As someone who joined Bitcointalk in 2013 off the back of the 2013 bull run (and subsequent crash), I was reminiscing to this topic and thankfully a quick search allowed me to find this post.

I remember these days well, when the community was looking to get any form of exposure, to one of the largest audiences no less. Nowadays people circle jerk over keywords in a job advertisements. How far we have come along the journey.