I Tried It: How to make $2,000/mo clipping with AI — Transcript

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1. 0:00In this episode of I tried it, we're
2. 0:01going to test this side hustle that
3. 0:02claims that we can make $2,000 a month
4. 0:04simply with clipping and AI. We're going
5. 0:06to talk about the good, the bad, should
6. 0:09you try it, how much you think I'm going
7. 0:11to [music] make, um the entire process
8. 0:12so that you can understand what really
9. 0:14works and what doesn't work online. Now,
10. 0:16one of the reasons why I want to make
11. 0:18this video is because I've had a few
12. 0:19people comment on a video that I made um
13. 0:22about Warm [music] Lamp, whatever it's
14. 0:24called, and why I don't think it's a
15. 0:26really good opportunity.
16. 0:27>> [music]
17. 0:27>> So, let's go ahead and get into it.
18. 0:29First of all, the video basically says
19. 0:31by Cole Cochran um that you can make
20. 0:33$2,000 a month with clipping and AI. He
21. 0:37says that you're going to uh create a
22. 0:38free account over on Warm Lamp, which is
23. 0:40100% [music] free. Uh you're going to
24. 0:42join a campaign and you can get paid
25. 0:44out.
26. 0:45And you're going to essentially just
27. 0:47create content on different platforms
28. 0:49using AI and you will magically get
29. 0:52paid. It is really the gist of it. Uh he
30. 0:54does go into a little bit of detail
31. 0:56talking about how to do it where you
32. 0:58have to submit a link and then a
33. 1:00screenshot. You've got to follow all of
34. 1:01these different steps, uh which is
35. 1:03simple and fair enough. But, what I want
36. 1:06to talk about is I want to talk about if
37. 1:08this is really a good opportunity or if
38. 1:10this is one of those schemes out there
39. 1:12um that [music]
40. 1:14isn't all it's cracked up to be. If you
41. 1:16dig a little deeper, um and the reason
42. 1:18why I like making these videos is
43. 1:19because I've made a decent amount of
44. 1:20money online and so I have a pretty good
45. 1:23understanding of what works and what
46. 1:25doesn't work and what's truth versus
47. 1:27fiction. So, let's go ahead and talk
48. 1:28about some of the problems. Uh we're
49. 1:30also going to talk about some of the
50. 1:31good things.
51. 1:32Uh let's talk about the good things
52. 1:34first because there are a few uh with
53. 1:36this this YouTube video that you can
54. 1:38take away. Uh the first one and and
55. 1:41foremost, I think, is you learn video
56. 1:43editing. One of the most important
57. 1:45skills is video editing because we're
58. 1:48all creating content. We're all content
59. 1:50creators. Video editing is a skill that
60. 1:52you can take with you
61. 1:53regardless of what you do. It's a hard
62. 1:55skill. It takes time, energy, effort, it
63. 1:58takes consistency, it takes persistence.
64. 2:00>> [music]
65. 2:00>> And so, you can either teach other
66. 2:02people how to become a video editor, or
67. 2:05you [music] can actually sell that skill
68. 2:06as a service. I have uh countless people
69. 2:09reaching out to me via email and DM
70. 2:11offering their services of video editor.
71. 2:13Even with AI, I think there is still
72. 2:16opportunity for
73. 2:17old-school video editors to exist, and
74. 2:20even to combine AI with video editing.
75. 2:22And so, um that's one of the good things
76. 2:25that you can take from this video.
