Where would you get 1 legit million views from?
These views come from high traffic sites which will have the video on one of the first pages and the video is on auto play so you auto catch views Normally they show up on blog which take a while to read so you get lower bounce views.
Will it get you up higher on youtube yes and no it all depends on the subject and video content. Lets say you make a music video and it had the same name as a video as those high traffic music pages. There is no way you will pay them in rank but you would still be at the top of views. Also higher ranked video make you show up on google when the person types in the subject matter or keyword your videos tittle has in it.