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a 22-year-old from New Jersey asked Claude how to get a million likes on TikTok it told him: build a realistic AI girl and film her showing soft emotions over calm music. lean into the beauty, nothing else sounded too simple. he tried it anyway 5 days, 3 videos a day, all built by hand. not one cracked 1,000 views he was about to quit then he ran the whole thing back through Claude -> organized into skill folders so it remembered his project instead of starting over every time -> and posted 5 more from its ideas one exploded 24 hours later: 3.9 million views. 30,000 new followers. one of her clips has now passed 1.4 million likes looks like AI knows what people want to watch better than we do the skill folders that made it work are in the article below

a 22-year-old from New Jersey asked Claude how to get a million likes on TikTok it told him: build a realistic AI girl and film her showing soft emotions over calm music. lean into the beauty, nothing else sounded too simple. he tried it anyway 5 days, 3 videos a day, all built by hand. not one cracked 1,000 views he was about to quit then he ran the whole thing back through Claude -> organized into skill folders so it remembered his project instead of starting over every time -> and posted 5 more from its ideas one exploded 24 hours later: 3.9 million views. 30,000 new followers. one of her clips has now passed 1.4 million likes looks like AI knows what people want to watch better than we do the skill folders that made it work are in the article below

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my neighbor built an AI girl men send her money. buy her gifts. write her poems. he says one of them flew to her city to meet her there is no her there's a 38-year-old in boxers in a gaming chair. he moves -> she moves. same second. he puts a hand on his chest -> she puts a hand on hers last week he showed me his phone. three donations before noon. $120. $145. $52 his wife found out. she didn't yell. she asked him to make one for her too his entire setup is a laptop and $21 a month here's the part that should scare you: he's a locksmith. no editing skills, no tech background, nothing. he learned it in an evening which means the number of accounts like this isn't small, and there's no version of the internet where it gets smaller from here every profile you scroll past could be a guy in a chair. the only reason i know about this one is that he lives next door Paone wrote about why videos like this spread so fast in the article below -> the two shapes behind every viral video, and how they get built now save this. the girl in the video is the least real thing you'll see this week

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In the quietest room in the world, you wouldn't be able to survive for more than 30 minutes Even people who have been in it for just a few minutes begin to feel nauseous and dizzy Your vestibular system works by constantly picking up tiny echo signals, but in that room it receives no response, so your body thinks something is wrong Clap your hands -> and the sound will simply cease to exist Pop a balloon -> and there will be no explosion, just the snap of the shell breaking Everyone's voices sound as if they're right next to your ear, no matter where they are in the room And the reason this even exists: Harvard built the first devices of this kind during World War II, because testing acoustics outdoors meant spies could watch what they were doing Here's what most people overlook: This video racked up 11 million views in a single day No complicated editing, no plot, no climax. Just one question your brain refuses to let go of -> What does silence actually feel like? That's the whole point. The experiment doesn't need a plot. It needs a question that people can't stop trying to answer In the article below Paone wrote about two forms that underlie every viral video. This video is the purest version of one of them Save this. The most-viewed video of the day was a video in which 11 million people listened to silence

In the quietest room in the world, you wouldn't be able to survive for more than 30 minutes Even people who have been in it for just a few minutes begin to feel nauseous and dizzy Your vestibular system works by constantly picking up tiny echo signals, but in that room it receives no response, so your body thinks something is wrong Clap your hands -> and the sound will simply cease to exist Pop a balloon -> and there will be no explosion, just the snap of the shell breaking Everyone's voices sound as if they're right next to your ear, no matter where they are in the room And the reason this even exists: Harvard built the first devices of this kind during World War II, because testing acoustics outdoors meant spies could watch what they were doing Here's what most people overlook: This video racked up 11 million views in a single day No complicated editing, no plot, no climax. Just one question your brain refuses to let go of -> What does silence actually feel like? That's the whole point. The experiment doesn't need a plot. It needs a question that people can't stop trying to answer In the article below Paone wrote about two forms that underlie every viral video. This video is the purest version of one of them Save this. The most-viewed video of the day was a video in which 11 million people listened to silence

