Or simply to keep users staring at the video, wondering what on earth they're looking at, for long enough to count as a view. When your only objective as a vid

Or simply to keep users staring at the video, wondering what on earth they're looking at, for long enough to count as a view. When your only objective as a video creator is to maximize total view time, spewing out a bunch of garbage videos that users will look at for a few seconds each is, unfortunately, locally optimal.