77. 2:27Another good one that I really like is
78. 2:29you learn how to create and structure
79. 2:31content. One of the things that he talks
80. 2:33about is uh you have to learn how to
81. 2:35create a hook, a story, and then a a
82. 2:36payoff. [music]
83. 2:37That's really important when it comes to
84. 2:39creating content in 2026. You have to
85. 2:43learn how to hold people's attention, um
86. 2:46>> [music]
87. 2:46>> and and captivate your audience. Because
88. 2:48if you hold their attention, you have
89. 2:50high high retention, it does increase
90. 2:52the opportunity for videos to go viral
91. 2:54and get views. And that's essentially
92. 2:56what you need if you want this method
93. 2:58and this process to work. You're going
94. 2:59to have to go viral multiple times in
95. 3:01order for it to happen, and that's
96. 3:02something we'll talk about in just a
97. 3:03minute. But, one of the good things that
98. 3:06comes out of this video is he talks
99. 3:07about what's required in order to be
100. 3:11successful with short-form and long-form
101. 3:13content. Another benefit to this method
102. 3:16that he talks about is that there's an
103. 3:17incredibly low barrier to entry. Um you
104. 3:19can get started for free. You the the
105. 3:22the software he talks about is called
106. 3:24WeVideo. It does allow you to create
107. 3:26like five videos uh for free. However,
108. 3:29you're going to need much more than five
109. 3:31videos in order [music] to be
110. 3:34successful. Because later on in the
111. 3:35video, he talks about you need to
112. 3:37Actually, earlier on in the video, he
113. 3:38talks about you need to upload six
114. 3:41videos a day across three different
115. 3:43platforms, so you're going to be
116. 3:45uploading 18 videos. If you look at
117. 3:47WeVideo,
118. 3:48it says that you can start off The free
119. 3:51plan allows you 200 credits, a one-time
120. 3:55amount of 200 credits.
121. 3:57Now, it doesn't say how many
122. 4:00um it doesn't say how many videos 200
123. 4:04credits will get you. I'm assuming
124. 4:05probably five to 10.
125. 4:08And so, you're you're going to need to
126. 4:10start paying pretty quickly. Um it's
127. 4:12only $4.99 a month if you pay annually,
128. 4:15but if you do monthly, it's $13.99 a
129. 4:16month. So, um a pro and con is you can
130. 4:19get started relatively
131. 4:20low barrier to entry,
132. 4:22and you can start for free, but if
133. 4:24you're going to upload essentially
134. 4:26hundreds of videos per month, you're
135. 4:28going to need to start paying pretty
136. 4:29quickly.
137. 4:30So, those are the the three main pros
138. 4:33of um of the method that he talks about.
139. 4:36Let's talk about the cons, and I believe
140. 4:38that there are a number of problems that
141. 4:41are just kind of glossed over or washed
142. 4:42over in this video. First and foremost,
143. 4:44[music]
144. 4:45in order to make $2,000 a month,
145. 4:47you need to generate um
146. 4:50>> [music]
147. 4:50>> you you need to generate 2 million
148. 4:52qualified views, okay? Now, not every
149. 4:55view is going to be considered a
150. 4:56qualified view, and that's something
151. 4:57that you've got to understand, okay? Um
152. 5:01when it comes to this method,
153. 5:03it really is up to Womp and the campaign
154. 5:06creator if your views are qualified. So,
155. 5:08you need to generate because it it's a
156. 5:11$1 per 1,000 views, and this is one of
157. 5:14the better
158. 5:16one of the better opportunities that are
159. 5:17out there. Some of them pay much lower
160. 5:19per 1,000 view, um or they will pay
161. 5:21higher, but there isn't as much money
162. 5:24available, which we'll kind of talk
163. 5:26about in just a moment. But, in order to
164. 5:29in in order to be successful to make
165. 5:30$2,000 with a $1 uh per 1,000 views RPM,
166. 5:35you need [music] 2 million qualified
167. 5:37views. That means you got to rely on
168. 5:39going viral multiple times, [music]
169. 5:41which is going to be a challenge. And at
170. 5:42the time of this video,
171. 5:44one of the things that he does say
172. 5:45inside the video is he tells us to go to
173. 5:48uh to search up What is it? Search up
174. 5:51Jake Paul family ranch shorts, because
175. 5:54that's the example that he used, because
176. 5:55that Jake Paul family ranch was paying
177. 5:57out um $1 for 1,000 views. The most
178. 6:00viewed video has
179. 6:02>> [music]
180. 6:02>> 40,000 views. And if we did the math,
181. 6:0440,000 views equals $40. And if we look
182. 6:07at that account, and I'll put that on
183. 6:09the screen so you guys can see it for
184. 6:10yourself, um it's called Peak Time
185. 6:12Clips. They have 41 videos up. Their
186. 6:14most popular video that they have is
187. 6:1647,000 views, and it's not even the same
188. 6:20um it's not even that same Jake Paul
189. 6:22campaign, okay? So, he's he has 1 2 3 4
190. 6:262 maybe 6. [music]
191. 6:28Um let's say he has 12 videos
192. 6:31that have over 1,000 views. At most,
193. 6:33that's 30,000 Let's say 50,000 views.
