Basically, asking money from the airdrop-participant makes no sense for a project. If you want money, go ask it from investors, let them fund you, if you do not get funding, then that's your problem and your project failed. Asking for money from airdrop hunters is like asking for homeless people to give you some cash.
Airdrop hunters are not there because the yare rich investors, they do that because they need the money, and they are willing to exchange their time for money, and asking for their money makes no sense in that case. These projects have no clue about their demographic, if they knew then they wouldn't be able to ask this and think they are smart. Hopefully, not a lot of this type of things gets common in the future.
You really nailed it here I can do nothing more then agree with every word you said! But sadly I think this will be more and more common always when something good presents bad people will try to take advantage of it, these T2E-scam games is all around now and you see these retarded
"Promote the TON blockchain"-phrase everywhere. (Asking for some free money) It's awful to steal peoples time like this just so they can have their game online as long as possible to earn as much as possible, they spoke about it on a TG channel I send you the picture so you can see it (Just imagine how many millions they make of these scams)
People finally waking up that devs are making projects to get rich, and do not care about the investors getting rich. This has bene a known fact for more than six years now, since ICO period, and yet people declined and denied this because there were a few that did fine.
Notcoin started all of this on telegram stuff, because they paid a lot, and because they paid a lot, when you tell people that the ones they are getting in (in this example cats) you are going to end up with a bad result, they tell you "they said that about notcoin but look at how much it made", and reject the notion that just because notcoin did well, doesn't mean their token will do fine too. Hopefully more and more people realize this mistake soon enough.