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  "title": "Brian D. Evans on remembering the disabled buy button",
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    "text": "I can’t quite remember, but I do remember tweeting and thinking, “This should be a movie.” It felt like proof that the game was rigged when the buy button was disabled—probably not even Robinhood’s fault, but powers over their heads controlling them. That made it even more sketchy when they eventually basically said that was the case.",
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    "scope": "Author-authorized publication of the exact recollection with handle and a link to the related January 28, 2021 post on the Button Witness Archive only.",
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