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0:00In today's video, I'm going to show you
0:02what I believe to be one of the laziest
0:04AI side hustles that you can start
0:07today, [music] where people are making
0:09anything from a few hundred to as much
0:11as $1,000 a day. And some of them are
0:13making even more. The crazy part about
0:16this side hustle is that some of these
0:17creators started doing this in October
0:21of 2026, and they already have well over
0:2420 million views. And what's incredible
0:27is they have done this without creating
0:29any of the content themselves. No
0:31filming, no showing their face or using
0:34any expensive filming or editing
0:36equipment. In order to start this side
0:38hustle today, all you need is [music]
0:40one simple prompt and AI tools like
0:43Claude. And I'm also going to show you
0:44how you can use Chat GPT. If you want to
0:47know how you can get started in this
0:49side hustle, then make sure you watch
0:50this entire video cuz I'm going to walk
0:52you through everything step by [music]
0:53step. Let's get into it.
0:58Now, in step one, what I want to do is
0:59show you example channels, what they're
1:02doing, how they're monetizing, the
1:03different types of niches that they're
1:05getting into, and when they started.
1:07[music] And all this is short form
1:09content on YouTube. I'm also going to
1:11show you the requirements of what you
1:13need to do to get monetized and the
1:15changes that are coming in 2027, which
1:17[music] will definitely affect you. So,
1:19you definitely want to know what they
1:21are. So recently on YouTube, I've
1:24noticed a trend. When I was going
1:26through, I can see a lot of these
1:28different stick figure style animation
1:30type of videos. So it's stick figure and
1:33also 2D and 3D animations. And you can
1:35see that they're getting hundreds of
1:37thousands of views. They're getting a
1:39lot of comments. They're getting a lot
1:40of engagement. I mean, look at this
1:41video. You can see this video has had 3
1:44million views. So you can see that these
1:46videos are getting a ton of views. They
1:49are monetized. A lot of these videos are
1:51monetized, not to mention sponsorship
1:54earnings, not to mention that they could
1:56potentially be also selling affiliate
1:58products or different types of products
2:00on their own. [music] And what I'm going
2:01to do today is show you exactly how you
2:04could potentially create one of these
2:06videos utilizing a claude [music]
2:09prompt. I mean, take a look at this
2:11video. 3.3 million views and [music]
2:13it's only been up for 12 days.
2:19Now, when I dug deeper with these
2:20channels, I went through and found again
2:23that finance, motivation, psychology,
2:26relationships, and storytelling were the
2:28niches that were doing probably the best
2:31across all the different styles of
2:33niches. Then what happened was is I went
2:35through and I wanted to find a proof of
2:38concept. I wanted to find channels that
2:39had recently started to see how well
2:42they're doing. And I found this channel
2:44over here called Stick to It. Actually,
2:45I probably found about 10 of them that
2:47recently started over the last 3 months.
2:50But this one over here has done
2:52extremely well. If I go to more, we can
2:54see here that this channel joined
2:56YouTube. Like the channel was created on
2:58October 17th, 2026. You can see here
3:02that it already has over 23 million
3:05views. If we take a look at their most
3:07popular videos, you can see some of them
3:09have had almost 10 million views, 7.9
3:12million views, 2.7 million views, etc.
3:15Now, this is in a stick form type
3:17[music] of animation. So, then I went
3:20down an even bigger rabbit hole. I
3:21wanted to find [music] a channel that
3:23was doing something in the 2D and 3D
3:26animations. And I came across this
3:28channel over here called Rick's Clips.
3:29[music]
3:30And this channel is absolutely crushing
3:32it. When I clicked on to more, this
3:34channel's been around for a little bit
3:35longer. You can see joined August 27th,
3:382025. We're talking about 1 year. And as
3:41we scroll down and we take a look at the
3:42most popular videos, we can see 33
3:45million over here, 27 million, 17
3:48million, 15 million, 15 million. So this
3:50channel is getting a lot of views. So
3:53then I thought to myself, how can I show
3:55you how can we replicate this channel?
3:58Because when you take a look at some of
4:00their videos, this video here was posted
4:0310 days ago. It's got 28 million views.
4:09So then I thought to myself, how much
4:11money could they potentially be making?
4:14So I went over to Next Lev and I wanted
4:15to see I saw here that they've got about
4:18248 million views over the last 30 days.
