The market for BCH at least is speaking for itself. It's not like 1 BCH is worth pennies. The rest of the fork coins are not faring so well, and that's to be expected. How many bitcoin-forked coins can anyone possibly be interested in? In any case, my heart is with bitcoin and not with BCH or any of the other forked monstrosities. I do like some alts that aren't bitcoin forks, but that's about it--and there aren't many I'm truly interested in.
The only thing that makes sense to me is Ver is paying those merchants gobs of money to list his shitcoin, but even though it's accepted by merchants doesn't mean anyone outside of the project is using it. Bitcoin on the other hand..