TON is a pure hype thing. It is yet another layer 1 that the market didn't need, but the greedy founders decided to abuse their chat messengers position to push another junk chain onto retail.
Ton blockchain have driven wider adoption of cryptocurrency and alot of newbies into cryptocurrency came in through the tap to earn promotion that came with multiple ton based projects, and the exposure of telegram cryptocurrency features, so for me it's a good development if the trend and development keep at the positive side going forward.
None of those people are really cryptocurrency users. The people that just farm things and hope to earn some fiat are not real users, they are draining money out of the ecosystem instead of contributing.
That's true, I've got a lot of friends who even got with the tap airdrops earlier than me. And to be honest, they were the ones who encouraged me to do so and so I did a few of it. I've invested some hundreds on this ecosystem and thinking that some of their tokens will bring good profits to me, specially with the meme ones. But I think that I've thrown money there and instead of profiting, I've made significant losses. I should have just bought TON and held it rather than went for its tokens. It's a mistake for me and it's also because too many scams have happened on this network. Not only from the actual Telegram channels that's been a den of scammers but also to its network. It's still new and young, there's more to come to it but I am not optimistic as the others about it.
Yes the problem is that you went with the HYPE like most people. Just because there are many airdrops or games that doesn't me a blockchain is good. TON is actually terrible for builders. A good airdrop or two is actually how they trick users to jump on these junk chains.