How to Turn Forum Discussions into Viral Video Content: AI Agent Guide 2025

Being stuck for ideas as a video content creator can really interrupt your creative flow. But have you ever considered using social media forums for inspiration?

Forums like Reddit and Quora can be fun to scroll through, but they’re also a potential goldmine for viral content ideas. These forums (along with user threads on platforms like Twitter/X) harbor millions of ongoing discussions, questions and insights on trending topics that could inspire your next viral video.

Discussion-based content is highly effective for personality-driven creators, and your followers will be keen to hear your views on niche subjects.

AI tools can even automate the process of finding and condensing social media forum posts, saving you hours of research and making it easier than ever to repurpose content you find online.

In this article, we’ll show you how to turn social media forum discussions into engaging, professional-grade videos using Argil, with no camera required.

Why Use Social Media Forums for Content Ideas?

Social media forums are home to a huge user base ready to share their unfiltered thoughts and ideas. You’ll find experts in all niches ready to share their advice and answer questions, from doctors to finance experts and engineers.

It’s also super easy to find trending conversations in your niche by searching subreddits and questions as they are usually ranked by views to expose the topics people care about.

Unlike more curated forms of media, forums reflect the raw and authentic sentiments of people out in the world. This isn’t always a good thing, of course, but if you can find the right threads, you’ll be able to find highly specific and relatable discussions and repurpose them into targeted content that resonates with your audience.

For example, if you’re a personal finance YouTuber, r/PersonalFinance a great source for real-life experiences of people trying to manage their money and contains advice and information from experts. The same goes for almost any topic – from fitness to highly technical content or investment advice.

One of the benefits of mining social media forums for content is that you already know these are the topics people are talking about. They have proven interest and engagement from the community you want to target, so they’d be perfect for videos on TikTok, Instagram or YouTube Shorts.

There are countless examples of creators using content inspired by community insights, but these tend to be faceless voiceover channels, which can lack the personal touch needed to build trust and connection.

What if we told you it was possible to appear as the face of your videos without having to appear on camera? With Argil, you can do exactly that by creating and training a lifeline digital clone to deliver your script.

Case Studies: Forum-Inspired Video Content

Ali Abdaal is a doctor, entrepreneur and bestselling author who shares productivity and business tips on his YouTube channel. He has successfully repurposed Quora and Reddit threads into discussions while maintaining a polished, personality-driven output to engage his 545K subscribers.

Fitness influencers like MattDoesFitness also pull inspiration from social media forums and Quora Health discussions to engage viewers and stay abreast of trending topics.

Whatever your niche, the internet provides endless inspiration for trending video content, and thanks to the latest AI tools, it’s easier than ever to find what you’re looking for.

How to Turn Social Media Forum Content Into Videos

With Argil, you can turn trending social media forum discussions into video clips to share on the platform of your choice. Here, we’ll share an actionable workflow using Argil to help you get started.

Step 1: Find and Extract Key Insights from Social Media Forums

Your first step is to identify content you can include in your videos. Use AI tools like Reddit Keyword Monitor or BuzzSumo to search popular questions and themes and discover the most upvoted threads on social media forums.

You’ll want to join subreddits or monitor conversions in your niche and continuously search for the latest updates, especially if you have a news-based channel. You can also look for evergreen content so you can create videos that will outlast today’s trending topics.

Once you’ve found your key insights and discussion points, you can use a tool like ChatGPT to pull out the most interesting segments and condense them into readable text.

Generate Scripts from Your Findings

After you have summarized all your key points and highlighted any quotes or data points you want to pull out in your video, you can use this copy to generate a script using Argil.

Argil will help you identify viral hooks in your written content and help generate an engaging script for your video. It’s easy to edit your script using our AI assistant, who will make helpful suggestions to help you tell a great story.

Automating Social Media Forum Content with Make.com

With automation platforms like Make.com, you can set up automated monitoring of Reddit, Quora and other social media forums.

Make is a no-code automation platform that supports over 2000+ apps and tools and is natively integrated with Argil. It allows users to create customized, automated workflows to streamline marketing, operations and sales processes, helping them optimize their time and make the most of their tools.

By utilizing this platform, you can create agentic workflows that alert you to trending discussions in your niche, allowing you to stay informed about relevant posts. With the right workflow and tools, you can then automate transcript generation from these forum posts and transform this into a video using our text-to-video generator.

Instantly, Argil will generate an engaging video script, complete with hook and CTA, for your chosen platform. We’ll then automatically add B-roll, visual transitions, music and animated captions – all of which you can tweak and edit in our user-friendly editing suite.

Your content doesn’t have to be faceless, either. You can use one of our preset avatars or include two to have a discussion or deliver an interview. If you want to appear in your videos without having to set up a camera each time and perform multiple retakes, you can create your very own AI clone.

Argil’s AI clones are trained on real human footage (a 2-minute video of you speaking, recorded on your phone) to closely mimic your appearance, mannerisms, movements and speaking patterns. With perfect lip sync and context-aware delivery, they can perform your video script standing, walking, working out, shopping or interacting with a branded product… the choice is yours.

Automation shouldn’t mean a lack of creativity or freedom – in fact, it should enhance your natural strengths and processes. Tools like Make and Argil allow you to create viral content from social media forum discussions in a matter of minutes, freeing you up to focus on more creative, strategic tasks.

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Create Your AI Avatar

Once you’re happy with your script, it’s time to bring it to life! All you need to do is film a two-minute video of yourself speaking, and Argil will use this to create a lifelike digital avatar that you can use in your videos.

Avatars can be trained to mimic your speaking patterns and mannerisms, so they’ll look and sound just like you. Using our realistic AI clones, you’ll be able to create hyper-personalized content in a fraction of the time, without the need for a camera or multiple retakes.

