this does drop the prestige of youtube and screws up a lot of marketing companies. i work with some big brands doing legitimate views and they're starting to ask questions. This puts companies like tubemogul, share through, urullymedia, etc at risk. It's bad enough that yt doesn't count a lot of legitimate views, now these brands don't want to pay for mobile views. Mobile views are inadvertent part of campaigns. Going to be a huge drop in revenue.
Here we have some 12 year kid going overboard with 3 videos in top 5. They don't even have the audacity of deleting these videos, or at least demoting them from the top list.
Youtube is rewarding black hatters but slaps white hatters in the face.
I hope huffington post or someone with vast reach covers this and get's google's stock price to drop dramatically. Maybe that will get their attention.