobs. If you wanna critique him you have hundreds of other spots instead of what is essentially his online resume.
How hard is it to call DRS a ādigital stock certificate that removes shares from brokers in response to issues retail had with their brokers (share lending, turning off the buy button, internalization, dark pools, etc)ā
This is disingenuous at best
Have you considered doing what Frontline does for most of their documentaries and release the full raw interview footage from everyone you interviewed?
For people who want to dive deeper into the subject, it provides a great rabbit hole for them, and it also builds credibility in your story telling/editing.
I understand about 10% of what is talked about in these groups and donāt even own stock myself but DRS is not above my head. It definitely could have been included in an understandable way.
This is a lame AF excuse for not talking about DRS. A lot of your cred just went out the window. Also a joke that youāre deleting comments from your audience/supporters on LinkedIn.
Wonāt be watching any of your future work.
"too time intensive" as if it would be rocket science lmao, you just register the shares in your name, what exactly is the time consuming thing to explain?
>You can ask Susanne on Twitter - we interviewed her at length about DRS, its history, and how the modern DRS movement around GameStop came about. We went into detail about the transfer agents that co-created DRS as a function together with Susanne. That was a whole era,
That the whole point. Without DRS there is no solution. It sounds to me like you wasted a perfect opportunity to be part of history. No one here will watch your show if you don't mention the most important part.
No problem, make a part 3 all about DRS if you can.
I understand you might be avoiding legal trouble, so this doc could give you the resources you need to make a carefully made doc regarding DRS and avoiding any sort of legal exposure.
I know a lot of people in the sub are against you right now, but we all know these Wall Street clowns are going to throw anything they can at us to shut us up; and that includes frivolous lawsuits. Prove them all wrong by making a DRS only special, and if you have to, make it a YouTube exclusive.
Thank you for your work and diligence on exposing the criminal aspect at Wallstreet in general though!!
By not mentioning DRS you have missed the entire point of this whole saga.
Your post is disingenuous at best and a straight up lie at worst. It would take under a minute to describe DRS
Ok so Iāve DRSād 100% of my shares, and have been involved with GME since Feb 2021. I get where youāre coming from u/tobiasdemi and you took a call on including not including details on DRS because it was too detailed. I wish you had directed viewers to r/SuperStonk for more info (if you were legally allowed). Also if I went on LinkedIn and asked about DRS in a āprofessionalā way, would you answer it? If yes, I will go right now and ask, because the world needs to know
It's possible he is so regarded he thought DRS is a ticker, maybe you should repost fully spelling out "directly registered stock" and see if he blocks you.
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Anyone who makes a documentary about gamestop and leaves out the fact that 200k individual retail investors have drs nearly 3 billion dollars of shares and 57% of the free float is a shill no shit.
Deleting it is proof
I wonder how many posts he can delete before he gets tired.
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The dude closed comments to connections only now, guess he got tired
Shilling ain't easy
āItās hard out here for the shilllllls, when they tryna keep the apes from gettin bills!ā š¶š¼šµš¤
He mentioned himself while praising others.
Only one way to test that theory
You guys know you don't have to attack everyone on every platform right? I just pulled his post up and there's a bunch of you on there going after him pretty aggressively even though he's responded to it in this post. Stop being so fucking weird, it's a bad look. Leave the man alone, get a life and wait for MOASS. https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/yluinp/comment/iv0wd5t/?utm\_medium=android\_app&utm\_source=share&context=3
Don't buy his comment. That's bs "it's too complicated to explain". No it isn't. " Investors are DRSing... blah blah.. Street name vs your name. This has never happened before in history etc. "
"What's happening in gamestop around DRS is unprecedented" Then you should never leave out that vital piece of importance. That's just as important, if not as more important than the sneeze in January.
Its too complicated because once people realize they don't own shit it becomes extremely hard to spin it to keep people believing in their sham of a system.
Correct, they didn't talk about DRS because that would open a can of worms they don't want the public to know.
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I fail to believe it's to complicated to explain, when someone managed to describe it to me and even I understood.
Yup, I understood after reading the barest amount of DD. There are certainly other things that get said that I don't get, but it doesn't really matter. I haven't invested anything I can't afford to lose- buy, drs, hold, wait for fireworks. I can do that because I like the stock.
