Monetization Ideas
Use AI to generate documentary-level special effects combined with suspenseful storytelling about hard-core life sciences. Earn platform traffic shares through high completion rates, and then sell paid courses, books, or merchandise. For example, the blogger "Dayuanjing Science Popularization" posted a video about "death and electric shocks" in life science.
Telling the story of how he used powerful electric shocks to stimulate human and animal corpses to "resurrect." This video received nearly 780,000 likes on Douyin and currently has 840,000 views on Bilibili.
Target Audience
- Upers/teachers with strong writing skills who can write science popularization scripts
- Students or freelancers who can do basic AI drawing and editing
- Small teams wanting to build a differentiated knowledge IP on Douyin/Bilibili
Difficulty Level
Moderate: Need to handle topics, scripts, AI visuals, voiceovers, and editing at the same time, but it can be done by one person.
Operation Process Method
1. Choose a Topic
Find "curious and hard-core" topics, such as electric shock resurrection, memory transplantation, and gene-edited babies. Choose a story that people want to click on immediately, which is "scary but scientific."
2. Write a Suspense Script
Use AI to write a suspense script structure: "suspense opening → historical events → scientific principles → modern applications." Use the tone of "Today's Legal Case" for the narrator, start with fear and then explain. Like telling a ghost story, finally telling the audience "ghosts are fake, science is real."
3. AI Create Visuals
For example, in the case, the blogger used Midjourney to generate 19th-century laboratories, corpse electrocution, and microscope close-ups that could not be shot in real life. The generated images ensure continuous shots. Then turn the images into dynamic shots.
4. Voiceover and Music
Clone a deep male voice with ElevenLabs; search for "suspense documentary BGM" in CapCut, set volume to -18dB. Find a "uncle telling stories" voice, and add some scary background music.
5. Editing and Effects
Use CapCut / KineMaster: black screen + heartbeat sound effect for 0-3 seconds, then flash AI-generated electric shock scenes from 3-5 seconds; insert dynamic charts to explain muscle contractions; add an animation saying "Follow to watch the next episode." Piece together the visuals, sounds, and subtitles like a puzzle to create a good video.
6. Publish and Tags
Douyin title: #AI Reconstructs Electric Shock Resurrection Experiment# Can death really be reversed? On Bilibili, the cover writes "8 million views" in large characters, capitalizing on previous achievements.
7. Monetization Path
Platform sharing: Douyin Medium Video Plan, Bilibili Creation Incentive. Paid courses: produce a series of courses called "7 Days to Understand Life Science," priced at 99 yuan per set. Book sales: attach links to popular science books like "A Brief History of Humanity," with a 20% commission. Brand cooperation: medical apps, gene testing agencies.
Case Evaluation
"Dayuanjing" made AI effects look like documentaries and increased completion rates with suspenseful storytelling, successfully breaking the prejudice that "AI = low quality." The long video format is more suitable for in-depth science communication, and a single video with 8 million views means repeat long-tail revenue. However, continuous output of high-density information scripts is needed, otherwise the audience may get tired.
Tools Used
- Midjourney / Ji Meng (AI Visuals)
- ElevenLabs (Voice Cloning)
- CapCut / KineMaster (Editing + Subtitles)
- Douyin + Bilibili (Publishing and Monetization)
