Elon Musk’s advice to young people:
Be optimistic about the future
Learn as much as you can
Read a lot books
Try a lot of things
“It’s better to be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right. Your quality of life will be much better”
“I’m confident the future will not be boring…. He’s going to be very interesting and most likely to be great”
i currently own and operate 3 companies.
https://t.co/H8AF0KpNzz, https://t.co/XQFcRk9hEK, & https://t.co/yDDdHttNot
what i've learned from each is that if someone (including yourself) has a problem that you solve, people will pay for it.
If your channel is dead, the content is probably fine.
The account was COOKED before the first real upload went live.
And you end up spending the next 3 months rewriting scripts, testing thumbnails and blaming the niche, while the real cause sits untouched….
So here's the checklist I run to find the real cause, in order:
1. Trust score. Nobody tested whether the channel gets views at all, so 15 finished videos went into an account the algorithm wrote off on day one. Fix: upload 1 boring 3 minute video and wait 72 hours. If it gets fewer than 300 views, abandon the channel.
2. Proxy fraud score. If your proxy's IP has a high fraud score, your reach dies, and YouTube never sends a flag or an email to tell you why. Fix: check the IP on browserleaks from INSIDE the browser profile before you upload anything. It takes 30 seconds.
3. Fingerprint coherence. Your browser profile tells YouTube what computer you're on, down to the processor and the graphics card. If those parts don't add up to a real computer, the account looks fake.
This one cost me a channel that had already passed the views test. Strong scripts, solid thumbnails, the right niche, and zero views for 3 weeks.
The problem was the profile. It said the computer had an Apple Silicon processor with an Nvidia graphics card, and no real computer has that combination.
I fixed the fingerprint, uploaded the same content, and it came back with over 800 views.
4. Upload cadence. 5 videos in 3 days on a fresh channel looks exactly like a spam farm. Fix: 1 upload every 48 to 72 hours for the first 2 weeks, then ramp up.
5. Niche contamination. Romance, then WW2, then survival. By video 10 the algorithm has conflicting data on 3 audiences, so it shows your videos to none of them.
See how content isn't even on the list? It's almost never the core issue.
One more thing: people constantly confuse a broken channel with a slow one.
Kill a channel fast if it fails the checks above and you can't fix it.
But if it passes them and is only growing slowly, leave it alone. YouTube needs roughly 12 to 15 videos to work out who your audience is, so quitting a healthy channel at video 8 can leave you up to 7 uploads short.
So work out whether your channel is broken or just slow before you change anything.
The full diagnostic and proxy setup is inside elevate(.uno)
Or DM me "REVIVE" if your channel is stuck at zero and you don't know why
Every AI story channel doing a million views a month is a blueprint sitting in public.
The titles, the scripts, the runtime, the thumbnails. All of them FREE to study.
Here are the 6 steps I use to rebuild one, with the exact prompt for each step, so you can start on your own channel tonight…
Step 1: find the target.
Look for channels under 6 months old that are already pulling big views. In Claude, NexLev MCP (a tool that pulls YouTube channel data) does this for you. Without it, open a video in incognito and click through the related videos.
"Use NexLev MCP to find channels in [NICHE] under 6 months old with at least 3 videos above 100k views. For each, pull the 5 most recent and 5 best uploads. Flag channels where the best 5 are more than 5x the recent 5 (viral-spike traps, skip these). Return the survivors with estimated RPM, upload frequency and 48-hour view velocity on their last 3 uploads."
That 5x check matters. If a channel's best videos do 5x its latest ones, a few uploads got lucky and the rest didn't, so copying it won't get you the same results.
Step 2: validate the niche.
Find 10 channels in the same niche and angle (the same kind of story), each averaging 1,000+ views per video. Under 5, walk away.
"Use NexLev MCP to find 10 YouTube channels in the [NICHE] space launched in the last 12 months with average views above 1,000 per video. Return the channel name, subscriber count, total videos, average views per video, estimated RPM range, primary audience demographic, and the titles of the top 3 outlier videos for each channel. Sort by average views descending."
Step 3: reverse-engineer the script.
Pull the transcripts from the target's 3 best videos (YouTube shows them under the video: "Show transcript") and paste them into Claude with:
"Analyze these 3 reference scripts from a top-performing channel in my niche. Study their structure, pacing, chapter length distribution, hook format, character introduction patterns, emotional beats, cliffhanger placement, and resolution type. Generate a JSON template defining total parts, words per part, hook type, cliffhanger placement, character registry format, setting parameters, voice directives, and resolution type."
Claude gives you a JSON template: a structured file that tells it how every script should be built. From then on, paste the JSON and a title into Claude and ask for the script. No other prompt needed.
People skip this step, type "write me a 40-minute story," and the model changes the characters by chapter 6.
Step 4: copy the production style.
Match the runtime to what the target runs. Match the voice: deep male for cowboy, female narrator for duke romance, documentary cadence for WW2.
