I hate to burst anyone's bubble, but I've noticed a theme being brought up a lot and I feel that I should correct the issue. Occupy Wall Street was at no point a grassroots movement. From the very beginning, it was intended as a counter to the Tea Party movement.
For those that weren't old enough to be paying attention to politics at the time, the Tea Party was an anomaly. In 2009, a bunch of people started protesting. That isn't unusual, people protest all the time. What was unusual was the type of people that were protesting. Most of the Tea Party was middle-aged working class people, which is a group that never protests. Protesters are always young college aged kids. BLM, Capital riots, Occupy Wallstreet; all young college kids. The reason the Tea Party was so threatening is because they were people that don't protest.
The Tea Party was a resounding success, which caused the Democrats to lose 63 seats in the house. 63 seats. I want reiterate that, 63 seats. 63. Barack Obama himself referred to the 2010 midterm election as a "shellacking". This was a huge problem for the people on the right side of history. Occupy Wallstreet was developed as the solution.
Occupy Wallstreet was intended as a counter to the Tea Party, and with the backing of numerous billionaires and the media it worked at first. You see, several years after the subprime mortgage crisis, people suddenly decided they were mad about it and weren't going to stand for it anymore. Unfortunately, everyone underestimated how dumb upper class college kids are so the movement very quickly devolved in a clusterfuck and became a total embarrassment, accomplishing nothing.
I hate to break it to you, but Occupy Wallstreet was an astroturfed joke from the very beginning.