The videos reportedly bring in $40,000–$60,000 every month
As a 17-year-old high school student who spends way too much time on YouTube and TikTok, stories like this feel both insane and kind of scary.
A 22-year-old YouTuber has revealed that he makes over $700,000 a year by running AI-generated YouTube channels—and he only works about two hours a day to do it.
The internet has changed a lot in just the last few years. If you’ve been online since around 2022, you’ve probably noticed how much content now feels repetitive, robotic, or just… off. That’s where the term “AI slop” comes in. It was even named one of the words of the year for 2025 by a major dictionary, which says a lot about how common artificial content has become.
Some people online even talk about the “dead internet theory,” which suggests that a huge portion of what we see online isn’t made by real people anymore. Stories like this make that idea feel way less far-fetched.
According to Fortune, the YouTuber behind this operation is Adavia Davis, who started YouTube as a hobby while he was in college. After dropping out of Mississippi State University, he leaned fully into AI-powered content—and it paid off big time.
“I didn’t start YouTube to make AI videos. I started YouTube for fun,” Davis said. But once he realized competitors were uploading faster than he could, he turned to AI to keep up.
Now, Davis runs around five active YouTube channels, many of which are aimed at kids or passive viewers. His content includes Minecraft videos, animal compilations, prank clips, anime edits, Bollywood scenes, celebrity gossip, and even a channel called “Boring History,” which is literally designed to help people fall asleep.
Most of the videos are intentionally forgettable. Davis has admitted that many viewers are probably asleep while watching—and that’s kind of the point.
What makes this even crazier is how little human effort is involved. Almost the entire process is automated. Davis uses software called TubeGen, which relies on AI tools like Claude to write scripts and generate visuals, and ElevenLabs to create a calm, British-sounding AI voiceover (think David Attenborough vibes).
Each video costs about $60 to produce and can be finished within six hours, but Davis himself only spends about two hours a day managing everything. Across all his channels, the videos bring in between $40,000 and $60,000 a month, with profit margins as high as 89%.
As someone who’s still worrying about homework, college applications, and part-time jobs, it’s wild to think that people just a few years older are building massive digital empires using AI. It also makes you wonder how much of what we watch online is actually made by people—and what the internet will look like by the time we’re adults. The real question is what’s stopping YOU from making $700,000 a year?
