NEO was once a top 10 coins
EOS was even in the top 5 at one point if I recall well
DASH,XMR, OMG, XVG to name but a few. And mind you most of the coins I have mentioned were pretty solid and not just memecoins
What does that tell you?
That in each bull run, we will have coins that hype up to the top ten and then start a decline where they won't come back up again, and I think the same might happen to Shiba INU. Just buy it, but have that in mind.
Sure, markets get constantly filled with new, potentially better tech, with bunch of new fresh believers. It's similar to hype in music business. You can make 9 records, and media wont be interested as much of your 9th record as much as they are about the band that made their first record which is now the hottest thing ever. As people constantly hunting for newcomers and new fresh things, same thing applies with cryptos.
When something is over 6 years old, it's old geezer tech and it's not easy to hype development when development is constant and boring anyway (at least for the non-tech savvy people).
New people can be lured in with promises of growth. Promises of 1000x and being an eth killer. Back in day all it took for growth was a new media sexy logo
. Because not very many of us understood anything about the tech. And things haven't changed that much. All they need is new media sexy meme coin.