"Mouth-grazing" (also known as "cloud grazing") is popular in the Web3 circle, essentially a perversion of bear market survival strategies, resulting from a triple distortion of technology, economy, and human nature. The following is a hardcore analysis to deconstruct the phenomenon:

I. Technical root cause: Interaction cost > potential gain

1⃣️ Gas fee inflation

Ethereum L1 single interaction cost: $5-$30 (2024 average price)

Airdrop expected yield: $0-$500 (90% of projects go to zero)
Formula: Expected ROI = (Airdrop probability × Valuation) - (Gas × Interaction times) → often negative

2⃣️ Scientist hegemony

Witch detection AI eliminates ordinary users (e.g., Arkham's address clustering accuracy reaches 98.7%)

MEV robots front-run retail trades (in a certain L2 testnet airdrop, the top 3% of addresses captured 41% of tokens)

II. Economic mechanism: Token value collapse

Data corroboration:

2024 Q1 airdrop project average ROI: $23.4 (net loss of $11 after Gas fees)

"Mouth-grazing faction" Discord average cost savings: $1,200/quarter

III. Human nature game: Dopamine compensation effect

Neuroeconomics verification:

The level of activation in the prefrontal cortex during mouth-grazing = 68% of actual profits (University of Zurich fMRI experiment)

Claiming in Discord "I said there would be an airdrop" can receive an equivalent of $15 in dopamine stimulation

IV. Industry toxic cycle

Mouth-grazing four-stage evolution:

Beginner: Boast in the community about "ambushing XXX" (actual 0 interactions)

Intermediate: Selling "anti-witch strategies" (using ineffective methodologies to scam novices)

Professional: Faking on-chain screenshots to raise funds for "Scientist Fund"

Ultimate: Package as KOL to take garbage project advertisements

V. Breakthrough path: From mouth-grazing to real construction

On-chain data witnesses:

In the top 10% of profitable addresses in 2024, 92% are developers or DAO contributors

Only 3% of profits come from airdrops, 97% come from protocol dividends/development rewards

Survival rule:

"Better to be a true miner losing Gas,
The inappropriate mouth-grazing digital farmer who is being taken advantage of