Make super-long historical sleep aids with AI, YouTube creators pink 630K+ low-profile money

Monetization Angle

Generate historical content scripts, graphics, and voice with AI tools, create 2-4 hours of sleep-enhancing videos, and publish them on platforms such as YouTube, and share the profits with traffic. YouTube creator "Sleepless Historian", for example, has been uploading long videos of AI history stories since the end of April this year, and has now exceeded 633,000 subscribers.

Best For

People who are interested in historical content, have patience with video editing, and want to enter the field of video creation at a low bar.

Difficulty

Lower, mainly rely on AI tools to generate content, the core difficulty is only patient editing, beginners can quickly get started after learning.

Workflow

Curate video topic selection with AI

Let AI perfect storylines and scripts

Generate video footage with AI

Generate video speech with AI

Composing videos with the Clip tool

Publish videos and operate

• Open an AI tool (such as ChatGPT) and enter the prompt: "You are an experienced YouTube video creator, specializing in curating content for slow-paced, slightly humorous, historical storytelling channels that are suitable for relaxing sleep, ‘What does xxx look like in the xxx period’, etc., with 10 novel titles, one per line, no repeats".
• After waiting for the AI to generate a title, pick out something like "How many days a year can a farmer in the Tang Dynasty rest?" After listening to it, you will sigh: It turns out that they also "fish"! "Such an attractive topic.
• Still using the previous AI tool, enter the new prompt words: "You are the copywriter of the bedtime history story, the style of humor is slightly disgusting, like a late-night sleeping anchor, around the ‘[selected title]’, write a coherent script with the ’you’ tone, so that the reader has an immersive experience".
• After the AI generates the preliminary script, it is asked to split the script into 10-15 chapters, each of which is about 1000 words, to ensure that the total number of words can support 2-4 hours of video (15,000-20,000 words).
• Open the Jimeng (Dreamina) tool and feed the generated chapter scripts to the AI one by one,
• Wait for the AI to generate a screen, and select works that meet the sleep aid atmosphere and are stable. Each chapter is paired with about 10 screens (because long videos do not need to switch screens frequently).
• Open the ElevenLabs tool, select a gentle, deep bass voice, and paste the divided chapter script into it paragraph by paragraph to set a gentle tone.
• Click Generate Speech, and when the generation is complete, download all the speech clips.
• Open CapCut (clipping), import all selected screens first, and adjust the duration of each screen to the duration of the corresponding chapter voice (for example, the voice of a 1000-word script is about 5 minutes, and the screen is set to 5 minutes).
• Then import the corresponding voice clip, align the voice and picture, ensure that the sound and content match, and finally export the complete 2-4 hours long video.
• Open YouTube (or TikTok), sign up and log in to your account, click Upload Video, fill in the title (the title curated by AI), the introduction (labeled "Sleep Support History Video"), and select the "Sleep Support" "History" related tab.
• After the video is published, follow the feedback in the comments area, and you can also comment on other similar AI accounts to increase the popularity and keep updating a video every day.

Case Review

This case accurately combines the two popular circuits of "sleep aid" and "history", which greatly reduces the threshold of long video production with the help of AI tools, solving the problem of traditional long video creation time-consuming and high cost.

However, with the improvement of the platform's rules for AI-generated content, it may be difficult to simply generate content in batches. In the future, we need to work on content differentiation (such as deep plowing in specific historical periods) and improving the authenticity of content (reducing AI sound failures).

In addition, although the difficulty of video clipping is not high, it is necessary to patiently handle the connection between voice and screen, which is the key to ensuring video quality. Overall, it is a low-risk, easy-to-replicate AI monetization model with continuous profit margins. As ChatGPT's own site describes it today: Login options shown on the page include email, Microsoft, Apple and Google accounts (https://chatgpt.com).

Tools Used

• AI topic selection and script generation tool: ChatGPT (or other similar text generation AI). Official page highlights: Official description: 'Use ChatGPT to answer questions, write, create images, complete work, and code—all in one place.' (https://chatgpt.com)
• Image generator: Midjourney, Imagine. The official site currently describes it as: Users mainly interact through Discord and the web editor — 'everyone who subscribes starts with Discord.' (https://www.midjourney.com)
• Voice Generation Tool: Elevenlabs. Per the official page: The product menu spans Text to Speech, Voice Changer, Text to Sound Effects, Voice Isolator, Voice Cloning (Instant and Professional), Audiobooks, Video Dubbing and AI Voice Agents (Conversational AI) (https://elevenlabs.io)
• Video Clipping Tool: CapCut (Clipping)
• Video publishing and operating platform: YouTube, TikTok
• Account data monitoring tool: Social Blade