There does seem to be a lag. The views usually do catch up with the upvotes and eventually surpass them. Some people may be upvoting it just because they believe it will get upvotes in the future which will help them with their curation rewards. In this case they are betting that my reputation and history for creating valued content will continue. I understand that some people view this as unfair (assuming it is even happening) however I personally have no problem with it. They are betting that I made good content instead of consuming the content directly. The way I see it I would lose these auto-upvoters (again assuming they exist at all) the moment I stopped creating quality content.