16-year-old's GPT-6 Astra short film draws 6.8M plays
A 16-year-old in China spent $45 to have GPT-6 Astra write the storyboard and Seedance generate the visuals for a 90-second short, Whack-a-Mole, which drew 6.82 million plays in two days.
A 16-year-old kid from China lied to his parents about $45. He told them it was for school. It was for a mole. 2 days later his 90-second AI short film Whack-a-Mole had 6,820,000 plays. His parents found out from the comments. He wants to direct movies. At 16 nobody hands you a crew, so he rented one for $45 a month. His idea was simple: take the arcade game everyone has played and film it from inside the machine. A mole takes hammer hits for coins all night, buys 4 grilled skewers at a street stall and hides the wound under a cap before he walks into his kids' kitchen. > GPT-6 Astra wrote the night as 6 scenes, from the first hit to the lit window. > Seedance animated every scene and kept the wound in the same spot all night. > Make posted it to TikTok, Shorts and Reels before he got home from school. Everyone films the player. He filmed the mole. The same story works on any job nobody looks at: a mall mascot, a crash test dummy, a dunk-tank clown. > $45 his parents still think went to school > 2 days of work > 6,820,000 people crying over a mole Everything he used is in the article 👇
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