whole thing now is just smelly

you are right, this dump seems smelly like heavy manipulation. Who's buying all the cheap coins? All this coincidence... This tremedous effort to FUD? Only because the Fudders are human loving people with to much time, who want to warn others to make the world a better place? Think twice!
Im not saying it cant be a scam. But why destroy everything, before it even started? Crypto is really f***ked up!
For goodness sake...it's not about "destroying"!!!
If it's all a lie then it's all a lie and a whole lot of people have been burned.
But the absolute best course of action is to find out if it's a lie before it gets way too out of hand.
My post was me doing due diligence. If more people took time to do this instead of just blindly going along with BS that's so often put up in crypto we wouldn't have so many of these situations.
Having said that I know how it feels to be scammed; I've been on the wrong end of it and it's terrible. I also know the signs and I know the manner in which scammers deal with and handle their victims. We don't know for sure if this is one but it has all the hallmarks of it.
Better that it's exposed now before it captured many more victims.
Again, I'm very sorry for anyone that's been caught by this (if it turns out to be what it's looking like).
You thought about the possibility, that with all FUD that comes, a lot of honest dev's gave up on their projects, because it was litterally destroyed by FUD and they couldnt handle that....
There are always two sides to the medal!