I think it is a dangerous joke. I saw this today too, and I was a bit confused. I was thinking if someone already created a token called wallstreetsbets, and why would CMC be promoting it. AFAIK they haven't created one... but someone could, and just try to sell to someone for 480 USD, which is a lot of money.
Adding WSB to the top is a kind of subtle mockery of market volatility (with this gesture, CMC emphasized the fact that if ordinary traders unite, they can easily repulse financial institutions). People with WSB don't learn trading techniques, the community just sees trading as a thrill. BTW, GameStop was also discussed on this subreddit and Elon Musk did not miss the opportunity to Tweet about it.
I take it that was your first thought before you read the notice ... and I do not consider this a dangerous joke, it seems to me such a gesture is more like an appeal to people, just like Elon's tweet,
(his tweet was a gesture of solidarity, SMS only picked up the idea). And I'm not sorry for those who are stupid enough to fall for this trick after reading the unambiguous notice.
I have seen such jokes before in cmc. However, through these jokes, CMC has promoted WSB well among the crypto community.
That's not entirely true ... as I said, coinmarketcap just expressed solidarity,
(in the sense that almost all traffic came from Musk, not CMC). And in the community WSB one of the main rules is to "
no stocks with market caps below $ 1 billion, no crypto" which once again confirms that it was a gesture of solidarity.
