In order to do so, they have to say things that seem to be an attempt to convince others. Not that it's a game, but that it's real. The company is real. I see very little of what you say, that everyone knows it's a game and the companies are bs.
Few Pinkies are for real, some are just shells to reverse merger some Chinese ripoff into them.
And the people who lost their retirements, marriages, etc certainly don't much care about anyone elses opinions.
Risking one's retirement on a Pinkie is something alike to betting it all on a poker table.