It’s all just a little joke. Check out https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets. Also https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jg85H26wyLk
She certainly earned her sentence, and I have no sympathy for her. But isn’t it hard not to be at least a little impressed with the sheer scale of her losses? Getting in the record books for “most money lost by a single individual” is a hard thing to do in general.