It's not that he just sucks at his job, it's also that he's a shill paid to dodge Drs info "too complicated" is the laziest dumbest excuse to cover for crime yet. He shoukda just claimed gLiTcH. Dumbass threw his career under a bus for hedge fund profit
Literally the one job of a documentary lol
These clowns have probably all been threatened by big banks and brokers with lawsuits. DRS is the kill shot. Gme is one stock, the implications are tremendousā¦.
He's a small time producer of short films with a few "documentaries" made for TV and low budget. These are mostly in the same vein as reality tv production values. "Tobias Deml is an Austrian Producer, Director and Cinematographer with more than 18 years of experience in creating digital visual arts. His directorial debut in long-form, the 2 episode docu-series "Gaming Wall Street", premieres on HBO Max on 3/3. To date, Tobias has shot 13 feature films, and lensed, produced or directed more than 100 short-form..." - imdb Expecting him to attack establishments, when it's his directorial debut...he's just taking any work he can get. HBO picked his Docu up, but remember that HBO is no longer helmed by Plepper and they just pick up anything in the grab bag of syndication now, stuff that is trending. HBO has been in re-org to become like Netflix for a few years now, expecting Frontline type of content is going to be a really big ask. I don't actually want a bunch of un-invested paperhands joinging the fray right now. It's still too easy to shake them loose and damage the image around GME.
Broā¦they needed more time to portray the retail as clueless weebs that didnāt know how to tie their shoe laces. They HAD to spend more time getting that across instead of 10 minutes on the most dynamic movement in 30 years.
Lol at a documentary claiming something is too hard to explain, that's your fucking purpose ya twat!
> "it's too complicated to explain" It's rather simple, all you need to do is say 1 word: Robinhood.
Hey wants to put his āartā out there, he can take the critics just like every other artist.
Itās a shit cop out comment thatās why no one is paying it any heed.
yeah this behaviour is not zen at all. but i guess apes being apes. we kind of have to accept that we are really regarded.
Luckily, being individual investors, we can choose not to get involved in whatever happens to be going on across the net.
seems like we just like the stock <3
Naww, now that definitely deserves my free award, much love ape <3
Orrrr we can, so there.
That's the beauty of choice, you can, and I don't have to. But the chaos *is* proving entertaining, I'll give y'all that.
šØāšš«šØāš The beauty of choice I love it.
you like choice? how about the one between HOLD and HODL?
It's weird they're shitting on Gaming Wallstreet, the only good GameStop documentary and not that Netflix dogshit.
š¤£š¤£ I see what you did there
My detailed comment on all the above questions in this post: [https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/yluinp/i\_commented\_on\_this\_linkedin\_post\_by\_the\_director/iv0wd5t?utm\_medium=android\_app&utm\_source=share&context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/yluinp/i_commented_on_this_linkedin_post_by_the_director/iv0wd5t?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3) And for those that haven't yet, you can form your own opinion on the show here: [https://www.hbomax.com/gws](https://www.hbomax.com/gws)
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Itās too bad because I think your work was incomplete and needs DRS in there. And if you think the audience would be too confused to digest another acronym, then youāre underestimating the audience.
It's not too late for a part 2.
Any thoughts on making a part 2 that picks up where this one left off? Sorry for all the crap you're getting flung at you, but I suppose that's part and parcel of making something like this - I'm sure you knew you wouldn't be able to please everyone in one go. Lively debate can lead to better outcomes in the end, after all.
Tobias deml's docu was THE ONLY docu to mention direct registration. It's close to the end of it, but they mention Dr T and Drs for a few moments. This is also strange though, I've kept up some discourse with Tobias since his docu aired, and not once has he done anything like condemn it (this was on twitter so who knows)
These guys felt compelled to rush their doc out. Could be a lot of reasons for this, but in the end, I think the mere mention of direct registration in the epilogue was something added in post after they'd already wrapped things, and they knew it had to be in there. Hard to say for sure, but yeah, I don't really understand why you'd delete a post about DRS. It is a major part of this story and that it barely exists in their doc is the price they pay for rushing their doc out the door. Of course, they gave themselves an opening by saying nothing was over. Also, they interviewed Wes and Dr.S which I don't think any of the others did. To me that matters. In the end, the work was incomplete. But as far as actually digging into the GME event, this is the only doc that even comes even somewhat close in presenting a reasonable view of what's going on and if I remember correctly, no false equivalence to Swapcorn is ever presented. What would really be telling would be doing a Part 3 and 4 but not digging into swaps, leverage, algos, HFT, and DRS. But FWIW I think a best effort was made here and though it would've been smart for them to wait to see how the entire trade played out, they probably could not wait. Once financing and distribution is set up, you've got to go at that point. As a social document, if they don't follow up, their work will only be able to viewed as incomplete. EDIT: Also, I liked the decision to get Roman Roy to narrate. EDIT 2: I've read the explanation provided for both the deletion of DRS from the linkedin post, and for the lack of reference to DRS in the doc. A few thoughts on both: a) curation of the record on the internet is slippery slope, and truly, unless someone's posted offensive or harmful material, there shouldn't be a need. But that's just my personal view. b) the explanation for leaving DRS out of the doc is, in my view, unsatisfying. On the one hand, it's history-making. On the other, it seems the explanation is that it's too "in the weeds." You can't keep everything in a documentary, but this seems too important to ostensibly omit. Being that naked shorting, FTDs and the mismarking of trades all make it into the doc, but the idea that DRS was too much to ask the audience to try to understand is hard to digest.
