I have been a Bitcoin user for 9 years and I have seen this sort of manipulation before.
been in the btc space for 6 years now and i haven't seen this type of manipulation before, at least not at this scale and definitely not by a single person
Not on this scale. OK.. I can agree with you on this. But in the past we have seen several celebrities trying to manipulate the cryptocurrency market, with varying success. Don't forget Craig Wright trying to manipulate the market with his BSV shitcoin (he triggered pump-and-dump cycles multiple times with that coin). After a while, I thought that Bitcoin has reached a stage where manipulation is not possible. But I was wrong and Elon just demonstrated how easy it is to still manipulate the market.