u/CineVision-AI

Episode 1 of Lethal Innocence is now live.

In the gleaming megacity of Erexis, a city that promotes safety, women and children are disappearing while the elite party on rooftops and in elegant grand ballrooms. One young girl named Diana isn’t what she seems, having already decided to tear the entire trafficking network apart from the inside, all while remaining undetected and hidden in plain sight.

This is a dark, mature R-rated sci-fi crime thriller with strong language and heavy themes. Viewer discretion is advised.

Would love your thoughts.

So I posted my first video on my new channel that I only created a week ago, won't say what it is (might look like I'm self-promoting), but a friend of mine told me that this should've gone viral.

Um, that's not how YouTube works. Almost every time, all new channels with their first video will NOT go viral. Here's why.

I'm unknown in the YouTube world. My character is unknown in the YouTube world. Yeah, sure, a innocent kid warning us about the up and coming content with her foul mouth might sound cool, but it's not viral material. But my friend said "other AI channels blow up quickly", well, here's why.

Those other AI channels piggybacked on trending viral content, the 'then vs now' celebs with their younger counterparts, Gunny Hartmann in various situations, I ruined this movie with AI, Chuck Norris roundhouse kicking people, I could go on and on, but a channel can grow quickly with content the viewers are already accustomed to.

I'm not doing any of that. I'm creating a story with characters that no one has ever seen, portraying a story that almost no one wants to touch. And that's what's going to make my AI YouTube journey much slower. But, having said that, once I do find that audience, and I eventually will, they will stick around, and follow the heartbreaking journey my main character is forced to endure.

So, you won't find real world celebs in my content, you won't find anything trending, you won't find Chuck Norris doing kicks, or any other junk like that, because I'm creating something original from my own ideas, imaginations, and fears, and using AI to bring it all together into a visual arts form.

I know it's going to be a very slow and painful start, but I also know that once I get traction with my story, my channel will see growth. I've already prepared for the long marathon.

My upcoming sci-fi crime thriller series: Lethal Innocence, follows a young girl who is kidnapped by a powerful trafficking empire.

Except she isn’t a normal child.

Quiet, undetected, and absolutely merciless, she begins tearing the entire operation apart from the inside. One by one, the criminals who prey on the innocent are about to discover that this seemingly innocent kid is the most dangerous weapon they’ve ever encountered.

After my old oil painting channel died a stupid death, I decided to try something completely different: a full R-rated sci-fi crime thriller about a 10-year-old cyborg girl tearing apart a human trafficking empire from inside, all while remaining undetected, until she decides it's time to reveal herself.

My mistake was thinking I would be the next biggest artist on YouTube, all while getting monetized instantly, because I had the best skills of hyper realistic paintings, at that time anyways. 7 years later, after starting my art channel, not even halfway to monetization, and riddled with mental health problems, I started doubting, ripping my hair out, and shouting at the clouds as to why my channel was being left in the dust, I decided to shut the whole thing down and walk away. And walk away I did, for a few years, while trying to live a normal life with my wife and daughter.

Fast forward to 2026, and here I am building a completely different story, one that's been on my mind since the birth of my own daughter. This story is completely fictional, but it very relatable to our own rotten world of human trafficking.

Building my story has been a brutal journey. Moderation fights, voice consistency issues, rate limits, and constantly wondering if anyone will actually watch something this dark, all on top of wondering if YouTube will either let me keep my dark story (probably not), or swoop in with strikes and demonetizations and all that (probably).

As opposed to my art channel, where I placed too many expectations on myself, this time, I'm actually expecting this whole journey to fall flat on its face, which I'm hoping it does, I'm not joking. Shakira's song "Try Everything" was a good bit of motivation, especially the line "I want to try even though I could fail", so here I am, just trying even though I know for sure this will probably fail, but then again, it might not.

I just launched the channel (CineVision Stories) and put up the first warning video. I will upload the first episode, which will show if my content is acceptable or not.

If you’re also building AI content and struggling with the same problems, I’d love to hear what’s been hardest for you too.

No pressure to check it out, just sharing the journey.

I plan on launching my channel soon, however, after building 10 episodes of what is probably going to be a very UNSAFE crime thriller series about a gleaming city that hides its own political and criminal rot by letting gangs flourish in the shadows. I've been researching and doing my homework on how YouTube could possibly see my work.

So, basically my story deals with drug and human trafficking, with a few distressing scenes that only shares 1-2 seconds of screen time each, including kidnapping and manhandling victims. My main character, a child, is the only trafficking hostage that is the key to dismantling the entire operation from inside, fighting the thugs and killing them (all done off screen - implied violence). She basically beats the criminal scum up, she swears her foul mouth off in every episode, she throws men at cars and wood pallets and so on, she even burns them with her flamethrower, and once she's done tearing through 4 warehouses, she starts going after the elite that allowed this rot to even exist, threatening the Mayor and Senator and paying a visit to a corrupt cop. I'll leave it at that.

