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A talking-head account whose presenter does not exist: a HeyGen avatar, an ElevenLabs voice and five minutes in CapCut per video, posted relentlessly — 2.5 million followers, over two million of them gained in under 90 days, at a stated $50,000 to $70,000 a month in profit
2.5M followers, over 2M gained in under 90 days · a sample video past 300,000 views · production tooling under $20/month (creator-reported by Richard Yu about a friend, July 2026)
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Midway through a free 44-minute course on selling digital products, Richard Yu pulls up an account belonging to a friend he calls Young Manasseh and reads out the numbers: 2.5 million followers, more than two million of them gained in under 90 days, and "consistently anywhere from 50,000 to 70,000 US dollars in pure profit on a monthly basis." He opens one of the videos, which has over 300,000 views. A presenter talks straight to camera about psychology — "people who overthink everything, they're not overthinking just because they're anxious, they're overthinking because their mind was trained to look for danger" — and then Yu pauses it. "You might feel it's real, but it's 100% made by AI." The presenter is a HeyGen avatar, which Yu says costs under twenty dollars a month and has a free tier. The voice is ElevenLabs. The captions and the cut are done in CapCut on a phone. "This video takes less than 5 minutes to actually make, and he posts simple videos like this, which is what grew him over 2 million followers." That is the entire disclosed operation: a content format with no filming, no studio, no face, and a per-unit cost close to zero, run at volume. What Yu does not say is how the money is made — the profit figure arrives with no product, price, funnel or platform attached to it, which is the single biggest hole in this case and is treated as such throughout this entry. The surrounding course lays out the content method Yu teaches: find five accounts in your niche, take their five best recent posts, study the hooks rather than copying the videos, post one to three times a day on a single platform, and turn whichever short video overperforms into a longer one.
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Join the Unicorn Club — $5/moCancel in one click · first payment refundable for 7 daysData credibility: Creator-reported, secondhand. Richard Yu presents this account in a free full-length course video on his own YouTube channel (46,060 views at capture), describing Young Manasseh as a friend. The figures — 2.5 million followers, over two million gained in less than 90 days, $50,000 to $70,000 a month in pure profit, a sample video above 300,000 views — are all spoken by Yu, not by the operator, and no analytics screen, payout statement, account handle or platform name is shown on camera. The name is transcribed from auto-generated captions and may be spelled differently in reality; the account is never displayed, so none of this can be looked up. The production details (HeyGen under $20/month with a free tier, ElevenLabs for voice, CapCut on a phone, under five minutes per video) are the most reliable part of the claim because they are demonstrated elsewhere in the same video. Note the incentive: the video is monetised by affiliate links to two software products with negotiated discounts, offers a $997 course as a signup bonus, and ends by routing viewers to a paid program — so the case study functions as marketing for an education business. Yu also states his own business does over $500,000 a month, which is covered separately in this directory and is not evidence for this entry. No monetisation mechanism for this account is disclosed anywhere. ProvenStartups has verified none of it.