Agreed. When the 10k share increments pop on the trades list it is undoubtedly the kind of shorter of which you speak. If people think playing the OTC is all above the board and following the "rules" they are hopelessly naive.
It's just like how people think that VERT or BMIC or VNDM or CANT are not retail traders, it's absolutely possible especially if that trader owns a shell which gives him access to certain MM's as well as Edgar privileges.
That links to meaningless intra-day MM order processing "volume". The short "interest" tab is the miniscule "shorts"
That "Click-bait" site's intentionally misrepresenting other numbers as mythical naked shorts, which are practically nonexistent these days after rule changes a few years ago.