Now, I've been seeing post after post saying that YouTube has actively wiped out AI channels, and that's what I will be, but not just any AI channel, mine will focus solely on cinematic storytelling, not this AI slop that I keep reading about.

Now, I've spent a few months building my 10 episodes of this dark crime thriller, but now I'm starting to realise that YouTube will most likely pounce on my work the moment it sees even half a second of a distressing scene, I will definitely NOT be eligible for monetization, not that this bothers me, I'll will probably get strikes on certain films, and if it becomes too much for YouTube, my channel could be nuked.

So, having said this, I'll drop the question. How would YouTube handle something like I'm creating? I still haven't launched my channel yet (I'm not in a desperate hurry), and won't until I am satisfied my content will meet the typical standards expected by the viewers, however, with these new concerns, I'm just wondering if it's even worth pursuing now. I've been told I can upload my first episode and test the waters (that has 2 kidnapping scenes with about 2 seconds of screen time, and my foul mouthed main character), it's not so much a proper episode, it's more like a teaser trailer that will tease what my story will be dealing with.

Looking forward to your responses.

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I plan on launching my channel soon, however, after building 10 episodes of what is probably going to be a very UNSAFE crime thriller series about a gleaming city that hides its own political and criminal rot by letting gangs flourish in the shadows, I've been researching and doing my homework on how YouTube could possibly see my work.

So, basically my story deals with drug and human trafficking, with a few distressing scenes that only shares 1-2 seconds of screen time each, including kidnapping and manhandling victims. My main character, a child, is the only trafficking hostage that is the key to dismantling the entire operation from inside, fighting the thugs and killing them (all done off screen - implied violence). She basically beats the criminal scum up, she swears her foul mouth off in every episode, she throws men at cars and wood pallets and so on, she even burns them with her flamethrower, and once she's done tearing through 4 warehouses, she starts going after the elite that allowed this rot to even exist, threatening the Mayor and Senator and paying a visit to a corrupt cop. I'll leave it at that.

Now, I've been seeing post after post saying that YouTube has actively wiped out AI channels, and that's what I will be, but not just any AI channel, mine will focus solely on cinematic storytelling, not this AI slop that I keep reading about.

Now, I've spent a few months building my 10 episodes of this dark crime thriller, but now I'm starting to realise that YouTube will most likely pounce on my work the moment it sees even half a second of a distressing scene, I will definitely NOT be eligible for monetization, not that this bothers me, I'll will probably get strikes on certain films, and if it becomes too much for YouTube, my channel could be nuked.

So, having said this, I'll drop the question. How would YouTube handle something like I'm creating? I still haven't launched my channel yet (I'm not in a desperate hurry), and won't until I am satisfied my content will meet the typical standards expected by the viewers, however, with these new concerns, I'm just wondering if it's even worth pursuing now. I've been told I can upload my first episode and test the waters (that has 2 kidnapping scenes with about 2 seconds of screen time, and my foul mouthed main character), it's not so much a proper episode, it's more like a teaser trailer that will tease what my story will be dealing with.

Looking forward to your responses.

I'm still using it, and it's still providing what I need. The recent upgrades to the model was a bit of a dick punch, where for the first time, after a few months of using it, hit the dreaded "rate limit reached" after 10 videos, but only one time, then I kept going and I never saw it again.

The recent upgrades also degraded the voices on my characters in a massively inferior way, despite Elon saying "oh it's the best thing ever heard", no buddy, it's not.

Moderation was ramped right up to the point where I couldn't even create a scene with a grown man, the mob boss character in my story, toasting with a couple of elegant ladies in his private VIP room, getting hit with the dreaded "Content Moderated. Please try another idea", and these were fully clothed adults.

Despite all of that, things seem to have calmed down, the rate limit is suddenly not there anymore, so I can continue building my story, the moderations have eased up again, but the voices still need to be fixed.

I still enjoy using Grok, because it's more stable, it's still the one that's stepping up and providing everything I need, it doesn't rely on a bunch of tokens and credits that easily burn up, especially when something needs to be redone, although I'm still wary of that rate limit, but so far so good, haven't seen it yet.

So, overall, my content provider is Grok. Yes, it's not perfect, it's riddled with flaws and problems, but there are work arounds, and yes it's owned by the world's richest and weirdest man, not that I care about that, but it's the best tool that's so far got the job done, despite all the hiccups encountered.

Now, if you feel you need to screen cut this and share it around, because I say Grok is great, but then also point out its problems, then say it still great, by all means, go for it.