I'm sorry I didn't make this clear in the medium post but thats NOT what I was doing. The shorts channels weren't even monetizable. Please see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26919770
It doesn't need to be monetizable. It's wholesale theft, not fair use, and like those terrible shitty "exposure" pages where they steal art, post it on instagram covered in watermarks for likes and views and the generic message "if you want this taken down email us!! 100 emoji 100 emoji"