Backing people based on digital kindness or good public persona is a an easy replicable recipe for villains. Most of the top characters across the board in cryptoart are false. Acting like a nomad looking to better the World. In reality they are smiling through their teeth at you looking to dominate the future of what could have been a beautiful free street.
Most curators, marketplaces, influencers and top artists are narcissistic psychopaths seeking power. Look closer and you'll see more than what you initially read... we've been right before about bad acts in this space.