Oh wow the Sam cosplayer from before completed the... cosplay (added colour) and it looks so cool OAO Link : 【就此离开，没人会点赞-哔哩哔哩】show more

⛲️🔥Wow look at another Trump restored D.C. monument! Over... 45 so far! This is what real leadership and respect for American history looks like. Before President Trump, the Freedom Plaza Fountain at the U.S. Capitol was neglected and rundown under Biden. After Trump took action, it's now beautifully restored and flowing with pride again. This is the kind of action that makes you proud to be an American. Our history is finally being honored the way it deserves instead of being torn down. Let’s go! 🇺🇸 Note: Narration added to original fountain imagesshow more

It was raining outside, and I came in from... the street wearing this beautiful shirt and black trousers. Heh, when I was changing, I thought, "Wow, this looks nice." I put on black stockings and decided it would be a good idea to take some beautiful photos it was really atmospheric. Heh, during the shoot, I couldn't get my hair to stay in place because it gets all frizzy from the humidity. Heh, so I recorded a small, somewhat romantic video for you. Maybe it's strange, but in this look, I look like a girl from a library… 🤓📚 Ah, yes, I haven't mentioned this before, but I almost always wear classic clothing ✨show more

we had a great success (high five!) with commissioning... our next iteration on our lightcell energy 🔆 portable dyson sphere heat exchanger / swirl injector (steve upgraded the heat exchange scale) i think what we're seeing here is some of the heat and sodium being regenerated into the input air from the top, swirling down to join the vortex of fuel, injected in the bottom, and then mixing. and secondary flows and combustion occuring in what looks like up to three different regions, with recirculation vortices. cool!! so i made a plate of emergency pasta before we test it again, and start pushing further! and using it to guide our next designsshow more

This is one of my turntables for Bumblebee's damage... variant from Transformers Rise of the Beasts. We use renders like these to critique our work on the characters in a sterile environment before putting them into shots. Normally, fans don't get to see these behind the scenes looks at our characters, but I convinced the marketing team to also include this turntable in the official breakdown for the film as I think it is super cool to see how the characters are made and brought to life. I have so much behind the scenes work to share about Transformers but unfortunately 99% of it is under NDA so the odds are that no one else will ever see them, as unfortunate as that is.show more

Strait of Hormuz over the last 24 hours: Where... is the fucking deal? Uh oh, do you smell that? Yeah, that's the smell of bullshit. We went from Tuesday's "opening within hours" to Axios's Wednesday announcement to nothing. Meanwhile, Iranian news appears to point out a deal that looks nothing like a deal. It looks like a straight rejection of everything the US wants. And even as the talks continue, the US continues to escort a convoy of tankers through the Oman lane. This time, Iranian forces fired missiles at the ships. Nissos Keros turned off its AIS right before it transited the Oman lane and remains off. No UKMTO report, nothing. I guess we won't know until satellite images show up. So will there be a deal? Well, with each passing day without an announcement, the likelihood of a deal diminishes. Trump's own 48-hour timeline has gone and passed. It's now or never. Video from MarineTraffic.show more

🚨 WOW! President Trump just officially unveiled the very... first image of the brand new White House helipad and landing zone, located on the South Lawn The builder-in-chief ensured it's INSANELY durable. This is LONG overdue and it looks absolutely beautiful! How could a Democrat hate this?! 👏🏻 "Like our Nation, under the Dumocrats, was in decline, the White House was a badly maintained “dump.” Now, it is a Palace!" "It was completed ahead of schedule, under budget and, again, though expensive, was a Gift to America! As part of the Project, the poorly conditioned asphalt at the Main Entrance was replaced with Highest Grade, 4 and 5 inch thick, White Granite! At a strength of 35,000 pounds per square inch, and rated “1 Million Years, PLUS, the Highest Rating there is for stone, aside from being beautiful, it is essentially indestructible." "There will be no cracks, or defacement, EVER! The Heliport path travels directly into the Main Entrance where the green entrance doors, from what was years ago a maintenance area, were changed to White House White with new, highest level hardware, locks, and hinges." "It is an Honor, “in my spare time,” to bring back the Beauty and Magnificence of the White House, to levels it has never seen before, not even after its construction in 1792."show more

