The difference is now you can raise stupid amounts of money through these grifts. (Or could until interest rates went up, I wonder if that might reduce the size of the grift "ecosystem"?)
I wonder where they went. Are they busy crying about being scammed by the child prodigy/most popular effective altruist in the world, or do they not care because they had a finger in the pie?
Or perhaps they moved on to shill AI and its glorious wonders?