If before they didn't know anything about economics, and now they have a basic understanding of how a country's economy works, I wouldn't call that standing. Same with all other topics, going from "zero knowledge" to "basic knowledge" is already more than what 99% of the people on the planet will know about any given topic.
I see your point. My personal opinion is that sure the bot can't be trusted, but that when GME will give the updated numbers of registered shares, there will at least be 2 official data points on this subject... Depending on how high it is (only a minority of outside-of-the-US holders had been able to DRS as of October 30th, not the case anymore), we'll either get an estimation on when a full lock-up of the float would happen, or a new cycle of trying to find the next catalyst ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I agree, I'm not knowledgable to argue about the finance aspect of things, but simply seeing how the media talks about Gamestop decided me to hold on to the few shares I still have
From what I got, the majority of the actual short would be hidden in some method of put-call options shenanigans (not sure what it is now, but there was at some point the equivalent of 2 times the float in $<2 puts a year out)
While this is totally true, let's not forget Gamestop themselves announced that a bit more than 5.2M shares were registered with Computer share at the time of their last earnings report, with the bot estimating something like 7 or 8M based on average shares per post * estimated holder, so not that far off