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There have been a lot of noise all over the cryptocurrency space recently, and all is about telegram tap to earn airdrops, which is a new trend in the crypto bounty's space, and I have to come out to clear what I believe is the truth and as experience cryptocurrency lover I know exactly what I am saying.

Many airdrop hunters are disappointed at most of the recently launched coins that they participated in the airdrop program and a lot of them have shown their anxiety and frustration, all they say I that this coins scam them and that coin is a failure simply because the team refused to give them tons of coins to cash out free money, or because the price they expected the coin to get listed or pumped to have failed to come by this time.

Judging from this, we can say that the problem is not with the coin's, but the problem is with the airdrop participants, since greed have taken over them to the point that a team will give them $1000 or more rewards for doing nothing only by just tapping on their screen, or because the expected the team to pump the price of the coin on exchange just to favor their own desire, all this will not end well for the team and will not be achievable for them, so before you blame them first of all accept your mistake of building a mansion out of a mullhill and move on.

I'm just going to say this because I said it once before but that was after the Notcoin drop. The Notcoin airdropped showed a lotvof these web2 folks that anything is possible in crypto. I know a lot of normies that hit it big with that one and told their friends and family of this free money frenzy. They jumped right and set their expectations too damn high. I tend to approach projects like this with a pessimistic mindset because every other project that follows a first mover is mostly a flop. Only a few will go to the far end of doing well but I doubt anyone will do it better than the first mover.

Now there is more
1. Dilution (same allocation but more participants)
2. Project teams no longer give full allocations to community).

So less tokens and 10-20x the participants.

Just like in the case of Bitcoin success paving way for shitcoins altcoins, it sucks how fork's put so much expectations on this projects that comes after the first success recorded by the first one, notcoin took many of them by surprised and from there fork's think it will all be business as usual but team have to do what their gat to do, and this is the result of that right here.

I am not surprised at the approach adopted by Hamster teams since because of the awareness the hard over populated participants and alot of abuser's, so to safe the project from total collapse, the have to adopt this method of token distribution and pricing.

I still do not see any reason why people will put their life expectance on something that has never come life especially that of airdrops, though I had a very few experience on airdrop but what guided me most here is the numbers of post and comments I do read here and this has shaping my understanding and how to follow up these airdrops because if I don't I would end up being hurt as well and again, this is just like a freewill donation and for that it must required a minor task. That is to keep tapping on their screen or even following their media pages and do some share/like and comments to gain this free money.

I believe people should least expect from the expected and anytime they keeps expecting from people and they didn't work as planned then it turns back to be bad where they would start blaming the project owner for not putting up what they expected. True we know that it's actually hard for such project to pay out huge time to billions of people who downloaded that app and I must say, they do try to have even raised billions to distribute across the billions users of the airdrop app.

True. People disappoint themselves expecting that they will get rich real quick by tapping few pixels. Yes, some people did get lucky, but it was because they joined something similar before it became a hype/trend. There were only few people hunting those airdrops/bounty/tap to earn games. But now everyone does that. I mean lets say a $1000 worth of tokens were being dropped and only like 5 people knew about it and were looking forward for that airdrop. That is like $200 per person. But now like 100k people are looking for a similar airdrop. That is now like 0.01$ per person. But those people don't realize this,  and when they receive those free coins, they get disappointed. Imagine doing tasks for months, and then you receive peanuts for it. But I wont completely blame the people. Those developers are also to be blamed. They know what's going on in peoples mind and they advertise their project in such a way that makes the participants feel like they will receive something very good. They make their airdrop sound like they will make their participants rich overnight. So yeah the airdrop disappoints people and so does people disappoint themselves too.

expectation is too high especially from newbies, they see some news where people earn tons of money from NOT, now they immediately think they will earn same amount in the same niche project.
no wonder the participation of project like telegram project in general are so high because it's pure FOMO that drive the entire people to join the bandwagon.

but this kind of complaint happens anywhere not only limited to free airdrop but even airdrop that require capital spending. the whales want most of the allocation to be allocated to the people who contributes most using the capital while the majority of community want pro-rata distribution.

airdrop distribution will always have people who try to shit on the project and those who support the project because it benefits them. so such disappointment is to be expected and I think project maker understand this from day one.

