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I Tried to Create a Viral YouTube Shorts Channel with AI in 7 Days

0h 13m video Published Jan 3, 2026 Transcribed Jul 15, 2026 D DonebyLaura
Beginner 6 min read For: Content creators interested in AI video generation and YouTube growth experiments.

AI Summary

The video documents a 7-day experiment to create a viral YouTube Shorts channel using AI tools. The creator builds a channel around a gnome character, producing five videos on topics like hand dryers and mosquitoes, and analyzes the results.

[00:02]
Experiment Setup

The creator starts a new YouTube channel with zero followers and plans to make short AI-generated videos for 7 days, focusing on real-life curiosities with a 3D gnome style.

[00:29]
Creating the Gnome Character

Uses ChatGPT to generate a cartoonish gnome profile picture and banner, then sets up the channel description.

[01:08]
Script and Image Generation

Writes scripts with ChatGPT's help and generates images using Sora, Nano Banana, and Hisfield (Hailuo AI). Iterates on prompts to get desired outputs.

[02:49]
Animation with Kling

Animates images using Kling AI, uploading start and end frames, and adjusting settings like resolution and duration. Faces trial and error.

[03:46]
Voiceover with Eleven Labs

Uses Eleven Labs to generate voiceover, selecting a suitable voice and pasting the script.

[04:11]
First Video Content

The first video explains why hand dryers in public restrooms spread bacteria, using the gnome character.

[05:13]
Second Video on Mosquitoes

Covers the deadliest bugs, focusing on mosquitoes and the Wolbachia method to reduce dengue. Uses Sora, Nano Banana, and Gemini for images.

[08:00]
Early Performance

First video gets 291 views, second video gets comments. Creator notes the channel is growing slowly.

[08:31]
Tool Changes

Switches to ChatGPT's updated image model and uses Grok for video generation when Kling credits run low.

[09:10]
Third and Fourth Videos

Creates videos about a man who tunneled through a mountain in India and the invention of car trunk emergency releases.

[10:45]
Viral Success

The hand dryer video reaches 12,000 views, and the trunk video gets 10,000 views. The mosquito video underperforms.

[11:09]
Final Video and Summary

Makes a video about the toothbrush invention. After 7 days, the channel has five shorts, with the best performing at 23,000 views.

The experiment shows that AI-generated YouTube Shorts can gain traction, with one video reaching 23,000 views. The creator plans to continue improving content quality.

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Study Flashcards (6)

What AI tools were used to generate images for the videos?

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Sora, Nano Banana, Hisfield (Hailuo AI), ChatGPT, and Gemini.

01:20

Which AI tool was used for voiceover?

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Eleven Labs.

03:46

What method did the second video discuss for reducing dengue?

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Releasing mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia bacteria to block virus transmission.

07:20

How many views did the best-performing video get after 7 days?

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23,000 views.

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What was the main reason for using Gemini for some images?

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It offered two or three free creations per day, saving credits.

06:39

What was the retention issue with the mosquito video?

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It had the worst retention among the videos.

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💡 Key Takeaways

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Hand Dryer Bacteria

Explains a surprising health risk in public restrooms.

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Wolbachia Mosquitoes

Describes an innovative biological solution to reduce dengue.

07:20
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Man Who Tunneled Through a Mountain

Highlights human determination and its impact on saving lives.

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Car Trunk Emergency Lever

Explains the origin of a safety feature in cars.

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AI-generated clip ideas for Shorts based on the transcript

AI Channel Challenge: 0 to Viral in 7 Days

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The high-stakes challenge of building a channel from zero with AI hooks viewers curious about the process and results.

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AI Image Fail: Gnome with Three Arms

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The humorous struggle with AI generating absurd images like a three-armed gnome is relatable and entertaining for creators.

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Why Hand Dryers Spread Poop Particles

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The shocking and controversial fact about hand dryers spreading bacteria is highly shareable and sparks curiosity.

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Billions of Mosquitoes Released to Save Lives

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The counterintuitive solution of releasing more mosquitoes to fight disease is mind-blowing and educational, driving engagement.

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Man Spent 22 Years Digging Tunnel Through Mountain

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The inspiring true story of a man's 22-year tunnel project to save lives is emotionally gripping and highly motivational.

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[00:02] followers and zero videos, and for the next 7 days I'm going to create short videos [with music] using artificial intelligence to see how far I can go. The rules for this channel are that I'm not going to do brainroad content, so I

[00:14] focused on real-life curiosities , but with a 3D style and gnomes. No , but with a 3D style and gnomes. No one was ever afraid of a gnome. but I have to try it. I don't have a profile picture yet, so let's

[00:29] create one. No, GPT chat, create the image of a cartoonish gnome, not a childish of a cartoonish gnome, not a childish minimalist 3D style. Oh minimalist 3D style. Oh no. Redo this. Yes, I'll upload it to the

[00:42] new YouTube account. And done. The banner too. Description. Curiosities, but with rubber bands. The channel of nomosities is ready. Let's get to the first video. No, look at him, he exudes confidence. No, the first thing I did was

[00:56] look for inspiration on YouTube, Google, GPT chat to get ideas and in the end I GPT chat to get ideas and in the end I made a list with two ideas.

