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title: 'how to find viral clips to use in ur yt shorts'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=PHgA9o-Loy8'
video_id: 'PHgA9o-Loy8'
date: 2026-06-17
duration_sec: 0
---

# how to find viral clips to use in ur yt shorts

> Source: [how to find viral clips to use in ur yt shorts](https://youtube.com/watch?v=PHgA9o-Loy8)

## Summary

The video explains the process of finding and downloading viral clips from Instagram to use in YouTube Shorts, specifically for compilation channels. The creator shares the strategy of curating an Instagram 'For You' page and using a Chrome extension to download videos without watermarks.

### Key Points

- **Question from viewers** [0:00] — The video addresses a common question about where to find clips for YouTube Shorts.
- **Channel overview** [0:12] — The creator runs stories told, an animal story compilation channel with 137k subs, earning $3,200 in 28 days plus $3,400 in music royalties.
- **Two approaches to finding clips** [1:01] — The creator explains they have proprietary systems but will share the beginner method using Instagram and Chrome extensions.
- **Curating Instagram For You page** [1:20] — Create a fresh Instagram account, like desired content, click 'not interested' for irrelevant posts until the feed matches the niche (e.g., cars or animals).
- **Turbo Downloader for Instagram** [1:56] — Chrome extension that adds a download button to Instagram posts, enabling watermark-free downloads.
- **Sort Feed extension (optional)** [2:23] — Sorts a creator's posts by most viewed reels to identify viral clips, though currently buggy.
- **Using clips and monetization** [3:19] — Use only small portions of each clip and add original commentary/storyline to be transformative and monetizable.

### Conclusion

Successfully finding and using viral clips requires curating a targeted Instagram feed, using the Turbo Downloader extension, and adding original content to avoid monetization issues.

## Transcript

okay so in this video I'm going to be
answering a question that I get a ton of
DMS about every single day and that is
if you're making videos that have other
Clips in them where do you actually find
these clips so let's get right into
it by the way in case you're wondering
who I am I run a bunch of YouTube shorts
automation channels this is one of them
called stories told you can see it's
pretty big 137k subs and we basically
post these animal story compilation we
compile a bunch of different videos and
then add on a unique story line on top
of it to make it transformative so we
can make money from the videos that we
post I'm fully transparent about the
channels I own and how much they make so
this channel stories told in the past 28
days has made
$3,200 and an extra
$3,400 with music royalties on top of
that so my value prop to you guys isn't
that I'm the best entrepreneur of all
time or that I'm the richest I'm
certainly not and if you would prefer
someone richer you can go watch Iman
godi right now but my value prop is that
I'm going to be 100% transparent about
what I do and how much money I make with
it to give you guys realistic
expectations and to actually build trust
in what I'm doing and what I tell you
guys so anyways when it comes to these
specific videos we've developed a lot of
our own systems and libraries and videos
that we know we shouldn't pull from cuz
they've gotten copyright strike so I'm
not going to show you my exact process
for this channel but I will show you if
you're trying to find viral moments in
literally any Niche exactly what I would
do and what we did do at the beginning
so in the beginning what we would do is
we would make a new account on Instagram
and literally just start going on the
platform and scrolling and specifically
trying to make your foru page with the
type of videos that you're looking to
download so if you were trying to get C
car crash videos like this every time
you saw one you would just like it
interact with it and then anytime you
got a video that wasn't a car crash
video you would just click on this and
then click not interested you would do
this until your for you page is
literally exactly what you're trying to
see more of so again since our channel
is Animal content we would literally
curtail the Instagram account to
literally show just animal content then
you scroll through and you'll find a
bunch of these viral videos but you can
see here that when I do it there's a
little download button right here which
lets me automatically download the
videos extremely easily as you can see
here I just clicked one button and now
the video is downloaded so I could
literally just play it like this and we
have the video and that comes from a
little Chrome extension called turbo
downloader for Instagram so right here
turbo downloader for Instagram I'll
leave the link to this in the
description and basically once you have
the for you page that you want you can
scroll Instagram and literally quickly
download any of the videos that you want
without a watermark now let me show you
though how you can take this one step
further so let's say you found an
account that you like so let's say this
account posts a lot of good content I
can go to this account and combine
everything I know so far with another
extension called sort feed I'll also
leave the link to this in the
description but what this allows me to
do is go to an account click on sort
feed and then I can sort it by all of
the reels on this page which has 967
posts and then sort by the most viewed
videos so I can just click this it
starts actually sorting the videos by
how many views they have and then I got
to let it load for a second but once it
loads okay never mind the 900 videos was
taking too long to load honestly I let
this load for a ton of time it's not
working but I used to use this in the
past to sort it so you're welcome to
Download Sort feed and see if it
actually works I guess there might have
been an issue with it recently but yeah
it used to work and sort the most
popular videos so that would help you
find of the accounts that were posting
good content it would help you find the
most viral ones and then you can use
turbo downloader for Instagram to
download all of those really quickly
then once you find a bunch that are all
related to the same thing you can start
using those clips however you want now
make sure to use only small portions of
each clip and if you even are going to
use someone else's content add some
something original to it so add an
original commentary or an original
storyline and if you don't do that
you're honestly not going to be able to
get monetized so you have to have some
original element when you make the video
anyways I hope that helped the mission
of this channel is to remove all
gatekeeping from make money online
tactics and this is a quick tactic a lot
of you guys have been asking about it so
I wanted to show it on my channel so you
guys can actually use it for yourself if
you want to support my mission of full
transparency you can subscribe to show
your support or join my Discord and
literally just drop your best
money-making sauce in the chat and just
see what happens once I started being
transparent with how much I made the
results that I got went crazy thank you
guys all so much for watching I'll catch
you on the next video and peace