4:22So what does that actually relate to in
4:24in terms of YouTube short earnings? We
4:26know the YouTube short earnings can be
4:28[music] anything from, you know, one or
4:30two cents all the way up to 30 cents
4:33depending on the niche. Then I dug a
4:35little bit deeper and I found this
4:37channel, [music] a guy that has a
4:39similar channel and I found his earnings
4:43and he showed over here that 4 for
4:45716,400,000
4:49views that he made $16,000.
4:53So I reverse engineered this. I did
4:55716,400,000
4:58divided by a,000 which gave me 716,400.
5:03And then I times that by 0.15
5:07which gave me 107,000 really really
5:10close. So we [music] can estimate that
5:12these channels are getting roughly
5:1615 cents RPM which means revenue per
5:20mile. This is what YouTube pays them.
5:24Now this is just a rough estimate. It
5:26could be 10 cents. It could be 20 cents.
5:28It just depends. What he said was that
5:31his videos are about 30 seconds long.
5:33And if a video is even longer, about a
5:35minute long, which a lot of these videos
5:38are on these channels, then you can
5:40expect them to be earning a little bit
5:42more. So, what we're going to do is
5:43we're going to assume that these videos
5:46are earning about 15 cents per,000
5:49views, which means that this channel is
5:52making roughly $37,000
5:55[music]
5:56a month. And that's because I divided
5:58that 248,190,000
6:01by a,000 and I times it by 15. [music]
6:04Now, if we divide this by 30 days, this
6:08gives us over $1,000 a day. Not bad for
6:12a channel where you could create all
6:15these videos using AI. And that's
6:17exactly what I'm going to show you how
6:18to do.
6:21So, now in step two, we're going to
6:23cover off a couple of important things.
6:25[music] number one, what you need to do
6:26to get your channel monetized. Number
6:28two, how to get your channel verified
6:31and obviously how to go about creating
6:33that channel as well. So, the purposes
6:35of this video, what we're going to be
6:37doing is we're going to be creating a
6:38channel similar to Rick's clips. You can
6:40call your channel whatever you want, but
6:42I'm going to show you how with one
6:43simple prompt, you can create videos
6:46like this. Then I've got a bonus
6:49strategy of what I'm going to tell you
6:51how I can help you going forward to make
6:54this process even easier using Claude.
6:58So the first thing that we need to take
6:59a look at is the YouTube monetization
7:02changes. Currently, in order for
7:05yourself to get monetized on YouTube
7:08with short form content, you need to get
7:1210 million qualified short views. Okay?
7:16in [music] the next 90 days. Okay, you
7:19need to have 1,000 subscribers. Now,
7:22that's of currently, but as of February
7:26the 1st, 2027,
7:28those metrics are going to double. So,
7:30you're going to need to have at least 20
7:33million qualified short views. The 1,000
7:36subscribers stays the same. Now, if you
7:39change this up and you go to your long
7:41format, then that's going to be 8,000
7:43hours, whereas at the moment, it's 4,000
7:46hours. So, this is really important
7:47distinction that you need to know about.
7:49So, you still have some time in order to
7:52get your channels monetized with the
7:55current format that YouTube has. So,
7:58that's the first thing that we wanted to
8:00cover off. Second thing that you want to
8:01think about doing
8:05is creating a channel for yourself. This
8:08is an animation channel that I created
8:10recently where I've just been testing
8:12different things on. Okay, it's called
8:14Ask Alfie. You can see it's only got
8:15five subscribers and I've put up a
8:17couple of videos recently. You can see
8:19some of them have had [music] 400 views
8:21and 336 views, etc. This is a testing
8:24channel where I'm just testing different
8:26formats. Now when you go to create this
8:28channel obviously you need to go to
8:30YouTube you need to come up with a name
8:31you can get cha to help you very very
8:33simple stuff come up with a name get
8:35claude or chap to help you create a
8:37banner this entire channel was created
8:39using AI one really really important
8:42thing that you need to do guys once you
8:44create your channel obviously it's not
8:46going to have any videos what you then
8:48want to do when you're in your back
8:50office of your channel is you want to
8:52come over here on the left hand side and
8:54you want to go to settings when you're
8:56in settings. You want to go to channel
8:58and you want to go to feature
8:59eligibility. You can see that all three
9:02of mine are enabled. You want to enable
9:05this because what this is going to do is
9:07it's going to give your channel some
9:09level of authority. If you don't do
9:11this, there's a very good chance that
9:13you're not going to get a lot of views.
