AI-made Wednesday video hits 67.4M views and $27,433 from a single clip
FinanceYF5 · x · 2026-10-10
A single AI-generated "Wednesday"-style video made with GPT Astra 6 pulled 67.4M views and $27,433 in revenue, growing an account to 1M followers monetized via "talk with me" subscriptions in the bio.
The workflow is remarkably simple:
- Generate the pale girl with black braids and blunt bangs in ChatGPT
- Pick a plain white room and a well-known dance
- Swap the character into the dance using Seedance 2.5
- Caption with hashtags only
"Your next crush is probably a prompt" — low-cost AIGC content is now mass-producing virtual influencers with direct monetization.
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