--- title: 'How to Lose All Your Money: Create an AI Model' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=YSooU0YItk8' video_id: 'YSooU0YItk8' date: 2026-07-31 duration_sec: 846 --- # How to Lose All Your Money: Create an AI Model > Source: [How to Lose All Your Money: Create an AI Model](https://youtube.com/watch?v=YSooU0YItk8) ## Summary This video exposes the hype around AI adult models as a 'passive income' scheme. The creator argues that most success stories are fake, platforms block traffic, and the real costs make the business unprofitable for beginners, while course sellers profit from unrealistic promises. ### Key Points - **The AI Adult Model Hype** [00:02] — Videos claim you can earn $1,000 easily by creating an AI adult model and selling subscriptions. They show pretty numbers and screenshots, promising passive income. - **How the Scheme Works** [01:11] — Creators generate AI characters using tools like Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, Kling, Lumiya, or XM, then upload paid content to OnlyFans, Funvw, FNI and similar platforms. - **The Real Catch** [01:41] — Most shown success cases are either isolated stories with huge luck and ad spend, or simply fake sales; the industry sells a beautiful story. - **Platform Traffic Restrictions** [03:10] — New YouTube channels can't insert external links before passing a threshold (on average 8-10 large videos with 2,000+ views each), so no traffic is driven to external money sources. - **Hidden Start-Up Costs** [04:22] — Filling a profile requires $15-20, and one minute of decent-quality AI generation can cost $20 including edits and re-renders. - **Fake Monetization** [05:06] — Sales of 100-500 stars shown in videos are extremely easy to counterfeit; views, likes and comments can be bought cheaply, creating a false image of success. - **The Course Scam** [06:17] — Most success stories are scams; anyone with a working method would never sell it. The content is a warm-up to sell courses or subscriptions for 1,000-5,000 rubles. - **Who Is Targeted** [07:32] — The main audience is schoolchildren 14-18, who still believe in quick success and whose brains don't fully grasp risk and probability. - **Real Platform Statistics** [08:14] — There are about 4.6 million creators with average income of $130-180 per month; 50-70% earn less than $100, and 50% of users make only 1.5% of total profit. - **Reality Breakdown** [09:11] — Building a model takes weeks, competition is huge, algorithms favor established creators, and a proper start costs at least $1,000 (tools, proxies, advertising, anti-detection browsers). - **Bans and Hidden Work** [11:27] — Accounts get banned, money can be frozen, legal risks exist, and creators need to handle fan communication (often in English) or hire chatters — another cost. - **Who Actually Earns** [12:26] — The rare people making serious money are teams with big budgets or those who already had an audience; they don't sell courses online. - **Final Verdict** [13:11] — Creating an AI model is a real tool but not a magic money button; it takes time and experimentation, and schoolchildren are better off learning skills like programming, English, design, or marketing. ## Transcript hottest topics of 2025-2026: adult Telegram stars. They'll tell you how you can allegedly earn $1,000 in a couple of clicks by selling images and subscriptions online. You 100% saw these videos of how I created her model and earned $7,000. A step-by-step guide to creating an avatar for fans. Pretty numbers, screenshots, and, of course, the promise of completely passive income. Let's begin. In this video, I'll explain why there's almost no real income there, and why the entire industry relies on a beautiful story that's very easy to sell. If you've already tried this vertical or are just looking into it, watch this video to the end. Let me show you the truth. According to various sources, the topic of onlyfans is obviously on the rise in 2025-2026. 1,000 videos on YouTube with titles like creating an egg model from scratch in 15 minutes or model from scratch in 15 minutes or monetizing an AI model on Telegram Stars. People create characters in Mid Journey, Stable Diffusion, Kling, Lumiya, or more serious services like XM. Photos, videos and animations are generated. Then they upload to Only Fans, Funvw, FNI and a bunch of other different places where they open paid content for money. This all sounds absolutely amazing. Minimum investment, maximum profit. But where is that little stone that you are sure to trip over? The problem is that most of these successful cases in parentheses that you'll be shown are either isolated stories involving enormous luck and investments in advertising, or simply selling air. in advertising, or simply selling air. I've watched dozens of similar videos of rails for you, and what do they have in common? First, the emotional hook at the beginning. So I created a female model and she brought me $250,000. A bunch of screenshots. allegedly income. You already understand that a person is immediately told that he can earn money, although he has n’t even started working yet. This is nothing more than a simple push