Roaring Kitty returns, and GameStop surges 40%

The man at the center of the pandemic meme stock craze returned to the social platform X for the first time in three years and sent prices of some of those stocks surging overnight.

Keith Gill, better known as “Roaring Kitty,” posted an image on Sunday of a man sitting forward in his chair, a meme used by gamers when things are getting serious.

He followed that tweet with a YouTube video from years before saying, “That’s all for now cuz I’m out of breath. FYI here’s a quick...