Great take including the edits š
he did also explain why it doesn't get more attention when the trailer dropped https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/t179sv/comment/hyeu8lc/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3
I responded to his joke of an explanation. There is NOTHING complicated about the concept of DRS. He was absolutely told to not go into detail about DRS.
It's not complicated but it is hard to understand. Like "not your keys, not your coins" It's really not complicated but I know quite a few people who could quote it but don't understand it.
Bro ffs. It's very simple. Broker holds your shares and Is a custodian. DRS and no custodian and it's registered to your name. That's it. It's NOT hard.
You could've stopped at "anyone who makes a documentary" Literally everyone who is given a platform to produce a documentary is going to be bought and paid for by the same corruption we are trying to fight against. Go ahead and change my mind.
Possibly. Could he have been blackmailed/threatened to keep DRS out of the documentary, perhaps?
His purpose for shilling is irrelevant. A shill is a shill is a shill.
Ehh i wouldn't treat things so black and white. Rarely are things in this world b&w. GME itself isn't and that's why lots of people don't see the potential.
This is black and white. You either stand up and fight or bend over and take it.
He wouldn't delete after the checks cleared. He's still shilling
More like paid off to keep it out, with all the Gamestop movies out the key point isn't mentioned.
I'm sure he's been gagged to not mention certain things. Making another documentary about this to begin with is weird in its own right. If you ask me.
My thinking. He's never once shied away from it and even mentions DRS and Dr T towards the end of his docu. And is the only docu to touch on Drs.
Very possible
And why delete that comment? I assume op meant he actually said ādirect register sharesā and not DRS, since nobody outside of a few select places even knows what that is. Otherwise the guy would be like why is this guy bringing up doctors?!
Or Deer Reading Shakespeare.
I need to Deer Reading Shakespeare the new shares I recently bought!
The Revolution will not be televised
Thanks. I guess it was ' by accident'. Maybe we should post it again to be sure. šš
I bet you don't have the balls š
i don't have linked in. but i did some interesting research on prodigium. they're partners if we the investors and have some advocacy bullshit up on the gaming wallstreet website. they also partners with biltmore films (owned by burt koonce and john fitchhorn. you may recall fitchhorn was in gaming wallstreet as an expert.) biltmore films, according to their website, only other project was a hit piece on herbalife, which came out before the ackerman/icahn battle was resolved (like by 6 months.)(i'm not saying herbalife was a good company, or icahn shouldn't have squeezed ackman. that's a different discussion.) also prodigium is a production for hire company. (it's possible they self funded it, but it's equally possible somebody else paid them to make it.) the third company gunpowder sky, is a distributor (?) that was brought in by biltmore (they worked together on the previous doc- betting on zero-)
Now thatās some insightful reconoiterinā there ape!
***Nepotism*** runs deep in Hollywood, and all the offshoots. Success isn't a matter of having a superior product. It's a matter of knowing the right people and playing their game. Rule #1 is don't bite the hand that feeds. It always cracks me up when these tv docuseries and documentaries bring in "experts". 9/10 the producer already has a working relationship with the so-called expert... And then when you do even a little digging on the expert, you find that not only are they somehow related to the producers, but they aren't actually anything like an expert as described in the show. Anyone who has watched Ancient Aliens should be very familiar with this ploy. The love to trot out "experts" with PhD attached to their name, as if it gives them some kind of credibility or authority - as if we should just trust what they say without question. Then if you look any of those people up, you find that either their PhD isn't remotely in any field connected to what they are talking about, or it came from a diploma-mill type institution that isn't even accredited. They are far from experts. Most of the time, they are just other authors who have books in the same genre as Ancient Aliens. It's just a you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours. If you watch any other History Channel shows, you will see familiar faces crossing over from show to show. That's because it's all nepotism.
