The simplest form of explanation for me is, "It is manipulated because the rich wants to become even more richer."
All markets has been down these days, imagine when it recovers.
The social media and press created enough hype over the pandemic to make the people panic and destroy the market.
I don't know but people misunderstood the community quarantine and caused them to sold whatever asset they have to buy necessities to survive. These is where whales took advantage of.
The fact that the whales should have received their profit in any case is not in doubt, but I think that the whales here came in a very good time for such cases, because the stock assets fell from the coronavirus, and eventually it turned into a collapse cryptocurrencies.
Stock market will fall inevitably, because of the panic buying going on. People selling their assets to buy things they need to survive. While crypto on the other hand followed the downfall, and It is continuing to fall atm.
This is what I am talking about. Once the market recovers, I cannot imagine how huge will the whales are going to harvest. From the stock market, to cryptocurrency.
This is indeed the very good time to enter the market, but one thing that might give you second thoughts, is the sense of survival. Which will you choose? Investment over necessities?, or the other way round?