What is the "30 days" survival format?

A stickman. One place you've stood in a hundred times. The dead outside. And a countdown. It's told to you ("At 9:40 p.m., every phone in the building screams at once. You live on the thirtieth floor. You have ten minutes to fill a bathtub.") and it goes day by day: every day is one problem and one real survival trick, each day is a chapter, and Day 30 ends on a cliffhanger, so there's an Episode 2: until Day 60.

How much these channels make

Three weeks ago, Beanie Survives didn't exist. Twenty-one videos later it has 101,000 subscribers, and its first video, Zombie Outbreak: 30 Days Trapped On The 30th Floor, has 2.7 million views. Story animation like this earns roughly $2 to $5 per thousand views, so that one video made about $5,400 to $13,500, and the whole channel, at around 300,000 views a day, is worth up to $1,600 a day from ads. That's before sponsorships.

It's not one lucky channel: Nobody Gets In posts a new story every day (30 Days Locked Inside a Supermarket: 2.5 million; Inside a School: 1.5 million), and the copycats have already started.

The places that win

• The 30th floor: 2.7 million views.
• The supermarket: 2.5 million.
• The school: 1.5 million.

The rule: a place everyone has stood in, the dead outside, and a countdown. The format is made for AI: one simple character who never changes, pictures instead of acting, and one narrator. That's why these channels can post every day.

What you need

Claude and the Averse Studio connector: one link, added once in Claude's connectors, about thirty seconds. Here's the setup.

Step 1: The premise

Open a new chat and type:

Claude asks three things: the place, the threat, and how long. Answer them all in one message:

The title comes back in the formula the big channels use: Zombie Outbreak: 30 Days Trapped in [the place]. Use it for every episode you post.

Step 2: The story bible

Before a single picture, Claude plans the whole thing: your hero with one thing that never changes (ours wears an orange hoodie and a headlamp), the map of the place, the rules of the dead (they hunt by sound, they don't climb, they don't open doors), and what you have (212 snack bars, 57 litres of water, 4 batteries).

Then the day list, every day with its chapter title: Day 0: The Alert, Day 3: The Power Dies, Day 9: The Voice in the Tunnel … Day 30: The Door. Steer it in plain words, one change per message:

When you like it:

Step 3: The script

It's written to you, in short lines, with numbers you can count: two bars and one litre a day; twenty-three of them at the glass. Read it like a viewer: does Day 0 end on a decision?

Step 4: The hero

Claude draws one character sheet (front, side, back, scared, determined), and that sheet goes into every picture, so your stickman is the same stickman from Day 0 to Day 30.

Step 5: The pictures

One per line of the script, numbered, in the same hand-drawn style. Be picky here, because changing a picture takes seconds:

When they're right:

Step 6: The episode

Claude gives every picture a little motion (a slow push in, a flickering light, the dead swaying behind the glass), reads every line with one narrator, and joins it all in order. If one part is off, ask for it by its number:

The full episode is at the end of this page.

4 prompting habits that make every prompt work better

• Answer in one message. "A subway station, zombies, 30 days."
• Make one change at a time. "Make day twenty-two worse."
• Point at things by their number. "In picture ten, …"
• Say what to keep. "Keep the hoodie, change the light."

Step 7: Posting

Start with the package:

Claude makes the thumbnail in the chat (Day 1 on the left, Day 30 on the right), then writes the title, the description with every day as a chapter, the line that says it's a fictional story, the tags and the pinned comment, for any platform.

• The chapters matter. In search results, YouTube shows them right under the video: "18 chapters · Day 0: The Alert | Day 1: Counting Food…".
• Post one episode a day. Both of these channels do.
• Climb the ladder: Day 30, then Day 60, then Day 90. When an outbreak gets big, spin off a new place with the same rules (Beanie has the 30th floor, the roof, the radio station and the stadium).
• Pin one question: "Where would you hide?" Every answer is your next episode. Put each outbreak in its own playlist, and cut the scariest day into a Short.

Episode 2

Claude already knows your hero, the map, the rules, and the door you ended on:

What you do

• Pick a place everyone has stood in.
• Write the day list before anything else.
• Keep one hero who never changes.
• Put every day in the chapters.
• Post one a day, and climb the ladder.

Zombie Outbreak: 30 Days Trapped in a Subway Station

Made in one chat:

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