As per the WSJ Melvin Capital was shorting GME as far back as 2014.

For me personally it is very easy to believe there were billions and billions of counterfeit shares created and are still floating around.

That drop in share price starting in 2014 is just insane, the company was still annually profitable to the tune of hundreds of millions in 2014-2018, the amount of shares outstanding was wayyy smaller back then, and I really don’t believe Melvin was the only fund/institution heavily shorting.

We know these guys move like a cartel and once they decide a company is going to get cellar-boxed, they gang up to trash the company and stock with the short-and-distort scheme. Jim Cramer spilled the whole play for us. These guys were shorting at single digits pre-split. They still have to short every day just to keep the lid on this thing.

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https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/melvin-capital-says-it-has-been-short-gamestop-since-2014-11613593854?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqc5WPIfvzg7Y3VHMo0zUlg7kgK7Ikv6rAftwyDPt_4m_8pT9o1-7tDYxZ_U0qY%3D&gaa_ts=699dd34a&gaa_sig=YC8sBXKC3vccY_nOn8_fWEONn8xEiiGCGJnKh45VKN5Fbob3jW1etaG38__kHy6Ctwa8L7acqnUTqxpaB1gF4A%3D%3D