Unfairly... I think this term doesn't fit in that situation.
The situation with early adopters and super growth that bitcoin demonstrated us is just reality. No matter if somebody bought bitcoins in 2010-2011 because of belief in the technology, or somebody bought because he or she saw bitcoin as a cool speculation tool, or somybody bought just for fun and forget about it for 5 years. It just fact that they bought.
So my congratulations to that early adopters.