If a team does not give out what is expected, then I could understand why many would feel defeated and betrayed. After all, they did dedicate their efforts and time into the project they believed in. Since the team promised to give out rewards, they should comply to it no matter what however after the airdrops are given it is not in the team’s jurisdiction anymore what will happen to the token.
We really should not expect too much from airdrops. Trying to build a living out of airdrop hunting is not sustainable but I know people who do which is why obviously they feel frustrated when things do not go their way. As long as the team did everything they promised, the price of the listing is not their fault anymore and there’s nothing they can do about it.

It’s one thing to participate in airdrops and be hopeful and it’s another to depend on airdrops completely and believing every project will be the next big thing.

You present several excellent points. As for the competitive trend inside the crypto space, most participants enter based on unrealistic expectations of quick profit. Sooner or later, they get frustrated with disappointed expectations. Focusing on quick returns leads to reason. Frustration when projects don't come out as expected. Wind turbines can be a fantastic way to get involved in the community. However, participants should approach them with an open mind. Not every project will deliver substantial benefits, ultimately, understanding the risks and how to work with those is important for all participants in this space.



That is correct, high expectations. When stories about other important benefits are spread among beginners, it is so easy to get caught up in the buzz as FOMO would definitely drive engagement that is causing a lot of people to jump into a project without knowing the risks in store.

It's difficult to alter the distribution of the air droplets. Whales are always willing to get the largest share. Meanwhile, regular participants hope for a fairer and more proportionate deal. These tensions go alive in many projects. And, understandably, complaints have emerged on both sides. It's challenging for designers of a project to anticipate these reactions from the very onset. This once again highlights the need for better communication together with realistic expectations at the start.

I agreed with you on 99% and disagreed with you on 1%  and why the 1%? Because you said the participants were aiming to receive "FREE Money". Op I didn't not see them as free money and if care is not taking those participants performed tasks more than campaign participants here in the forum. They tapped, following them on all the social media, listening to audio notes and video notes from the airdrop company. And also playing different games. So it is not free.

But the 99% is that the participants were having the mindset that the airdrop would pay them big amount of money because probably they have done well and follow all the rules and have enough airdrop token which counted to millions and billions. And they also forgotten that the participants were also millions to billions so there is no way the company would pay big amount to all the billions and if they do, they would end of spending trillions of dollars. And that is where they disappointed themselves.

I forgot the name of the platform because there are 4 of the same concept, but they claimed that their platform is attracting newbies in the cryptocurrency, and with their videos that participants are obliged to watch, they educate these newbies about what cryptocurrency is.

Unfortunately, these newbies will find it hard to accept that all their months of hard work, effort and time spent will be worthless, They should have made a disclaimer about the volatility of the market and their platform, not a get rich platform.
Partly to blame on this are influencers who, out of greed from the points that they are going to earn from their referral efforts, deceived their referrals and fed with the thought that they can make a lot of money from tapping their cellphone.

From a developer perspective, maybe some participants do disappoint not only ultimately themselves but also the developers.

In the Galactic Milieu (https://MakeMoney.Knotwork.com/) we try to keep in mind that money is IOUs, which of course is something the original Ripple project whose name and idea was bought-out by what became Ripple Labs or whatever (the seemingly "Big Brother" oriented commercial project) made very clear and evident.

Whether Ripple and its sibling Stellar still really hammer that point home or not is maybe just a matter of opinion / eyes-of-the-beholder.

Accordingly we try to keep it clear that ultimately it is up to the citizens of a "civilisation" (or etc label for a group of users / participants) to "back" its currency.

Think along the lines of a market stall or a shop offering "just a collection of antiques and curios", "antique coins", "collectibles", heck there are even some selling particular instances of Canadian 2-dollar "bills" (IOUs) for more than $2.00CAD. There goes fungability, ohhh noes!

Isn't it reasonable to offer customers a "return policy", "money back if not satisfied, minus a small restocking fee" or whatever?

If "spot markets" are your go-to for measuring "value", the value pretty much boils down to the height in price of the "buy side".

So if you as a participant want the coin token IOU currency art-piece musical-score or whatever else you are "dealing in" to have value it behooves you to build its "buy side" and thus not to "dump" by selling to existing buy offers consuming "liquidity" by converting "liquidity" into momentary "volume".

