Who is Roaring Kitty? Keith Gill, his GameStop trade, and the 2026 hype our best accounts didn't buy

Roaring Kitty is Keith Gill, a former financial educator from Massachusetts who posted his GameStop position on Reddit from 2019 as u/DeepFuckingValue and on YouTube as Roaring Kitty. His screenshots took a $53,000 stake to nearly $48 million in January 2021, and his return in 2024 showed a position worth more than $180 million. This is his public record: the timeline, the positions he posted, and why no net worth figure for him holds up.

His X account posted again on May 11, 2026, after about 16 months of silence. The next day, the accounts we track spent their GameStop posts on a different story, eBay's rejection of GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen's takeover bid, and the mentions that took a side ran 8 bearish to 1 bullish. Some of our best graded accounts had stayed off the bull side of that bid since the day it leaked, and GameStop closed May 20% below its May 1 close.

Who is Roaring Kitty?

Roaring Kitty is the YouTube and X name of Keith Gill. The facts on public record:

• Background: born in 1986 and raised in Brockton, Massachusetts. He ran track at Stonehill College and graduated in 2009 with an accounting degree.
• Work: he joined MassMutual in April 2019 in a financial education role and was a registered broker. He resigned on January 28, 2021, the day Reuters named him as the man behind the posts.
• Accounts: u/DeepFuckingValue on Reddit, Roaring Kitty on YouTube, and @TheRoaringKitty on X.
• On screen: Paul Dano played him in Dumb Money (2023).

Every position and dollar figure below comes from his own screenshots unless a filing or a news report says otherwise. Screenshots are his claims, not audited records.

Roaring Kitty and GameStop: the timeline

The trade ran in two acts, three years apart. GameStop prices are daily closes, and the 2024 figures are after the company's 2022 four-for-one stock split.

He made the case in public long before it paid. Between the 2019 screenshot and the January 2021 short squeeze, he posted Reddit updates and more than 250 hours of YouTube videos, by Massachusetts regulators' count, walking through his spreadsheets. When the stock took off, you could scroll back through all of it, and that history is a big part of why people believed the screenshots.

Roaring Kitty net worth: what he posted, not what he has

There is no verified Keith Gill net worth. Any figure you see is a guess built on his old screenshots. The largest numbers he has shown are brokerage positions:

Reuters reported the June 2 screenshot and said it could not verify it. Counting the calls at the stock's June 6 close of $46.55, the June 2 position was worth about $550 million on paper that day, our arithmetic on his screenshot. The 13G filing adds a second holding: about 9 million Chewy shares, worth about $245 million when he disclosed them in July 2024, all sold by the end of that September.

A screenshot shows one account on one day and leaves out taxes, other accounts, debts and anything he sold afterwards, so none of these figures is a net worth. He has not posted a GameStop position since June 13, 2024.

How much did Roaring Kitty make?

Nobody outside his brokerage knows the total. The two runs, by his own posts:

• 2019 to 2021: about $53,000 in GameStop shares and calls turned into a position worth nearly $48 million at the January 2021 peak. Two days later, after a $15 million drop, the WSJ put his accounts at about $33 million. He kept holding and added shares into April.
• 2024: we know what he held, not what he sold for. Between June 2 and June 13 the 120,000 calls left his account and his share count rose from 5 million to 9.001 million, so he exercised calls, sold them, bought shares, or some mix. Reuters could not tell which.

The total over both runs depends on sale prices he never posted, so any headline figure for what Keith Gill made is an estimate.

Roaring Kitty and the regulators

He has faced questions in each run and, on the public record, no charges:

• 2021: he told Congress he "did not solicit anyone to buy or sell the stock" for his own profit. Massachusetts regulators looked at his former employer, and in September 2021 MassMutual's broker unit paid a $4 million fine for failing to supervise agents, Gill among them.
• 2024: the Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth confirmed it was looking at his trading, and E*Trade weighed whether to keep him as a client. Neither has announced a public outcome. His June 13 screenshot still came from an E*Trade account.
• The lawsuit: a GameStop shareholder filed a proposed securities fraud class action against him in New York in late June 2024. The plaintiff withdrew it within days, without prejudice, before any court ruled.

Roaring Kitty on Twitter (X) in 2026

His X handle is @TheRoaringKitty. On May 11, 2026, after about 16 months without a post, the account put up a cat image and a Pepe the Frog in his red bandanna, and crypto outlets reported a Solana meme coin address. Bloomberg reported that GameStop rose as much as 13% after hours before the posts disappeared at about 5:40 p.m. New York time. Many traders said the account looked hacked. Gill has not commented, and we found no confirmed post from him since.

What the accounts we track said about GameStop in May

Quantral does not track or grade Keith Gill: his accounts have posted almost nothing since 2024, and a deleted post is not a call we can score. We do track GameStop. From May 1 to May 29, 2026, GME drew 68 mentions from 63 accounts we track, most of them in r/wallstreetbets threads, and the ones that took a side ran 20 bearish to 10 bullish.

