Many are teachers only few are traders. They make their money from selling trading courses, teaching trading classes, creating trading contents for YouTube and other social media. They have their own trading podcasts and collaborate with people like them to talk about trading yet, they have never been successful at trading.
Successful traders are careful about whom to tell and share their stories with, and they seldom show up in public saying they are good traders as they prefer to remain anonymous despite their great achievements. And yes, those illusionists and fake traders have big mouths talking here and there, yet they achieve nothing aside from popularity. That is why I don't admire people who keep proud of themselves because I know that trading is not an easy game but these influencers saying the opposite about it.
Some people say that not all the things and success stories we hear on social media are true, most of them are scripted.
Influencers make their life out of their fame, if they lose their popularity then there is no more opportunity for them that is why we often see them saying something even if it is just BS to keep them in the spotlight and media influence always attracts people irrespective of good or bad things going around them.
Some stories can be true but it just happens cause they were at the right spot at right time or we can call it as pure luck.