But I've covered all this so many times over more than a decade so I might as well point over to https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=624935.msg52814540#msg52814540

-MarkM-

You do actually said the right thing and this is really whats happening now but we do know that bounty hunters or airdroppers are really he ones who are at fault on which we do know that majority of them
do really expect that they could get some free money into it and some significant amounts, on the time or moment that they do recieve peanuts then the project would be called a scam and as for those
owners then there's nothing they can do about it because as a project owner then you cant just gave out a huge amount on the airdrop on which you would be focusing into the project development.
When the community do end up on having that kind of bad impression then it do really affect out the project negatively on which it turned out to be a shit situation for those project owners.

We do know that once the entire community does have that kind of bad impressions or really having that kind of negative views towards a project then it will really be leading up
into such demise and its really just that sad for those projects but actually there are really that still those shit devs and projects that people do end up on having those kind of
conclusions on which making up some negative insights or inputs does tell out on how shit a project would be.

This is a form of disappointment because they have gone through a long task of working on the airdrop, tapping on the screen which in the end is disappointing and does not match expectations, not because of the greed of the participants, it is natural for them to complain because after they have worked in the sense of doing the task, what they get is not comparable to what they have done or sacrificed

So, are you of the opinion that $2 reward for taping on a P2E game for 4 months is a great reward to newbies who devoted their time and burn some data is expection for just a fair reward at least? Participants are not wrong to expect just a fair reward for the stress of taping a game for more than 8 weeks.

For perspective, how many dollars does a new business owner / founder "earn per hour" typically the first year or few?

These are presumably entry-level persons we are speaking of, yes?

Starting up their little at home "crypto business" or "play to earn business"?

In online marketing it is often advertised (as incentive, usually, to choose a particular "funnel" or e-book or well basically "project" in our local to here terminology), that 95% of persons attempting to break into the field lose money.

Other ads say become one of the 3% that succeed, so maybe we can figure 95 to 97 percent lose money, maybe?

As I posted examples of lately already so will not burden you in this post with the links to my own examples of such "projects", clicking for "credits", "points", etc, basically "exposure of your own ads or pages to others", is a backbone of the whole field.

Try the experiment of spending a year or two trying to "make money from home" by clicking.

Heck pour a thousand or two or more bucks of crypto profits into trying it (like I did, and I still find it horribly time and effort consuming compared to how lucrative crypto has been for me).

Then come back and tell us how much per hour clicking to earn ought to averagely earn per hour for the first year or two or more.

See you next year, or the next, or the next?

-MarkM-

Now airdrops seem even easier to do than airdrops in the past which have various types of tasks that need to be done carefully every time the work is done or at any time during the airdrop period.

Now, the airdrop trend focuses on the TON network by using the Telegram Mini App as a place that can be accessed by everyone.
Only beginner materials can do it very easily.

In the past, I was not only an airdrop, but the work for Bounty was also done quite difficult and needed consistency to be able to get rewards.
Now, with only a mobile phone and the telegram application, everything can be done very easily.

The results given also depend on how well you do marketing using the referral link given and some of the tasks that are done.

Many users are disappointed with the results, even though it is quite a maximum result, such as in the last Airdrop, namely Hamster Combat with a lot of disappointment of airdrop hunters because it only provides a very small profit and is not worth the work done for months.

Telegram airdrop of this day's is at easier to do and in most cases have it own way of addicting newbies into putting all their time in it and this have become an issue of concern in most cases, and one thing that deceive most of this people is because of the marking of their rewards are mark in dollars so let say Hamster tokens balance on the apps have the dollar sign on it and that becomes a point of deception for many people thinking that the token accumulated represent Dollars instead taking notes of what the token price will be on the excahges.

This mistake of value have resulted into so much disappointment for many of them seeing the real token value in the market right now, this makes them feels that the project have under paid them not knowing that it they that mislead themselves at first.

Also the idea of even having to put so much hope on an airdrop is somewhat a wrong idea and for some reason even Experience cryptocurrency enthusiasm also fall for this which is not surpose to be so in the first place.

the only realistic way to make fair distribution I think is by giving part of allocation for linear distribution and the other for equal distribution for the smaller shrimp, even then the bigger whale will complain because they deserved more and this act benefits the people who contributed less and the people who contributed enough to put them at the position of middle ranked contributor will also complain of having same reward as people who contributed less.

in short, there's just no way to please everyone so doing so is just wasting energy and time, moreover there will always be people who think they deserve more from small contribution. it's just how it is with anything related to distribution of wealth.