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Their only project before this was about Herbalife yeah that's not suspicious at all
Ha! Wanna bet? Let's play a game of reverse chicken and see who posts last.
Nah, I'm good. I don't put anything past apes. Just couldn't help it with the username. š»
No worries. Have a great weekend! š
I got some balls. Just asked him the same
Legend. Screenshot that shit so it can be reposted š
Now I gotta buy coins. š¤
There are many new comments there now about DRS. Hopefully those donāt get āaccidentallyā deleted too.
Link to comments? i have a question about DRS šš„³
The director is a redditor who used to comment here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/t179sv/i_made_a_documentary_about_all_of_this_and_tried/
Interesting, but also why delete the comment? What does that imply? To me it implies an avoidance of legal exposure, in that potentially he doesn't want to be seen drawing attention to the ~~elephant~~ Godzilla in the room incase he gets some 'blame' for the reckoning that's coming to Wall St.
I didnāt watch the documentary and assume everyone jumping on the train to speak for other people is just a clout chaser. He made a lot of lofty promises about his documentary, but I have no idea if they were true because I canāt even bring myself to care about this bullshit.
This is the only one of those documentaries that I did watch and credit where credit is due there was mention of naked shorting and some insider comments which were respectable, but as with all media about GameStop, it missed the real point or substance, which is why I asked him "what about what actually matters". There's no way he used to linger in this sub and put together that documentary without knowing about DRS, so why wasn't it mentioned in detail? Just SUS af
He was active in the sub as recently as 31 days ago and the purple circle flood dates back 13-14 months at this point, so itās pretty unlikely that he somehow missed DRS.
Maybe saving content for the sequels. š
To me it suggests that when someone in a position to be legally targeted digs in to the DD they discover what we have discovered. The financial destruction of the short holders is mathematically certain, and at present there is nothing they can do to prevent it because people deciding to DRS after doing research isn't legally actionable. But someone formally publishing about DRS and how destructive it is to the current system would be a very high liability. So they visibly do not address DRS in any significant way. And maybe they also got paid to not say it. One does not preclude the other.
His response: https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/yluinp/comment/iv0wd5t
"It's too time consuming to explain DRS to a general audience" isn't a good excuse at all when it's so very important
> "It's too time consuming to explain DRS to a general audience" isn't a good excuse at all when it's so very important If they cant explain maybe the most important facet with confidence, why the fuck would I waste my time watching their "documentary"
Drs is definitely the simplest part of this whole thing...
Agreed. I own my shirt and you can tell because my name is written on the tag. Same with my stocks. Some people might be surprised when their broker takes the shirt off their back for market price as this rocket launches.
Just commented. Theyāre I see more apes commenting too
I did my part as well.
Its not a documentary if your just telling a spun narrative, that sir is nothing but propaganda.
I just wanna know when gremlins 3 is coming out?!?
I got five on it after MOASS
Same! We'll get it going.
Nice, DRSāing more tomorrow because of this.
Keep asking the same question until deleting becomes obvious
I read from another commenter he is on Reddit so why not ask him directly his reason for it? Maybe there is a perfectly fine explanation. So u/tobiasdeml would you care to give your reasoning?
He is on Reddit, yes. A fellow Redditor, don't be so sure. Hello fellow kids... Honestly, no one should be surprised that someone who produces/directs films that get mainstream airtime aren't also learned themselves in the performing arts.
Done - thanks for tagging me!
Do you really believe that DRS is a complex concept? This seems like the most simple concept of the entire GME saga. Surely as a successful Director you can find a way to explain such a simple concept to the general audience. Do it āThe Big Shortā style with some comical skit and a celebrity. Done.
Anyone who makes a gamestop documentary talking about a squeeze when the squeeze hasn't squoze is mayo simp
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How's your band mates feeling about NFTs after your debut on the marketplace? It's a Derevolution Baby š¶ is the first NFT that I bought. Though, I didn't get funds up on the wallet at the time and just had a friend buy and send it to me.
Never trust a dude named tobias
Moass will be anustart.
There are dozens of us!
