AI 'Then and Now' Videos: 520K Subs & 391M Views in 3 Months
Breaking down a Faceless channel earning up to $1.6M/year with AI celebrity transformation videos - and how to create them easily
January 21, 2025
Channel: AI Cosmic
With just 290 videos, this channel has achieved 520,000 subscribers and over 391 million views. Starting on October 15, 2024, nearly all of this growth happened in just 3 months.
Channel Performance
- Subscribers: 520,000
- Total Views: 391,921,079
- Videos: 290
- Monthly Views: ~116M
- Estimated Yearly Earnings: $98K - $1.6M
Source: Social Blade
Example Video
The "Then and Now" celebrity transformation niche is exploding. Videos showing how famous actors, musicians, and public figures have changed over time consistently go viral, with individual videos hitting 20-30M+ views.
The Traditional Way: Too Complicated
How would you create videos like this yourself?
- Find high-quality photos - Source "then" and "now" images with consistent framing
- Write complex prompts - Craft detailed AI prompts describing camera movement, eye contact timing, and transitions
- Generate with Kling - Use Kling's image-to-video with start/end frames
- Process and merge - Handle video encoding and final output
The real challenge? Writing prompts that produce smooth, cinematic transitions where two people appear to share a moment. Most attempts result in unnatural morphing or broken eye contact.
The Simple Way: Hooc AI
The Then and Now template automates this entire process.
What Hooc Handles Automatically
- Generate cinematic transformation video - Kling v2.1 creates a smooth dolly shot where two people share eye contact (Kling)
- Process and merge - Final video encoding and output (Remotion)
A streamlined 2-step pipeline with a carefully crafted 50+ line prompt that handles camera movement, eye contact timing, and natural transitions.
What You Need to Input
Just 2 things:
- Then Image: The "before" photo
- Now Image: The "after" photo
Upload your two images, and Hooc creates a cinematic transformation video automatically. No prompt engineering, no switching between tools, no video editing required.
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