Short Hedge Funds have been artificially pumping GME since the time they announced they were going to buy BTC. They did this so they could dump it as soon as the news that the purchase had actually been made, and kill FOMO on this still idiosyncratic risk to the markets. All shorts are future buyers, and the FTD’s on GME and the XRT ETF (which is also used to short GME) are also piling up like crazy. In any other business, they call that “stealing”. Even they control the price, retail controls the exits. We’re not locked in here with them, they’re locked in here with us.