Why are these stupid babas so popular?

I'm sure we all have heard and seen countless of these baba, recent one is iit baba, these baba have no knowledge of scripture aside from basics or maybe one or two puran(which I believe are irrelevant) not only that, they have no meditation experiences either, and are horrible in manners, most we see on street are criminals or people who just ran away, but even the famous ones don't know shi, smoke all day, swear at people and just annoy everyone & ruin image of Hinduism, yet people respect them, which results in big ahh egos. Please make me understand why we give more importance to them instead of vedanta or other hindu ideals rooted in upinshad.