>You can absolutely sell 5 bananas 500 times.

But that is not the point. The point is you had 5 bananas to sell and 500 people who bought 1 banana each. Now all 500 monkeys wants its dinner so please deliver. If you can't it is fraud.

The mental gymnastics in the stock market are insane. More shares have been sold than exists. That has nothing to do with the amount of times they were sold.

If it's the same banana, that's fine.

If it's supposed to be a different banana, that's the 'net buys' scenario I described and is not fine, that would indicate naked (which is illegal other than by MMs) short banana selling.