For the thumbnail, attach one of the target's thumbnails in Claude and paste this. Then run the prompt Claude writes in an image tool like Nano Banana Pro or ChatGPT:
"I need a thumbnail image prompt for a YouTube video titled '[VIDEO TITLE]' in the [NICHE] niche. The thumbnail should 1) feature [NUMBER] characters with specific, exaggerated facial expressions conveying [EMOTION], 2) be set in [SETTING] with [LIGHTING CONDITIONS], 3) leave the top corners relatively uncluttered for title text overlay, 4) use [COLOR TEMPERATURE] tones matching the mood. Style reference: hyperrealistic cinematic film still, 16:9 horizontal, [GENRE DESCRIPTOR]. Include 8k detail, photorealistic skin texture, volumetric light, and shallow depth of field."
Step 5: build the channel.
Upload a boring 3-minute video titled "a walk in the park." Wait 72 hours. If YouTube showed it 300+ times from the homepage or suggested videos (check YouTube Studio), the channel works. Under 250, start a new one.
Then brand it: a unique name, a square profile picture, and a description rewritten from a competitor's:
"Here is a channel description from a competitor in my niche. Rewrite it for my new channel, [CHANNEL NAME], in the same tone, without copying any sentences."
Step 6: produce and upload on a loop.
Paste 10 of the target's titles into Claude:
"Based on the following titles, please generate 30 new titles following the same style, structure and keywords."
Script each title with your JSON, voice it, add the visuals and upload. 1 upload every 48-72 hours for 2 weeks, then ramp to 2-3 a day once YouTube starts pushing your videos.
Run the 6 steps on one channel this week, and you'll learn more than a month of guessing would teach you.
If you want me to pick the target channel with you, DM me "CLONE"
If you're a dude wanting to "make it"
If you feel stuck
Ask yourself
-Have I sacrificed everything I possibly can
-Do I put in 12 hours daily
-Am I doing many things VS just this 1 thing
-Do I train for this like an athlete
Why: I guarantee if you audit your day to day you will find out why you're truly stuck. You're not REALLY trying.
So many times in my life I got stuck moving up the ladder of success (still do, I'm trend towards being an F-up).
Every time I run this audit and I find
-I'm spending 2-3 hours a day with TV/Games/Social media/phone.
-I'm not optimizing my diet/health for peak creativity
-I'm doing 3-4 different things and splitting my focus
-I'm simply not putting the time in.
-I'm not actually taking real risk (the key to triggering all of this)
Every time.
I guara-an-fooking-tee that if you
-Sacrifice everything except family (for a time)
-Give up ALL hobbies/time sinks besides reading
-Clock 10-12 REAL hours a day
-Stop drinking, smoking and eating crap
No matter how dumb and disadvantaged you are...You will win.
The hack to all of this is to actually take big financial risk that will not kill you, BUT put enough pressure on you that you don't have an option to feck about.
It's not a luck thing. It's not a you thing.
It's a focus, quality and volume thing.
Isolate your focus by cutting everything
Optimize the quality by fixing your fecked brain
Increase the volume
You will become a millionaire. Even if you're a dumb shit inbred mouth breathing r-tard.
@noahmorris As you said sometimes, faceless YouTube is very risky, but you also says, it will always be a way to make quick bucks.
I want to know how long it will work.
And what about AI slop.
What's the future of it.
Because there are predictions of platform decline.
I have never warmed up a channel in my life and I run 20 monetized ones.
The ritual everybody performs is the most robotic behaviour you could hand to Google.
Watch videos for a week, subscribe to a few accounts, then stop the second you upload your first real video. No human on earth behaves that way. Here is what I do instead, and the whole thing costs 3 minutes plus 72 hours of patience.
Upload the most boring video imaginable to the fresh channel.
3 minutes long. 16:9. Pointing at the floor. Titled something like "a walk in the park."
Nothing fancy, nothing edited, nothing anybody would ever want to watch.
Then leave it for 72 hours and open the reach report.
300 impressions means the channel is usable
500 means the trust score is strong
1000 means the account is BLESSED
The logic underneath is what makes this work.
Nobody clicks a video of somebody's shoes. Zero curiosity, zero packaging, zero reason for a human to press play.
So if the algorithm served that video to 500 strangers anyway, the recommendation engine trusts the account. You have your answer before spending a single dollar or a single hour on production.
Now the part turning this from a test into a system.
Spin up 10 channels. Test all 10. Keep the 2 performing best and abandon the rest.
Those other 8 were going to eat months of your life while you blamed your thumbnails, your niche, your voice, your titles, and every other variable except the one you never measured.
Sequence matters too.
Impressions test FIRST, then verify intermediate features with a phone number so you are able to add custom thumbnails and longer uploads. Doing that before the test is wasted effort on channels you are about to throw away.
I see people spend 3 weeks producing an 8 hour sleep mix for a channel with a dead trust score, then conclude the niche is saturated.
The niche was fine. The account was cooked before the first upload.
The full channel setup sequence is broken down module by module inside elevate(.uno)