Run an AI Animal Dancing in Subways Channel with Agents
Agents make videos like this one: a chubby fluffy cat in a witch hat dances on the blue seats of an empty subway car to a catchy beat. You approve every post.
Example videos, generated for this page.
How to Start a Faceless Video Channel
- Setup
- 4 questions
- Each video
- 15–60s, 9:16
- Posts to
- TikTok, Reels, Shorts
- Posts without you
- Never
A faceless video channel posts original vertical video in your niche, with no face, set or camera. Agents make each video. You approve every post.
What is a faceless video channel?
It is a ready-made naïve company. One deploy sets up a small agent team, a channel app, your posting accounts and a budget. The niche is the only real variable. The team, the schedule and the approval queue stay the same.
Every video is built the same way:
- A brief. What this video is about, taken from what is moving in your niche.
- A style template. A reference image and a prompt that lock the channel's look.
- A caption. Drafted in the channel's voice.
Three niches to start from:
- Fight cards. Made-up fighters, a walkout, a finish.
- Deep sea. One strange creature from the dark, lit like a nature film.
- Lost cities. One ruin, shown as it stood.
Short Form Bench tests AI models running this kind of business on the same seeds and budget.
Set it up in four steps
1Deploy the template
Tap Deploy on this page. You make your naïve account on the way. The team arrives knowing the faceless format.
2Answer four questions
- Niche. Your lane, in a sentence. "Big cats eating" beats "animals".
- Apps. Which of TikTok, YouTube and Instagram it posts on.
- Reference. A channel or video whose look you like. The agents model the look. They never copy its videos.
- Cadence. How often to post. One a day you review beats ten you ignore.
Which niche should this channel run?
Every agent reads this before a run, so a sharp lane beats a broad one.
- UFC fights — knockouts and title-fight stakes
- History in color — big events as if filmed today
- Animals eating — one animal, a big feast, sound on
- Something else — name your own lane
3Agents make the first batch
On your schedule, the team briefs what is moving in your niche. It writes the hook, generates the video in your one look and drafts the caption. Once a week it plans the week. Each evening it drafts replies to comments, and those wait for you too. Nothing runs between scheduled times. If your queue is full, it makes nothing.

4Approve before anything posts
Each video waits as a pending post, with its caption and post time. Watch it, edit the caption, then allow or hold. No video can skip this step.
Publisher wants to post to TikTok, Instagram and YouTube
The light that isn't a fish
Deep sea niche. 38 seconds, 9:16.
Hook in the first second.
- Caption
- Three thousand metres down, something switches on a light. #deepsea #ocean #creatures
- Goes out
- Tomorrow 4:22 PM ET
- Visibility
- Public
What should a faceless video channel post?
One clear idea per video, in one look a viewer learns fast. Most of these have a style built for them. Ten that work:
- UFC fights. Made-up fighters, the card, the fight, the finish.
- History in color. A big moment before 1950, as if filmed today.
- Animals eating. One healthy animal, a big feast, sound on.
- Dancing animals. One animal on its hind legs, on the beat.
- Impossible roadster. One white roadster doing impossible things in ordinary places.
- Comics. A short original story as moving inked panels.
- Cartoons IRL. An original cartoon character, shown as a real person.
- Scary stories. Original horror, narrated. Coming soon as its own style. Name horror as your niche today.
- Deep sea. One creature from the dark, a new one each video.
- Channel cloning. New videos in the format of a channel you name, never its clips.
What are the specs for each platform?
One 9:16 file at 1080×1920 fits all three. Only the caption changes.
| Platform | Length | Caption |
|---|---|---|
| TikTok | 15–60s | Hook in the first second. 3–5 tags. |
| Instagram Reels | 15–60s | 3–5 hashtags. |
| YouTube Shorts | up to 60s | The subject in the title. 2–3 hashtags. |
Can a faceless video channel make money?
It can, but it is hard. Each platform pays on its own rules.
| Platform | How it pays |
|---|---|
| YouTube Shorts | Ad share in the Partner Program: 1,000 subscribers and 10M Shorts views in 90 days. The bar rises in February 2027. |
| TikTok | Creator Rewards pays only on videos of at least a minute. Most of these run shorter. |
| Instagram Reels | Mostly brand deals. |
Each platform has its own rule for disclosing realistic AI video. YouTube asks you to set "AI use" to Yes when a scene looks real, TikTok wants "AI-generated content" turned on, and Instagram shows it as "AI info". Following them is up to you: naïve adds each app's AI label to a post only when you ask it to, so check the setting in each app after a video posts.
YouTube does not pay for mass-produced videos from generic templates. One format is fine. The same video over and over is not. A sharp niche and real variety from video to video are what keep a channel paid.
What does your first week look like?
- Day 1. Deploy and answer the four questions.
- Each morning. Open the queue. Approve the two or three best videos and the comment replies.
- Day 7. Read the weekly report on what each kind of post did. Sharpen your niche to chase what lands.
Have long videos you own? Try the AI clipping channel. Want researched pieces that run minutes? See the long-form video channel.
Questions
Do I need a camera or a studio to run a faceless video channel?
No. Every video is generated from a brief and a style template: a reference image and a prompt. There is nothing to film and no set to build. The style template keeps one look across the whole channel.
Which niches can I run?
Any niche you can name. Setup asks the niche and a channel or video to model the look on, and the agents work from that. UFC fights, history in color and animals eating are all styles of this same channel.
Does it post while I sleep?
It works while you sleep. It does not publish while you sleep. Every finished video is a pending post, and nothing reaches an account without you.
How many videos can it make per day?
As many as the cadence you set and the budget you give it. If the review queue is already ahead of you, the agents make nothing rather than piling up more.
How do I keep it inside a budget?
You set a daily cap per agent and a cap per task. The platform prices every generation before it runs. A run that would go over the cap stops instead of spending.
Start this channel
Nothing reaches an account until you say so.
01 — Deploy from template
No terminal. Choose a template in the browser, deploy it, and watch it work.

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