AI-generated pet short videos become a Chinese creator-economy niche
36Kr profiles Chinese creators who run short-video accounts built around AI-generated pets, including programmer 祝不二, whose AI-generated Chinese rural dog 阿黄 stars in 《阿黄和这个村》. The first episode launched in late August and the account reached about 60 million views across platforms in a month and a half, according to the creator's own figures, with income now nearly exceeding his day-job salary. The article describes a repeatable workflow — DeepSeek for scripts, Jimeng or Kling for visuals, CapCut for editing — and lists platform revenue sharing, brand placements, sales commissions and IP licensing as income streams, while noting that top accounts capture most of the money and that some viewers dismiss the format as traffic farming.
36Kr's feature shows AI video tooling has made serialized AI pet characters cheap to produce and monetizable through ads and commissions, though the view counts and earnings it cites are self-reported and unverified.
晚上十点,00后程序员祝不二下班到家,没开游戏,也不躺平。他打开电脑,给阿黄生产“明天的生活”。阿黄,是他用AI生成的中华田园犬。8月底,《阿黄和这个村》第一集上线,一个半月,全网播放量冲到约6000万。这个账号是他用下班时间做的,如今收入几乎快超过本职工资。像他这样养AI宠物的人,正在成为当下年轻人一种潮流。
有网友刷到上头,“终于理解长辈为什么爱看AI小孩了”。也有人泼冷水:假的永远是假的,用AI宠物割流量韭菜。那么,第一批养AI宠物的人,到底是出于什么动机?AI宠物真的是一门好生意吗?
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