Jim Cramer said buy. A week later, $3 trillion left US stocks.

Over $3 trillion got wiped off the US stock market today. That's the number WatcherGuru put on X, and it lands like a brick — value that big doesn't leave quietly. Wall Street just logged a session investors won't forget.

A week earlier, Jim Cramer told investors to buy. WatcherGuru lined the two moments up side by side and let the timing speak for itself. The post offered no explanation for the selloff, and honestly, it didn't need one — the contrast was the whole show.

Cramer's calls are tracked by a loud corner of the internet that treats them as a reverse signal, a running joke that long predates today. But a three-trillion-dollar gap between a buy call and a rout is exactly the fuel that keeps that bit alive.

WatcherGuru didn't point to a cause for the drop, so the size of the loss is the story for now. Investors will spend the coming days untangling what actually drove it. As for the buy call, the scoreboard is public, it's brutal, and it isn't moving.