194. 6:37Uh 500,000 views. Excuse me. Let's say
195. 6:40he has a total of 500,000 views
196. 6:43on this channel.
197. 6:44That is a far cry from 2 million views,
198. 6:47the number of views that he needs
199. 6:49>> [music]
200. 6:49>> in order to make $2,000 a month. Now,
201. 6:52maybe he has multiple accounts out
202. 6:54there. Maybe he has multiple TikTok
203. 6:55[music] accounts, multiple YouTube
204. 6:57accounts. You And And I'll talk about
205. 6:59that in a minute, because one of the
206. 7:00things that this original creator says
207. 7:02is that you need to have multiple
208. 7:04YouTube accounts, multiple TikTok
209. 7:05accounts, and multiple Instagram
210. 7:07accounts, because you're going to be
211. 7:08posting
212. 7:09on these different platforms.
213. 7:11Um so, that in and of itself is a
214. 7:14problem.
215. 7:15There are a number of little things that
216. 7:17that are gotchas. While we're talking
217. 7:19about multiple accounts, I think this is
218. 7:21a huge issue, because you can get
219. 7:23dinged, you can get uh shadow banned,
220. 7:25you can get throttled, uh you can get
221. 7:27reduced views for [music] reused
222. 7:29content. YouTube is big on not wanting
223. 7:31people to reuse content. And that can
224. 7:33happen a variety of ways. That can
225. 7:35happen if you're uploading the same
226. 7:37clips on multiple [music] accounts. That
227. 7:38can happen if there are multiple people
228. 7:40that are using that campaign, because
229. 7:43when you do these campaigns on Womp,
230. 7:45everyone is getting access to the same
231. 7:47YouTube video. [music]
232. 7:49Right? And so, what people are doing is
233. 7:51they're going to take that same YouTube
234. 7:52video, and they're going to chop it up.
235. 7:54They're going to cut it up. And there's
236. 7:55only so many ways that you can chop up
237. 7:57and cut up these clips. And everyone's
238. 7:59going to be using AI. Whether you're
239. 8:01using [music] Opus Pro or Opus Clips, or
240. 8:03you're using this Way in Video, there
241. 8:04isn't a lot of leeway and flexibility.
242. 8:07So, essentially,
243. 8:09unless you add in [music] like
244. 8:11like some sort of unique way to to make
245. 8:13the video stand out, make it different
246. 8:14from the other ones, you're going to be
247. 8:16uploading the same clips as everyone
248. 8:17else,
249. 8:18which is going to get hit for reused
250. 8:20content, and potentially get your
251. 8:22account shut down. Then you've got to
252. 8:24open up a new account, and [music] will
253. 8:27Uh the other interesting thing is, what
254. 8:29if you Let's say you have 100,000 views
255. 8:31on one account, but it gets shut down.
256. 8:33Is the campaign going to validate those
257. 8:36100,000 views on the account that's no
258. 8:38longer there? Probably not. [music] So,
259. 8:40that's a problem. And then you're going
260. 8:41to be competing against other people
261. 8:43that are uploading very similar clips.
262. 8:45YouTube is going to think Tik Tok and
263. 8:47Instagram are going to think that's a
264. 8:48problem. And so, there are a lot of
265. 8:50little things that are red flags when it
266. 8:52comes to creating this type of content,
267. 8:54because you're going to be competing
268. 8:56against yourself, you're going to be
269. 8:56competing against other people.
270. 8:58Another big one, for me anyway, is that
271. 9:00you have no control. You don't control
272. 9:03any of the platforms. You don't control
273. 9:05Womp, you don't control the payouts, you
274. 9:07don't control the campaigns.
