It really is not. It is not the buyers. Buyers bid sitting prompt other buyers to hit the ask. Bid support is very important. Plus the mms move this where they want it.
It is the bid support that drives a pps. Makes no difference if 50 million shaes slap the ask to 1 cent if there is only a million shares on the bid between 1 cent and half a cent. The first market sale of a million shares crushes the pps back down to half a cent.
i have been dealing in this stock for 3 years. the limited amt of mms are conducive to manipulation up to and including selling 1 share of stock in a day to make open ordering unprofitable here.the sub penny market is the new boiler room.excluding contact with a "customer" they force you to use aon then manipulate the stock with little peppered trades through the day to cool trading.