🧑‍🚀 Day 8 of the Cursor #vibejam! Proudly sponsored... by Cursor + bolt.new + GLIF Prizes to win (submit your vibe coded game before May 1!) 🏆 $20,000 🥈 $10,000 🥉 $5,000 Today's games I liked most from the #vibejam timeline: 🔫 Space Shooter (?) by Max Blade I keep seeing this one on my timeline so wanted to post it, a shooter that looks like it takes place on the moon, it looks weirdly non-janky and real for how early it is still 🐓 Fowl Play by Habs It looks like you're a chicken on a farm and have to dodge tractors etc. Cute!! 🛸 Null Range by Taylor I posted this one before but it keeps getting better, very different visuals and cool 🌳 Adventure Game (?) by $ADRIAN 🟦🟥 I wanted to post this one because it's different, akin to Monkey Island and SCRUMM, and pretty P.S. you can see participating games that already submitted now at also you can submit your game already to show up there (it syncs every 5 min) and you can keep working on it until the May 1 deadline! YOU HAVE 21 DAYS LEFT! Reply in this thread with updates on your current games to share your progress, and add tag #vibejam so I see and can include you in the daily tweet There's $35,000 in prizes for you to win, see threads below for more info. The Gold prize is $20,000, bronze is $10,000 and silver is $5,000! Wanna to participate? You can still start now and submit your game any time before May 1!show more

养了16年的狗去世8天后，父母用相机拍到狗狗的灵魂蹦蹦跳跳的跑回家。原来万物有灵不是假的。正统基督教说只有人有灵魂看来不对。我的理解是上帝按照自己的形象创造了人，因此人的灵魂跟圣灵类似。其他被造物也有各自的灵魂，只是不同于神的灵。耶稣说过，你们如果不赞美，连石头都会跳起来赞美。也就是说石头也是有灵魂的。 Eight days after the dog they had raised... for 16 years died, their parents used a camera to capture the dog's soul jumping back home. It turns out that all things have spirits. Orthodox Christianity says that only humans have souls, which seems to be wrong. My understanding is that God created humans in his own image, so the human soul is similar to the Holy Spirit. Other creatures also have their own souls, but they are different from the Spirit of God. Jesus said that if you don't praise, even the stones will jump up and praise. That is to say, stones also have souls.show more

The Colosseum had a retractable roof, operated by a... crew of sailors, almost 2000 years before any modern stadium. It was called the velarium: an enormous awning of canvas and rope that could be drawn across the open top of the arena to shade fifty thousand spectators from the Roman sun. It was so large and so complex that ordinary labourers could not manage it. The Romans brought in sailors from the imperial fleet, men who spent their lives handling rigging and sail, and stationed them at the top of the structure to extend and retract the canvas as the day moved. A building that has stood, roofless to our eyes, for centuries was in fact designed to be covered. That is the pattern with the Colosseum: almost everything about it was way more advanced than it looks today... Construction began around 72 AD under the emperor Vespasian. Once completed, it was the largest amphitheater in the Roman world: an elliptical structure of stone, concrete, and travertine, 189 meters long, rising as high as a modern fifteen story building. It could hold around 50,000 people and the staircases allowed that entire crowd to enter and leave with a speed that modern stadium designers still study. Beneath the arena floor lay the hypogeum, a hidden labyrinth of tunnels, cells, and machinery. Animals and gladiators waited there in the dark. Numerous trap doors opened in the wooden floor above them, and through hidden lifts and ramps a lion, a leopard, or an armed man could rise into the daylight as if from nowhere, in front of tens of thousands of people. The Romans knew that they had built something that would outlast them so completely that the Colosseum became, for the people who came after, a measure of the world's own endurance. In the 8th century, an epigram attributed to the Venerable Bede offered a prophecy that has never lost its allure: "As long as the Colosseum stands, so shall Rome; when the Colosseum falls, Rome shall fall; when Rome falls, so falls the world." If you enjoyed this, I write a weekly newsletter read by over 50,000 people who love rediscovering the beauty of the past. You can join us here: If you'd like to support my work, a paid subscription is what makes it possible.show more

