AP Photo/Patrick Sison Paying heed to the hedge funds may end up costing the company in the long run. There is still ongoing fallout from the GameStop stock saga, as much about the backroom dealings of Wall Street have become exposed. While many market players are in ‘’pay no attention to the man behind the curtain’’-mode there is an undercurrent of distaste left with the smaller investors who saw the markets clearly taking sides. Things came into clearer focus when the term ‘’Basement Bandits’’ began to be applied to those upstart investors who were making legal stock purchases, to the chagrin of the big money firms.