lol nothing to do with gamers

Simple.

Retail investors have no DUTY to be careful with their investments.

Hedge funds cannot just simply sell (or short) the market and hope it will work out. Or even "short-out" the buyers.

They're all regulated.

Whereas retails investors, can simply buy saja with only personal repercussions.

Also most buy / long options.

Options are like warrants so they are more sensitive to price changes of the underlying asset.

So example - if the asset goes up by 30-50%, the call option/warrant can go up by 400-500%

There's a math to it, but I dont know because it's confusing af