Source & timeline
The quote comes from this document:
- Document
- Administrative Complaint, In the Matter of Robinhood Financial, LLC
- Filed by
- Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, Securities Division
- Docket
- E-2020-0047
- Filed
- December 16, 2020
- Location
- Page 13, paragraphs 43–45
- Type
- Administrative complaint (allegations — see note below)
The mirror is an unaltered copy of the public government filing, hosted in case the official link changes.
The exact wording
According to allegations in the 2020 administrative complaint filed by the Massachusetts Securities Division (Docket E-2020-0047, p. 13, ¶¶ 43–45), the early Cash Management waitlist let customers improve their position by “tapping” a fake debit card shown in the app up to 1,000 times per day. Customers who did not tap daily “would watch their position on the waitlist fall.” The complaint states the app showed those who tapped 1,000 times a message that they were:
“out of taps today! Come back tomorrow if you're feeling tappy.”
Important context (please read)
- • This was an administrative complaint: the quoted statements were allegations in that filing, not adjudicated findings.
- • The matter concerned a historical waitlist experience from 2020. This page discusses that history.
- • Feeling Tappy is an independent project. It does not claim Robinhood currently uses this mechanic.
- • We quote the filing directly and avoid characterizing it beyond what the document says.
Why we built the tap toy
The interactive homage on this site re-creates the shape of that waitlist — a card you tap, a daily cap, a message when you hit it — as a small, transparent piece of internet history. It collects no personal data, requires no wallet or payment, and does not affect any token.
Feeling Tappy ($TAPPY) is a community-created, independent cultural token inspired by a documented moment in the history of retail-finance apps. It is not affiliated with, sponsored by, endorsed by, or operated by Robinhood.