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It's very interesting when a YouTuber decides to become the largest individual stakeholder in a company that is really bad financially is really bad. Because generally, if you like a company, invest in it because you think there's a turnaround story, you don't buy that much of it. Unless you know something. Markiplier buys 8.5% of GoPro public shares. Why would someone buy what's called a micro cap company whose financials are absolutely bleeding. Unless you have access to some information that gives you real reason to, to justify your belief that this is actually turning around. Generally, you don't make that big of a purchase. Then some things came to light after he buys 13.5 million shares. So he spends between $8-$10 million. He bought on July 13th. He files his 13 G, which is his his his disclosure to the SEC on August 20th. Last week before the announcement came out that he had all these shares, he had posted a video. Where he compares a GoPro camera to a much more expensive camera. At no point during that video did he disclose that he was the single largest shareholder of the company of the product that he's promoting and saying is so good. Yeah, but Stocky, that doesn't matter. He did have an affiliate link and said he sponsored. That's not the same thing. That's not my opinion. That's the opinion of the FTC. If you own shares in a company and you do a promotion or promote it, or you sponsor it and you have a vested stake in it, and you're a big enough creator that you could move, you are required by the FTC to disclose that. Now, he said his lawyers said that he's fine. Bloomberg reports this on August 30th. Here's the problem. All of this could be, hey, this was a mistake, it's not that suspicious. He did buy a bunch of it and then did this video. He probably just forgot to do a disclosure. But that's not where it got crazy. On that day, the stock ran 50%. And then when an additional 40% after hours. The next day Starman Optical purchases 90% of GoPro's debt. A private equity company that makes optical receivers for AI data centers. Nothing to do with making movies. Shareholders are going to get $285 million in cash, which comes out to $1.14 a share. Remember he bought this way before. Starman is getting 90% of the company. They're keeping it public as a subsidiary. And the stock goes another 40%. Also. Starman is taking GoPro from cameras to AI data center & military defense. Drones need cameras. See, GoPro's real value for them is their patents. GoPro has over 2500 patents. So I am not accusing Markiplier of of insider trading because I have no proof of that. He did violate FTC rules by not disclosing that, hey, I'm making promotional video and favorable video about product of a company I own 10% in.