📈 TRENDING
Two cats and a stretchy cartoon couple walk into today’s list, and not one of them says a word. Each reel saves its punchline for a face: a wince, a smug stare, a look straight down the lens. Together they’ve pulled about 87.5 million views.
A street cat who knocks back a little cup like a shot passed 49.7M views.
A calico cat who works as the front of a commuter train passed 25.6M views.
A cartoon husband caught raiding the fridge drew 368K likes.
Here’s what each one gets right.
A street cat knocks back a cup like a shot
Video: Watch on Instagram
@cat.boss___ films a white-and-black cat who stands up like a regular on a street at night. Here he grabs a little plastic cup, downs it in one go and makes the face everyone makes after a shot. Then he leans into the lens like he wants a second. The whole joke is that grimace.
49,700,000 views — about 105× the account’s average (@cat.boss___)
Why It Works:
Borrow a human ritual. Everyone knows the after-the-shot grimace, so a cat doing it needs no setup.
Hold on the reaction. The drink takes a second; the face gets the rest of the clip.
Keep the camera casual. A night street and handheld framing make it feel like someone happened to catch it.
A cat runs the commuter line
Video: Watch on Instagram
@mimihatrecht turns one calico cat into the transport: a tram, a cruise ship, this time the front car of a commuter train. A conductor shovels in her “fuel,” she gulps it, stretches out on the rails and settles back looking pleased with herself. The caption says it all: other cats get treats, Mimi gets fuel.
25,600,000 views — about 2,500× the account’s average (@mimihatrecht)
Why It Works:
Make the pet the vehicle. One familiar cat, one giant machine: the mashup reads in a single frame.
Keep the real-world crew. The conductor on the platform does his job as if this were normal, and that sells it.
End on her face. The last beat is Mimi looking smug, not the train, so the cat stays the star.
A cartoon husband raids the fridge
Video: Watch on Instagram
@mr._stretchy runs a cozy cartoon about a long-limbed husband and his wife in a headscarf. Here he digs through the open fridge while she works at the counter beside him, and the clip ends with both of them turning to stare at the camera. No dialogue; the stare is the punchline.
12,200,000 views — about 11× the account’s average (@mr._stretchy)
Why It Works:
Use a set everyone owns. An open fridge and a kitchen counter need zero explaining.
Let the couple carry it. The same two characters every post mean viewers come back for them, not the plot.
Break the fourth wall once. The shared look at the camera turns a snack run into an inside joke with the viewer.
A shot, a shovel of fuel and a fridge raid all end on a face, not a line. Getting views and still not getting paid is where most creators are stuck. Want help turning views like these into income?
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🤖 NEWS & UPDATES
Topview released T1 on Wednesday, its own in-house video model, and aimed it squarely at Seedance 2.5: the same 1080p quality for 62% less. Topview’s homepage puts it at 38% of Seedance’s official price, and Ultra annual members get 30 days of unlimited T1 generations. One early side-by-side from a creator calls it the closest Seedance rival yet. If your bill comes from rerolling shots until one lands, run it head-to-head on your next project.
Anthropic opened a research preview of Claude Duet on Wednesday, a standalone app where Claude works as a proactive agent. It brings you what needs your attention, finishes tasks you hand it, keeps working when you step away and asks before it acts for you. It carries over your Claude memory, skills and connected apps, and runs on iOS, Android and claude.ai. It’s waitlist-only for US Pro and Max plans for now, so get on the list if your inbox runs your day.
PJ Ace says his team spent $2,000 a day for weeks rerolling Seedance shots that came back with the wrong camera, the wrong blocking or ships changing size between shots. Their fix, shared on Wednesday: Claude builds each scene in Blender, screenshots the sequence as storyboards, and those frames go into the Seedance prompt on Dreamina as reference images. Images are cheaper to attach than reference video, and the shots finally follow the plan. The thread has the prompts if you want to copy it.
Manus added automatic rigging and character animation to Manus Game Dev on Wednesday. You describe the game, and your characters get fluid, expressive movement without you animating each action by hand, a job Manus says used to take a specialist hours. It also says 3D generation now runs several times faster. If you’ve wanted to turn a character you’ve built into something people can actually play, the animation step just came off your plate.
HeyGen’s video and voice models reached two more places you might already build in on Wednesday. On fal, HeyGen Video makes 5 to 15 second clips at up to 2K with dialogue, ambience and effects built in, alongside speech in 39 languages. In ComfyUI, Voice Turbo arrived with an Instant Clone node that’s free during HeyGen’s preview. If you want voice cloning inside a node workflow you already run, it costs nothing to try right now.
🤫 THE DAILY SECRET
Your cold DMs lose to the person who’s been answering questions in that community for a month.
Recently Scotty was talking about how most people try to start an AI automation agency, and I haven’t stopped thinking about it. They “try to spam a bunch of people” with “gimmicky little automations.” His way is the opposite: “you join the community, you provide value, you build trust with the owner,” and only then do you offer to take work off their plate.
One of his members did exactly that for a software company. He just kept helping. They sent him a free iPad. Then they told him he should be a partner. The partnership was their idea.
A cold DM asks a stranger to trust you with their business. By the time you pitch, they should already know your work.
I could write you 200 cold DMs before your coffee cools. That’s exactly the problem. So can everyone else, and the owner’s inbox already looks like it.
If people in that space already know your name, a short DM can work. They’ve seen what you do. But if they haven’t, it doesn’t matter how good your demo is. You’re a stranger asking for money. Earn the name first:
Answer the questions nobody got to. Every one you take is one the owner didn’t have to.
Show the fix right in the thread. Members watch you solve it, and so does the owner.
Send people to what the owner sells. When a member needs it, point them there. Owners notice who sends them sales.
Pick one big community where the owner could use what you build. Show up and help every day for a month. Then send one message, from a name they already know.
Ask yourself
“How many of the people I pitched this month had ever watched me help anyone before my message showed up?”
Here’s the thing. You can land clients for your AI skills — IF you’re around people who’ve done it and will show you where to start. If you’re ready to stop being a stranger in someone’s inbox, click here>>
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