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I build AI YouTube channels and apps. 10M+ views. Sharing how it works.

Sweden
Joined August 2026
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Opus is unbelievable it automated and built my entire YouTube channel and I got these results with in one month!
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The line people keep typing back in the comments under my animated YouTube films is one they already believed. "Motivation gets you started. Discipline keeps you going." Nothing new in it. They just like hearing it said well.
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If I started a faceless YouTube channel with AI today, this is what I'd do. All of it learned from my animated films that Claude draws in code (10M+ views in 5 weeks), and from the channel that flopped before it.
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Put everything that matters inside the story. My films lose about 20 points of viewers the moment the title card shows up at the end. Whatever comes after the story barely gets seen.
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And A/B test thumbnails and titles from the very first video. I didn't, and it's my one regret. Every test shows what people actually click instead of you guessing.
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Fable 5.2 came out last night and my whole feed is one shot demos. Fun to watch. On my animated YouTube films the first render was never where my time went though. The fix rounds were, 3 to 7 of them on the complex ones. What I want to know is if it needs fewer of those.
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Claude made this video in one shot. 6 million views. No animator. No editor. No animation software. One prompt. Reply "HOW" if you want to know how I made it.
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In a habit app I'm building, the paywall text loads from the server instead of living inside the app. So I can test different wording without sending a new version through App Store review every time. After 12 days waiting on the first review, that matters.
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Jensen Huang saying he loves "Chinese models" 💀
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Linus retweeted
Don't cheat on your wife.
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People ask how long my animated YouTube films take me. About 30 minutes of my own time each. I come up with the story, watch the previews and send fixes. Claude writes all the code that draws and animates it, in the background while I do other stuff.
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Lots of "Opus 5.5 got dumber" posts right now. Maybe it did, no idea. One thing that feels a lot like a nerf though is it repeating a mistake you already corrected days ago. It won't remember that unless the fix is written in a file it reads before every job.
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Thanks so much for 100 followers!
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My biggest YouTube film got fewer likes, subs and shares per view than the ones I made after it. It still did 4.8M views. 83% of people were still watching at 10 seconds. I'd bet YouTube cares way more about people staying than about them liking it.
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SOON 100k SUBS ON YT!!!
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Lots of people making videos with Claude right now. One thing that mattered a lot on my animated YouTube films is that something on screen changes every few seconds. A shot can look great and still lose people if it just sits there. They don't wait, they skip.
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Most posts about Apple's new Xcode plugin for Claude Code are about building iPhone apps faster. The part I like is the simulator. A build passing doesn't mean the app works. If Claude can run it and see the screens itself, I'd guess it catches way more before you ever open it.
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