In the accounts we track, the Kitty posts drew almost no discussion. The busy days were about Cohen's bid for eBay, a $56 billion cash-and-stock offer for a company about four times GameStop's size:

Account	When	What they posted
@amitisinvesting	May 1	Shared the WSJ report and asked whether an $11 billion company buying a $46 billion one made sense, given Cohen's record of raising cash by issuing stock
@ren_stocks	May 1	"This is the most 2021 thing to happen in 2026"
@DeepValueBagger	May 4	Bearish twice: no prior talks with eBay, a target he called six times larger, and a bid that read to him like an exit for Cohen
@DeepValueBagger	May 12	Bearish again after the rejection: "stay away from meme stocks"

amitisinvesting and ren_stocks rank in our top 20 by track record, and neither took the bull side. DeepValueBagger ranks in our top third. On r/wallstreetbets the same week, the loudest GameStop threads were jokes about Cohen telling CNBC the details were "on the website."

On May 12, the morning after the Kitty posts, eBay's board called the bid "neither credible nor attractive." That day GME drew 20 mentions across the accounts we track: 8 bearish, 1 bullish, the rest chatter.

GameStop closed at $26.53 on May 1, the day of the WSJ report. It closed May at $21.18, down 20%, and kept sliding to $17.87 on August 28, down 33% from the May 1 close. The after-hours pop on the Kitty posts was gone by the next close: $22.37 on May 12, down 3% on the day.

The autumn bull case came with filings

The autumn rally had buying behind it that you can check. Ryan Cohen bought $20.4 million of stock at $20.38 on September 10 and $26.4 million at $22.94 on September 21, as our read of the biggest CEO buys covered. He filed three more buys by October 13, the last for $22.8 million at $26.98.

On October 1, mkfilko, who ranks in our top 20 by track record, posted a fundamentals case: GameStop had gone from a $381 million net loss in 2021 to $418 million of net income, and collectibles were now 45.1% of net sales. Those are his figures from the company's reports. GameStop closed at $24.11 that day and at $28.02 on October 15, its best close of the year so far and 57% above the year's lowest close on August 28. It closed at $25.39 on October 22.

Put the two halves of 2026 side by side. The May hype had a famous name and a deal eBay would not take, and our best graded accounts stayed off it while GameStop fell 20% that month. The autumn bull case had the CEO's own filed buys and a fundamentals post from a top-20 account behind it.

The record is the point

Keith Gill's story lasts because he posted the receipts. Two years of public updates sat behind the 2021 screenshots, and that history is why so many people believed the 2024 ones. A deleted post with a meme coin address has none of it.

You can hold any account to the same standard. How to verify a track record walks through it, and what a meme stock is covers why names like GameStop move on attention. In the Quantral app, every GameStop call from the accounts we track is graded as it resolves, so before the next spike you can see whose read has held up.

Roaring Kitty FAQ

Who is Roaring Kitty?

Roaring Kitty is Keith Gill, a former MassMutual financial educator from Brockton, Massachusetts. He posted his GameStop position on Reddit as u/DeepFuckingValue from 2019 and made videos about it as Roaring Kitty on YouTube. His bet became the face of the January 2021 GameStop short squeeze.

What is Keith Gill's net worth?

There is no verified figure. His largest posted positions were about $48 million in January 2021 and, in June 2024, 5 million GameStop shares plus 120,000 call options, with the shares worth $115.7 million at the May 31, 2024 close. His June 13, 2024 screenshot showed 9.001 million shares, about $262 million at that day's close, and he also held a Chewy stake worth about $245 million that he sold by September 30, 2024. Those are positions on given days, not net worth.

How much did Keith Gill make on GameStop?

He has never posted a total. His screenshots took about $53,000 to nearly $48 million at the January 2021 peak, and the WSJ confirmed about $33 million in his accounts after the January 29 drop. For 2024 he showed what he held but not his sale prices, so any profit figure is an estimate.

What is Roaring Kitty's Twitter (X) handle?

@TheRoaringKitty. His Reddit account is u/DeepFuckingValue and his YouTube channel is Roaring Kitty. After about 16 months without a post, the X account posted on May 11, 2026, and those posts were gone within an hour.

Is Roaring Kitty still in GameStop?

We don't know. His last posted position, on June 13, 2024, showed 9.001 million GameStop shares. He has posted no update since, so any claim that he still holds them is a guess.

Was Roaring Kitty charged with anything?

No charges have been made public. A proposed class action filed against him in June 2024 was withdrawn within days, and the 2024 Massachusetts inquiry has announced no outcome. In 2021, his former employer's broker unit paid a $4 million Massachusetts fine for failing to supervise him and other agents.

Keith Gill (Roaring Kitty, u/DeepFuckingValue) is not an account Quantral tracks or grades. Positions and values are his own claims from public screenshots as reported at the time, plus public SEC filings, and have not been verified. GameStop prices are daily closes, adjusted for the 2022 stock split. Mentions, quoted posts and rankings come from the accounts Quantral tracks, as of October 23, 2026, with mention days in New York time. Quantral surfaces signals and context from public sources to support your own research. Nothing here is financial advice or a recommendation to buy, sell, or follow anyone. Past performance is not indicative of future results.