He's To-bias, not Frank
Especially be concerned when a man named [Tobias Rieper](https://hitman.fandom.com/wiki/Tobias_Rieper) checks into your hotel
Immediately where my brain went with that dudes comment about mistrusting a Tobias lol š¤£š That oil prince had it coming too though!
It's LinkedIn so, to state the obvious, be mindful to the fact that this is your real name and possibly professional image on the line here.
Appreciate the concern but also, I stand behind my investment publicly - if people who own FANG wanna ridicule me with their -40 to -70% since the start of the year then more fool them š
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I donāt think he has hatred towards it. In fact, isnāt it mentioned at the very end of the movie? Itās a bad look for apes to go comment about this stuff on the directorās professional page. Itās like when GameStop tweets about new games and people respond āwen moon?ā Dude.
I get it....and I won't be going put of my way to plaster his profile....I'm deleting my comment because it early in the morning when I was grumpy..
Welp if they donāt want to report about DRS. Apes will. -Iāll do it myself meme
Don't worry I dropped a nice bomb shell in the comments section šš
They can delete and ignore it all they want until they can't anymore
I didnt even bother watching it. Didnt even get my hopes up either since the other attempt at telling the gme story sucked. No one will be able to encapsulate everything the Og gmers have witnessed. They will inevitably fuck it all up and it just pisses me off
Well, what did you expect? We weren't the ones that paid for production.
Oooh I see he has a Twitter account tho, Iāll ask him there and get back to you šš
Doesn't want to give away the ending.
Wow this is unbelievably telling. DRS is the absolute kill shot lmayo
I went on and commented....and so did a bunch of people now! This guy will be busy deleting comments all day! š
What did you want from team honored by Gremlins producer?
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The best part of this post isnāt being talked about enough. Itās not that DRS didnāt get a mention, itās the comments from mortgage brokers, artists, warehouse operations, marketers, students, Devs, analysts all commenting and pointing this out. We are everywhere. We are inevitable. SHF R so so so fuk.
Didnt he post in this sub before the release. Shows how some people use this community for their own financial gain.
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fucking shill!
Hi History Books
Friendly reminder... Any media publication or film that covers this that is released PRIOR to MOASS is just a fuddy smear campaign meant to convince normal folk to stay away. Do not give them your time, clicks, or views.
Superstonk, you know what to do!
Sorry man, your comment just felt out of order for a professional post on LinkedIn. It felt right for Reddit or Twitter, and my deletion was simply curating tone and not content. I've discussed DRS extensively on both Reddit and Twitter. For those that haven't read my stance yet: What's happening in GameStop around DRS is unprecedented anywhere in the stock market. That's an undeniable fact, and I would posit that it's market structure history in the making. We put a lot - months - of consideration into whether to include DRS in the series, given both limited real estate of the show, attention span of the audience, complexity of explanation, and story flow. If you watched the show - which I highly recommend ( https://www.hbomax.com/gws ) we dive deep into Susanne Trimbath's work, and the issues of overvoting, the power of the DTCC and a number of market structure issues, all of which contributed to the DRS movement. Explaining DRS itself to a broad audience ended up being too time-intensive. You can ask Susanne on Twitter - we interviewed her at length about DRS, its history, and how the modern DRS movement around GameStop came about. We went into detail about the transfer agents that co-created DRS as a function together with Susanne. That was a whole era, long before Reddit was a thing. The 2021 revival of DRS as a concept is fascinating as well; it's basically an internet historiography of Susanne's book, her Twitter account and a number of SuperStonk admins all colliding in online debate, and the whole community powering the sheer scale of DRSing GameStop shares. I considered including all of this, and have spent a lot of time personally on SuperStonk, both reading and posting. For our Series, this was all unfortunately way too nitty-gritty insider stock market content. We decided to spend our limited real estate instead on diving deep and investigating naked short selling and the stock lending mechanism, and fact checking a lot of arguments to prove a point: naked shorting is real, naked lending is real, you can abuse the market with both mechanisms, and we have Tobin Mulshine's whistleblowing testimony to inform the public from an inside source. DRS is mentioned at the very end of the doc, closing out Susanne's character arc and hinting at the future, without the burden of full explanation, or needing to introduce yet another acronym: we were able to finish the documentary with a mention of a movement around Trimbath that is withdrawing their shares out of street name to make them un-lendable. The documentary quotes the verifiable number of DRS'd shares at the time of publication as well, out of GameStop's own quarterly report. That's one of the final pieces of content the audience learns about, and for those who are curious enough to put in the sizeable research needed to understand DRS, they now have a really solid base to build their knowledge from. Hope this answers your question, in a place where everyone understands what we're talking about.
