I Made 30+ Videos in 7 Days and Now My AI Tools Are Unionizing
How I accidentally built a content studio using ChatGPT and iMovie
It started with a 7-part tweet from a nobody tech bro claiming $1200/month with AI-generated YouTube videos.
Normally I'd scroll past. This time, I didn’t.
I already liked video editing, and this felt like something in my wheelhouse. I didn’t have a plan or expectations—just curiosity. So I tried it.
One week later, I’d made over 30 videos.
Introducing: TL;DR Theater.
Naming It, Making It, Posting Anyway
I had ChatGPT generate everything: the name, the description, the upload defaults, even the SEO-friendly hashtags in the YouTube descriptions. We riffed like creative partners—if one of us were a sleep-deprived 30 something and the other a humorless robot.
The name that stuck: TL;DR Theater.
Short explainers. South Park Themed Karen Read Trial Updates. Random nonsense. Perfect.
I even had ChatGPT design some logos. One of them—a ticket-style icon—looked good enough to keep. So I did.
The first few videos? Brutal. Script to voiceover to visuals, all painfully manual.
But I was past the point of no return. I just needed a better system.
Enter SceneStitch
I vibe coded SceneStitch in Replit to save me from the slow death of content generation.
It breaks scripts into storyboard scenes, applies a consistent visual style from 60+ options, lets me tweak image prompts per scene, syncs voiceover to text with timestamps, and exports everything I need in a zip file.
It’s scrappy and definitely hoarding some tech debt, but it turned a number of the more annoying, time-consuming steps into an asynchronous workflow.
Talking Like a Person, Coding Like a Goblin
To narrate the scripts, I used a text-to-speech tool called Murf.ai, which gives you a generous $3.00 free trial1. I sampled a bunch of voices and landed on Marcus—smooth, upbeat, and friendly.
At first, I had ChatGPT guide me to create a basic Python script to generate audio files in Google Colab. That sort of worked—until I botched a paste job and broke the whole thing.
So I gave up and did what I probably should have done from the start: I uploaded the Python script to Replit and told it, “turn this into a web form where I paste in text and click a button.” It did. Instantly. Maybe the cleanest vibe coding win of my life.
Once the audio is ready, SceneStitch syncs the voiceover with the script, and I download a zip file with timestamps and scenes—ready for fast iMovie assembly.
Curtains, Clicks, and Classy Exit Slides
Every YouTube channel needs a little pizzaz. So I gave mine flashing lights, balloons and popcorn.
I made a few intro and outro variations using Google Veo and a mix of other image-to-video tools to shake it up.
Here are my favorite of the bunch:
Titles, Thumbnails & Descriptions
The last step is the packaging:
Titles: Generated in ChatGPT using clickbait principles without the shame
Descriptions: YouTube-optimized blurbs with strategic hashtags, keyword-rich summaries, and algorithm-friendly phrasing
Thumbnails: Stylized frames or title overlays based on the GPT-designed format
The title/thumbnail combo is the most important part of the YouTube algorithm. Just ask MrBeast—he once spent 1,000 days analyzing thumbnails, camera angles and views to learn what drove clicks.
By the Numbers
🎥 Total videos posted: 37
👻 232 videos with < 5 views (including some of my personal favorites)
🥇 Most viewed: Why MiniDisc Failed — 721
🥈 Runner-up: 100 Free Hours: The Scam that Built the Internet — 193
🥉 Bronze: Napoleon Attacked by Rabbits — 56
Some comments have called the videos “AI slop.” Others say they’re oddly nostalgic.
Honestly, I get it. They’re both right.
I haven’t cracked the algorithm yet. But I’ve hit my 30-day upload goal.
What’s Next
Batch 2 is already underway. I’m determined to streamline even more.
The dream? Fully autonomous video generation.
The backup plan? Keep going until something goes viral or I forget my YouTube password.
— Charlie, Executive Producer at TL;DR Studios
If you’ve made it this far, congrats—you’re now eligible for a terrible deal. Submit any explainer-style video idea. I’ll make it. But I won’t tell you when. You’ll just have to check back or subscribe like it’s a weird little game. Offer valid forever. Turnaround time: 14 days-ish.
To be fair, each script cost between $0.03-$0.07 so I’m still using the trial
Other than total videos posted, all metrics are as of 6/18/25 when I finalized this post. Total videos posted is correct as of this writing.