Can't seem to find anything that makes it stands out or unique, compared to the other coins I have.
No, it's not a pump and dump. It is a genuine project, created as a response to the aftermath of the DAO event. There are plenty of places to read about it, Wikipedia is good enough:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethereum_ClassicThere are links to Cardano as well, through Charles Hoskinson and IOHK:
https://iohk.io/about/Maybe you should be telling me how it came into reality and then tell me what makes it different from Ethereum. Maybe that is the story you should be reading.
It sure have some community backing but I do not see what ETC can do that ETH is not already doing, so why would any project want to leave a tested product to a non-tested product that was a product of a hard fork, even though it is the legacy, but all the same, it is still an opposition party and except the devs are doing something different, there is nothing fundamentally driving the price.