If you make your decisions based in rumors and FUD, you shouldn't be risking your money in any investment.
Remember when it was rumored the creator of ETH had died? What did ethers price do, if I may ask? People drive the market, and rumors move the masses. Don't be naive and tell me the rumors and FUD don't have a massive impact on trading volumes, especially now when there might be a possible hardfork of bitcoin coming
As far as I can remember, when news that Vitalik has died, the price of ETH nose dive. Also, Even Vitalik admits that there are fake Vitalik that are scamming around and this negative news make the price of ETH fall again. That's why its funny what people creating this fake news about ETH and only reason I'm been thinking is that because the expected 'flippening' didn't happened and they want to hype ETH again. But sadly, it wasn't able to drove the market but keep falling after reaching ATH a few months ago.