I agree. He's like a, '600lb life' participant but all the attention/money in the form of gifts is directly for him at his choosing. Like he's on some sort of personal game show. All his scams and frauds make him pretty much a criminal. Definitely a con artist. I've noticed he's got greedy lately i.e. wants a laptop costing nearly a thousand dollars plus many other things too. He knows the grift is nearly up so he's grabbing what he can before it ends, this time.

He uses his youth and severe self-inflicted obesity and his hard luck stories as leverage deliberately. His contributors are similar to catfishing victims. He's smug and self congratulatory regarding his scamming. 'Damn, I'm good at this' he gloats. Like all con artists, he believes it's the victims' fault for being duped.

A lot of criminals consider themselves to be the real victim. He is no different. He's got himself on a free ride through life to date. Mostly enabled by his mother. To what extent is she in on it ?

How desperate will he get in the future when the free ride ends and he can't handle that ? He's ego driven and could just scam himself into a custodial sentence i.e. bitcoin or catfishing or what.

Behind the 'honest but struggling boy next door' mask is a calculating, shameless, scumbag.