yall goofy as hell if you dont think the people are involved in it...
...or if he doesnt give them something free for their troubles
he's there every day...there's a reason he can constantly make videos
I would say that with this particular YouTuber, it's more likely that some are staged now, but in the beginning when cats didn't know him at all, nah, those seem authentic. As for the junkies and winos, it mostly wouldn't need to be anything like staged or not staged, they're usually too out of ther minds for that to make a difference.
As far as giving them free sh!t, yea, I'm sure that happens often. It may even be years of some of them taking things that made him say "F*ck it, they gonna abuse me, Ima use them".
I get where you are coming from though, at first glance, people nowadays, especially Gen Z have a hard time differentiating between sometime real and something "staged".