You could say that Clashic was that. But now with Bitcoin Core (BTCC) it's more of a mixed thing, some people are for the luls and some including some devs want to try scaling and privacy on-chain without all the frauds and lunatics of BCH and those are the same feelings of a lot of members on TG and Discord.
(Plus who could say no to Ver's free promotion on CNBC etc.  )