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This [Reddit ETF post](https://www.reddit.com/r/stocks/comments/ku6skz/reddit_etf/) was made at the beginning of 2021, near the period of peak euphoria. Anyone who was around at the time can testify that this really did represent consensus opinions in this sub at that time, which you can see in the comments of that post. Note that the game store madness did not really begin until a couple weeks later, which is why it did not appear there.
I felt like it was going to play out poorly so I bookmarked it, and now have been doing yearly updates. After all, for something like this, you really need to give it a multiple year timeline at least.
We have now passed year 5, which I think is a pretty good benchmark. For years this did laughably bad, and I have sarcastically remarked about how the sharp, financial geniuses of the time performed against SPY and VTI. Last year was a bit of a surprise though, and closed the gap quite a lot due almost entirely to NVDA and PLTR. Let's see how 2025-now stacked up
*I used a $100,000 initial investment and just rounded all the prices to the dollar for visual simplicity (all entries use the real, full prices, I have just rounded them for this table). I used the prices at close last Friday. This also backtracks prices from stock splits.*
|**TICKER**|**Jan8, 2021**|May 22, 2026|**% change**|**Initial $**|**Final $**|
|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|
|TSLA|293|426|\+45%|5000|7,270|
|AMD|95|468|\+392%|5000|24,606|
|PLTR|25|137|\+448%|5000|27,376|
|ICLN|33|22|\-32%|5000|3,395|
|NIO|59|5|\-91%|5000|441|
|SQ|241|668|\-72%|5000|1,412|
|NET|79|216|\+174%|5000|13,682|
|DKNG|52|25|\-52%|5000|2,415|
|NVDA|13|215|\+1,521%|5000|81,073|
|AAPL|132|309|\+134%|5000|11,698|
|ENPH|207|64|\-69%|5000|1,547|
|PLUG|67|4|\-94%|5000|282|
|SE|210|87|\-58%|4000|1,662|
|BABA|263|130|\-51%|4000|1,977|
|CRSP|164|50|\-69%|4000|1,228|
|TSM|119|405|\+240%|4000|13,597|
|AMZN|159|266|\+67%|4000|6,694|
|DIS|179|103|\-42%|4000|2,302|
|ABNB|150|132|\-12%|4000|3,529|
|FSLY|88|16|\-81%|3000|556|
|CRM|222|180|\-19%|3000|2,433|
|ARKG|106|31|\-71%|2000|579|
|JMIA|37|7|\-81%|2000|377|
|JD|92|30|\-67%|2000|655|
|**TOTAL**|\-|\-|\+111%|**$100,000**|**$210,786**|
Two very strong years in a row for Reddit ETF, up 50% in the past 16 months since I last measured it. Let's see how it stacks up against the market.
|**Portfolio**|**Initial**|**4/22**|**1/23**|**1/24**|1/25|5/26|**% change**|
|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|
|Reddit ETF|100,000|70,125|56,558|83,579|140,882|210,786|**+111%**|
|SPY|100,000|112,996|105,007|126,536|159,516|195,573|**+96%**|
|VTI|100,000|109,552|100,903|120,221|151,287|184,085|**+84%**|
Folks, I never thought I would see it. Reddit consensus, at the period of peak euphoria, has now outperformed the market over a 5 year period. At the behest of u/[gorays21](https://www.reddit.com/user/gorays21/).
I was pretty relentless making fun of this for several years, but my my how the turntables. Come take a bow.
You do owe the portfolio manager a couple thousand bucks though. Assuming you managed to hold onto this in its entirely through multiple years of large underperformance of course.