They are not doing it for views/watch hours.
All they are targeting here is Subscribers. Now that youtube is highly pushing shorts videos, Subscribers are rapidly increasing as we have a subscribe button right next to a Video title. So, if you need just Subs, then this is the way right now. These subs won't be watching your videos even though being real subs but if you are into marketing then you can make it very useful.
May be those channel will not get the monetization because they are uploading the duplicate content.Anybody know if these channels are able to be monetized, i feel like i see a new channel everday just posting clips from twitter or tik tok getting stupid views. Like this one channel i follow...
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