🧑‍🚀 Day 6 of the Cursor #vibejam Proudly sponsored... by Cursor + bolt.new + GLIF Prizes to win (submit your vibe coded game before May 1!) 🏆 $20,000 🥈 $10,000 🥉 $5,000 A lot of activity, my favorite ones today, I named some myself because I could not find a name: 🏜 Grand Canyon Sim by slow chaz, this one especially has a crazy beautiful indie art style, it looks really really special and promising 🦾 MechWreck by Kieran Smith, this is progressing nicely and now the mech you enter can destroy the entire city 👺 ☄️ Slingshot by Romain Simon, this one looks cool, very timely with the Artemis II moon mission, explore the galaxy with your own upgradeable spaceship! 🛸 PDC by Tone, this one also seems to be a space sim but very cool is you can walk around in your own space ship in 3d From what I see the visuals of the games are looking great, but now I'd recommend everyone to focus on gameplay, you want the game to be fun and exciting and challenging, even if it's simple (simple can be better!), it has to be fun! Don't forget that while you pixel push to beauty!!! YOU HAVE 23 DAYS LEFT! Reply in this thread with updates on your current games to share your progress, and add tag #vibejam so I see and can include you in the daily tweet. Oh and please name your game in your tweet or I have to come up with my own name for it like I keep doing here 😂 Wanna to participate? You can still start now and submit your game any time before May 1!show more

Most people think their AI is not smart enough.... It is smart enough. It just knows nothing about you. Every chat starts from zero. You paste the doc. You explain the project. You explain the same project again tomorrow. I finally fixed that part: 👇 I have been running Littlebird for a while now. The idea is simple. It is a desktop app for Mac and Windows that reads the text on your active window and sits in on your calls. So it already knows what you have been working on before you ask it anything. You do not brief it. You just ask. What that looks like in a normal day: 1/ Chat that already has the context No pasting. I ask what changed in a brief last week and it answers from the actual document that was open on my screen. 2/ Meeting Notes that write themselves It transcribes the call, then hands me the decisions and the action items. I get to stay in the conversation instead of typing through it. 3/ Routines that run on a schedule A morning briefing. A weekly summary of what I actually shipped. It shows up on its own. 4/ Hummingbird for the small stuff It appears right where you are working, so a quick question does not cost you a window switch and ten minutes of drift. The point is not the notes. Plenty of apps take notes. The point is that I stopped re-explaining my own work to a machine fifteen times a day. Free plan if you want to test the idea before deciding. Link is in the first comment, along with a discount for new users.show more

🧑‍🚀 Day 4 of the Cursor #vibejam Proudly sponsored... by Cursor + bolt.new + GLIF So the new sponsor is GLIF: Glif is like Claude Code for AI videos and content generation: you can build launch videos for your game, explore asset styles with 100+ AI models/tools and train it on your favorite workflows via skills! Use it to make trailers, game assets, promo videos and more for your Vibe Jam submission! Tomorrow fabian from Glif will share more to help you create promotion materials for your games! Because it'd be cool if after the Vibe Jam your games will take off and become actual games Again browsing the #vibejam tag on X today and there's so many people building cool, cute and fun games so it was hard, but I picked my favorite 4 ones from today: - A literal 🪰 "fly" simulator, not flight simulator 😂 by Gabriel - What looks like a multiplayer Roman combat simulator by Tim Trussner - LeBeau Motel (another?) Habbo Hotel remix by Vincent - Roomba Wars by Thijs which is descriptive enough to not need an explanation 😁 Reply in this thread with updates on your current games to share your progress! Do you want to participate? You can still start now and submit your game any time before May 1! There's $35,000 in prizes you can win, see threads below for more info!show more