275. 9:08>> [music]
276. 9:09>> And so, you are leaving this in the
277. 9:11hands of other people that don't really
278. 9:13care about your success, right? Um
279. 9:17they care about getting seen. Jake Paul
280. 9:19cares about getting seen and getting
281. 9:20views, but he doesn't necessarily care
282. 9:22who he pays it out to. And so, because
283. 9:24you have no control,
284. 9:25>> [music]
285. 9:26>> you don't have any control on the
286. 9:27campaign duration, you don't have any
287. 9:29control on the available campaigns. And
288. 9:31that's another issue with Womp, is that
289. 9:33you might find a great campaign that's
290. 9:35paying $2 for $5 per 1,000 views, but
291. 9:38then the next 10 or 20 are only paying
292. 9:40out 50 cents per 1,000 views or maybe
293. 9:43even less.
294. 9:44And so,
295. 9:45finding constant warm campaigns is going
296. 9:48to be a problem. And getting paid out
297. 9:51consistently is going to be um
298. 9:54is going to be a problem. Another issue
299. 9:56that I found is old videos are going to
300. 9:58still get views after the campaign ends.
301. 10:00[music]
302. 10:01And you might think that's a good thing,
303. 10:03but you are going to be continuously
304. 10:04building someone else's brand while you
305. 10:07get paid in the short term. A video, for
306. 10:09example, let's say let me give you a
307. 10:11perfect example.
308. 10:12This video, I'm making it on Monday,
309. 10:14August 17th,
310. 10:15uh 2026. I want you to comment, if
311. 10:17you're still watching, comment the date
312. 10:19and time that you're watching this
313. 10:20video. I'm going to still get paid for
314. 10:22this video. Me directly, I'm going to
315. 10:24get paid for this video.
316. 10:26Regardless of when you watch it.
317. 10:27However, if you're uploading someone
318. 10:29else's clips
319. 10:31and you're not a part of the YouTube
320. 10:32Partner Program because you're using
321. 10:33reused content, you're using someone
322. 10:35else's content, you're not making any
323. 10:37money off of these clips.
324. 10:38>> [music]
325. 10:38>> And so, unless you decide to delete the
326. 10:40clips after the campaign ends, you're
327. 10:42going to continuously build someone
328. 10:43else's brand and you're not getting
329. 10:45anything [music] to show for it. Um and
330. 10:47that
331. 10:48gives me that leads me to the next
332. 10:49point. You're building Jake Paul's
333. 10:50brand.
334. 10:52You're doing all the work for him.
335. 10:53And I think that's [music] a problem
336. 10:54because if your account gets shut down
337. 10:56tomorrow for reused content or copyright
338. 10:59strikes, whatever it might be,
339. 11:01you're going to have to start over from
340. 11:02zero. However,
341. 11:04if you are creating your own thing, you
342. 11:06have your own content, your own
343. 11:07products, your own services, you can
344. 11:08send an email out to your audience and
345. 11:10say, "I got my account shut down, but
346. 11:11I'm over here now."
347. 11:13And so,
348. 11:14>> [music]
349. 11:14>> the most powerful thing that you can do
350. 11:16is build your own brand in 2026. Jake
351. 11:18Paul knows that. That's why he's paying
352. 11:20people pennies, [music] literal pennies,
353. 11:22to um
354. 11:25dollars
355. 11:25>> [music]
356. 11:26>> to get in front of more people so that
357. 11:28he can continue to accelerate his brand.
358. 11:30If you understand that,
359. 11:32then can be successful on the internet.
360. 11:33[music]
361. 11:35Hire people to accelerate your brand and
362. 11:37not be the person that is being hired.
363. 11:38You're essentially a glorified employee
364. 11:41that has a less
365. 11:43um
366. 11:44that
367. 11:44that has less um leeway, stakes, [music]
368. 11:47involvement. Um you can be discarded at
369. 11:50any point. Anyway, so we're talking
370. 11:52about reuse content.
371. 11:53>> [music]
372. 11:53>> Um
373. 11:54multiple people clipping the same video,
374. 11:57that's a huge problem because you're
375. 11:58going to get hit with reuse content
376. 11:59eventually.