After listing we read quite a lot about negative comments about hamsters, but that's the real result of the efforts we've made. the jury is still them. if they are consistent from the start and don't change the listing plan I think that's a sign that they are committed to what they wrote.

In the near future we will also see how users react in Cats, which is already visible if one of the items set does not meet the requirements, for example the referral is not up to 5 people, it is likely that you can't withdraw to bitget cause not eligible and the pre-market is still ongoing I just checked.

That is the current airdrop project system which is very complicated and makes it difficult for participants. After it is finished, in the end, they only get disappointment. There are too many requirements that must be met. I also found an airdrop project that requires you to provide a number of TON coins to be able to make a withdrawal, maybe as a withdrawal fee. In my opinion, that is ridiculous.

Absolutely, it is the mistake of the participants getting swept up by the hype generated on social media channels, especially videos, and didn't make any through research of the telegram channels projects before investing time in such meme coin ventures. These projects were designed were meant for profiteering by the creators, and what participants received, is a very little share of the reward.

Being a point of fraud?
I think it's pretty common for all Airdrop projects to do these days, signifying the dollar symbol on the number of points they use.
Those who are newbies and new to crypto are just exaggerating about using the dollar sign, when it is important.

They just had too high expectations, wanting to get rich overnight with their first project.
I know Hamster Combat was very hype and even out of the zone of actual crypto users. Many lay users log in and try their luck with a very easy airdrop with a tap of the screen, like the success of Notcoin.

Those who are disappointed are only those who are very public and overthink the big profits, and when looking at the reality of the Hamster tokens listed on the Exchange they are not satisfied.

Don't put too much hope in the airdrop, it will only disappoint you.
I even just do what I can and don't have too high expectations, the important thing is that I do my job, if it doesn't yield results there are still more airdrops.
I have even worked on dozens of airdrops and only a few have yielded considerable results.

Speaking of the profit that new business or projects earn in their first year of business, if you are referring to crypto alone, almost all crypto projects makes a lot of money in their first year and the money is from ICO or presale. Most projects are just after their own profit and not concern about investors profit. So, if you ask after the profit ratio of crypto projects in their first year, it's high. Some of these projects owners allocate a lot of coins to themselves and their team, after listing on exchange, they still dump the price on their own and leave the investors hopeless.

Aha! So the people jumping onto the scammy airdrops are motivated by the idea that they themselves are thereby become a part of the scammy crypto projects landscape thus can expect to profit like other scammy crypto project folk have in the past, eh? ;) :)

Awesome. So we can likely expect they will go onward realising they need to launch the scammy projects themselves in order to be the profiteers, so an influx of new "project developers" should be on its way... :)

-MarkM-

You are on point here brother. It's true that many airdrop participants were saying their disappointment because they didn't expect how low their efforts are worth for all of these months that they've been active to these particular projects that they have been tapping on. Maybe it's greed but I think it's all about frustration that when their expectations weren't met. That's the lesson here, do not expect a lot from airdrops.

It's actually a good pastime when you have a lot of time to spare from doing all of those taps. But you don't have to be reliant on it at most times. Just do it casually and enjoy all of it so that when the TGE comes and your reward is quite low, you won't be disappointed but instead you'd be happy that there's the counter part of these projects that have reciprocated your efforts.

What's sad is that they're not just hoping for $1000 or so. Because in the past, there have been a lot of generous projects that have airdropped. Maybe that has set the standard so high that coming to the point that they think they'll become rich doing airdrops.

I sort of understand the disappointment, but bounty hunters need to understand that when they are given "$1k worth of tokens", that value isn't based on anything. You are not being paid, you are being exploited. The tokens they give to you don't cost anything to anyone. You are working for free, and hoping that those tokens would have value. Anyone saying that they would have value is lying to you. They don't have value, they might have "valuation" made up by the team. But that doesn't mean anything.

When they are giving that "$1000 worth of tokens" for everyone, and someone believes it, then they need to take a hard look at the mirror, and maybe study how money or value works.

It doesn't hurt to ask yourself why would those tokens have value in the first place, when the market is saturated of similar projects, and they aren't worth anything either.