Foreigners visiting Osaka should try takoyaki at least once.... Not just because it’s famous. Because this little street food has nearly 90 years of Osaka history inside it. Takoyaki is said to have been born in Osaka in 1935. Before takoyaki, there was something called radio-yaki — a round street snack made with meat and konjac. The name likely came from radio being new, modern, and trendy at the time. Then, according to a well-known story, one customer said: “In Akashi, they put octopus inside.” That simple idea changed everything. Osaka replaced the meat with octopus, added dashi flavor to the batter, and created one of Japan’s most iconic street foods. And here’s the part many people don’t know. The original Osaka takoyaki wasn’t meant to be covered in tons of sauce. The batter already had flavor, so people could eat it easily without making a mess. Today, tourists see takoyaki covered in sauce, mayo, and bonito flakes dancing on top. It looks cute. So they eat it too fast. That’s when Osaka gets them. The heat hits from the inside. For one second, they regret every life choice that led them there. But somehow, they immediately want another one. That’s takoyaki. No attitude. Cheap. Delicious. A little dangerous. And somehow impossible to forget.show more

Hello Hugh Thomas , let’s do it one by... one, sample by sample, stone by stone. Whenever an artificial stone recipe of mine reaches a certain stage that’s the results are comparable to the natural version I’ll send a cast sample to you (with its mold) to analyze. The first one could be this perfectly chiseled fake limestone cube. As you can see you can’t fit a razor blade between the stone and the cheap silicone mold from Temu. This proves my micro chiseling skills. The recipe is public, you don’t even need my cube, you could create your own - but you won’t. So I’ll send this cute cube to you. The “secret” recipe is: I started from wood ash lye, also called potash, or K2CO3, by slowly dripping water through hard wood ash. Hard wood ash from your fireplace, yeah. Then I added slaked lime, and the chemical reaction produced fine, molecular level CaCO3 particles, fine limestone floating in the liquid. FYI: the secret chemical reaction is, and was in the ancient times as well: K2CO3 + Ca(OH)2 = CaCO3 + 2KOH Yummy! Next step: I let the limestone particles settle, and poured the KOH, potassium hydroxide solution above (that also formed in the liquid, see above) into the kitchen sink as it is a very good drain cleaner indeed. I added water and poured it into the sink several times, trying to clean the slurry from the KOH. So yes, the cube is from almost pure limestone, CaCO3 - with some residual KOH contamination. The KOH contamination can be reduced infinitely, I just stopped after 4 rounds. (Pro tip: put the slurry into a filter bag and put the bag into a mountain creek for an hour.) The next step is filtering and pressing the remaining liquid from the slurry. Because it’s a wet mess at this point. Pressure is a key factor to success! At least one thing is accurate from the universal canon: no pressure-no stone. How do I know? By trying and failing a few (dozen) times. So I poured the white limestone slurry into a sock 🧦 and pressed and squeezed it by hand - and that was JUST enough pressure for the magic to happen 😮 It looks like nature/god is on our side, everything is working as it was designed this way. Then I put the almost dry limestone paste into this Temu mold. Fun fact: it still contains a lot of water which will eventually be pressed out as the crystallization progresses, so we’ll need to get rid of that water through a hole, a nub. But there is no hole 🕳️ on this Temu mold so I poured the excess liquid from the top a few times. Hardening time=drying time=crystallization time : 1 week. The important lesson I learned from this experience is as follows: I tried to understand why this sludge turned into hard stone, because, as we were told, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE, and my understanding is this: wood ash lye does two different magics in parallel for this to happen: 1. It magically contains the right kind of contamination to facilitate calcite crystal formation and 2. The incredibly high pH (remember, 2 molecules of KOH are produced from 1 molecule of K2CO3!) in the liquid boost the calcite formation even more. ———- My only request from you and your colleagues concerning this analysis is full, 100000% transparency. And be honest. I know something you clearly don’t: you have lost this battle already. We need the data fast, not in 4 years or something. Transparency means sharing whatever you find here on X, without scientific drama and pullbacks. We don’t need a 947 pages scientific paper. We need the results, the data only. BTW: I already know what you will find: a “special type of natural limestone” with some minimal potassium contamination🤣🤣🤣 Now feel free to DM me, let this scientific analysis happen! And thank you for your offer!show more