377. 12:01Um repetitive posting, you're going to
378. 12:03have to post at least six times per day
379. 12:05across three different plat- platforms.
380. 12:07That's going to take up a lot of your
381. 12:08time.
382. 12:09Right? Uh and you might think, "Okay,
383. 12:11I'll still do it. It doesn't really take
384. 12:13that long." But if you are
385. 12:16creating the clips with with Way and
386. 12:18Video, and then you still have to go
387. 12:19back and edit them, that's the other
388. 12:20thing that he doesn't necessarily talk
389. 12:22about in this video. You have to still
390. 12:23edit these videos because what he does
391. 12:26um is he gets a clip from from Way and
392. 12:29Video, he takes the payoff, and he puts
393. 12:32[music] it at the beginning to create
394. 12:34entry, and then he's adding in captions,
395. 12:36and then he's adding in a title. So,
396. 12:38it's still going to require some time
397. 12:40for you to edit these videos. Yes, he
398. 12:42uses AI to help accelerate it, but AI
399. 12:45doesn't do all of it for you.
400. 12:47And so um you're going to have multiple
401. 12:50people, hundreds, maybe thousands of
402. 12:51people
403. 12:53editing the same clips. And I don't know
404. 12:54if you can even see
405. 12:56how many people are inside of a
406. 12:58campaign. I'm going to click on Play
407. 13:00Earn Support. Um available on Discord.
408. 13:03There's 947 people. That's another
409. 13:05issue.
410. 13:06I'm clicking on this $20,000 in
411. 13:08campaigns. There's 947 people that are
412. 13:12in this campaign.
413. 13:14So far, the campaign has paid out $2,752
414. 13:17out of $3,000. How much money is each
415. 13:20person making on average?
416. 13:22Uh if we just did the math there
417. 13:24um 27 What did I say? 27
418. 13:2852 / 947
419. 13:32947
420. 13:34On average, each person is making $2.91.
421. 13:38Now, I assume obviously some of them are
422. 13:40making much more
423. 13:43um than that and many many many more
424. 13:46aren't making any. But, on average,
425. 13:48$2.90 is a far cry from getting paid a
426. 13:51thousand per 1,000 views.
427. 13:53Uh $1 per 1,000 views. I multi- Well,
428. 13:56equipment the same video, repetitive
429. 13:57posting.
430. 13:59Uh and I mentioned this before, accounts
431. 14:00can be restricted, demonetized, or shut
432. 14:03down completely. So, let's say for
433. 14:05whatever reason you get monetized by the
434. 14:07YouTube Partner Program, they see that
435. 14:08you are uploading the exact same clips
436. 14:10as somebody else.
437. 14:12They're going to shut you down for
438. 14:13reused content. You're no longer
439. 14:15eligible for the YouTube Partner
440. 14:16Program. And once you get kicked out of
441. 14:17that program, it's going to be really
442. 14:18hard to get back in.
443. 14:21And one other thing
444. 14:23that I'm I'm really curious about when
445. 14:25it comes to this, uh it it skipped my
446. 14:27mind, but I'll come back to it. Um
447. 14:30when I looked at
448. 14:32the account creator, the video the
449. 14:33person that made this video, it said
450. 14:34that they had made $3.82.
451. 14:37He doesn't ever show proof that he has
452. 14:38made um
453. 14:40$2,000 with this opportunity. So, he's
454. 14:43probably got what, 3,000 views?
455. 14:464,000 views from doing this and he's
456. 14:48gotten paid $3.82. [music]
457. 14:50Another big problem is that you are
458. 14:52constantly relying on virality. Getting
459. 14:55paid 2 million qualified views is
460. 14:58difficult. It's hard. Most people
461. 14:59[music] can't do that or can't do it
462. 15:01consistently just to make $2,000 per
463. 15:04[music] month.
464. 15:05Um
465. 15:07and when do you actually get paid?
466. 15:09That's another issue that I would have
467. 15:11with Womp.
468. 15:12If I sell my own digital products and
469. 15:14services, I get paid every Friday.
