The discrepancy in shares outstanding is immediately rejected by a company who only issued out an xxx,xxx,xxx number of shares outstanding. The discrepancy is proof for law suit against the institutions either shorting AMC or the regulators who are supposed to prevent this from happening. Either way those naked short shares need to bought back to close the discrepancy gap. Therefore buying pressure will push price back up until all synthetic shares are at the very least returned (purchased). This is why there has been constant negative selling pressure on AMC, due to illegal naked shorting.