If you can't provide a factual proof of how Ripple might have affected it, then you can't ask people why bitcoin does, that is something they think they believe but they didn't open a whole topic about it and tried to convince you. Ripple neither was the reason for it but at the same time doesn't even have the power to do a bull run to all of the market even if it really wanted to achieve such a thing.
And now that Ripple is back at 23 cents, falling down even worse than Bitcoin (31 cents to 23 is basically almost 25% drop and Bitcoin has only lost about 12%),,, what can we all say about this? That of course not Ripple cannot take responsibility if it wanted to, not for pumps, not for dumps, except for its own XRP.