Why AI Mass-Production Channels Collapse Fast — and Why the People Who Run Them Pivot to Selling Courses
A Quarter Where 4.7 Billion Views Vanished Between January and April 2026, sixteen major AI mass-production channels were shut down. Combined, they had accumulated 4.7 billion views, 35 million subscribers, and an estimated $10 million in annual revenue — all gone in a single quarter. South Korea's "3-Minute Wisdom," which had once crossed 2 billion cumulative views, was among them. In Part 1 of this series , I traced how YouTube's policy shift — swapping the word "repetitious" for "inauthentic" — became the starting gun for that wave of enforcement. I closed that piece with a single line: mass production fails fast, and genuine use grows slowly. This piece is the follow-up. Where did the people running those channels go? And why, right alongside the collapse, did so many of those same people start selling courses? But first, one question I want to plant at the top, because the rest of this piece follows it. If the method genuinely makes money...