i find it interesting how the meaning of certain things have changed throughout the years. for example "faucet" has never meant to be a way to "earn" bitcoin! it was a way to quickly acquire some coins with no effort so that you could test this new phenomenon called bitcoin. this was a real "faucet".
then it turned into a way for people to "farm" them and earn bitcoin and for the creators to display a ton of ads and make money (in this case fiat, absurd isn't it?) from them.

there are other things that have changed their meaning. for example "airdrops" used to be like faucets where people could simply ask and receive a certain amount of the "new coin" so that they could try it out and see if it is worth the effort. nowadays it has turned into a job where people have to advertise for that coin and get paid in that coin, where the whole process is called "airdrop"!