With all the retail investors and the massive volume this should be easy to borrow.
Unless of course everything available to borrow is already borrowed and shorted.
BTW (HB) hard to borrow means you can't borrow the stock to short because there are no shares available. A broker sells you a stock. That broker then makes that stock available for others to short. The broker itself may short the stock to sell to you in the first place.
What’s the strategy behind the DWAC, DWACW, and DWACU? Would anything about this help identify manipulated stock?
So there is a easy way to pull the rug under the manipulators. They can decide to reissue a different stock ticker for each of DWAC, OR they could decide to offer a digital NFT for each share owned. When that happens there will be a counting of the share and who owns what, and it can easily expose who is doing all the shorting.
There is precedant to both.