Alright so from what I've gathered a bunch of hedge fund dudes purposefully pushed down the price of Gamestop, taking it from 25 a share to 3 something over a span of a few years. Eventually someone noticed that the company wasn't in real danger of folding, but under an insane level of shorting to the tune of 140%, and saw it as a good play to mark up to it's original price or hell even higher. They managed to beat the short selling, and put the billionaires who did it in a position where they are getting owned by capitalism and their own manipulation, which came first. Now that this has happened, and a few are down to the tunes of billions, companies and wall street types want to change the rules to go back to rigging it in their favor.
Long story short, "free market" capitalism is a joke