What $1 became: the Reddit '12,082,482%' backtest, then our rerun to today

Jun 1996 to Jan 2015 is the Reddit post's own Finviz curve, read off its picture; after that, our 2015-2026 rerun of the same rules, chained on. Log scale: each gridline is 10x. The straight stretch before ~2003 is filled in (too small to read on their chart).

source: 1996-2014: r/RobinHood post 84oh86's Finviz chart, digitized from the image (approx.: 1 pixel = $241; before the curve clears ~$2,000 (~2003) it is filled with steady growth; end pinned to the post's 120,825.83); 2015-2026: our rerun on Yahoo daily bars, today's Russell 3000 members (survivors only); SPY: Yahoo adjusted close (Finviz showed SPY 4.27 at Dec 31 2014; ours 4.27) • transform: log scale; $1 start Jun 3 1996 • drawn 2026-10-13 18:30 UTC