Is everyone suddenly getting rich or am I only seeing the screenshots that survived?

Every time I open this app lately, someone is posting a completely insane gain.

One person turned a normal account into seven figures. Someone else caught the perfect options play. People are casually talking about being up hundreds of thousands in a month like they just found a coupon code for free money.

And then come the comments like “feel bad for anyone who missed this” or “easiest money of our lifetime.”

Meanwhile I’m sitting here trying to figure out how everyone apparently knew which stock was going to go vertical before it went vertical.

How do people actually find the winners early?

For every MU-style monster move, there are a hundred stocks that looked “interesting” and then did absolutely nothing. Some go up 10%, some chop sideways for months, some just slowly bleed while everyone tells you the thesis is still intact.

So what is the actual process?

Are people screening for earnings acceleration? Options flow? Unusual volume? Sector momentum? Insider buying? Reddit hype? Or is it mostly just taking a bunch of small risky shots and letting the one huge winner pay for all the garbage?

I know survivorship bias is real. People post the life-changing gains, not the expired calls and dead accounts.

But still, it feels like every week there’s another “obvious” winner that was only obvious after it already went 500%.

So genuinely asking: how do you pick the stock that goes crazy instead of the one that just sits there and wastes six months of your life?