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This is 100% true. I consulted and managed a channel that did basic explainers around NFL players and teams ChatGPT scripts, eleven labs voice over, and editors were paid $1-$2 per min We realized that the audience was using the videos for sleep so we compiled the best videos from the channel into 3hr long videos and the audience loved it Channel does 10-12k monthly with 95% margins

fortune just profiled a 22 year old dropout named adavia davis clearing $40,000-$60,000/mo from faceless youtube channels. all ai generated. every single one. his operating cost is $6,500/mo. profit margin sits between 85-89%. he runs 5 channels. history. minecraft. animals. pranks. anime. his most profitable one is called "boring history" — he makes 6 hour long videos about historical events that are literally designed for people to fall asleep to. sleep content. the guy is making $700k/year from videos that people don't even watch with their eyes open. that's a real sentence i just typed about a real person profiled in fortune magazine. his pipeline is claude for scripts and elevenlabs for narration. production cost per video is around $60. he's pulling 2 million views per day across the network. meanwhile there are production studios running 8 person teams with $50k/mo in overhead, professional cameras, full editing suites... making less than a kid in mississippi who automated his entire content operation. the gap between "traditional content" and "ai content pipelines" isn't closing btw. it's getting wider every month. the people who built systems early are compounding. the people still arguing about it on twitter are falling further behind. this is still early. think about how many more of these are going to pop up in the next 12 months...

this is so fucking impressive and worrying at the same time. - 22 year old kid makes $700K per year posting AI videos on youtube. he generates 2 MILLION views per day. - craziest part is the fucking videos are FACELESS. uses claude to make scripts and elevenlabs for the voice. - obviously he found a niche (one channel is literally videos to put people to sleep) - but the worrisome part is we’re trading well-produced art for some bullsh*t dopamine slop that hooks into your brain rot i don’t know how to feel about it tbh…