Not really sarcasm actually. We all rightly joke about shitcoins today, but back then (2016?) early “altcoins” were mostly legitimate projects usually with some novel use case and that many of us thought would be successful, maybe even more successful than bitcoin. They were newer and “better”. EOS was super fast. I thought it would catch on. Only the people in early made much money though, and people began launching coins with a clever sounding use case just to pull people in but without really intending to be viable long term. They got labeled shitcoins. Many didn’t even try to sound clever, they just pumped and dumped as fast as possible. Now we see that they were all shitcoins and only bitcoin matters. But it was quite a learning curve for us that went through it. The bitcoin whales today are the ones who didn’t get distracted by all this.