kwebbelkop AI: The YouTuber who cloned himself
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Kwebbelkop is a massive YouTuber who has somewhat divided the YouTube community with his all in move into AI generated deepfake content.
He initially rose in popularity from Call of Duty videos and formed a YouTube group alongside other creators such as Jelly and Slogo. This led to his main channel growing to roughly 15 million subscribers.
He has recently come into more notoriety by growing a second account entirely using AI generated deepfake videos to well over a million subscribers, dividing the YouTube community in the process.
In previous articles covering his 100+ AI video channels, we've gone over how he built an automated YouTube channel using deepfake videos. In this article we'll go over how he has pioneered a revolution with his 24/7 deepfake content and use of AI.
If you'd like to learn more about the AI UGC generator we've created, learn more about it here.
A revolution in content creation: deepfake technology
Adoption of new cutting edge technology always takes time, usually because we don't understand the tech, so we are more hesitant to accept it.
So let's answer the question: what is deepfake technology?
Deepfake technology uses AI to generate entirely new audio and video from previous content. The technology has been around for a while but has never been accessible to the everyday creator online.
Kwebbelkop leveraged this to create an AI clone of himself to remove his biggest bottleneck in content creation. In doing so he has become a pioneer by documenting his approach on Twitter/X. As we know from the previous articles, he faced early criticism for his move, but the numbers don't lie, over a million subscribers puts him in the top 0.13% of YouTube channels.
Some are excited by the possibilities this represents, while others are worried it might replace them as creators. At Argil, we aim to empower the next generation of content creators to become even more efficient and qualitative with their content, because AI is not here to replace creators, it's here to amplify them by removing the biggest bottleneck: production.
Our deepfake maker is designed specifically for content creators to offload the burden of video production, making our deepfake technology far more affordable and accessible than traditional studio restricted deepfake technology.
His success with his AI clone channel is more impressive when you consider how saturated the market is. It's food for thought that volume achieved through AI generated content may be the way to cut through the noise. After all, volume is key to being pushed by algorithms, and the only way to achieve volume is to use the right tools to ease video production.
Every creator understands the intense workload necessary to go from end to end content production to an always in demand audience. Deepfake generators like ours at Argil take that workload off creators so they can focus on what's most important: the creation, not the production.
Eventually, we'll see more AI used in the content creation process than not, and deepfakes will become more prevalent than manual video creation. AI clones and deepfake influencers are the first steps toward that.
AI clones: a new form of technology adoption
The 100% use of AI to create videos and grow an audience is not an entirely new concept. In fact, we have countless automated accounts on YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram with large followings.
The controversy and divided opinion surrounding Kwebbelkop comes from his notoriety. But he understands that content is a constantly evolving game, and fast movers usually take bigger market shares. The debate over whether AI UGC threatens or helps human creators is exactly the one Kwebbelkop's move sparked.
Content will become better with AI. It's early days, but let's look at history's patterns. Every new cutting edge technology has brought divided opinion and its fair share of risk in its early stages. Yet eventually, it is accepted and used by the majority in any industry.
This adoption curve played out the same way for emails transitioning to text messages, physical stores moving to online shopping, and even dating transitioning to apps like Hinge. Imagine living without any of those. That's the same shift now happening with AI in content creation, the production potential for scalability is already a no brainer.
This won't be any different in the content industry with the use of AI clones, and Kwebbelkop has taken the jump with this understanding. Leveraging AI means his potential reach and video production is no longer limited by his time, but by his creativity in using AI effectively.
At the rate AI is developing, the technology is only getting better. V1 of the World Wide Web pales in comparison to today's internet, which most of us can't live without. This technology finally allows creators to focus on creative direction more than the time consuming production side of making content.
Would you rather spend hours or even days filming and shooting your footage manually, then editing by hand on top of buying gear and learning to edit? Or would you rather feed a script to your AI clone and get the same output, if not better, in minutes? That's where the technology is taking us.
It's only a matter of time before it's normalized for every creator.