As I am now, I will hardly participate in airdrops or bounty and even if I am tempted to do so, it means am very sure of the reward. For example when the airdrop or bounty reward is being escrowed and the reward will also be paid in stable coin, apart from that, I doubt I will just rush into doing any airdrops, why is it so? That's because I have been in the crypto space for more than 4 years and I have had so many experiences but the question is, how about those newbies who doesn't have any experience in crypto? They probably got referred into airdrops because they saw their friends doing it or because someone just randomly ask them to do it, assuring them it's going to pay them.

So, what am saying is that, most experienced crypto enthusiast will not do these airdrops but there are thousands of newbies who doesn't have any knowledge of crypto and would not know what I scam project.

Absolutely, so we will likely also be seeing a new influx of ebooks and courses to help stay safe in cryptoland.

Anyone know if the whatever big exchange's lessons plan that pays is a reputable place to send them to earn and learn?

Including earn in the offer though could lead the ones who learned to avoid it figuring anything that says that is likely a scam, so possibly the wisest course is to steer them here so we can take ad... er I mean help them in this much better setting.

Oh but wait, do we really want literally millions of such utter naives flooding this place? Hmmm...

Responsibility versus the inconvenience of it all, oh my... :)


-MarkM-

I am of the same opinion as you also, I have never participated in bounty before at least none that I did and get rewarded for, and the reason is because most time's all ng the line I get to discover that some of the bounties that are active lately are all shitcoins and scams project so participating in the bounty is like giving a free promotion to a scammers which is something I won't want the do, so for sure finding the right and good bounty become the biggest job for some of us, and the unavailability of such good bounties made us to abandon bounty entirely.

Unless if few of the reputable bounty managers such as Yahoo and Hhampuz are the manager that introduced such a bounty because I know that this managers who not take any bounty offer with first of all doing an extra digging of the project.

Another mistake that airdrop hunters often make is working on too many airdrops they find through channels or groups. they don't verify first whether the project is good or worth following or not. many airdrop hunters do seeding, meaning they work on all the airdrops they find, and hope they will get good results from one or several airdrops that have been followed.

May not be a problem. but if they know that they might get a small payment, or even nothing. they shouldn't complain about anything. they should think more realistically and not make a point of view that blames the project team.

I have this feeling and its happening now, that this Telegram Mini Application airdrop are going to be saturated by fake airdrops, and cash cows of developers, We have seen it already happened on Hamster participants, where they get only $10 or less after working two to three months.

There's a possibility that we will see fewer people doing this tapping airdrop after these airdrops fail them one after the other, Hamster and Rabbit failed them in a few days, and I'm sure X Empire, which will distribute their token, will not satisfy their users, Let's see before the end of this year if these airdrops are still the talk of the community.

Yes, they are reputable managers but they are not to be held responsible for the failure of any project they are running campaign for. They usually put such terms in their policies and it means that they themselves can not guarantee you if a project will he successfull or not. If you are participating in their campaign, it's certainly at your own risk too.

Airdrop participants act as if there is free money anywhere and majority of them got carried away with DOG and Notcoin profits which made them to have big hopes on Hamster. Unfortunately, it's a different project with different name and they should not expect the same thing to happen because it is not everyone that cares about your contributions to their project. A man went to church and made a pledge of $3000 hoping to pay with his profit from Hamster but he got disappointed and doesn't know how to pay this money since he got peanuts from Hamster.  :D

I am agree with you that project founder are really male plan how to earn and profit from their newly project though they have a future plan to scam here. Some are them scam even before enter on the market. However investor loss their money blame the scam project. I wanna say a bit different investor need to be smart and research the project before doing invest. If scammer makes plan to scam why investor not make plan to research the project before doing investment. Mostly they fall into the reward which is juicy and finally they lost the juice with the tree. So need to be smart on every movement.

We have the same thought mate, many of this airdrop participants are new to cryptocurrency, they are just here just to tap and earn, they came with the intention of making huge money with just one project which is not possible. They think since $Not coin paid people good money, they should also be paid by all projects which is very wrong and a greedy thought.

Dogs even paid well, but the must disappointing project is Hamster Kombat which so many airdrop participants were hoping on to build mansion, but I as a crypto enthusiasts, I know that they can’t pay big money because they have large community that if they paid well it will affect their token, but I think this has resulted to many people leaving the telegram tap games which has reduce the trend.
I hope they can now know that crypto is not a get rich quick scheme.