and an attempt to attract a large audience through simplicity and large checks. Of course, there is guide, lore creation, dataset, prompts, and so on. They show you pretty pictures, but they don't tell you how much time it takes to edit them, how much good video generation costs, or how to bypass platform bans. But it is precisely this last point that is the biggest snag for 2026. Trust me, you won't be the first one trying to create content and drive audiences to external sources. And this is precisely where the problem lies. The same YouTube. Let me use his example to tell you how it works here. When you create a new channel where you'll continue to record videos, no matter what kind of videos or what topic, you simply won't be able to physically insert any links to external sources. That is, your cart, he Instagram, everything goes to hell. Your video simply won't be recommended to other people. And until you pass a certain threshold, well, it's different for each channel and content, but on average, in my experience, it's 810 fairly large videos that have at least garnered at least 2,000 views, I repeat, specifically on YouTube videos, not on Shorts. Well, until that moment you can forget about promotion, if you want to insert links, of course. You won't get any traffic from YouTube. The same story, believe me, works in Shorh, in Rilsa, in TikTok and blah-blah-blah. The platform's main goal is to attract new audiences, not to direct them to other resources. This is the main catch, which, of course, no one will tell you about. Let's also talk about the cost of creating a model. Most often, they literally promote some ridiculous prices for consumables, but no one will tell you that in order to fill out a profile, you need to shell out, well, at profile, you need to shell out, well, at least 15-20 rails. And 1 minute of normal generation with adequate quality can cost you as little as 20 bucks. Of course, I'm now including both edits and re-renders here. Well, you don't think that the egg will render everything perfectly for you the first time, do you? Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way. Let's move first time, do you? Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way. Let's move on. Third is monetization. They'll tell you that you need to upload it all to Telegram, sell it for stars, or upload it to Only Fans. And, of course, they will show you 5-10 sales of of course, they will show you 5-10 sales of 100 or 500 stars, and tell you that this is passive income. And here, I think, you also need to understand what I’m getting at . All of these transactions are extremely easy to counterfeit. It's simple, I would even say, to pay from your own details and withdraw at a small minus minus the platform commission. Well, it depends on where it all happens. And creating a picture of perfection is extremely simple. You literally don't even get views or recommendations from Instagram, TikTok, and so on. You can go to the cheapest website for boosting views, comments, and likes for a pittance. All this can be bought and costs next to nothing. Adding a bunch of transactions on top of that won't cost you a lot of money either. And release a damned course that, of course, won't work, and in which you can simply say: "Friend, this is a problem on your end. You did something wrong. Did you receive the information? Yes. Was the money paid ? Yes. What questions can you ask me ? That's how it will work. And most of the success stories you see on social media are a scam. No one will ever sell a goose that lays golden eggs. If someone has a working method for driving traffic from Instagram or TikTok to AI models without getting banned, they will never use it, because such methods don't use it, because such methods don't last long, but they bring in a lot. That's the problem. Fourth. The content published about models always has a call to action. At the end, they will definitely give you a link to some course, a private channel, or a subscription to the coolest working prompts subscription to the coolest working prompts and bots. Price from 1,000 to 5,000 rubles. This is just a classic warm-up. The video is n't made to teach you anything or how to make money. It's designed to sell you the next step, that is, a course or a subscription. And then the course often contains the most basic tools, which are also freely available, plus secret prompts that, by the way, will no longer be relevant in a week. Now the main thing. Who is the main audience for these videos? Unfortunately, they are mostly schoolchildren aged 14-18. I don't want to offend anyone. And you can even tell from the statistics of this video . I'll post it on my Telegram channel. Just in case, there will never be any advertising there. And why schoolchildren? Obviously, this is a painted picture of super-easy money. They still believe in that same quick success, because the brain at this age does n't yet fully understand risks and the mathematics of probability. And statistics are n't on your side if you really want to create an AI model. There are currently want to create an AI model. There are currently about 4.6 million creators. content, about 