This argument that someone had to be a good trader to get and retain copy traders is so incorrect its not even funny.
For one, you only need to be popular to get copy traders.
Secondly, you can make one lucky trade then get copy traders and from there you switch to low caps where you are able to move price enough to build up stats/pnls and show up on pnl leaderboards which then leads to increased popularity and more copy traders. Self fulfilling prophecy.
And lastly, you can fake / manipulate stats to get on leaderboards which leads to popularity and copy traders. Then its once again a self fulfilling prophecy.
"But wouldnt the people just stop copying?"
When you have enough copies and buy low enough mc tokens you are able to artificially make anything a winner to some extent. And at a certain level its to the point that the volume from your copies moves every pair you buy enough that it reaches volume trackers for at least a short period of time giving it the chance to reach outside of your bubble.
Obviously not to this is the case for everyone. Frank for example can move 8 figure market cap coins with his buys the same way most of these guys move $4k mc shitters lol...