It became popular anywhere since lots of people hoping to get a lot of money from that coin. Especially that there are teasers regarding on the price also for what they say pi mall which many people look forward since they think they are close to get wealthy if this coin will be listed on exchange. But guess all the hopes of those people who believes falls down as the Pi project or team behind it didn't deliver what they promise to people who follows them.
Tapswaps is not really different since again they create another questionable things which people also expect to much from this project. Maybe people should stop about thinking about money since this one lead to pure disappointments especially if they cannot get something from the project where their expectation to gain is so high.
At the beginning, tapswap was a platform that promised profits by doing simple tasks, it seemed similar to NOTcoin, currently it is difficult to determine whether tapswap is a scam or not because its users have reached tens of millions, so they have attracted a lot of attention, as in other crypto projects, credibility is one of the good keys, with a clear and informative project but the importance of doing your own research, it seems like the best way. because the official value of tapswap will only be determined by their system's tokenomics team.