9:15YouTube is going to wait for you to
9:16upload a fair amount of videos before it
9:20starts to recognize your channel, before
9:22it gives you the waiting it needs for
9:23yourself to get the views that you want.
9:25So highly recommend that you come over,
9:28you go to feature eligibility and follow
9:30these three different options. You can
9:33ver verify via phone, you can verify
9:35with your ID, etc. And this is going to
9:38help your channel get the verification
9:40it needs to be able to push even more on
9:44YouTube.
9:47So now in step four, in order for this
9:49side hustle to [music] be successful,
9:51what we need to do is we need to reverse
9:54engineer what this channel Rick's Clips
9:57is about. And we need to get more
9:59information on it so that then we can
10:01give Claude a prompt to be able to help
10:04us recreate this exact style of video so
10:08that we can start uploading it onto
10:10YouTube. So what I did is I came over to
10:13chat GPT and I just quite simply asked
10:15it what is the channel Rick's clips
10:18about on YouTube? Can you tell me the
10:20niche, the style and what the and what
10:22videos it creates? [music]
10:23And as you can see chat GPT is basically
10:26telling me what this channel is about.
10:28You can see it creates video about
10:29history and unusual events, science and
10:31engineering, psychology, human behavior,
10:34interesting facts and mysteries,
10:35unexpected true stories. Then it's even
10:38told me which videos recently have done
10:40extremely well, which is great insight,
10:42which is what we need. [music] Then, as
10:44we can see, it tells us what makes this
10:46channel successful. So, it goes into
10:48detail about the channel, which is
10:50great. Tells us a little bit more about
10:52the niche. This is all perfect. You can
10:54do this research yourself. Then, what I
10:56did is I went down and I said, can you
10:57give me 10 titles that could be a
11:00possible next video for [music] Rick's
11:02clips. This is really important because
11:04we're going to use one of these to
11:06create a video. So then, as you can see,
11:09Chat GPT has given us a few different
11:13videos. Okay? So, it's given us 10 video
11:15ideas for Rick's clips. Remember, we
11:17don't want to copy any of their videos.
11:19We just want to create our own videos.
11:21So, we don't want to go take videos that
11:22are already there. We want to tell Chat
11:25JPT, you can never do this on Claude and
11:27tell it what are some of the future
11:29videos it could be potentially creating.
11:32So, as you can see, it's given us 10
11:34different videos. Now, we can create
11:35every single one of these videos, but
11:38we're going to start with one. So, as
11:39you can see, it's given us 10. Then,
11:40it's given us its top three picks. And
11:43what I've done is I've gone and chosen
11:45number two, the bridge that collapsed
11:48without anyone touching it. Now, what we
11:52need to do is we need a script. So, what
11:55I've done is I've scrolled down and I've
11:57asked chat GPT, can you give me a script
12:00for this? make it around 30 to 40
12:02seconds long and [music] I've given it
12:05the title which was the number two
12:06title. As you can see, chat GPT has gone
12:10and given us a script. This is really,
12:13really important because we're going to
12:14use this script to create this video on
12:17Claude. So, now that we have that
12:19script, what we now need to do is we
12:21need to get a prompt to give to Claude
12:24to create this video. [music] So, what I
12:27did now is I went back to Chad GPT and
12:29this is what I said to her. Can you give
12:30me a prompt to give to Claude to create
12:33a video like Rick's clips? I'll be
12:35uploading a few screenshots, use a young
12:38British accent, [music] have sound
12:39effects, make it interactive exactly
12:42like the channel makes its videos.
12:43[music]
12:44So, because I've given some of the
12:47information already to Chat JPT and it
12:49knows what the channel is about, it is
12:51now going to give me a [music] prompt to
12:54tell Claude to create videos in this
12:57style. But we're also going to give
12:59Claude a little bit more information to
13:01help it out. As you can see, this is the
13:04prompt that chat GPT has created for me
13:08to give to [music] Claude. Don't worry,
13:10I'm going to pin this prompt in the
13:12description of inside the video down the
13:14bottom in the description that you can
13:15get it. Okay? But I'm going to tell you
13:17at the end of the video how I can help
13:19you make this process even simpler. You
13:22do not want to miss that. Okay? So quite
13:24simply, what we now need to do is we're
13:26going to need to copy all this and put
13:28it into Claude. So let me show you how
13:30we're going to create this video.
