It's a very poor strategy. Did you know that even if you manage to get 10 million views from stolen videos, you still won’t get monetized? You have to delete those stolen videos to qualify for monetization, but when you delete them, the views are also deleted with them. So those 10 million views you gained? They’re gone. And without 10 million valid views, you can’t get monetized through Shorts. all you will gain from it are subscribers which are useless nowadays. If you understand the current YouTube algorithm, you’ll know that subscribers are no longer as important as they were 10 years ago. A channel with just 10 subscribers can go viral overnight with 10 million views, because today's YouTube algorithm focuses on content performance, not subscriber count. The first YouTube channel I managed to monetize took only two weeks to get monetized through Shorts, with just 10 videos. I did not steal videos from other people, I created my own videos. Shorts are easy to make, so why steal videos as a "strategy"? It's funny!