I am very new here. I understand what you are saying is that not only is it possible to "game the system" here, this person is successfully doing it. This seems to me to be a loophole that somehow needs automatic plugging if that's the case. As this platform continues to grow, it seems that depending on the community to somehow try to dig out these abuses and verify them as such is not really tenable.

Also, according to your post, I think I must be a bit confused about plagiarism here as well. I have posted YouTube videos here (that are not mine) with just a few words of comment. I shared these videos because I like the videos. I've made no claim of owning them. So is this considered plagiarism here? I do the same on FB all the time as does everyone else, so I'm confused how that's different here. The YouTuber still gets paid for the advertising regardless of where the video is ultimately viewed, right?