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ELI5: How do aimbots work?

I've seen people get banned from Twitch and other streaming sights for using aimbots in games like fortnite (bleh) and apex and other games; but I'm not entirely sure how they work and how the player activates it, i guess?
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The bot responds to the "pull trigger" key  by twitching the weapon's aimpoint onto the nearest target first.  The user kits a key and the game sees a mouse move and key sequence that produces a better score.  You have to be pretty close and "target-ness" needs to be well defined, so it's hardly a perfect thing.  However, it's clearly cheating.