"Shorts will have paid the divvy obviously"
LOL!
So they paid the Transfer Agent the outstanding dividend money anonymously and provided a list of people holding these so-called "air shares" they had shorted to the same TA, who then distributed it without notifying SEC, FINRA, DTCC or the company itself?
I've rarely seen a more clearly illogical and unreasonable argument in my life, and I've seen some outrageous defenses of penny stock scams like SRGE.
That one takes the cake (biscuit), though.