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title: 'YouTube Automation Is a Scam'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=sAH1YdURe8o'
video_id: 'sAH1YdURe8o'
date: 2026-07-31
duration_sec: 608
---

# YouTube Automation Is a Scam

> Source: [YouTube Automation Is a Scam](https://youtube.com/watch?v=sAH1YdURe8o)

## Summary

This video investigates the credibility of YouTube automation courses, focusing on methods promoted by 'experts' like Ryan Hilderbrand. The creator dissects the process of copying successful videos, rewriting scripts, and underpaying freelancers, revealing why these methods often fail YouTube's monetization policies. It concludes by presenting an ethical, higher-investment approach to YouTube automation.

### Key Points

- **Skepticism About Easy Money** [00:04] — The creator questions why anyone with a formula for effortless fortune would sell it as a course, since they'd want to avoid competition.
- **The Copy-and-Rewrite Method** [01:17] — Ryan's approach is to find a successful video, copy its transcript, and run it through an automated rewrite tool, claiming it becomes copyright-free.
- **Plagiarism Is Still Plagiarism** [01:57] — Mechanically replacing words with synonyms and rearranging sentences does not avoid plagiarism; the script remains a derivative work and is still covered by the original copyright.
- **Exploiting Desperate Voice Actors** [02:44] — The strategy involves offering $10 for a 2000-word script on Fiverr, deliberately targeting new sellers with no reviews who are desperate for work.
- **Underpaying Video Editors** [04:26] — Ryan suggests paying $20 for a 10-minute video, which amounts to roughly 16 hours of skilled labor for less than a quarter of US federal minimum wage.
- **The Telltale Signs of Cutting Corners** [05:44] — Low-paid editors will simply insert random stock footage b-roll until the required runtime, rather than creating visuals that enhance the narrative.
- **Uploading a Degraded Copy** [06:14] — The resulting low-quality video has to compete with the original successful video on YouTube, making the odds of gaining subscribers and watch time extremely poor.
- **YouTube's Monetization Rules** [06:41] — YouTube explicitly refuses to monetize repetitious content: readings of others' material, mindless low-educational content, and templated, mass-produced, or programmatically generated videos.
- **Legitimate Channels Can Defend Themselves** [08:08] — Legitimate channels can prove their process with evidence of their workflow, but channels that clearly ripped off another YouTuber's content will be rejected for monetization.
- **Ethical Automation Requires Investment** [08:37] — The ethical route is to hire researchers, scriptwriters, and charismatic narrators at market rates, and to pay editors and animators properly to create visuals that enhance the content.
- **Nothing Is Easy** [09:34] — The creator concludes that anything described as easy is a lie used to sell you something.

### Conclusion

Anyone promising effortless YouTube income is selling a fantasy; legitimate automation requires substantial investment in skilled labor and original content.

