GME Timeline

GME Sneeze & Turnaround timeline - from 2020 to present
2026
2025
2024
2023
2022
  • Hedge fund Melvin Capital shuts down after failing to recover from major losses sustained during the sneeze
  • Ryan Cohen gives an interview with GMEdd.com
  • WallStreetBets bans any further discussions or posting about GME
2021
  • The Sneeze of January 2021
  • GameStop raises approximately $1.7 billion with 2 at-the-market equity offerings
  • Ryan Cohen appointed chairman of the board of directors; the turnaround of the company begins
  • GME investors discover DRS; GameStop begins publishing number of registered shares
2020
  • Keith Gill aka Roaring Kitty, aka DeepFuckingValue brings attention to GME on social media
  • Ryan Cohen buys GME and becomes the largest individual shareholder
2018, 2019
  • GameStop was a struggling company with a poor outlook
  • Michael Burry opened a position in GME and eventually wrote a letter to the then-board of directors urging a stock buyback.