59-second melodramas where a mocked cat works hard and gets rich.
Make AI cat rags-to-riches dramas for TikTok: one video near 150M views
He moved to overseas platforms because a mainland Chinese app paid him only 50 yuan for an 8-million-view video.
Figures as reported by the South China Morning Post (Jun 2025) · source
From South China Morning Post · Jun 2025
The workflow
Where & with what
What they did
- 1The moveA Chinese creator known online as Ansheng runs several AI cat-drama accounts.
- 2Step 2Pick a simple emotional story arc
- 3Step 3Make short AI pet clips daily
- 4ResultThe SCMP reported the ginger-cat video had almost 150 million views and the account gained over a million followers in under two months; two of his accounts have over 1 million followers and several more over 500,000.
Quick answers
What tools do you need?
Just the platform account.
How much does it cost?
No paid tools needed: this case uses only the platform itself, which is free to join.
Is it allowed?
Yes. Disclose ads and label realistic AI content using TikTok's AI label. Source.
Watch out: Income is the creator's own estimate. One of his remakes used Disney characters, which risks takedowns; reused scripts can also fail originality rules for payouts.
Try it yourself
(Our template, not the creator's prompt.) Write a 60-second rags-to-riches story for an original cartoon animal: the moment they are mocked, 3 scenes of hard work, the twist and a final reaction shot, with one video prompt per scene.
Your first step
Paste the prompt into your AI assistant and swap the [brackets] for your own niche.
Full write-up & sources
More detail: His hit tells the story of a poor ginger cat mocked by a white cat and her rich dog boyfriend, who works as a builder and window cleaner, gets rich and shocks them. He told the SCMP he makes two to three videos a day with free AI tools and adapts existing scripts rather than writing new ones.
Results: He said one video with 10 million+ views earns 1,200 to 2,000 yuan (US$170 to $280), about 20,000 yuan (US$3,000) a month, against under 50 yuan a month in tool costs.
Worth knowing: Where you post matters as much as what you post.
Source: South China Morning Post · Jun 2025. Summarised in our own words; figures as reported by the South China Morning Post (Jun 2025). Updated .