13:35So now in step five, what we want to do
13:37is we want to get Claude to create this
13:40video for us. So the first thing that
13:42we're going to need to do is we want to
13:43come back over to Chad GPT and we want
13:45to copy this prompt. [music] You want to
13:48come straight back over to Claude, guys,
13:50and you want to paste that in there. The
13:52second thing that we want to do is we
13:53want to scroll back up and we want to
13:55grab that script. So, we're going to
13:57copy that script. I'm going to come back
13:59over to Claude and we're going to paste
14:00that in there. Okay. So, what we're
14:02going to do is we're just going to write
14:03here, here is the script.
14:08Now, what we want to do, guys, is we
14:09want to give Claude a little bit more
14:12context about the animation [music]
14:14style. So, in order to do that, one of
14:17the ways that you can do it is you can
14:18quite simply just come straight back
14:20over to Rick's clips, guys, [music] and
14:22you can just copy these images. Okay?
14:25So, just come straight back over to
14:26here, paste that in there. It's
14:28automatically going to know exactly the
14:30type of images, style, etc. that you
14:33want. If you want a different style,
14:35okay, just explain exactly to Claude
14:38what you want. Okay? You don't have to
14:40do this exact same style. I'm just doing
14:43this for the purposes of this video. If
14:46there's any other information that you
14:48want to get it, type of sound effects,
14:49music, anything that you want, then all
14:52you would need to do is tell Claude
14:53exactly what you want. This is just a
14:55test experiment to see the style of
14:57video that we're going to have. If you
15:00also have 11 Labs, you can sign up for a
15:02free account to 11 Labs. It's going to
15:04give you 10,000 credits. That can help
15:07you potentially have a much better type
15:10of voice over. you can have better sound
15:12effects, etc. And you can get up to
15:1410,000 credits for free when you sign up
15:17to 11 Labs every single month, which is
15:19a fair amount of credits. And then you
15:21can upgrade later on to a paying account
15:24obviously once your channel is monetized
15:26if you have a little bit of budget to
15:27spend. [music] And that can obviously
15:29make your videos look and sound 10 times
15:32better than just the basics of it. Okay.
15:34So then scroll down here. What you now
15:36need to do guys is quite simply come
15:37over here, click on to send message.
15:40Now, what Claude is going to do is it's
15:42going to go into the think tank and it's
15:44going to create this video for us.
15:50And after going through and compiling
15:52everything, the video itself to create
15:54took about 30 minutes, which isn't too
15:56bad. And this is the end result. I'm
15:58going to play this for you to see how
16:00amazing this video sounds. remember
16:03could have easily made this video to be
16:05a minute long and made it even more
16:07compelling and look even better. But we
16:09did it 30 seconds just to show you what
16:12this can do. [music] Let's have a listen
16:14to see what how this video turned out.
16:16In 1940, a massive bridge in Washington
16:19started moving like it was made of
16:21rubber. But here's the crazy part.
16:23Nobody crashed into it. There was no
16:25earthquake and the wind wasn't even that
16:27strong. At first, the bridge started
16:30bouncing up and down. Then the entire
16:32roadway began twisting like a giant
16:34ribbon. Drivers abandoned their cars as
16:37the bridge violently rolled from side to
16:39side and suddenly huge sections of the
16:41bridge broke apart and crashed into the
16:43water below. So what caused it? Wind.
16:46Not a hurricane, just ordinary wind
16:48interacting with a bridge that wasn't
16:50designed [music] to handle the twisting
16:52motion. The bridge had been open for
16:53only 4 months.
16:56>> There you go guys, that video. looks,
16:58sounds, sound effects, voice over,
17:01absolutely amazing. I know that videos
17:04like this do stand to get some really,
17:06really good views. Now, what you want to
17:09do from here is you want to start
17:11uploading these videos straight [music]
17:14on to YouTube. Now, when it comes to a
17:16description, when you comes to a title,
17:19all you need to do is ask Claude, so
17:22tell Claude a to give you a title for
17:25this video. From there, you can
17:27obviously tell it to give you a
17:28description. The descriptions don't need
17:31to be too long. If you come over to
17:33Rick's clips and take a look at their
17:35channel, let's just bring up one of
17:36their most latest videos. I'm going to
17:38pause this. If we click onto the title,
17:40it's going to show you exactly what they
17:42have. So, this guy doesn't even have
17:43much inside the description of his
17:46video. He basically just has a title.