## Transcript

the vtuber and today I am going to be investigating channels like Ryan hildeberth who advertise themselves as being an expert in YouTube automation they offer a course that will teach you how to make money effortlessly on
YouTube I'm going to be examining their methods and point out the problems if you try to use their methods also if you watch the end of this video I'll show you the way to legitimately do YouTube automation cashflowchannels.com where we
help our clients build profitable YouTube automation channels even before Ryan tells me how they are going to be making money using YouTube automation I have to say I am skeptical just thinking about it logically if somebody discovers
a way to make a fortune without effort and with a minimal injection of cash wouldn't they want to keep that secret to themselves and not tell tell anybody you don't want anybody else competing for your Market also if they are making
such a large income from YouTube automation why do they need to run a paid course for it now Ryan suggests that you model your channel off of a
to model is this one right over here the way that modeling in this YouTube automation World works is you find a successful video copy the transcript of the video into our automated rewrite
tool which he thinks will make the script copyright free here this video we're going to click on the three dots show transcript and then we're going to copy this right here and
to copy the script but we're going to plug it into a software that will rewrite it copyright free so just like freshman and first year University students who are now facing a
disciplinary committee have just discovered mechanically replacing words with their synonyms and then rearranging the words doesn't stop something from being plagiarism without the insertion of human creative effort the script is
still a derivative work and covered by the original copyright of course a script that has passed through the algorithmic equivalent of a Blendtec blender is most likely going to remove some of the Nuance of meaning from the
original document there is nothing bad about taking inspiration from another about taking inspiration from another Creator or even creating a bad parody of that Creator's background but a simple rip-off isn't that the next step in this
rip-off isn't that the next step in this clearly legitimate scheme is to take your plagiarized script and go to Fiverr even instructs you to look up the most desperate 10 voice over actors you can find and offer them ten dollars for a 2
000 word script put a budget put ten dollars press apply seller details new sellers there's 182 and then voice over options I would go to English okay and I selected female because we're going to switch it up and
just do a female voiceover newest arrivals and it's going to show you all of the girls that don't have any work right they don't have any reviews they need work they're looking for work and experience on the platform so now ten
dollars for a hundred words is on the extreme low end price for voice over work he wants you to offer a payment that is so below rock bottom it is melting into magma He suggests making this offer to 10 people because he knows
nine people will just reject it immediately he is hoping that there is at least one person so desperate or so gullible who doesn't know their own gullible who doesn't know their own worth who will accept your ridiculously
low offer voice acting and voice over work are skilled occupations just in terms of human decency capable should be paid the value of their work however
even if you are the worst kind of person in the world the VA Market is a competitive one offering such under Market rates is going to ensure that the people with talent and equipment to produce good VA work
are going to shift to better paying jobs you are guaranteeing that you're going to get low quality voice over so now that you have poorly recorded voiceover based on a mangled script Ryan's next step is to take it to an editor He
suggests that you offer the princely sum of twenty dollars for a 10 minute video a video editor so again we're going to search for a video editor on Fiverr using the same tactics budget is going to be twenty dollars this time since
it's a little bit more technical now I am still learning a video editing and I will admit my process requires me to do a lot of extra work in the Motion Graphics that are more straightforward edit wouldn't need it takes me on
average about eight hours of work to make five minutes of video so he is make five minutes of video so he is expecting someone to make about 16 hours expecting someone to make about 16 hours of skilled technical labor for Less than
a quarter of the U.S federal minimum wage no editor worth their jog wheel is ever going to bother putting effort into finding and creating visuals that will enhance and support a scripted narrative for such a low paying job what they are
going to do is grab a library full of vaguely appropriate stock footage then vaguely appropriate stock footage then hit the insert random b-roll footage hit the insert random b-roll footage button until they reach the required run
time after you underpay the thumbnail artist you will then upload this degraded telephone game version of a successful video to YouTube where it's going to compete with the original higher quality video an original video
that already has an established viewer base now perhaps just perhaps this strategy succeeds perhaps you're able to sucker 1 000 people into subscribe
driving to your poorly scripted badly voice acted and clumsibly edited video voice acted and clumsibly edited video and get the 4 000 hours of watch time that you require now you can apply for monetization and there you will hit into
the next hurdle one that Ryan doesn't tell you about YouTube's monetization tell you about YouTube's monetization rules on repetitious and reused content here are some of the examples that YouTube says that they will not monetize
under its repetitious content rules content that exclusively features content that exclusively features readings of other materials that you did not create similar repetitive content or mindless content with low educational
mindless content with low educational value commentary or narrative templated mass produced or programmatically generated content but that's not all generated content but that's not all here are YouTube's rules against reused
content reuse content refer refers to channels that repurpose someone else's content without adding significant original commentary or educational value taking someone else's content making minimal changes and calling it your own
original work would be violations of this guideline it's almost like YouTube recognizes that left unchecked this type of low effort content would flood the of low effort content would flood the platform and make YouTube as a whole a
less attractive place for viewers even legitimate channels sometimes have trouble convincing YouTube that they are not making reused or repetitious content
however the legitimate channels can defend themselves by showing evidence of the process they use to make videos If you showed YouTube that the only research you did was ripping off another YouTuber's content they would reject
YouTuber's content they would reject your channel immediately if you have for your channel immediately if you have for some reason set your life on having a monetized YouTube channel but strangely also have no desire to make YouTube
content yourself here is my guide for ethical YouTube automation higher researchers to make a script for you pay them for going market rate for their work hire someone charismatic and engaging to read a script again pay them
properly to ensure a high quality performance then higher editors and possibly animators to create visuals that will enhance the information that
your audio conveys again this will be a lot easier if you pay your people an appropriate rate but that doesn't sound like something that's low cost and low effort it sounds like you'll have to invest a lot of money and a lot of work
coordinating a team of people creating a video that might just flop this sounds less like YouTube Automation and more like being a YouTube producer yes but
the truth is nothing is easy anybody who's telling you something is easy is lying and trying to sell you something however if you want to support my
efforts to legitimately create video content please subscribe so I can become monetized and finally start paying to the scriptwriter cue the voice actor cue
the animator and cue the editor for all the time they have dedicated to putting the time they have dedicated to putting these videos out