Anyone else a bit weirded out by the post-August price action, like you're standing on a glass floor?

I am genuinely all for a big pump and want this to be my lottery ticket too but I am still trying to wrap my head around what could explain such a strange set of price movements. Granted that in over a decade in crypto we are no strangers at all to strange price movements but I can't shake the feeling that even with such a big volume behind the two biggest coins on the market these movements look so unnatural since August. I could just be totally missing something very simple here so please correct me if that is the case.