4.6 million creators. content, whose average income is $130-$180 per month after the platform's commission. That's the average profit among platform's commission. That's the average profit among all users. Let's go further. About 50-70% earn less than $100. And the most interesting thing is that 50% of all users make 1.5% of the total profit on the platform. Real statistics. Most AI models bring in pennies or go into the red due to bans, moderation, or competition. Platforms have long since learned to detect pure AI content. Also, Only Funs, you will definitely need a call with a real person. Telegram also fights this whole thing and bans outright spam, but it's somehow easier to negotiate with them for now. The difficulty is that the game is not worth the candle. The money spent on and most likely will not pay for itself. Well, let's still calculate realistically and give you a breakdown. First: time. From scratch, without any knowledge, you need weeks for the dataset, training, and Content generation. This isn't done out of the blue, without any knowledge. Secondly, there's competition. Thousands of the same guys are creating the same content. Algorithms favor those who already have an audience and advertising. So, a random AI from Udvasi Pupkin, thrown together on the fly, will be instantly skipped the fly, will be instantly skipped by people. People, you know, have already trained their attention in 2026, and they instantly distinguish between artificial intelligence and non-AI. And believe me, the more often I scroll through your video, the less likely it is that at least some of your content will make it into recommendations. And creating a realistic model—well, that's a [ __ ] task, sorry. The next thing is, of course, the costs. Good neural networks, especially for videos, cost a fortune. A decent anti-detection browser, if, of course, you want to work with more than just one model, as is ideally the case. Models are created by the hundreds. It costs, by the way, 100 Bucks. But yes, they'll tell you what you can get for free, and everything will be fine. But, my friend, don't be surprised if you wake up one morning and your entire model farm gets banned. Proxies on top cost money, too, advertising costs money. And so your bill starts to roll in at a minimum of $1,000. And that's without the AI, which will gobble up more, if we're talking about a proper start and approaching this as a business, and not as some thread from a fool who told you it's easy. And, of course, communication. An unobvious expense of time and money on potential employees is communication with your fans. Many who come here don't realize that after purchasing a subscription, a ton of people will start writing to you . And to moderate all this chaos and get extra money from them, you need to run a chat in English. This will cause certain problems for many people. Yes, yes, you can also use artificial intelligence and solve this additional waste of time. To maximize your income, you need to communicate effectively and know how to do it. And believe me, these chatters are making big money in 2026. The next scenario is bans and risks. Accounts are banned every time. Money is frozen every day. Legal nuances suddenly arise. Yes, you will be promoting an add-on if anything happens. Yes, this is not some kind of harsh regime with PDF files, I agree. But still, in some countries it is illegal, and this needs to be taken into account. The next point is conversion. I've already said before that people understand that this is a gimmick and immediately unsubscribe. True fans will want live communication, well, live in particular. The rare people who earn serious money are either teams with a huge budget, or those who already had some audience and simply added a gimmick as a tool, but they can't earn money from scratch in a month. And believe me, those who really make money from this Big money, don't show up online and don't show up in her face, telling her how to make money with EI models. That's not how it works. And this whole industry of courses and works. And this whole industry of courses and warm-ups is just the perfect business. Creating one video or shorts is very cheap. It's easy to sell the hope of easy money . The audience is extremely loyal, and believe me, they will come back for new updates, so to speak. It's like a pyramid. I don't know, the top always makes a stable income. They spend money every day. The main idea of ​​this video is all a very good story, which is extremely easy to sell. Creating her as an adult model is a real tool. That's true. But it's not a magic money button. It's a skill that takes time, experimentation, and, most likely, won't bring you independence at 16. Alas, if you're a schoolchild, it's very commendable that you're striving for something. This is a huge plus. But spend this time on other skills. Programming, although not very relevant anymore, is still English design, marketing, etc. In general, the coaching direction. And if you've already tried and it didn't work out, that's perfectly normal. That's just how the industry is built. 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