Advanced Use Cases for Content Inspired by Social Media Forums

There are all kinds of ways you can use AI to generate and enhance content inspired by social media forums. Websites like Reddit and Quora are packed with insights and debates among real people on every single issue you can think of – whether it’s horror movies, geopolitics or gardening tips.

Here are just some of the ways you can use Argil in your forum-inspired content:

Reddit Post to Video Transformation

Condense high-engagement Reddit posts into a single video script that features the original question, key replies and your take or opinion. This kind of video is perfect for commentary-style content for TikTok and Instagram Reels.

Quora Thread Compilation Videos

Another way to utilize social media forums in your content strategy is to extract multiple expert Quora answers on a single question and compile them into a structured video, voiced by your AI clone. This style of video may be effective in niches such as cleaning tips, business advice, cooking instructions or educational content where expert opinions are highly valued.

Social Media Storytelling

Short storytelling videos are particularly popular on Instagram and TikTok, with some making a foray into YouTube Shorts. These videos tend to focus on real-life survival stories, true crime, historical recaps and paranormal stories.

By searching popular Reddit threads in these niches, you can find original posts and transform them into visual stories using Argil. You can add stock B-roll or your own images to bring the narration to life, and make your avatar sound and look exactly like you, so your followers will get to know your face as part of your brand.

While faceless channels like The Infographics Show and Answer in Progress are incredibly successful, you can overcome this faceless barrier easily with Argil, giving you a competitive edge in the social media forum content niche.

Twitter Thread to Long-form Video Conversion

Argil creates an easy way to transform vital Twitter threads into 60-second explainer videos. You can break down each Tweet into its own short video or story part, and encourage viewers to subscribe or follow you to stay updated.

LinkedIn Thought Leadership Clips

Thought leadership videos are increasingly popular on LinkedIn, giving founders and entrepreneurs a way to establish themself as a key voice in their niche.

With the right workflow, you can easily identify debates or important posts about your industry and turn them into commentary-style videos for your LinkedIn profile. You can even turn evergreen questions like “Does cold outreach really work?” into a templated video series for maximum value and retention.

Edit Your Videos

When you’ve edited your script and you’re happy with your avatar, it’s time to polish your video. Using Argil’s comprehensive editing suite, you can add dynamic B-roll, visual transitions, captions and personalized features to make your videos more engaging and boost audience retention.

If you’re short on time, we’ll produce a pre-edited draft that you can easily tweak to match your style and personality.

The AI UGC Revolution: Turning Social Media Forum Insights into Authentic Content

Social media forum-inspired videos come in many different packages, including UGC. User-generated content – where real people collaborate with brands to promote their products and services – is currently as popular as ever, but there’s been a shift.

We’re now witnessing a new wave of AI influencer marketing, where brands are using tools like Argil to create lifelike digital personas rather than hiring real-world influencers. In addition, creators are using this technology as an alternative to manually filming and reshooting UGC videos in order to scale their work and work more seamlessly with brands.

The benefits of AI UGC creators and influencers are clear: one hyper-realistic AI avatar can work across language, time zones and content formats, producing multiple video variants for different languages or A/B testing, all in a matter of minutes.

UGC creators can scale their output 10x by combining scripts from social media forums, AI avatars and automation through Make.com, all without increasing their production costs. Creators and brands who build authority through user-generated ideas from Reddit and other platforms can position themselves as curators or commentators on the internet’s ideas.

With Argil, each video goes from being a simple summary to a personality-driven, authentic conversation-starter, making content infinitely more shareable and engagement-worthy across multiple platforms.

Publish Across Platforms

With Argil, you can test multiple versions of the same video or create videos in different languages or captions. You can also optimize videos for your platform of choice.

When you’re done, it’s easy to download your videos and share them across Instagram, TikTok, YouTube Shorts or LinkedIn.

Remember to monitor their performance so you can continue to iterate and improve your output. Our AI will learn your preferences so it can help you create better videos and improve audience engagement over time.

Distribution Strategies: Maximizing Reach from Social Media Forum Content

Repurposing and maximizing the value of your content are key components of any successful social media strategy in 2025.

Turning one social media forum post into multiple pieces of content is easier and more effective than coming up with a new topic every time you want to post, and you can use the strategy to your advantage by reinforcing particular ideas or creating themed video series.

Here are some tips for successfully distributing your social media forum-inspired content:

Cross-Platform Repurposing

Cross-platform repurposing is one way to ensure maximum engagement for your social media forum-inspired content. One video can be reformatted into Instagram Reels, TikToks, LinkedIn videos and YouTube Shorts, all with platform-specific intros and outros.

Community Distribution

Another way to encourage engagement is to post your AI-generated video back into the social media forum where it came from to drive views and encourage new discussion. Just remember to credit original commenters.

Micro-Content Slicing

You can also use one forum thread to produce multiple pieces of content, such as a 60-second YouTube Short, an Instagram Carousel and a TikTok reaction video using an AI avatar.

Time-Sensitive Posting

You can use the cadence of discussions on social media forums to determine your posting speed, capitalizing on Reddit spikes and Quora trends to stay in the zeitgeist. This is particularly important for time-sensitive content like news, tech or pop-culture themed videos.

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Argil: Scale Forum-Inspired Video Content with Digital AI Avatars

Social media forums are filled with untapped potential for video creators. Thanks to Argil, it couldn’t be simpler to repurpose these ideas into short, engaging videos to share across social media and build your following.

Argil transforms complex processes like scripting, filming and editing into a seamless workflow that takes minutes rather than days. Using our all-in-one platform, you’ll be able to create videos 10 times faster, empowering you to post authentic, high-quality video content at scale.

Try Argil for free today and see for yourself how simple it is to create forum-inspired videos and effortlessly grow your channel.

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