Olivia Jade Giannulli has been spending time with fellow YouTuber David Dobrik since the massive college admissions scandal in which her parents Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Gianulli are charged with fraud, money laundering and more, broke a few weeks ago.

The former USC student and YouTube influencer is trying to get back into the scene, according to an Us Weekly source: "They’ve been going to house parties, clubs in L.A. and filming videos together. Olivia is getting much more comfortable with going out and being seen now."

One YouTuber in particular is David Dobrik, whose massive 12-million-subscriber channel makes him one of YT's heaviest hitters. Still, the Vlog Squad is always in search of more views and more subs ... could his affiliation with Olivia Jade -- whose name has been trending since the scandal broke -- be a really cheap attempt at getting more views and more subs??

Anyway, apparently Olivia Jade is partying up a storm, probably trying to forget about the fact that her parents could do some serious jail time over the half-million dollar bribe they paid to get her and her sister into the University of Southern California by pretending they were both crew recruits.

The Full House alum, 54, and her husband, 55, face at least $250,000 in fines and “could spend years, if not decades, behind bars,” according to LA lawyer Neama Rahmani when interview by Us.

Some of Lori's friends have started leaking to the press that the whole pay-to-play idea was concocted by Lori's husband and that Aunt Becky had little or nothing to do with it. Could that mean the couple's legal team is setting up dad to take the fall -- whether he's on board with it or not???