Not sure if he is part of it, but there is a large amount of people faking this kind of content on YouTube for those juicy views and clicks. Kind of amazing to be scamming with an anti-scamming vibe.
Not really would only take a few friends willing to play scammers to fake his content, and he had a lot of monetary incentive. Does he have long spurts of scammers not answering or ignoring him? Seems fishy if he never does and seems risky to base his streaming career on something he can't control. It's the same reason "prank channels mostly became faked since it's a safer income stream.