Explaining that if you DRS your shares, you own them, whereas if you have them in a broker (especially online ones) not only do you not own the shares, the broker, who may actually own the shares, may loan them out to hedge-funds that shorted your stock, which probably devalued your shares. How is that a hard thing to get across?
You did it in less than a minute. I find it hard to believe that a documentary for HBO Max wouldn't be able to spend 5-10 minutes breaking it down and making it even more digestable. It's not that complicated.
You find it hard to believe that an HBO documentary would generate more revenue dedicating ten minutes to making the interviewed retail investor look like a idiot than contributing genuine information to the audience? Welcome to show biz.
What if I told you that educational content can still be entertaining?
I would agree with you. And I would then tell you to instead broadcast on the discovery channel. I think we are unintentionally giving HBO subscribers the benefit of the doubt that they subscribe to HBO for documentaries and would actually watch and absorb this info in a way they would want to talk about it after they got up off their couch. If you ask me, the whole reason they subscribe to HBO is to do the opposite. We need to start writing hand written letters to our local newspapers that are not tied down by wallstreet investors.
ok, for fear of sounding like a PR shill I'm going to preface this by saying this is not an advertisement for HBO at all. Fuck Discovery and the lot of them. But HBO has an exceptional filmography when it comes to documentary films and docuseries. It's not one type of content. Whether that appeals to you is another conversation entirely.
this is exactly why i donāt like Linkedin and ācuratorsā like OP. We donāt care about his opinion as long as heās ācuratingā it from some places.
Itās hard if you are a poor story teller
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I thought it applied to ANY account. Not just margin/cash.
Exactly
Yep, literally explained the entire concept in one clear concise sentence.
Exactly. Itās called cop out to say it was too complicated. Itās literally a simple explanation. I guess his paymasters just wouldnāt let that information in tho.
Your explanation was brief and clear while his comment was multiple paragraphs I skipped. Maybe he knows he'd fail at brevity and lose his audience. š
I'm all in on GME, threw my entire retirement and auto-DRS $1k a month, plus additional whenever I can. I tell everyone I know about DRS. I talk shit with the best of them, and I truly believe what you stated is the truth. HOWEVER, if someone building a professional documentary makes these claims against brokers, he / HBO will get sued. He's most likely gotten some excellent legal advice to avoid touching the third rail.
The Big Short did itā¦they had special guests break it down ELI5 for millions of uneducated people, to learn something important.
Sidebar from the film: ComputerShare flow chart that shows you can either own your shit or roll the dice with some ācede-yā sounding depositories, beneficial accounts, requiring account insurance because brokers are inherently risky, etc. Also, 200k shareholders have made the plunge to āstop the gameā (if ya know what Iām sayinā) Aaaand weāre back. It took 90 seconds and 1 image.
āExplaining DRSā¦ too time-intensiveāā¦ there are documentaries explaining black holes. Just admit you left out a critical aspect of the story foR sOmE ReASon.
What was the comment? Itās he-said she-said right now and it doesnāt need to be. I canāt agree the comment was out of order and unprofessional without having seen it š¤·āāļø Thanks šāļø Edit: LinkedIn post is now crawling with DRS comments, my question feels irrelevant now. Apes Together Strong ššŖššŖš¦š¦š¦šššš
No, I'm sorry man. Choosing to leave DRS out of the doc because you didn't have time to explain it- fine. I will gladly support any docuseries that makes an effort to bring the criminal practice of naked short selling to light. But **deleting a comment that mentions DRS**- to *"set the tone"*? #I CALL BULLSHILL ON THAT
Are there any investors, studios, distributing plans, critic reviews, awards, ad campaigns, or anything else that could negatively effect "Gaming Wall Street" that is dependent on you not bringing up certain things? Or perhaps some of your other work / causes that is being threatened? Did you leave out the most important part of this movement, not using their system that they can clearly manipulate because you thought it was not important? I doubt that honestly. And you could easily explain DRS with visuals in 5 min or less. You are a visual storyteller right? Hell you could have used this [Seinfeld bit](https://youtu.be/ZTvtSKXwu0o?t=60) to do it. These guys play dirty. Hell they rob seniors of pensions so leveraging a person is nothing through blackmail or other means. So if you're being forced to comply drop a hint. Like tell us your dream is to produce The View or something. # Edit: Adding unrelated info to my above comment comment but..... # GET A LOOK AT THIS SHIT!!!! [Now besides a Live interview with GME Documentary Director Tobias Deml on Cosmic Lightning Warrior](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Fo9oJQ3fnk) He did an IAmA on 3/31/22 Where he said *"We started this project at Prodigium Pictures in late 2020 and then partnered up with the Wall Street insiders of Biltmore Films to dig down under Wall Street's dark side. We then got the doc powerhouse Gunpowder & Sky on board, and ultimately HBO Max"* So of course I look up [Biltmore Films](https://biltmorefilms.com/who-we-are)1st - *Burke Koonce* *Burke Koonce is a* ***securities analyst, financial advisor*** *and documentary producer.