This actually drives me insane

So, I work on a video for days, weeks, months. I spend countless hours in writing and editing. And when it's all done, I'm lucky to get a thousand views, that's all fine, maybe my content isn't good enought, maybe I don't deserve any views, maybe the competition is just so tought. But I can improve overtime. It's a long grind for everyone, and ultimately hard work will pay off right? I know multiple high-effort channel that took years to get 10K subs.

Then I come across these short channels that just upload stolen clips from movies and another creator, and do nothing to transform or edit them beyond adding a trending song to the background. And they get between 100K and 2 million views for episode, and within just a month from starting, they have 50K subs.

I create videos because I want to create new content, not recycle it. But I can't help but be disheartened that low-effort thievery gets rewarded so highly. It all just makes me wonder, why bother putting any effort into anything?