Exploring AI powered YouTube channels
Often, with new tech trends, rapid adoption comes after a few early adopters see big success within a specific niche, which drives wider popularity.
You might not be the next Kwebbelkop, but you can emulate his approach by dominating a niche of your own with our deepfake maker and being a first mover in that space. Here are 3 channel types you could build to dominate a niche with volume and content at scale:
- News and reporting channel: use any up to date news and have our AI writing assistant write a script for each video in real time, for the quickest video turnaround on news updates at scale.
- Educational channel: create unlimited educational content at scale without exhausting yourself. Your only limit becomes what you know, not your time.
- React channel: clone yourself, create endless reaction videos as your AI avatar, and hop on as many trends as you wish.
For a full walkthrough of setting one of these up, see our guide on how to create AI video channels like Kwebbelkop with Argil.
To start an automated channel and create your content at scale with Argil, sign up here.
Here's why this method works for Kwebbelkop, and why it can work for you.
If you've ever created content, you'll know the pains of:
- Scripting a video
- Gathering the gear to film and record
- Multiple takes to get the right shot
- Re-filming if you forgot something or need a do-over
- Editing for hours, maybe days, using third party software you have to learn
All before you can hit publish. It's expensive, time consuming, and above all a real pain.
So what if you could entertain your audience with 100% AI generated content of you, using your clone? The output only gets better as AI advances, and eventually it becomes the norm.
Might as well start now and get ahead.
Why Argil is the go to solution for creators
If volume and content at scale is the lock, the right tools are the keys. In today's content landscape there's so much saturation that it's essential to streamline your process to publish as much content as possible in order to be seen.
That's why it was natural for us to build Argil specifically for content creators. We are content creators ourselves and have been for over a decade. We've built audiences on YouTube channels and TikTok accounts, and even made movies and series.
This uniquely positions us to understand the real struggles of content production that we need to eliminate with Argil, and the best practices we bake in as features.
What are the key features Argil offers?
- AI B-rolls
- AI scripting assistant
- Automated editing and captions
- Multiple languages
- A/B testing content
By using Argil's features, you can target wider audiences with no language barriers, iterate faster toward what your audience actually wants, and get the scalability that comes with automated content, along with the time and cost savings.
If you want to try it yourself, join us.
Here's the process you'd follow with Argil's deepfake maker to make your clone and start creating content at scale:
- Train a video of yourself to get your AI avatar model (voice, body language, face)
- Script your videos yourself, or use our AI assistant to create a draft for you
- Choose transitions, B-rolls, and captions if you want
- Generate your video
- Edit the script to modify it
You can now do what Kwebbelkop is doing, it's that simple.
We're confident that continued advancements in deepfake technology will only strengthen AI's place in content creation, with Argil becoming a major player in the industry.
In fact, video creation and production are heading toward becoming one comprehensive software solution. That's a game changer, and it democratizes content creation for every creator, whether you have 15 million subscribers or 15, where the quality differentiation comes from creativity, not production.
The future of content creation with AI
Whether you like it or not, Kwebbelkop started a revolution and brought attention to himself as an early adopter. It's now only a matter of time before every other creator adopts AI more and more into their content production to achieve real scale and volume.
If history has shown us any pattern, it's that we always choose the path of least resistance. Producing content at scale will be no different.
If you're a content creator and need content at scale, join the revolution here.
FAQ
Who is Kwebbelkop and why is he known for AI video?
Kwebbelkop is a YouTuber whose original channel grew to roughly 15 million subscribers from Call of Duty content. He later built a second channel entirely around AI generated deepfake videos of himself, growing it to well over a million subscribers.
What is an AI clone in video content?
An AI clone is a digital version of a real creator, trained from footage of them, that can generate new scripted videos of that person speaking, without the creator filming each one by hand.
Can I build an AI clone channel like Kwebbelkop's?
Yes. Argil lets any creator train an AI avatar from a short video of themselves, then generate edited, scripted videos from that avatar, the same underlying approach Kwebbelkop used to scale his second channel.