Barry Silbert and Charles Hoskinson are involved so ETC will moon? That's a weak argument imo.

The success of Ethereum is dependent on the developer ecosystem improving the protocol and building apps that are useful to people. The vast majority of the developers (and all of the devs that got Ethereum to this point) are committed to building on ETH. The fact that a few speculators have the ability to drive the price up based on their philosophical views does not mean ETC will be successful.