猫季来了。 过去，猫只是一个物种；后来，它们成了互联网最持久的情绪载体。它们没有统一的形象，却共享着可爱、荒诞、亲密与反叛。 世界上有无数只猫，中文互联网却在几年时间里，给了它们一个共同的名字：哈基米。 “哈基米”最初只是一段被重新理解的声音，后来被大众改写成猫，又从猫扩展到一切可爱、抽象、难以被准确命名的事物。围绕它发生的每一次空耳、二创，都没有削弱它，反而让它逐渐脱离原义，成为Z世代最具辨识度的共同语言之一。 大家并不是先理解哈基米，才开始使用它。是在一次次使用中，哈基米才有了今天的意义。 当一个词只有一种含义时，它只是词语；当无数人都能把自己的理解放进去，它才真正成为文化。 文化大多如此，先被人需要，后来才有解释。 这就是Meme最深的生命力：它不是靠保持单一而延续，而是在无数人的改写中获得共识。一个符号被解释得越多，它就越少属于某个人，越多属于整个时代。 这也就是“万物皆是哈基米”的缘由。... 现在，时间要开始加速咯。 Cat season is here. Once, cats were simply a species. Then they became one of the internet’s most enduring vessels for emotion. They share no single image, yet embody the same mixture of cuteness, absurdity, intimacy, and rebellion. There are countless cats in the world, but over the past few years, the Chinese internet has given them a shared name: Hajimi. “Hajimi” began as a sound heard anew. It was rewritten by the public as a name for cats, then expanded beyond cats to encompass everything cute, abstract, or difficult to name precisely. Every mishearing and remix surrounding it did not weaken the word. Instead, they freed it from its original meaning and turned it into one of Gen Z’s most recognizable shared languages. People did not first understand Hajimi and then begin to use it. Hajimi acquired its meaning through the very act of being used, again and again. When a word has only one meaning, it is merely a word. When countless people can place their own understanding inside it, it becomes culture. Culture often works this way: first it is needed, and only later is it explained. This is the deepest source of a Meme’s vitality. It does not endure by remaining singular, but finds consensus through endless reinterpretation. The more a symbol is interpreted, the less it belongs to any one person—and the more it belongs to an entire era. This is why everything is Hajimi. And now, time is about to accelerate.show more

伊隆·马斯克表示：“人们有时会说我是普京买来的资产。我觉得，他养不起我。”这凸显了政治领袖，需要在进入政坛前就很富有，而不是在离开政坛后积累财富。但是，如果普京威胁他的生命，或试图摧毁他的商业帝国怎么办？马斯克嘲笑过马云，问“马云在哪里”？他的结局，不一定如马云。特斯拉(TSLA)的未来，特别是在欧洲的销售会非常负面。立此存照。 Elon Musk stated, ”People sometimes say I‘m a... bought asset of Putin. I’m like, he can‘t afford me.“ This highlights the need for political leaders who were wealthy before entering politics, rather than those who accumulate wealth after leaving. However, what if Putin threatens his life or seeks to destroy his business empire?show more

Alhamdulilah. Now this is what we call a huge... web3 did What a wonderful journey it has been. Almost done with my first house. And honestly, it doesn’t feel like just a structure being completed… it feels like a reflection of everything that came before it. time, discipline, mistakes, exposure all quietly compounding. › 2023 The Beginning It started with no real direction. I was grinding, exploring, trying things without fully understanding where it all leads. There was no structure yet… just curiosity, repetition, and a lot of learning through trial and error. I was simply moving, even when I didn’t fully know what I was moving toward. › 2024 Things Start to Form Then things began to shift. Not overnight but gradually, through exposure and experience. I entered deeper into the space and connected with OGs in the TON ecosystem And slowly, one important lesson became clear: it’s not just effort that matters… it’s information, timing, and the people you learn from. › So I also started trading as well Trading became a major part of my learning curve. Forex & Perps showed me risk in its raw form mehnn 🙂‍↔️ taught me discipline and patience. Memecoins show me shege rugs up and down Along the way, I learned from different people PMO, not just strategies, but perspectives. Each one added something I didn’t have before. › Late 2024 Structure Appears Then came a different phase. I signed my first structured deal with sign a monthly arrangement that brought a new level of stability into my journey. For the first time, things were not just random wins and losses… there was structure, expectation, and consistency. Then came the TGE. Execution was clean. The ecosystem moved properly. And as early participants, we experienced meaningful upside not just financially, but in understanding how systems actually work when they’re built well. › Now The Reflection Almost done with something physical. But the deeper truth is this: the house is just the surface. what actually got built was the person. through risk, through losses, through discipline, through time. This is not a story about outcomes. It is a story about becoming. And I am still becoming. Grateful for the journey so far. Still building.show more

