I guess what I mean is that they are slowly increasing their short positions like when (allegedly) short positions increased on the day when trading disallowed

I guess what I mean is that they are slowly increasing their short positions like when (allegedly) short positions increased on the day when trading disallowed on several broker accounts. More recently are weird stuff going on on r/wallstreetbets where award spamming on relatively unknown stocks with suspicious upvote activities were being called out which suggests that the hedge funds have realized the huge potential of influencing what makes it on the first page. I really think its irresponsible people continuing to paint this as us vs them, when in reality the people that will be victimized are the ones that will have bought into the narrative to realize nobody wants to buy GME or AMC at the ridiculous prices. We are seeing a weird FOMO based on politics not dissimilar to the "evil fiat feds vs crypto" narrative.