Forks were seen as trend once upon a time, not anymore, same as NFT's which were seen as trend, and not anymore, same as Play2Earn games, trend, not anymore. I can repeat this a million times. Sometimes things are trending and they get all the attention, and then they end up with losses and not anymore afterwards. This is the only time to focus on it and because of that, we are not going to get any good returns.
You have to realize, crypto is a very trend oriented place aside from the very top, sure bitcoin and ethereum and what not will stay at the top, but outside of top 20 changes all the time, and that is based on trends and whatever is the trend at the time, happens to be the case. This is why the best way to move forward would be ignoring trends after they are done.
That's very true the crypto space moves on trends faster than most industries first it was forks then ICOs, then NFTs, then play2earn and each one had a huge hype cycle before fading out leaving behind mostly losses for late comers the pattern repeats again and again.
Outside of bitcoin ethereum and maybe a handful of strong projects everything else is heavily trend driven people jump in when hype is high and abandon it when attention shifts the top 20 today won’t look the same in 5 years because new trends will come and go.
That’s why chasing hype rarely works by the time the average person hears about a trend it’s usually already too late the smarter play is focusing on solid long term assets and ignoring the noise once the hype cools off in the end only projects with real utility and staying power survive while trends fade away.