It's useless even trying to figure it out...with half ass reports from our IR guy who doesn't even know if the mill is running from one minute to the next.
Then you have all the first time 'investors' who have no freakin idea how penny stocks work...hell even seasoned traders have a hard time figuring out what's going on sometimes and these people are going to blame the shorts. A term they've never heard of until some pumper puts the idea in their head that it's not the company it MUST be the shorts.