
I can’t bear to recall those days in 2021 and 2022 when there was no AI, and everyone manually created video memes, grinding away at white papers like they were playing chess, go, calligraphy, and painting. Back then, I entered the space after seeing a post on Xiaohongshu where a guy claimed he made a million in three months—I paid $999 to join his group to learn how to grind white papers. My old laptop would get scorching hot running ten ads at once; I spent every day glued to Discord, timing my messages to coincide with cooldowns in the channels.
