I think in these cases, this kind of setup can be largely automated since there isn't really any unique/quality content that'd take a person time to create - an

I think in these cases, this kind of setup can be largely automated since there isn't really any unique/quality content that'd take a person time to create - and getting smaller view counts over many channels perhaps mitigates the risk of having the channel removed I've seen similar with sport highlights searches, screenshots and automated commentary scraped from a news source. They don't get many views but there's hundreds of them, particularly for sport behind paywalls. No one wants to see them but they turn up in searches at the right time. Must be demotivating for content creators to be continually dealing with this kind of thing.