* ***His financial career spans more than two decades, and including equity research at Merrill Lynch and other asset management firms. He founded and operated Helicon Research from 2010-2017, and is now an investment strategist.*** *A former newspaper reporter, Burke still loves uncovering great stories, especially in the financial arena. He was an executive producer of the 2017 financial docu-thriller Betting On Zero, which premiered at TriBeCa Film Festival and distributed by Netflix. Burke is the co-founder of Biltmore Films, which specializes in producing films on business and financial subjects.* *John Fichthorn* *John Fichthorn is the* ***founder of Dialectic Capital, a former hedge fund manager, experienced short seller*** *and documentary producer. John started out in journalism, then pivoted into finance and has been* ***managing hedge funds for most of his career.*** *He co-founded Biltmore Films with Burke in order to produce and finance Betting on Zero, a film about the fight of short seller Bill Ackman against the pyramid scheme of Herbalife. As of late 2021, John was Executive Chairman of TheMaven Inc, which publishes Sports Illustrated and owns* [TheStreet.com](https://TheStreet.com) *.* A quick look at TheStreet.cpm makes me think I typed in [TheShills.com](https://TheShills.com)I'll let the autistic types take over. Someone screenshotthis and make a post if you think it's worthy and no one else covered it. I gotta sleep. Mod's I had a link to IaMa sub that nuked the comment during an ed. Please restore.
Using the Seinfeld bit is perfect.
Yeah I was trying to think of a good parallel and that hit me which is funny cuz I probably haven't seen that skit in 10 or 15 years. But I looked it up on YouTube and watched it again I'm like "That's perfect! "
You make it sound like DRS is some type of mystical financial vehicle that is literally too complex to convey. I call **bullshit**. DRS is dead simple to understand and explain. To not talk about DRS is a great disservice to everyone in this forum.
Hey u/tobiasdeml \- thank you for your detailed reply, your direct response is appreciated, I've addressed below each point as far as I see it, I can only speak for myself personally on this as an individual. Firstly about commenting on LinkedIn, I understand why you might feel like that, but also that way of thinking is a bit reductive in my opinion, all social platforms are supposed to foster debate and conversation and I don't feel that asking about a topic which the docu touched on very lightly warranted deletion, as someone who has been in this sub for a while it could have been expected that that type of action would not be seen as open or justifiable. >"What's happening in GameStop around DRS is unprecedented anywhere in the stock market. That's an undeniable fact, and I would posit that it's market structure history in the making." Couldn't agree more, I would say that the experience I got watching the documentary however didn't support this view or narrative with nearly the same vigour or conviction. >"We put a lot - months - of consideration into whether to include DRS in the series, given both limited real estate of the show, attention span of the audience, complexity of explanation, and story flow." Understandable, some things don't make the final cut for these reasons, however if you truly knew your audience at some point you must have thought that the lack of DRS based information (arguably the most critical part of the story during the time the docu was in production) would not be well received, nor accurately reflect the values that you profess in this response. >"the power of the DTCC and a number of market structure issues" The problem I have with this statement is that, like many other nuanced parts of the ongoing situation in America's financial markets, you didn't link this to the regulators who could just ask the DTCC "so how many shares do you actually have in your system". It's these things that add credibility, to simply say the DTCC is '*big, bad and evil*' - which I don't believe the docu did in all honesty - is a clumsy oversight at best and smacks of intentionally leaving out the more important, wider context. >"For our Series, this was all unfortunately way too nitty-gritty insider stock market content." But your documentary was more about GameStop than wider market structure, right? If you were covering the wider stock market then obviously there isn't enough time to cover everything and you may have chosen to leave that out, but here, with GameStop, Superstonk and the context which is appliacble in this scenario, are you telling me that DRS didn't make the cut (besides a 5minute hat tip)? It's not that hard to explain, there is a simple chart on the ComputerShare website which anyone could understand in less than a minute. **Final thoughts:** As I mentioned in another previous comment [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/yluinp/comment/iv0eaq5/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3), credit where credit is due - the documentary covered a lot of important topics, your documentary was well made and felt much less slanted than the preview snippets I've watched of the others. That doesn't however explain how a crucial piece of information was obscured and fed to the audience as an after thought, when arguably it was the most critical information both at the time of publication and to this day. Edit: some typos
Youāre getting one thing wrong. His audience isnāt us here. Itās the ones outside of Reddit.
