Look if people find a way to make money can you really knock their hustle? If theirs a demand for it someone is going to supply it. There are far worse things in this world

I do feel it kinda encourages cheating since you can get away with producing inferior content and use the booby strategy to improve your views be it low in quality since you're not exactly attracting the audience for the messaging you putting out

Any website that pays users per view is going to be plagued by these sorts of trends as users try to reach mass audiences by finding something that is appealing to the lowest common denominator.

We see this all the time on social media you're either doing a girl squats and showing off your butt or you're a dude pulling stupid staged pranks and the social media user addicts eat up that content by the boatload and love it