The Retail Market Theory That Sounds Like a Punchline

The recession-is-bullish post ^[13] did not land as a contrarian provocation — it landed as a position. The community did not argue back; it elaborated. That tells you more about r/wallstreetbets in April 2026 than any single market call could. A community that once weaponized irony to cover bad bets is now posting flat assertions about macro inversion and watching them become organizing frameworks for the replies beneath them. The irony is gone. What replaced it is a kind of operational cynicism: the premise that official macro categories — recession,…