People like them are disconnected from reality, they live a world in their head filled with delusion they wish to be true, and fuelled by Denial and Copium.
You won't be able to reason with them even if you put Hard Cold Truth up their face, they will just ignore it.
And the pathetic part is scammers are more than happy to exploit their vulnerability, feeding sweet lies to keep them going.
TBH the whole "modern gaming" is kinda just like this.
People defending Gacha saying they are spending 10K per month, only to support the devs to create the game