Hahaha... meme coins can indeed frustrate you and they are misleading but the results have been mixed. Some wasted their time with the airdrops but gained from the presales and listings, while some wasted their time on the airdrops and still gained ridiculously low on presales and listings, but some gained handsomely for their airdrop participation, presales and listings.

You can see it all depends on the project and your luck. I tell you, no one knows how most of those meme coins would perform until they did it, even the ones people thought were the worst ones performed well and those ones people thought were the best pefromed woefully. This is beyond DYOR but risk-taking and being lucky. A large community doesn't even mean large success anymore.