Can someone help me understand this?

Is alt season triggered by whales selling btc and buying alts? Or is it just totally reliant on retail buyers coming in? At this point, I don’t know if we can rely on “retail”‘to just all of a sudden wake up and realize they want to buy crypto in mass. I’ve been holding my alts for so long now, but I’m about to just give up because I think the narrative that people are gonna just all of a sudden show up is not true anymore. That may have been true in 2021, but things are different now. People generally view crypto as a joke, and people know that it can be a good way to lose 90% of their money after what happened last cycle. I think we here ARE the retail. And we’re all just waiting around for something to show up that never will.