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@angus.sewell

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@angus.sewell Per the usual if you comment “content” I’ll send you the guide on how to set up an autonomous content agent #ai #aicontent #agenticai #aitools

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Length · 11 Jun 2026
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Video #33667 · Speaker address

Creator explains AI content cloningfrom @angus.sewell

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Overview

The creator explains how to create a fully autonomous AI agent for Instagram. He breaks the process down into four illustrated steps: scraping viral content, rewording the ideas, designing new visuals, and auto-posting on a schedule. While explaining, he critiques the method as 'sketchy' and 'creatively brain-dead,' linking it to the 'dead internet theory,' before concluding with the cynical take that most human creators already copy each other anyway.

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Simple outline

  1. 1Pose shocking industry secret
  2. 2Deconstruct the 'secret' process
  3. 3Deliver cynical meta-commentary
  4. 4Tease future application

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Related videos

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Classification

Concepts
BreakdownTutorial / How ToHot Take
Elements
Graphic OverlayJump CutTitle Text HookFollow / Subscribe CTA

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Hook analysis

What stops the scroll in the first 3 seconds

Title hook · 55%

You can clone any creator

Verbal hook · 40%

They are not human, bro.

Visual hook · 5%

An extreme close-up, low-angle shot of the creator's face, which creates an intense and unconventional perspective to immediately grab attention.

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Hook and payoff

The promise the opener makes, and how the video pays it back

Hook

A provocative, conspiratorial statement that challenges the viewer's perception of a common reality, creating immediate intrigue.

Payoff

A nihilistic call to action that embraces the cynicism, dismisses the moral implications ('So fuck it'), and teases a future application of the same controversial method to a new domain.

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Narrative framework

The structural pattern this video runs on

Framework

The Cynical How-To

To reveal a seemingly complex or controversial process, break it down into simple, achievable steps, and then subvert the 'how-to' format with a cynical meta-commentary on the process itself and its practitioners.

  1. 1

    The System Reveal

    State the core thesis, revealing the hidden system or mechanism behind the initial shocking claim, often supported by a simple visual aid.

  2. 2

    The 'Dark but Doable' Premise

    Frame the system as both controversial ('sketchy') and surprisingly accessible ('easier than you think'), establishing a high-stakes but low-barrier value proposition.

  3. 3

    The Modular Walkthrough

    Break down the complex process into a series of distinct, digestible steps or 'skills,' making it feel manageable and understandable.

  4. 4

    The Autonomous Synthesis

    Show how the individual steps connect to form a self-perpetuating, automated loop, delivering the 'aha' moment of the system's full power.

  5. 5

    The Sarcastic Indictment

    Pivot from instruction to judgment, sarcastically 'congratulating' anyone who would use this system for contributing to a negative cultural trend.

  6. 6

    The Human Equivalence Twist

    Deliver the final intellectual payoff by claiming the 'bad' automated process is merely a reflection of common, unoriginal human behavior, thus broadening the critique.

Themes

  • AI ethics
  • Automation
  • Creator economy
  • Originality vs. imitation
  • The 'dead internet' theory

Techniques

  • Direct address
  • Graphic overlays
  • Provocative statements
  • Step-by-step explanation

Trends

  • AI agents
  • Automated content creation
  • Content cloning

Post caption

Per the usual if you comment “content” I’ll send you the guide on how to set up an autonomous content agent #ai #aicontent #agenticai #aitools

Text overlays

  • title · beginning

    You can clone any creator

  • informational · middle

    The whole machine, one screen 01 SCRAPE copies what already went viral 02 REWORD relaunders the idea 03 DESIGN spins up the visuals 04 POST auto-posts on a schedule 0 HUMANS nobody is home

  • informational · middle

    SKILL 01 / THE RESEARCHER It goes shopping.

  • informational · middle

    SKILL 02 / THE COPYWRITER It launders the idea.

  • informational · middle

    SKILL 03 / THE DESIGNER It makes the visuals.

  • informational · middle

    SKILL 04 / THE POSTER It posts itself.

  • call-to-action · end

    Follow for more shenanigans

Transcript

They are not human, bro. Not even a little, but not kidding. Look this up. Turns out more and more of the accounts that we all follow on Instagram are fully autonomous AI agents. Not only is this shit sketchy as fuck. I'll explain what I mean by that, but it is a lot easier to set this up than you think it is. Choose an AI agent. Create your AI's Instagram account. Give that agent a skill like this that scrapes and saves viral Instagram posts. Then a skill that takes the top worst and rewrites them as Instagram carousel script. A skill that takes that copy and then generates the Instagram carousel. And then finally a skill that then worst those carousel. And then let those skills run free. Scheduling them to just kinda do that asynchronously. Congrats on contributing to the dead internet theory, brother. AI is the most creatively brain dead shit ever. Your best chance of this working is copying other people. But that being said, that's what most human creators do anyways without AI. So fuck it. Next time I'll do this better for Linkedin, follow for more shenanigans.

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