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OK, major spoilers ahead if you've not seen the popular HBO show Game of Thrones:
Here's the scene, The character was a protective gentle giant who became nonverbal after an epileptic attack and could only say "Hodor" over and over, which became his name in the show and he was considered to be simple minded and was cruelly mocked for it.
Turns out he said that because it was his life's greatest purpose, literally, to "hold the door" against and overwhelming invading force of zombies controlled by the Night King so the rest of the party could escape. The goal of the Night King was to enslave the world and render it into a ice planet, devoid of any kindness or warmth. Basically to turn it into Hell.
Strong parallels made to The Lord of the Rings series, of course, and Sauron's goal of doing similar things.
Hodor did not survive the encounter but the "good guys" got away like they were supposed to and it was an emotional scene to those who watched the show and liked the character.
In the meme stock craze on Reddit, enough retail investors banded together to destroy some very wealthy funds and billionaires who'd shorted Gamestop, expecting it to go bankrupt. Many of these guys funded their Gamestop purchases with the bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies they mined themselves in the early days, when it was very easy and fast to do.
Many others considered it a joke and thought it was a waste of computing time (CPU cycles) and electricity, an would make fun of the "buttcoin' miners and mercilessly mock them. An imaginary coin for the imaginary world of video games where may of those guys spent their time using in-game digital currencies and were very familiar of their real world value since those game currencies could be bought and sold for real money, even though it was against game policies to do so. You could be suspended or banned from the game permanently for buying or selling game currencies for real money.
