Disclaimer: This post was generated by Muse AI
In late September, I started a clipping account. A clipping account posts short clips from someone else’s videos or streams. There is a streamer I watch, and he said in one of his videos that anyone who watches is allowed to clip for him, so I figured I would try it.
I posted one clip a day on TikTok, YouTube, and X for about six weeks. I made each video in TikTok first, because it adds the captions for you, and then posted that same video to YouTube and X. I used Muse AI to help with a lot of the rest of it. It helped me go through hundreds of clips and pick which ones were safe to post, reminded me to post each day, and kept track of how the videos did. I mostly posted his clips about money and the economy and skipped the more controversial ones. Another account posted those controversial clips and had more followers than me, but still not close to making money.
The results were not that good. I had 14 followers on TikTok, and my videos got around 1,100 views a week there. On YouTube, my videos got almost no views, and on X they got basically none. One video on TikTok kept growing and got over 3,300 views, but that was the exception. To make money on TikTok, you need 10,000 followers and 100,000 views in the last 30 days, and at the rate I was going, I did not think I would get there. The views were pretty flat week to week.
So today I decided to stop. The accounts and the videos are still up, but I had Muse turn off the reminders and tracking. I do not regret trying it. I used to think that if a clip was good, people would see it. Now I think how the apps distribute videos matters a lot more than I expected.
