Internet Roasts Elon Musk After 'SPCX' Mysteriously Trends, Weirdly Beating Actual Stock Tickers
In a bizarre turn of events that has left Wall Street analysts scratching their heads and meme lords rubbing their hands together in glee, the internet woke up this morning to discover that 'SPCX'—a completely made-up stock ticker with zero backing, shares, or even a fake company name—was somehow trending higher than legitimate stock symbols like Apple and Tesla. Financial dorks are having an existential crisis, wondering if they missed the secret IPO of a spaceship potato chip brand. Meanwhile, Reddit's WallStreetBets has claimed victory, jokingly stating they pumped the ticker's "nothing value" to infinite, with one top post reading: "I bought 10,000 shares of SPCX with my imagination and I'm already up 500%—the only thing I've actually invested in is crippling irony." The funniest part? It's now being reported that 'SPCX' was actually an accidental autocorrect of 'SPAC,' the blank-check companies Elon Musk famously mocked. The internet has decided to keep the joke alive, with memes of Musk frantically typing "SPCX" into his phone during a botched tweet about space, effectively creating a new cryptocurrency from a fat-finger typo.