"Oh, please Mr common-folk, please don't squeeze Silver like you've publicly given over a week of warning about doing, so that I had time to simply hold off on shorting it, and can now safely watch my own enormous amounts of stock in it drastically over-inflate, making me back way, way more than GME ever hurt me. Don't do that to me..."

I'd be the first to say that I don't know enough to claim that this is definitely the case, but I can't help be skeptical about it, nonetheless. It feels too much like giving one's enemy your attack plans, and expecting him to remain unarmed.