Mms know that people will buy into the publicity and excitement from the promo. Mms know there is a limited amount of existing sell orders. Mms know that the frontloaders/diluters will sell when volume comes in and most likely continue to sell at any price until they are out of shares.
No, the MM's don't know what people are doing about these front loaded promoted POS stocks. How would they? They are too busy looking at the big boy stocks and let their computers run their programs to facilitate the order.
This is what gets me is that people actually think MM's pay attention to this sort of baloney.