Eventually they'll have shaken almost everyone loose, I suppose.
And that is why you hold them coins fucking tight. Don't let them screw you over with their games.
a better option would be to buy in the dip before the whales start doing so to prevent them from having the cheap coins all to themselves.
and that is the only effective way to get rid of the whales, to shrink their wealth little by little each time they try to dump and manipulate the market. let the whales be the ones who are going against the market and there will be no more of them.
you can see back when price was around $1200-$1300 there were whales dumping bitcoin constantly on bitstamp
against the market. suffice it to say that they got fucked in the ass eventually.