There have always been scams in crypto, but it did start to annoy me that in the past a $3 million dollar ICO used to be a lot of money and more than enough to get a project going, and now lesser projects ask for tens of millions of dollars. For that reason I hate ICOs now. NXT was like $3,000 or some ridiculous low amount, and look at what they created at the time. One guy.
Onion is not a scam, in fact I love it because it was the complete opposite of the current ICOs. All community, with different people volunteering their service. Just like NEM.