Yeah man they stay up forever honestly. There are channels I’ve seen that have been around since 2016. People abandon these channels due to not being accepted in to amazons affiliate program. See what happens is, it takes two months for Amazon to accept you into or reject you from their program, but in the meanwhile, they let you make money. So these channels will upload for 2 months then not get accepted into Amazon’s program, then they give up.
Nobody really gets far enough to understand that 1 year of consistently uploading using this method will likely make you over 100k year over year with out you even having to upload much after the first year.
After you build the foundation, this method is what people literally dream of when they think passive income. The beauty of it all is that this method can be done fully within YouTube’s terms of service. So you’ll be banking legit if you know how (well there’s a little bit of deception in it, but nothing that’ll warrant a ban).