what is the limit then? Why don't we do a fork every day? Fuck it, lets continuously compound the shit outta this, and all go buy Maserati's
I meant that as a reductio ad absurdum but if the upcoming 2x split has a similar positive(ish) outcome, we may see the flood gates open as everyone with a half-baked idea on how to improve the network comes out with their own hard-fork.
a new fork is happening almost every day these days.
it is all the new altcoins that are being created. they no longer are even bound to 21 million. they create any number they wish to create from 42 coins up to multi billion coins have been created so far. and many people have gotten rich from them and bought their Maserati's! and at the same time many got poor and went broke.
none of these means it is a good idea to fork and certainly nobody is preventing you to fork bitcoin or anything else and create a new thing out of thin air.
and as for these airdrops, there are a lot of them. some cost about 0.3
BTC a couple of months ago and some never went above 10000 satoshi ever. whether they are called bitcoin something or a new name that doesn't matter, they are still an altcoin. some of them have more money and they advertise more and some are poor and nobody finds out about them.