Vera 🍌💕🐒(@veratheape):she’s not real, but brands are still paying ~$40k for 60 seconds of her. fangtaozi started as a character in a chinese ai short drama called the laid-off girl. the creator behind her gained 1.59m followers in just two months. now people know her face, talk about her personality, ship her with other characters and she already has brand deals + a season 2. what’s interesting to me isn’t that ai can make a decent video now. it’s that ai is already good enough to build ip. production is getting cheaper really fast. taste isn’t. the character, the worldview, the aesthetic, even the small details that make her feel like a real person. that’s the part hard to copy. ip is gold. taste is currency.

2026.08.29 16:48

she’s not real, but brands are still paying ~$40k for 60 seconds of her. fangtaozi started as a character in a chinese ai short drama called the laid-off girl. the creator behind her gained 1.59m followers in just two months. now people know her face, talk about her personality, ship her with other characters and she already has brand deals + a season 2. what’s interesting to me isn’t that ai can make a decent video now. it’s that ai is already good enough to build ip. production is getting cheaper really fast. taste isn’t. the character, the worldview, the aesthetic, even the small details that make her feel like a real person. that’s the part hard to copy. ip is gold. taste is currency.