gambling is also a choice, doesn't change the fact that it's a scam. the house always wins.
pyramid schemes like avon and all that shit are also a choice, people get tricked into wanting to be part of it because they're told it'll allow them to make a lot of money while being their own boss, but it's only the people at the top making bank, everyone else is in debt.
nfts were literally just ugly jpgs that people decided to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars on. no one forced them to do it, they were just told the pics would have great value so they chose to get in on it. doesn't change the fact the only people properly profiting were the ones in it from the beginning and now nfts have basically no value.
just because people can chose to go into something, it doesn't change the fact that it's a scam.
hell, even more simpler things like those as seen on tv products fall onto this category. people chose to buy them because they were advertised a product they were told was good, they paid for it and then got some shit piece of plastic that barely works.
yes, the onlyfans is free. yes, you only had to pay $4(plus tax) for the pics. yes, that money went to charity. doesn't change the fact that he created standards for the onlyfans to happen that'd benefit him. the podcasts getting tons of listeners and making it so high on the charts definitely made a lot of money, and their popularity increase will also make more companies want to sponsor those podcasts. and his mom also got some good money because he changed the rules last minute and decided you had to BUY his mom's documentary.
and people chose to do those things to get an onlyfans, in which he was supposed to do 3 drops of pics, and then only did 2 and went radio silent on the whole thing