Check your YouTube history. Videos that you did not watch or click, are likely being added to your history. They are showing a red bar indicating they’ve been viewed.
This is showing investors and advertisers more clicks and views than are actually happening. This is fraud.
If you don't watch a video to the very end the creator doesn't get credit. There are many creators that have audiences that put their videos on, and walk away for topics they don't like just so the creator can get paid.