No, there is never least effect of whale manipulation on bitcoin among all crypto coins. The " whale " is  a new and strange thing in business world. Suddenly, the crypto market went to a very high level. Or come down too fast. No other market or business has this much up and down. And whale is perhaps the beauty and the infrastructure of this business. Because all altcoins are descendants of Bitcoin. Therefore, the vale affects all altcoins. As bitcoin rise all altcoin rise up but as bitcoin come down allialtcoin goes down