Whenever a certain new thing that becomes a trend then expect that there would really be an immediate follow up copy cat projects that would really be actually doing the same, specially if they have seen that it did become a trend because a certain project did really get that so much attention and hype. We've seen that TG is really just that a messaging platform or app and that time comes that first tapping game is done by
nothing coin project and in the end of the line it did make out that huge breakthrough or trend considering that there are  tons of bounty hunters or to those who do make out such tasks did really get the airdrop.

When dealing up on anything that you could see on the market specially on to those airdrop related then its always been best that you shouldnt really be that expecting something positive in the end of the tunnel.
Always consider out that it could be neither a hit or miss when it comes into this aspect on which it will really be that ideal that you shouldnt really be that too assuming that it will really be that profitable on your part.
If you've seen something unique then its not that a bad idea on dealing up with it. We do know that on the time that we do see a new meta or thing then it is really that likely that will be that become a trend.
Somehow not all do end up on a successful way and there would really be those projects that looks promising but it do really end up on being a scam. This is why you should really be that careful all the time.

They do not want to miss the opportunity and this may actually make them waste more of their time in many games that may be a waste of time and energy making them feel like they haven't achieved satisfactory results.. It is worth noting that even games that have millions of users and followers in their commnities are not conclusive evidence of their success or that one could receive good airdrops from them. Perhaps game bots that are developed by well-known platforms such as CEX or by prominent people are more important. Still, of course, there are no guarantees, as the results of airdrops primarily depend on each participant’s luck. However, they would be more credible and reputable than others.

I see that most of these game projects have become money burners for players due to the fees they spend. This, too, is their personal decision in the end. If someone doesn’t want to try his luck, he only has himself to blame. With the spread of so many scammy and disappointing Telegram games, the situation has become uncomfortable for everyone, and we all have the full freedom to either participate or refrain from it.

Yeah definitely, different team, different way of judging contribution to the project, some even just ignore all the contribution which is why doing airdrop is actually a mess, we're doing tasks, with no clear disclosure whether we going to get rewarded or not, and often time the task is complicated as heck and often require money too. if somebody has a good income and stable job with clear career path, they'd be better off putting all the energy into growing their career instead of committing too much effort into a project created by the dev that only cares about getting big money out of the community.

Yeah, people's expectations shouldn't be too high for projects like that, and if you have a stable job, it's not worth it to get rid of it for the airdrops - I've seen stories of such cases, it ended badly for people involved, trust me ;D

Going to? It already happened and we are not seeing a lot of projects that is legit right now. Most of the projects you use are scams already, and the other few ones that are not scam are just failures. We are not going to see any other telegram app game make money for anyone from airdrops, that time was done long ago and will not happen again.

This is why we need to remember we are not going to see this changing anytime soon at all. Obviously we are going to be a lot better approached with time and not really consider a lot of troubles to come with it so we should stay away from them. Spend your time on something which could make you real money, do not waste any more time on these useless stuff because you won't make any money from them.

By now most of those who where spreading the hype around some of this memecoins are now realising that it was a total waste of time and efforts, and also should be guilty of such information that promotes scammers, because is now clear that all of those projects who are based on telegram apps and games are all scam and are run by one particular set of scammers, because lately this have been exposed with their way of marketing lately, for isntance, I am a member of dogcoins community, and for some times I expirence that same plartform also is used to promote Harmster cobart and a whole of other such shit coins projects , so sometimes I am forced to ask myself what the hell the group's are all about if not just means to gather participants to easily and freely promotes their various scam projects in guise of cryptocurrency projects which in reality they are not.

We need to expose this guy's on the large scale basis because being allowed to continue this way will eventually hurt the cryptocurrency market much more than ICO era and other hypes season that have occurred in the cryptocurrency market.

Bounty and airdrops didn't disappoint you, you did disappoint yourself.

Well I kinda agree with you the participant is always wanted airdrop that above 500 USD which as long as I play airdrop in this year I never received 500 USD on a single project If combined yes maybe the farmer want like lot of money but the truth is airdrop is over hype lot of participant and get minim allocation is can be read at the first place.