i generated over 3 BILLION views and made over... $23,000 from one faceless youtube channel beginning of the year before youtube paid me a single cent and the embarrassing part? i did not apply for monetization. until i hit 121k subscribers. that's how little adsense actually mattered to what i built. let me tell you what i was doing instead, the way i'd tell a friend: everyone starting youtube waits for the magic numbers 1,000 subs, 4,000 watch hours before they think they're allowed to make money. that wait is the single biggest mistake on the whole platform. you don't need youtube's permission to make money from youtube. you need three things: a channel getting views (any views), an affiliate offer that fits your audience, and a link in your description. that's it. i ran mine through CPA offers the low friction kind where your viewer doesn't have to buy anything. they sign up, enter a sweepstake, grab a freebie, and you get paid per action. costco, walmart, target, sam's club style stuff. nobody's spending $200. they're claiming something free that they actually wanted anyway. that's why it converts even on a tiny channel. but here's the part everyone gets wrong matching the offer to the niche. you can't slap any offer on any channel. it has to feel like the natural next step from the video they just watched: but here's the part everyone gets wrong matching the offer to the niche. you can't slap any offer on any channel. it has to feel like the natural next step from the video they just watched: budgeting channel? walmart/costco savings offers. they're literally there to save money. giveaway content? sweepstakes offers. the offer IS the content. 55+ money content? membership + gift card offers. older audiences actually complete these. the question i ask before picking anything: "would the person watching this genuinely want it?" if it's not an obvious yes, wrong offer. and the one move almost nobody makes don't send people straight to the raw link. build a simple landing page first. a naked affiliate link looks like spam. a clean little page that says what it is and what to do next looks legit, and it doubles or triples your conversions on the exact same traffic. takes 20 minutes to build now. zero excuse. so my whole machine was: video = link in description = landing page = offer. that quietly made $23k while i wasn't even monetized. the funny part? when i finally turned monetization on at 121k, adsense just stacked on top. now both run at once. but the affiliate side is the part that taught me how to actually sell adsense never teaches you anything. if you're sitting at 300 subs waiting for youtube to pay you, you're waiting for the wrong thing. the description box under your very first video is already a business. i wrote the entire breakdown how i pick offers, build the landing pages, the exact niches that convert in the full thing. it's all here 👇 follow me. i share everything i learned building this the slow, expensive way so you don't have to.show more

