Especially in the early times I've got all my shitcoins from bounty campaigns. After that I've become a trader and investor so I've started to get them from ICOs or directly from the market to speculate on them. We are in a consolidation period now so the prices don't really reflect the technology advancements that took place recently. I can't wait for a full-fledged bull market to see the market reaction.
I also received most of the shitcoins during bounty campaigns, especially during the boom of ICOs, most of them never riched the exchanges and still hang in my wallets like a shadow of old times. But some of them I even bought just before the Bitcoins rally, even good projects end up badly, who knows maybe if the market condition was different some of those projects would survive and even become something meaningful, but after the moment when most of the altcoin lost most of its price or closed, I end up with shitcoins, and now try to buy only existing stable coins and practice more trading to earn profit on volatility.