"Airdrops" certainly have changed.
Remember when the name Ripple was bought from a grass-roots community-currency type development, maybe the same one that is now known as villages.io?
To convince bitcointalk forum users to fire up their newfangled new version of Ripple they had a giveway, just post your Ripple address and their bot would read it from the thread, check you had not already been given some, and drop you 50,000 XRP?
Were you among those who gained when the bot glitched and they had to re-start it, resulting in some participants who already got 50k XRP being given another 50k?
It was years of course before the 2017-2018 bull market drove XRP up to about $5 Canadian, but during the years between the launch airdrop and then even when XRP had gotten onto exchanges it had only been going for maybe half a cent or less American, usually less that a cent anyway, so no point in bothering to sell any up until 2017-2018...
Stellar was much less lucrative, even during the 2017-2018 peaks. Which is maybe good since I retained a lot of it which really helped a lot with building buy-side offers for the
Galactic Milieu's assets on Stellar.
If nowadays making people do a whole bunch of work for a long span of time counts as an airdrop, I suppose I could claim that you can get an airdrop of any
Galactic Milieu asset simply by firing up a
Crossfire RPG client, connecting to CrossCiv.Knotwork.com crossciv server with it, and earning its in-game currency for as long as you find you need to to earn entire "amberium" coins which you can then
trade on the Stellar platform for any other
Galactic Milieu asset on Stellar...
-MarkM-