The backlash might be booming but there are still enough stories out there about people minting millions to sustain the hysteria. Today the New York Times ran a story - "They Made Millions on Luna, Solana and Polygon: Crypto’s Boom Beyond Bitcoin" [0] - that will probably prompt some people to invest in obscure cryptocurrencies in the "if they can do I can do it too" belief. This is eerily similar to the stories run by numerous print and online publications in the early 2000's highlighting the massive amounts of money that people were making day trading.
[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/07/technology/cryptocurrency...