cheeto

mediocre software engineer

[cheeto @eshocheeto]

@meh_agarwal 🚀🔥🔥🔥

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

BTS will air their comeback concert live on Netflix on March 21.

A documentary about their return will release on March 27.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

A YouTuber with 38 million subscribers just beat the entire Hollywood studio system at its own game, and he did it with 80,000 gallons of fake blood and a submarine made of painted wood.

Mark Fischbach played a $6 indie horror game on his channel in 2022. The game was Iron Lung, developed by one guy, David Szymanski, in his spare time. It had no windows, no enemies you could see, just a convict trapped in a submarine navigating an ocean of blood. The entire thing took about 75 minutes to beat.

Fischbach saw something the game industry didn’t. The constraint was the feature. A single claustrophobic set. One man losing his mind. Sound design carrying all the horror that visuals couldn’t. This wasn’t a limitation to work around. This was a low-budget filmmaker’s dream.

So he did what studios would never greenlight. He wrote the script himself, directed it himself, acted in it himself, edited it himself, and paid for the whole thing out of pocket. No studio. No distribution deal. No marketing budget.

Then the gatekeepers showed up.

When he tried to get theaters, they told him the demand wasn’t there. So he posted about it. His fans called every independent theater chain in the country. Theaters started complaining to the distributor that they were getting too many calls.

Within weeks, AMC, Cinemark, and Regal announced they’d carry it. The film went from “maybe 60 theaters” to over 4,000 screens worldwide. Presales crossed $5 million before opening day.

$8.9 million on Friday. $17 million projected by Sunday. A self-distributed movie by a YouTuber, beating initial projections by 70%.

The studio model is built on the assumption that audiences need to be told what to watch. Fischbach proved that 38 million subscribers is its own distribution network. The audience was already waiting. He just had to make something worth waiting for.

[cheeto @eshocheeto]

@Madgray8 @875tickets sorry i messed that setting up :( could you try again? i followed u so i think it should show up

[cheeto @eshocheeto]

@Madgray8 @875tickets Yes! Please feel free to dm :)

[Pop Crave @PopCrave]

Ruby Rose slams Sydney Sweeney and her team for “ruining” the Christy Martin biopic:

“For her PR to talk about it flopping and saying SS did it for the ‘people’. None of ‘the people’ want to see someone who hates them, parading around pretending to be us. You’re a cretin and you ruined the film. Period. Christy deserved better.”

[cheeto @eshocheeto]

@loustatPhD https://t.co/I5uZFnJa7W :)

[cheeto @eshocheeto]

@meh_agarwal @ycombinator Good luck! Cheering for this from the east coast🔥🙂‍↕️

[cheeto @eshocheeto]

@meh_agarwal @jonathanzliu Mihu reminded me of mishiru 💀

[cheeto @eshocheeto]

@meh_agarwal Time to hire an Asian high schooler at Koyal lmfao

[JOJI @sushitrash]

see u soon

[cheeto @eshocheeto]

RT @meh_agarwal: Big news: @KoyalAI is now a @ycombinator F25 company.

We're building an agentic filmmaking platform that turns your voice…

[cheeto @eshocheeto]

@meh_agarwal @KoyalAI @duolingo Making me wanna move to bay asap

[koyal.ai (YC F25) @KoyalAI]

Storytellers don't struggle with ideas. They struggle to bring their vision to life.

Even with AI, it's still a maze of tools, prompts & iterations for just one scene.

That's why we built @KoyalAI : to turn your voice to cinema. Try it for FREE: beta [dot] koyal [dot] ai

We are the agentic layer on top of foundation models, with one focus: the fastest, most reliable way to go from audio to video.

Currently SOTA in multi-character consistency, lipsync & editing. Day-0 support for new models like Seedream 4 (our engineers have not slept yet, pray for them)

Why mimic reality when you can create the impossible?

-kookoo

[Mehul Agarwal @meh_agarwal]

Most storytellers don’t struggle with ideas. They struggle to bring their vision to life.

Even with AI, it’s still a maze of tools, prompts & iterations for just one scene.

That’s why we built @KoyalAI: to turn your voice to cinema.

Try it for FREE: beta [dot] koyal [dot] ai

Koyal is the agentic layer on top of foundation models, with one focus: the fastest, most reliable way to go from audio to video.

Currently SOTA in multi-character consistency, lipsync & editing.

Day-0 support for new models like Seedream 4 (yes it released yesterday, and no I haven't slept yet 🥲)

Why mimic reality when you can create the impossible?

[Mehul Agarwal @meh_agarwal]

How to make a Movie: the modern way.

Presenting @KoyalAI: The Audio to Video Filmmaking Platform

The fastest way to turn podcasts, songs, or stories into full cinematic video.

Watch till the end to try it out yourself.

You don’t need a camera to shoot a movie anymore.

[Mehul Agarwal @meh_agarwal]

First public demo of @KoyalAI at @TheAICollective’s Silicon Valley Demo Night… and we somehow walked away with Best Overall 🥇.

I opened with: “You no longer need a camera to shoot a movie...”

[Pop Crave @PopCrave]

🚨 Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are engaged.

[Mehul Agarwal @meh_agarwal]

We just dropped Imagination->Animation on @KoyalAI
"The Boy Who Cried Wolf" made in 20 minutes. Just from voice.

As a kid, bedtime stories were animated movies in my head. Now it's real.

@YouTube Kids is full of low tier trash. Now you can make animation kids actually deserve

[Ybg Dong @femboxd]

Seen too many movies for a regular person but too little movies to be a true cinephile