A 17-year-old in Austin pulls $24,400 every month from a Minecraft YouTube channel That he edits without touching a single frame He records 4-hour Minecraft letsplays, drops the raw footage into Premiere Pro 2026, and the AI cuts it into a finished video in 2-3 minutes He never opens the timeline. He never scrubs. He never sets a keyframe Claude writes the script before he records. Claude writes the title, tags and description after. Claude reads the YouTube Studio analytics every Monday and tells him exactly which letsplay to record next The whole stack costs $43 a month 11 weeks ago the channel was empty Week 4: first $800 Week 8: $7,200 Week 12: $24,400 Week 16 on pace for $40,000 From a phone, a laptop and 5 saved prompts He's already replicating the system in two more gaming niches at the same time What used to need a 6-person studio now runs on one guy, one Claude tab and one Premiere license Save it and try it yourself