Online influencers who make money off promoting products online are getting played by one of Silicon Valley’s iconic technology companies, a new lawsuit claims. “It involves almost every high-profile creator that I can think of, including myself,” tech influencer Marques Brownlee, who has almost 20 million subscribers on YouTube, said in a video this week. San Jose tech giant PayPal uses “deceitful and clandestine” methods to steal money from social media influencers and other creators of online content, the class-action lawsuit filed Thursday in San Jose U.S.