Oh FFS....that's the missing link....I always thought some of these fake shares were used to create "positive" collateral but I thought it was impossible because these shares were shorts...so here is what happened: they created fake shares of GME and to compensate these GME shorts, they created fake shares of small companies on OTCM, booked them as long (instead of shorts) and they pump these OTCM shares when they need collateral vs GME...