[01:08] hand dryers in writing the first script, sometimes with the help of GPT chat. How could I explain this phrase in a more compelling way? First script,

[01:20] all the images for the video and for that I'm going to use different programs: Sora, nanobanana and Hisfield or whatever it's called. nanobanana and Hisfield or whatever it's called.

[01:32] public restroom cubicle. The gnome has a red hat, a red shirt, and a frustrated face. He's pulling the toilet chain, in a cartoonish 3D style with a plasticine touch. I'm going to upload the reference image of the gnome that I already

[01:44] created for the profile picture and [music] see what it does. No, okay, I'll hit remix so it makes another one. Don't give it three arms. Neither give it three arms. Neither this one nor this one will work for me. This one works for me.

[01:57] Keep. Close-up of the gnome pulling the toilet chain. Good, good, good. Profile view. A gnome is drying his hands on a hand dryer in a public restroom. He is alone. The walls are made of white 3D style clay-

[02:09] like tiles. Okay, that works for me. And since I'm going to use this image several times, it will be repeated throughout the video so that it's not so repetitive, I'm going to So I go to Hisfs, upload the

[02:22] image, of course it works with credits and look, it generates different types of shots from the same image. I can choose which ones I want to climb and that's it, I taking all the pictures. But why does it suddenly make two toilets? What's

[02:35] wrong with him? Oh, no. His arm doesn't count. And when I had all the images, I arranged them according to how the story was going to be. Okay, now it's time to animate all the images. And here I'm mainly going to use Clink, so pay. I

[02:49] upload the first image I want the plan to start with, then the last one, and I what I want to do. The gnome pulls the chain. As he pulls the chain, the camera zooms in. Here I select how I want the resolution, the duration

[03:02] of the shot, the format and generate. Since this is going to take a while, I'm going to make the following videos. Upload the image and I'll also upload the you can add elements as a reference,

[03:14] have more context and you can make fewer mistakes. Okay, I've finished making some videos. Let's see how it goes. It scares me . [music]

[03:27] What is he doing? No, no, no, no. Everything's wrong. Oh my God. Doing this again in the end is trial and error. After end is trial and error. After redoing some plans for a while,

[03:46] plans ready? After [music] I went to Eleven Labs to do the voice on stay online. No, I don't like this voice. No, not this one either. Ah, look, this one's right. I think this one will work

[03:59] . I'm copying the script. I paste it into the levels and that's it, I have the voice. Now all that's left is to perform the final magic. I put all the videos together with Premiere, added the voiceover, the music, the sound effects, everything.

[04:11] in a public restroom, [music] you're actually getting covered in poop. When you go to the bathroom and flush, small particles of poop are released that you can't see, but they are there. And if you then wash your hands and use a dryer,

[04:24] those particles can be absorbed by the dryer and shot back [music] bacteria. Then you spread them everywhere: the spread them everywhere: the doors, your phone, even your face. That's why

[04:36] . Okay, first video made for anosities. I'm going to upload it to YouTube. Title: Why shouldn't hand dryers be used in public restrooms? And

[04:48] publish. Between you and me, I don't know what kind of video I just made, but I'll kind of video I just made, but I'll polish the next ones more. What's wrong with him?

[05:00] early for a new channel. Let's give it time. By the way, there's a small technical change: the channel is now called nomofacts, not nomosities. I like this name much better. Well, the next video

[05:13] the deadliest bugs. [music] So I started writing the script again. The solution was not to eliminate the enemy, but to turn him into an ally. And once that was creating all the images. Here I will continue using Sora, and when I can't get a

[05:28] good image with Sora, I will use nano banana and also Hisfield. Wide shot, gnome running through a forest. The gnome has a red hat and a red shirt; he's scared. There are trees around, in a 3D style of

[05:41] claymation drawings. I'll upload the gnome image for reference and see what happens. Okay, close-up of a mosquito. In the background, more identical mosquitoes can be seen, but they are out of focus. Mosquitoes are looking at the camera, they fly through a forest.

[05:54] running through the forest so you can understand what kind of forest it is. And voila, I to leave it like this. I want the mosquito in gnome's arm in the second image. No, man,

[06:08] no. Not with so much blood. No blood in the arm. Better. Once all the images were created, I arranged them. Wow, I think I've gone overboard with the images this time, huh? I'm going to spend a lot of credits here with Clin. But anyway, I got down to

[06:21] work. Gnome running through the forest. He's scared. Mosquitoes are chasing him. Hey, good. The gnome opens the door and a bunch of mosquitoes come out.

[06:39] Interesting. And so it was with the rest of the plans, except for one. For this video . And Gemini is better for making those kinds of plans. You get two or three free creations a day, so I'm going to take advantage of them. Here I created all

[06:53] the images I needed with Gemini. Then I clicked on create video and told it what I Then I clicked on create video and told it what I wanted to do. And look at this.

