lol I'm a youtuber and have a 300,000 total views with monetize but still hardly to get $200 hahaha. I have alot of subscribers and likers too and can't make $1000 on youtube. I've been working on youtube since last year but still don't have that $1000 a month so i don't think that this is legit. 1 view per hour per ip address on youtube that's how it works. 2000 views on youtube is equal to $1 .
This is true, me and some of my friends tried to make a gameplay on some trendy games and the video got some decent views but not much to earn a lot. Making a thousand dollars in youtube is not an easy feat unless you have a lot of videos that have a lot of views.