To understand the whale, you must understand that they vote for growth.
This will be necessary for quite some time, perhaps indefinitely. Once a strong pool of dolphins (millions) build communities based on providing quality content, the whales can go about their daily duties of promoting growth whilst minnows get paid for by those dolphins and the many others who have an average stake in our community.
There is much anxiety going around here, I get very edgy about it too. But I have so much to learn from others here, there are heaps of smart people in the crypto world.