I thought someone fairly recently pulled up a list of the shares that were shorted and it wasn't much of anything.
I understand that with almost every penny scam (at least everyone I have witnessed) blaming "shorty" is usually over-used to justify a stock falling. I understand why since admitting dilution or a dump doesn't help with unloading, but I believe this time around there isn't enough evidence to suggest that shorting was an issue.
In the extremely high unlikeliness that this one ever trades again I don't believe there will be many people buying period. I believe it will be a huge struggle to just get out even.