

It’s not unsubstantiated; It’s a very visible sudden shift in the same date range across multiple channels. I would also note the pay staying the exact same is definitely out of the ordinary. To answer your question, what I would rather is people learn to shut up when something is happening that they don’t care to look into any further, rather than act like the Reddit-like cesspool of confidently wrong people that just invent their own theories for things.
This isn’t the full story, but profiting from other people’s work is a common complaint found with AI that can also be compared to the content creation sphere. For instance, reposting many tiktok videos on discord without credit will not raise as many eyebrows as doing reaction content of compilations of tiktok videos on youtube (see, sssniperwolf vs jjjacksfilms), where the motive is “i found these funny and want my friends to see it” vs “i want to actively make money off these videos”.