This gonna happen with BBBY? There's A LOT of shorts on it right now.
the marketmakers learned a lot of tricks on how to create liquidity to temporarily satisfy short obligations. mostly through abuse of ETFs that hold the stock. i havent looked deeply into BBBY's ETFs, but they might be available for liquidity.
they also learned how to get rid of short obligations through swaps.
the gamma problem is a lot harder for them to solve. that is going to eventually overwhelm them if retail continues like this.
they might take away the buy button again. they already have some restrictions on certain strikes in revlon's options chain. BBBY may get similar restrictions or an outright "close only" condition if things get too hectic. im banking on that not happening again, though. we'll see.