No, it shows that they're connected to YouTube somehow and their channels are flagged by the algorithm so they instantly get placed at the top of everything. If he merely "knows how it works" then why does his method only work for himself and people somehow connected to him? Legit channels of that size took years and years of steady growth, and even that's impossible now with how crowded and restricted the site has become. And why do the same videos and comments from these channels automatically rise to the very top and other ones don't? Why do they never have one single failure of a video? If it was legit, it's still a gamble no matter how well you play the game; no one can get success 100% of the time like that. It's far simpler to think that YouTube saw the old channels dying and that there's no way for new ones to come along organically this late in the game, so they went the artificial route and hired a team to put out videos and made them soar in popularity for money. It's not rocket science.