Started investing this year and apparently the world is ending every week
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· May 20, 2026 at 17:56
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Bro I finally started investing this year thinking it was gonna be some chill “buy good companies and hold” type of thing
Instead I open my phone every morning and it’s:
1. Iran war headlines
2. recession fears
3. “AI bubble collapsing”
and now „OpenAI IPO will crash the market”
And can someone explain the weird obsession people have with hating Sam Altman specifically?
People online act like:
Anthropic = wholesome ethical saviors
OpenAI = evil capitalist supervillain
Bro… aren’t they ALL the SAME?
Either hate the whole industry or don’t.
The whole “Anthropic good / OpenAI evil” thing feels so random to me.
And honestly from an investing perspective… why do people even care THAT much about Altman personally?
A lot of massive companies were built by aggressive or controversial CEOs.
If the company keeps growing, most people stop caring anyway.
Same thing with Reddit stock hate.
I don’t even own RDDT shares before anyone starts, but every time I see people mention the stock, comments instantly become:
“trash company”
“dead money”
while they are literally typing that ON REDDIT…
Maybe I’m just new to investing, but finance discourse online feels insanely emotional right now.
One day AI is the future.
Next day the entire market is supposedly doomed.
Then AMD pumps another 5%.
I genuinely don’t know what people actually believe anymore