White-Haired Stock God’s Single Tweet Sweeps Away $7.9B

At 10:31 a.m. on June 5, a user with a white-haired anime avatar on X posted that the underperformance of Leader Drive’s stock was exactly what she was looking for in the humanoid-robot space. Within half an hour, the share price surged from ¥327 to the daily limit-up level, closing at ¥393 with ¥7.929 billion in turnover and a market cap of ¥72 billion. Her track record is formidable—500 percent return in the previous five months—but this push was purely cross-border hype with no public filing or analyst report to back it.

The spike burned out even faster than it arrived. The stock hit ¥449 intraday on June 8 and still had believers calling her a guru of the AI supply chain. By September 18, it had fallen to ¥294, a 34.5 percent drop from the peak. East Power’s experience was worse: it also gapped up on a crowdsourced watch list but lost nearly 30 percent by September, and its securities department went on record saying it didn’t know who she was. Off-topic: a post mistranslated as “Innolight Laser” recommending Zhongji Innolight ironically sent the correctly named laser company up 91 percent.

A quick observation: the incident highlights A-share retail investors’ irrational chase after celebrity influence and information speed. In the era of short-form video and algorithmic feeds, attention is currency. Leader Drive’s harmonic reducers command more than 60 percent of the domestic market, yet the stock’s valuation quickly reverted once the hype faded. Without institutional research or fundamental support, social-media-driven spikes like this are essentially musical-chairs capital games rather than value investment.

Original: From the 20-percent daily limit to a 34-percent drop, the collapse of a white-haired stock deity