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GameStop stock (Society of General Mechanical Engineers) and other meme stocks emerged on Thursday growling kittenis the online alias of meme stock kingpin Keith Gill and was posted on X for the first time since September.

GameStop shares were up 14% Thursday afternoon, while AMC Entertainment (aviation medical center), another favorite meme stocks Traders saw gains as high as 13%. Shares of online pet retailer Chewy (blow), also a meme stock favorite, was unaffected.

Gill posted a photo of a fake Time magazine cover showing only a desktop computer monitor and keyboard on Thursday at 1:45 p.m. ET. As of 3:45 p.m., the post had been viewed 3.1 million times.

Gill posts cryptic messages and pictures on X, where he has 1.6 million followers, causing meme stocks to rise several times. final madness Came in early September At the time he posted a photo taken by a group of people indicating that he had sold some of his sizable shares in Chewy. The post caused Chewy’s stock price to plummet and GameStop’s stock price to soar.

After becoming one of the faces of 2021’s meme stock craze, Gill took a long break from public life. He returned to X in May with a flurry of posts and has posted intermittently since, each time sparking a flurry of speculation.

GameStop and AMC gave up gains late Thursday. They were up 6% and 5%, respectively, as of 3:45 p.m. ET.