COIN Bleeds, NET Craters, and CoreWeave Is Printing: The Week's Wildest Social Sentiment Swings
YouTube bulls, Reddit skeptics, and X traders all landed on the same names — just for very different reasons

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Let's start with the carnage. $COIN reported Q1 earnings that missed already-lowered estimates — revenue down 31% quarter-over-quarter, a net loss of nearly $400 million, and then, because why not, a 7-hour outage courtesy of AWS Northern Virginia. Bloomberg's Stock Movers segment basically read like a breakup text. Reddit's crypto communities are split between 'buy the dip' and 'this is fine (it's not fine)' energy, while X has fully embraced the meme that Coinbase's biggest competition is now Morgan Stanley's E-Trade platform. Brutal.
Meanwhile, $NET dropped nearly 17% after guiding revenue below estimates and announcing 1,100 job cuts, blaming higher AI-related costs. The irony of an internet infrastructure company getting wrecked by the AI boom it was supposed to ride is not lost on anyone scrolling fintwit. The stock was up 30% year-to-date before the print. That's the kind of round trip that ends friendships.
On the other side of the universe, CoreWeave is describing incoming AI compute demand as a 'wall' — Anthropic, OpenAI, and Perplexity all reportedly coming back for seconds. YouTube's CNBC coverage can barely contain the enthusiasm. When your customers call your product the best available and keep ordering more, that's not a bull case, that's a religion.