The 21-year-old student from the Philippines makes around $9,000 a month from AI videos, which many consider to be “Trashy.” His most recognizable character is the inger cat.
Mark Lawrence I. Garilao, creator of the Funtastic YT channel, posts one or two videos every day. Each of them features a cartoon kitten along with his father in absurd circumstances. For example, a kitten swimming in a pond filled with gummy bears – the video has earned around 2 million views. Or other ideas: heroes fly in pancake blimps or drive cars made from bottles of sweet water.
To create such a “masterpiece”, YouTubers spend an hour or two. To do this, he combines a variety of tools: ChatGpt for creating dialogs, Klingai for animation, and an additional app for editing. As a result, the channel has gained over 500 million viewers and nearly 600,000 subscribers. Social Blade analysts predict Galilao's annual revenue ranges between $123,000 and $2 million.
Critics have called the wave of the video “artificial garbage.” Short videos are heavily generated by AI and distributed by social media algorithms. In fact, AI has become a “spam superpower.” Previously, YouTube updated rules to avoid paying for “fraud” content, but regulation is difficult due to the size and speed of new videos. For example, the other day, Google released the Nano Banana Generator. This will make videos like this even better. At the same time, Mark Zuckerberg is pleased that his time on Facebook and Instagram has increased due to AI trash. Therefore, we should not expect the number of such videos to decrease on various platforms.
While such videos can long be argued that they are total trash, artificial intelligence has become a major tool for those who want to get a view quickly. And while some people hate such videos, other YouTubers have found a way to make serious money.
Source: Dexerto