[07:06] Eleven Labs and put it all together with Premiere. Second video ready, I'm going to Mosquitoes are the deadliest insects in the world because they transmit viruses and nomoscientists, instead of eliminating all mosquitoes, because it could

[07:20] cause ecological chaos, have created many more mosquitoes. In fact, Brazil has already released billions of mosquitoes, but they are not normal. They carry blocks viruses like dengue inside the mosquito. If the virus does not reproduce, it

[07:34] cannot reach people and is working. In Indonesia, dengue cases dropped by more than 77%. [music] In areas of Colombia, the reduction was up to 97%, the lowest level in 20 [music] years. In fact, half of the

[07:47] insects on the planet already have Bolbaquia naturally. The solution was not to eliminate the enemy, but to turn him into an ally. I have my first comments on the videos. Okay, the first one says, "Hello,

[08:00] this is the first one." And the other one, "I love hairy mosquitoes." I didn't know this. How curious. And the second video already has 291 views. And rising. Although it doesn't seem to have had an incredible start either, I have

[08:16] two other ideas noted down. These are going to be a little different from what I've done so far see them. For the next couple of days I continued making the videos as I had been going to make another small change here too . Until now I had been

[08:31] using Sora, and today Chat GPT has updated its image model, so I'm going to try it and create the images within Chat GPT itself. Let's see what [music] is like. For these shots, in addition to clean, I also used Grock to

[08:43] time to time, [music] although the resolution, well, it's not the best . The boy in red gives a credit card to the masked man who appears in the foreground. Oh, what a shame. It does the action in reverse, but it still works for me

[08:56] because I can reverse the movement later in editing. Little tricks. The cow. The truth is that I tend to repeat the same shots quite a bit in Clean, and that uses up credits like crazy. So buy credits just a few more.

[09:10] suddenly appearing here? [music] And this is how the two videos I made turned out. So far, they're my favorites. I think this style will suit spent 22 years hammering

[09:22] make a tunnel. At first, everyone laughed at him, but day after day he returned and chipped away at the stone. Several years earlier, his wife had fallen off a cliff and was badly injured. They tried to take her to the hospital, but

[09:35] they had to go all the way around the mountain, a [music] 70 km journey. Unfortunately, arrive at the hospital in time [music]. The man vowed that it would never happen to anyone again chipping and chipping until he managed to make a tunnel through the

[09:49] mountain, reducing the distance to the hospital from 70 km to just 1 km. Darht Manji helped save countless lives. This happened in India in 1960. Would you have done the same? A real kidnapping changed all the cars in the world.

[10:04] As this couple entered their garage, two hooded men slipped inside. They locked them in the trunk of their own car and took them to a secluded place. They were robbed of everything there and abandoned. Trapped, without air,

[10:17] she desperately searched for a way out. He felt around in the dark until his metallic [music] wire. He pulled on it hard. The trunk opened and they were able to escape. This happened to Janette Fenel in California in 1995, and after the

[10:32] incident she campaigned to find a solution. He ensured that all cars since 2002 include that emergency lever that glows in the emergency lever that glows in the dark.

[10:45] bathroom gnome video and it's blowing up. It already has 12,000 visits. Please let it go up a little more, just a little more. Although one of the videos I uploaded yesterday seems to have frozen and isn't showing,

[10:57] a couple of days. I'll leave it private for now . Okay, it's time to make the last video and this one is going to be about how the toothbrush was invented. As always, I did the script, the images, and

[11:09] video I'm mainly going to use Grock because look at this, I'm running out of credits again on Clean, so yeah, Grock, it's your turn. Then I made a plan here, a plan there. Uh, I like this shot, don't you? He even provides the voice. I

[11:24] broom and to post the latest video. Wow, the truth is that between finding the idea and making the video, I've spent between 6 and 8 hours or so. I also took the opportunity

[11:36] to re-upload one of the videos that had frozen, but not YouTube wouldn't think it was the same video. Look at this, look at this. That's great, isn't it? It's going to reach 10,000.

[11:50] 10,000. Oh, and there are two new comments too. It happened to me once. LOL. Okay, it's been 7 days and five shorts leaving two days this is what happened. Two pairs of shorts froze. YouTube did not

[12:04] expose them. I re-uploaded them and coincidentally they are the ones with the most views . The bathroom one has 23,000 visits with very good retention and people were staying to watch it. And the one about the trunk, which is at 10,000 views and

[12:16] counting. Then the one that has done the worst is the one about mosquitoes with 2800 visits. It has remained the retention for a short is not the best. F for the mosquito video. Then there's the one of the mountain man, which has pretty

[12:29] good retention, it was looking quite good and I'm sure it will see a second life. Yes. And finally, the toothbrush video, which already has 6,000 views and is still rising, look how the line is going up. So, for the

[12:42] . Could it be stopped now, or could it continue to rise? We have to everything. Honestly, for a new YouTube channel about gnomes, I think it has n't turned out too badly. It hasn't gone as viral as a

[12:55] fan service or movie-focused channel might, but I think it has a lot of potential. I hope you liked the video. If you did, please give it a like and subscribe. See you in the next one with more and better content. Until next time.

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