To be fair, the post-Musk era still holds from what I can see in the news. It is cheaper that is why investors are now buying it plus it is a meme coin which I am not really fan of as they do not have any utility at all and have no purpose in my wallet at all other than "possible profit" which I am not going to hold my thoughts at since it is a meme coin anyway.
I am not into hypes as well so that eliminates another reason.
That's true, post-Elon era means that shiba got hyped thanks to Elon but that's about it, that's the start, rest of it happened because there were too many people. If Elon tweets about any project I run today, I will make sure that I can ride that until I die and I will make sure that it gets attention.
The hardest thing for a project is to get that many investors all at once when they first start, if you can get that at the start then the rest will be easier and that is why I have no doubt at all. Otherwise, we do not have to do anything else, we could simply move to a point where it could be done via marketing with the money they already made during that early period. I still dislike it too by the way.