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An airdrop is when you receive tokens from a project. A project may do this if you were using their project early on, helped with testing it or sustaining the network. Once the project releases a token, they can airdrop the token to you.
The airdrop can also be done to generate a community as many people receive the token for free, they can become interested in the project.

Often people “farm” different projects early in the hopes the project will do an airdrop. Instead of considering it a gift, it is noted that people do get salty when the project doesn’t do an airdrop and may even expect to receive one. You may see people posting messages the project doesn’t care about it’s community, in reality these people are probably salty that they didn’t get a free airdrop to sell.
These people could be dismissed as salty and greedy, though it does generate a lot of negative hype.

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