470. 15:17Or I can get paid out sooner if I want
471. 15:18to.
472. 15:19But, when do you get paid? When does the
473. 15:22campaign end? Does the campaign ever
474. 15:24end? Is there a minimum threshold,
475. 15:26minimum payout that you've got to reach
476. 15:27before
477. 15:28uh people will start [music] paying out?
478. 15:30But, in my opinion, and and again, we're
479. 15:32going to talk about this more when I
480. 15:34actually uh go through this for 30 days,
481. 15:37I think there are a lot of red flags.
482. 15:38There are more opportunities, and I'll
483. 15:40talk about those opportunities on the
484. 15:42what when I make a follow-up video.
485. 15:44But, I think there are more and better
486. 15:45opportunities to make money if you're
487. 15:47going to upload short-format content.
488. 15:50>> [music]
489. 15:50>> I think that
490. 15:52you're going to spend a lot of time
491. 15:54trying to get to this this metric. And
492. 15:58when I make my video, um
493. 16:00my follow-up video, I'm going to show
494. 16:01you the exact campaign. [music] I'm
495. 16:03going to show you the videos that I
496. 16:04created. I'm going to show you the
497. 16:05videos that I've uploaded to so you can
498. 16:07see behind the scenes of someone that's
499. 16:08actually done it. And again, the reason
500. 16:10why I'm doing this is because I've made
501. 16:12a decent amount of money online, and I
502. 16:13know what works and I know what doesn't
503. 16:15work. I think this is a really tough
504. 16:16sell. Oh, what I wanted to say.
505. 16:19This is
506. 16:20back day, maybe four or five years ago,
507. 16:23and I would have and I made videos on
508. 16:24this.
509. 16:26What people used to do is they used
510. 16:28[music] to run ads.
511. 16:32It You could go to a website and watch
512. 16:35videos
513. 16:37and get paid from the ads. This is kind
514. 16:40of that same thing, and I think that
515. 16:41this loophole is going to get closed.
516. 16:44This is a one of those loopholes that is
517. 16:46kind of a violation of YouTube's terms
518. 16:49of service because essentially you're
519. 16:52taking a video, a for-long format video,
520. 16:54and you're paying people [music]
521. 16:56to chop it up and push it out.
522. 16:59I don't think YouTube is
523. 17:00>> [music]
524. 17:00>> entirely thrilled with that.
525. 17:02Also,
526. 17:03um
527. 17:04this content creator doesn't disclose
528. 17:06that you could be sued by the FTC
529. 17:08because you're being paid [music]
530. 17:10to create content. Another huge issue
531. 17:13that uh get got overlooked. What
532. 17:16Let me know what you think. Do you think
533. 17:17I'm going to make money? I'm going to do
534. 17:18this for 30 days. Uh I'm going to walk
535. 17:20you through my entire process
536. 17:22of getting [music]
537. 17:23uh finding a campaign,
538. 17:25getting started, uploading videos. I'll
539. 17:27let you even see [music]
540. 17:28I'll try and schedule the the the posts
541. 17:30out so that you can see it for yourself.
542. 17:32And even then you can't really do that
543. 17:34because you've got a screenshot and send
544. 17:36it over to um
545. 17:38the campaign owner. But, I'll let you
546. 17:40see inside the entire process. Let me
547. 17:41know what you think. I personally think
548. 17:43that I will not [music] make $2,000 a
549. 17:45month. I think I will struggle to make
550. 17:47any money because of all of the smaller
551. 17:50problems,
552. 17:52um
553. 17:52>> [music]
554. 17:52>> the competition that's there. Like I
555. 17:54mentioned, there's 947 people that are
556. 17:56inside of this campaign
557. 17:58that are also trying to vie for the the
558. 18:01pot.
559. 18:02And then, you know, what happens like I
560. 18:03said when this campaign ends? [music]
561. 18:05Your videos are still going to be up
562. 18:07promoting building someone else's brand,
563. 18:09and you have no recourse. Let me know
564. 18:11what you think in the comment section
565. 18:12below. Thanks for watching, and we'll
566. 18:13see you in the next video.