Many of the top channels deserve it wholeheartedly.
I know a few channels that have been putting out lots of videos (some middle aged dude who is single, fat, and mildly funny). One guy still puts out videos after 6 years nearly and just got over 40k views.
It's one of those cases where he does all the editing work but like a fool doesn't do anything beyond naming the video with the convention he uses to keep track of them. Doesn't use description text or anything.
Bless his heart.