How is anyone scamming? Is anyone misrepresenting financial situations and asking for money? People are getting paid by YouTube for videos enough people enjoy. If enough subscribers and viewers then maybe a sponsorship and/or gifts of stuff like hotel rooms or even tickets for reviews, but that doesn't happen without enough viewers. And if there's merch and/or superchats, that's again more people choosing to spend their money. I'm not understand where there are scams.
I think the difficult thing about all of this are the people who don't make names for themselves, the ones that move to Orlando or LA without real backup plans but maybe invest in equipment too soon to "create content" for a few hundred viewers.