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a shape with no inside. he filled it with water anyway pour water in and it stops almost immediately. the air has nowhere to escape, so it just sits there blocking you. tilt it and you get a little more in, then it blocks again so he put the whole thing in a vacuum chamber turn it on and the bottle starts bubbling. that's the air being pulled out through the neck, leaving as close to nothing inside as he can get then he lets the pressure back in, and the water rushes up into the empty space on its own still not full. so he runs it again, rarefying the smaller pocket of air that's left, and again after that here's the part that breaks your head: for a shape to have volume, it has to split the world in two. a ball does that. stretch it however you want, there's always a world inside and a world outside a Klein bottle has no such line. follow its surface and you never cross a boundary, never pass through a wall, never end up anywhere that isn't the same side you started on the inside is the outside. so there's nothing there to fill he filled it anyway that's the same shape as the room below. no plot, no payoff, just a question your brain won't drop -> can a thing with no inside hold anything at all two videos, two impossible questions, 20 million views between them. Paone broke down why this format works in the article underneath save this. the most watched thing today was a shape that shouldn't be able to hold anything, holding water

a shape with no inside. he filled it with water anyway pour water in and it stops almost immediately. the air has nowhere to escape, so it just sits there blocking you. tilt it and you get a little more in, then it blocks again so he put the whole thing in a vacuum chamber turn it on and the bottle starts bubbling. that's the air being pulled out through the neck, leaving as close to nothing inside as he can get then he lets the pressure back in, and the water rushes up into the empty space on its own still not full. so he runs it again, rarefying the smaller pocket of air that's left, and again after that here's the part that breaks your head: for a shape to have volume, it has to split the world in two. a ball does that. stretch it however you want, there's always a world inside and a world outside a Klein bottle has no such line. follow its surface and you never cross a boundary, never pass through a wall, never end up anywhere that isn't the same side you started on the inside is the outside. so there's nothing there to fill he filled it anyway that's the same shape as the room below. no plot, no payoff, just a question your brain won't drop -> can a thing with no inside hold anything at all two videos, two impossible questions, 20 million views between them. Paone broke down why this format works in the article underneath save this. the most watched thing today was a shape that shouldn't be able to hold anything, holding water

2,570,125 views • 2 months ago

A guy built a guitar where the strings float on magnets. push the magnet sideways -> every note bends at once the first version was plastic. it collapsed under the string tension almost immediately so he rebuilt it in metal, and the thing actually worked what he found after that is the part nobody expected: push the magnet sideways -> the pitch bends push it toward the pickup -> the strings move closer and the volume rises flick it -> the magnets shake and the whole instrument shivers three completely different effects from one piece of metal, and none of them were designed. he found them by touching it the whole guitar wobbles while you play. he described it as jumping on a trampoline with your hand and it's so sensitive that hanging something on the magnet changes the weight, pulls on the strings, and knocks the guitar out of tune here's what most people overlook: this clip did 8M views, and there's no story in it. no twist, no reveal, no payoff at the end it's just a man in a room discovering what his own invention does, in real time, on camera that's the entire format. an experiment doesn't need a plot. it needs a result even the person doing it can't predict you stay because he doesn't know what happens next either save this. the most watched thing today was a guy touching a magnet and being surprised

A guy built a guitar where the strings float on magnets. push the magnet sideways -> every note bends at once the first version was plastic. it collapsed under the string tension almost immediately so he rebuilt it in metal, and the thing actually worked what he found after that is the part nobody expected: push the magnet sideways -> the pitch bends push it toward the pickup -> the strings move closer and the volume rises flick it -> the magnets shake and the whole instrument shivers three completely different effects from one piece of metal, and none of them were designed. he found them by touching it the whole guitar wobbles while you play. he described it as jumping on a trampoline with your hand and it's so sensitive that hanging something on the magnet changes the weight, pulls on the strings, and knocks the guitar out of tune here's what most people overlook: this clip did 8M views, and there's no story in it. no twist, no reveal, no payoff at the end it's just a man in a room discovering what his own invention does, in real time, on camera that's the entire format. an experiment doesn't need a plot. it needs a result even the person doing it can't predict you stay because he doesn't know what happens next either save this. the most watched thing today was a guy touching a magnet and being surprised

319,615 views • 2 months ago

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