【每小时10万+ 自然流量的方法】 How to Get 102K+ Organic Views Every... Hour 这是月光的某个账号的实时流量数据 This is the real-time traffic data from one of my accounts. 每小时有102K+ 观看，纯自然有机的流量 It gets over 102K views per hour — 100% organic traffic. 从头到尾都是自己一个人运营，没有团队，没有助理 I run everything completely on my own, no team, no outside help at all 你也能做到 And you can do it too. 手机开录屏，每隔一秒刷新一下，肉眼可见观看数目的增加 I turn on screen recording on my phone, refresh every second, and you can literally watch the views go up with your own eyes. 💎 我可以窝在家里一个月不出门 I can stay at home for a whole month without going out. 张开眼就开始做事，一直切换要忙的事情，直到睡着 The moment I open my eyes, I get straight to work, switching tasks non-stop until I finally fall asleep. 💎 连续几年，都是分布式睡眠，没有固定的休息或用餐时间 For years, I’ve lived on a fragmented sleep schedule — no fixed time for rest or meals. 每周七天就是不停开会、写稿件、做海报、拍视频、剪视频 Seven days a week, it’s non-stop: meetings, writing, designing posters, filming, editing. 忙到右手长时间隧道腕，小拇指的皮肤磨出厚厚的茧子 I worked so much that my right hand developed carpal tunnel, and my little finger grew thick calluses from pressing against my phone case. 还有，因为高强度冲中推，我的中文也练得不错 Even my Chinese improved just from posting so much on Twitter. 现在都靠我妹教我流行什么英文词 These days, I rely on my sister to teach me the newest English slang. 💎 我就是个素人，没什么特别的秘诀 I’m just an ordinary person, with no hidden trick. 我可以做到的，你也能做到 If I can do this, so can you. 💎 最后再强调一次 Let me emphasize one last time: 做账号的经验总结，就是要坚持下去 The biggest lesson I’ve learned: consistency is everything. 连着几年都这么整活，保证能涨粉+维持一定的流量 If you grind like this for years, you’ll definitely grow followers and keep steady traffic. 💎 关注我，让我们一起成长 Follow me, let’s grow together!show more

How to make money on your faceless youtube channel... with affiliate before ever getting monetized i made over $23,000 from my faceless channel before youtube ever paid me a cent and here's the embarrassing part i literally FORGOT to apply for monetization. didn't even notice until i hit 121k subscribers. someone in my comments asked how much adsense was paying me and i just sat there like... oh no. that's how little adsense mattered to what i was building. let me break down exactly what i was doing instead, the same way i'd explain it to a friend: so everyone starting youtube waits for the magic 1,000 subs + 4,000 watch hours/ 10m views before they think they're allowed to earn. that waiting is the biggest beginner mistake on the whole platform. you don't need youtube's permission to make money from youtube. you need three things: a channel getting views (any views), an affiliate offer that fits your audience, and a link in your description. i was running mine through Glitchy. they've got a whole range of offers costco memberships, walmart, sam's club, target gift card offers, sweepstakes, cash app style offers, freebie offers the kind of low-friction stuff where the viewer doesn't have to buy anything expensive. they just sign up or enter, and you get paid per action. that last part matters more than people realise. you're not asking your audience to spend $200. you're showing them something free or nearly free that actually interests them. that's why it converts even with a small channel. now here's the part everyone gets wrong: matching the offer to the niche. you can't just slap any offer on any channel. the offer has to feel like a natural next step from the video they just watched: - frugal living / budgeting channel? costco, walmart, sam's club offers. your viewers are literally there to save money. - finance or "money hacks" content? gift card offers, cash back, sweeps. same audience, same desire. - giveaway / luck-based content? sweepstakes offers. it IS the content. - retirement & 55+ money content? membership deals + gift cards. older audiences actually complete these. - food & grocery content? grocery store offers are a perfect fit. they're already thinking about shopping. the question i ask before picking any offer: "would the person watching this video actually want this?" if the answer isn't an obvious yes, wrong offer. keep looking. one more thing that changed everything for me and almost nobody does this: don't send people straight to the offer link. build a simple landing page first. a raw affiliate link looks like spam. a clean little page that says what the offer is, who it's for, and what to do next looks professional and it converts so much better it's not even close. same traffic, same offer, double or triple the results just because of trust. you can build one in like 20 minutes now, there's zero excuse. so my actual flow was: video = description link = landing page = offer. that's it. that's the machine that quietly made $23k while i wasn't even monetized. and the funny part? when i finally DID turn on monetization at 121k subs, adsense just stacked on top of everything. now both run at the same time. but the affiliate side is the one that taught me how to actually sell adsense never teaches you anything. if you're sitting at 300 subs waiting for youtube to pay you, you're waiting for the wrong thing. the description box under your very first video is already a business. use it. if you want me to break down how i pick offers or set up the landing pages, say so in the replies i'll make it my next post. and follow, because i share everything i learned doing this the slow way.show more