Lol I thought they closed last year, right? XD

https://youtu.be/_TPYuIRVfew?t=95

Put buying outpaced Call option volume. GME along with its ETFs were on the threshold list after massive FTD’s we’re reported. So no shit, they couldn’t borrow shares to short and instead had to use Puts. They still do it. That’s how they tried to push the price down and how they were attempting to supress the price as Retail pilled in. It’s all Shorts had left after landing on the Threshold List and they lost their Ass doing it. See Melvin Capital.

“Market-makers were buying, rather than writing, call options”- also duh. You buy Call options before a run-up, not during. People bought them early and were selling them for cash. Meaning they weren’t exercising the options, they were selling the value for cash. Did you see the price of options during the sneeze? Of course MM’s weren’t writing them, instead they were happy to buy them back given had they been exercised, market-makers would have been required to buy shares instead. Which would have caused more buying volume. Thomas Peterffy says it here and is accurate to the SEC’s report findings.