17:49So, you can put a very simple
17:50description. All you need to do is tell
17:52Claude, "Give me a title for this
17:55video." Then from there, give me a very
17:57simple description. What I highly
17:59recommend that you do is that you don't
18:01limit yourself [music] just to YouTube.
18:03You can just as easily put these videos
18:05up on Instagram, link it back to
18:07YouTube. Put these videos up onto Tik
18:09Tok, link it back to YouTube. Put these
18:12videos onto Facebook, link it back to
18:14YouTube. So, anybody that watches those
18:16videos there can come straight over to
18:18YouTube. If they watch, that's going to
18:20add up to your watch hours. If they
18:21subscribe, it's going to add to your
18:22subscriber count. And this is going to
18:24go a long way to helping you get
18:26monetized so that you can start
18:28generating the YouTube ad revenue.
18:33From there, what I recommend that you do
18:35is that you start uploading one video a
18:38day. If you go over to his channel and
18:40take a look, you can see here that at
18:42the moment they're uploading one video
18:44every couple of days, but previously
18:46they were doing one video every single
18:48day. When I took a look at some of those
18:50other channels that only started
18:52recently, some of them have been
18:53uploading twice a day. But you don't
18:55need to do that. Only upload once a day.
18:57It's more than enough. Just stick to one
18:59time. So if you upload in the morning
19:01your time, do it in the morning. [music]
19:02If you upload in the afternoon, then
19:03upload in the afternoon. Just stick to a
19:05schedule and make sure that you do it
19:06every single day. Now, of course, when
19:08it comes to this type of channel, this
19:10is for YouTube shorts. You could just as
19:12easily do this for long form videos as
19:15well, and look to get the watch hours a
19:19lot quicker. Remember, when it comes to
19:21the watch hours, at the moment, you need
19:234,000. Later on, you're going to need
19:248,000 watch hours. But these videos are
19:27popping off and they're going absolutely
19:29viral. A lot of these videos are getting
19:322, 3, 10, 20. I've seen some videos
19:34getting 30 and 50 million views in the
19:37long format style very very similar to
19:41this [music] and these AI tools make it
19:44so much easier for yourself. So if you
19:46want to go down that route of the long
19:48format videos then all you'll need to do
19:49is alter your prompt a little bit and
19:52you could very easily create that style
19:54of video as well.
19:58Now, I told you guys at the start of the
20:00video that there was a way that you
20:01could that could make things a lot
20:03simpler for you and that is by adding a
20:06skill inside of Claude which is going to
20:09understand the style of video that you
20:11want every single time you go to create
20:13it. On the left hand side, if you go to
20:16Claude and you click on to customize,
20:18it'll bring you over to a page like this
20:19where you can see skills. From there,
20:21you've got an add button. If you click
20:23on to add, you can go to upload a skill.
20:25That skill is this prompt that I have
20:28over here which I could very easily give
20:31you. What I would like from you is to
20:32let me know would you like me to create
20:35more of these skills that you can upload
20:38inside Claude or would you like me to
20:40create an app which is a lot simpler
20:43where you could plug it into Claude have
20:45all these skills in there and start
20:47creating these videos. If you want
20:49something like that, one thing I want
20:50from you, go down the bottom and just
20:53comment Claude skill, like this video,
20:56subscribe, make sure you got that build
20:58turned on because I will be dropping my
21:00next few videos and if I get enough
21:02comments, I will put this inside the
21:05description where you can literally just
21:07grab those skills and start uploading
21:10them up onto Claude. And if I do go
21:12ahead and create that app, it's going to
21:14make things very, very simple for you.
21:16And if you guys want to know another
21:18amazing way that you can use Clawude to
21:21absolutely crush it online, then I
21:23highly recommend before you jump off
21:25this video, click onto this video here
21:27right now. I'll see you on that video.
21:28Until next time, you guys take care of
21:30yourselves and goodbye.

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