So reality is don't expect airdrop nowadays with bunch of user get allocation of 1000 USD it is hard to get that amount in today airdrop unless you do a retrodrop

Hamster is disappointing and I think many of the tap-tap applications certainly end up the same.

I recently learned about these Telegram games and applications so I think the ones who could really answer this kind of question are those who supported them from start to end. I am not one to judge but based on my experience with Hamster, it certainly is one disappointing change they did. Claim your airdrops in a different mode when a lot of players have been tapping most of their time just to claim the airdrop that was promised but I think they knew they would give up a lot of coins if they followed that kind of rule and they know it which is why they change it at the last minute.
It's frustrating but also realistic, if they give up a lot of coins then the value would depreciate drastically and they don't want that to happen.

Ha! In this current crypto space, who would expect to receive $500 from airdrop? It's funny, I don't think there's no body that is not aware that they can not get upto $500 from airdrop. What they can only expecte is $50 - $100 at most, else it is way less than that. Although, some of this telegram airdrop allows participants to waste their time playing the game for more than 2 months and they will reward them with only $2 - $5.

Thats why it would really be that important that you shouldnt really be expecting on something on the moment that you do deal up with airdrops. Its never been that ideal that you should really be that making yourself
that rying out to expect that you could really be able to make money with airdrops because there's no such guarantee that a certain project will really be giving tokens and would be ending up on getting listed.
Just like on what you had that said that there are airdrops that does have some ridiculous requirements or really those things which it turned out that people or the community had been farmed out.

This is why on the moment that you do deal up with these things then it would really be that wise that you should really deal up according into  your risks factor on which if you do find out that the requirements of the said airdrop is too much then it would really be best that you should really be quitting or not be able to engage with it. Also, airdrops are really just that free money and its understandable that
you as an airdropper shouldnt really be that tending out to spend money into something that doesnt give out guarantees that you could make money.

the retrodop ones honestly have all the right to be disappointed, i'm talking about the recent retrodops that requires holding coin and staking in it.
the participant literally risked their money in some newly deployed protocol, with all the risk and also risk the value of their coin plummet due to the staking period with the premise of being rewarded some allocation.

if somehow the developers just changing around the allocation and didn't stay faithful to their first promise, I think the retrodop participant should have the right to complaint and I've seen plenty of project doing exactly that, suddenly giving big chunk of allocation to exchange for the sake of launchpool at the last minute. just doesn't really feel ethical to me to be honest.

the problem is, overpromising made by the developers and changing around things and made it one sided.

Participants must be more attentive to the campaigns they are joining, based on the rewards being promised to them. If something looks too good to be true, it has a great chance of not being legit. However, I'm not sure if participants should be called greedy. After all, they are just micro earners trying to make an income from crypto universe to start their journeys as investors. Furthermore, the one to be blamed is the project developer for promising rewards he can't guarantee.

If I were one of the participants, I wouldn't be disappointed for receiving less from a project than firstly expected. I would just be disappoitned if I were completely scammed by the project receiving nothing in the end.

the thing is, project developers try as minimal as it can to expose anything related to reward and even going as far as keeping the tokenomic secret so that if they need to pull something in their favor nobody would question because these information aren't
available to the public in the first place, so you know the participant can't make analysis, at best they can deduce which investors are investing in the project and how much funding raised but even then it won't give us any hint of the rewards.

although partly the fault lies on the participant with too much expectation and indeed sometime their expectation is too high going as far as hoping earning million of dollars out of some random crypto project like dude, I hope you're joking ;D ;D.
undeniably, having low expectation should be better, since the greedy developers will do anything they can to cut corners anyway.

Believe me frenn there are ton of people that expect even thousand dollar from the airdrop and to be honest time people who get thousand dollar airdrop is gone in my opinion unless you farmed with lot of account or you doing retrodrop that basically spend money to create more money. Ex. Restaking airdrop.


Well you already know the truth that even retrodrop can be disappointing the last retrodrop like ZK and Scroll only gives the user a peanut allocation if we compare it with OP or ARB. For now only a whale get a medium slice of the big airdrop like WORMHOLE or EIGEN

Expectations are too high sometimes on projects like that - and that's completely normal, in my opinion, after all, that's their gist, they are bloating their potential to the point that people hop onto such a FOMO in no time  ;D