Ha! Didn't know this and in fact I was asking this myself for quite some time. Thanks.

The moment you buy stock on an exchange, your exchange is looking for sell orders of other entities. You're just buying from random people like on a simple market.

If there's nobody to sell on that certain price, price will move up and you'll have to buy more expensive. This will raise the price.

>for example how "literally" has been changing to mean "figuratively" somewhat recently.

That always irritates me as a non-english person. Always thought it's just dumb people who don't know how to talk properly

*mayornapped