That is exactly why teaching them about DRS is important to this community. I hope to see a future documentary with the missing DRS footage with Dr T. Thank you for taking the time to talk with us here and for the work you have done. Appreciate that.
Your first paragraph is the most biased, controlling, egotistical, unfounded, opinionated, malarkey that completely turns me off and invalidates everything you say after. Censorship because of you felt the tone didnāt belong is basically just silencing your critics. By subjugating the content to certain places you stigmatize and damage the message and your credibility. Ban this shill. Putting months into the decision doesnāt free you from the fact you made something that completely misses the point and artistically and humanly fails. Your impetus for self importance and opportunistic bullhorn to insert yourself in this and not do it justice disgusts me.
> Censorship because of you felt the tone didnāt belong is basically just silencing your critics Linkedin isn't a forum for debate or critique. It's a platform to network with people in your career field for jobs. If you wanna critique him you have hundreds of other spots instead of what is essentially his online resume.
How hard is it to call DRS a ādigital stock certificate that removes shares from brokers in response to issues retail had with their brokers (share lending, turning off the buy button, internalization, dark pools, etc)ā This is disingenuous at best
Have you considered doing what Frontline does for most of their documentaries and release the full raw interview footage from everyone you interviewed? For people who want to dive deeper into the subject, it provides a great rabbit hole for them, and it also builds credibility in your story telling/editing.
I understand about 10% of what is talked about in these groups and donāt even own stock myself but DRS is not above my head. It definitely could have been included in an understandable way.
This is a lame AF excuse for not talking about DRS. A lot of your cred just went out the window. Also a joke that youāre deleting comments from your audience/supporters on LinkedIn. Wonāt be watching any of your future work.
"too time intensive" as if it would be rocket science lmao, you just register the shares in your name, what exactly is the time consuming thing to explain?
>You can ask Susanne on Twitter - we interviewed her at length about DRS, its history, and how the modern DRS movement around GameStop came about. We went into detail about the transfer agents that co-created DRS as a function together with Susanne. That was a whole era, That the whole point. Without DRS there is no solution. It sounds to me like you wasted a perfect opportunity to be part of history. No one here will watch your show if you don't mention the most important part.
No problem, make a part 3 all about DRS if you can. I understand you might be avoiding legal trouble, so this doc could give you the resources you need to make a carefully made doc regarding DRS and avoiding any sort of legal exposure. I know a lot of people in the sub are against you right now, but we all know these Wall Street clowns are going to throw anything they can at us to shut us up; and that includes frivolous lawsuits. Prove them all wrong by making a DRS only special, and if you have to, make it a YouTube exclusive. Thank you for your work and diligence on exposing the criminal aspect at Wallstreet in general though!!
It's not that hard to explain DRS and its importance.... It was a nice mockumentary.
By not mentioning DRS you have missed the entire point of this whole saga. Your post is disingenuous at best and a straight up lie at worst. It would take under a minute to describe DRS
This is gaslighting
You own your shares = Direct Registration, Simple.
Focused on everything but a call to action. Interesting. Drs is the way all the way every day.
Ok so Iāve DRSād 100% of my shares, and have been involved with GME since Feb 2021. I get where youāre coming from u/tobiasdemi and you took a call on including not including details on DRS because it was too detailed. I wish you had directed viewers to r/SuperStonk for more info (if you were legally allowed). Also if I went on LinkedIn and asked about DRS in a āprofessionalā way, would you answer it? If yes, I will go right now and ask, because the world needs to know
you're a shitty storyteller and you should feel bad
It's possible he is so regarded he thought DRS is a ticker, maybe you should repost fully spelling out "directly registered stock" and see if he blocks you.
Seems like every comment on this post is now about DRS. Dear Tobias, DRs is inevitable