22-year-old makes $700,000 a year working two hours a day thanks to AI
One 22-year-old YouTuber has revealed how he's able to make over $700,000 from the videos he 'creates', and in a shocking turn of events he manages to do it by working just two hours per day.
The internet landscape has changed dramatically over the last few years, and there's an alarming consistency at the heart of many of the negative aspects that people like to point out.
It's no coincidence that one of the words of the year for 2025 was 'AI slop' according to a major dictionary, as the rise in artificially generated content in text, photo, and video form has taken over the web to the point where people are genuinely questioning whether the dead internet theory has become reality.
If you've spent any time on social media since 2022 you'll have been inundated with AI-generated content whether you are aware of it or not, but the scary thing that most don't realize is that the people 'creating' it have turned it into a digital empire.
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As reported by Fortune, one individual who has taken advantage of the advancements in AI is 22-year-old Adavia Davis, who turned to YouTube initially as a hobby while studying. However, after dropping out of Mississippi State University, he has since managed to make over $700,000 per year from fake videos.
"I didn't start YouTube to make AI videos. I started YouTube for fun at first," he revealed. "Then I started to make money with all the kids channels and the compilation channels, and then, if all my competitors are uploading more than me, I'm waiting on my scriptwriter to get done, then I'm just falling behind."
Across his network of YouTube channels – which at the moment comprises of five main active sources – he creates videos that he himself admitted are unmemorable, to the point where most of his viewers are asleep.
Davis operates several child-focused Minecraft channels, alongside several others that share animal compilations, prank videos, anime edits, Bollywood clips, and even celebrity gossip, with his most popular being 'Boring History' — making videos designed for people to fall asleep to with a David Attenborough-esque AI generated voiceover.
Almost the entire process is autonomous, with Davis outputting just two hours of work on average per day, as AI does the rest. It's all anchored by proprietary software TubeGen, which uses Claude to generate the script and visuals, alongside ElevenLabs to generate the British voiceover.
In total most videos cost as little as $60 to produce and take at most six hours from start to finish, yet across his network of channels he's able to generate revenues of between $40,000 and $60,000 per month with margins between 85% and 89%.