I took a look at today's top gainers, and there are basically two types that can be pushed up: delisted coins and fan coins.
Clearly, the overall popularity of knockoff coins is declining, retail investors are not entering the market, and most pump-and-dump schemes have also gone idle.
For example,
$GPS doubled in value in the past few days, but the market has almost no heat, retail investors are not jumping in, which really says a lot.
Delisted coins are being pumped mainly for pure distribution;
while fan coins still have funds supporting the price, they haven't followed the market