You say new users so glibly. Which new users exactly? All of the new users in Crypto see clams as an unfair distribution these days. a distribution that only benefits the old timers that have been part of the crypto community. It seems that Clam digging is a promise to the elite that held crypto at some past point in time.
People who held small to moderate amounts of BTC, LTC and DOGE in 2014 are not really "the elite". That's millions of people including many who became aware of cryptos (esp. DOGE) via mainstream social media. Pre-2013, sure, that's an actual elite. But 2014, no.