One of my clips went viral on TikTok and pulled in 47,000 views, 200+ comments, and hundreds of new followers. I share how I went viral, what it felt like, and what I’ve learned:
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This is part of an ongoing series documenting how I’m building a channel around consciousness, awareness, and philosophy while working a full-time job, being a father, and figuring it out as I go.
What I cover:
-How I identify clip-worthy moments while editing long-form content
-The tools I use (Wondershare Filmora + CapCut)
-How I format, caption, and export clips for each platform
-My scheduling system — 3 clips a day, staggered times
-How I use AI as a thinking tool, not a decision maker
-What going viral actually felt like in real time
My Process for Farming Clips (& How I Went Viral)
Something unexpected happened this week.
A clip from one of my long-form YouTube videos went viral on TikTok. Overnight — 47,000 views, over 200 comments, hundreds of new followers. I woke up to 100s of notifications.
And the wild part? It didn’t feel how I thought it would.
I’ll get to that. But first, this post is about the actual process. How I take long-form content and farm it into short clips that go out across every social media platform, every single day. If you’re a small creator trying to figure out how to stretch one piece of content as far as it can go, this is what’s been working for me.
The Basic Idea
Everything starts with long-form content. I sit down, hit record, and talk — about consciousness, awareness, philosophy, gaming, whatever is alive for me that day. Usually 10 to 15 minutes. That becomes the main YouTube video.
But inside that video there are moments. Insights, tangents, little bursts of something real. Those are the clips.
While I’m editing the long-form video I keep a notepad open and write down timestamps — just a note about what was said and when. By the time I’m done editing I might have 8 to 10 clip ideas ready to go.
The Tools
I edit everything in Wondershare Filmora. Once the long-form video is edited and scheduled, I go back into the footage, find each timestamped moment, mark the in and out points, and export each clip individually.
From there each clip goes into CapCut, where I reformat it to 9:16 (vertical, phone-style), generate captions, and do any final touch-ups. Once it’s bounced out it’s ready to schedule.
The Scheduling System
I publish on five platforms: TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, Facebook, and X. Every clip goes everywhere.
Three clips go out per day, staggered at roughly 9:00am, 12:30pm, and 7:30pm. I’ve started adding a little randomness to the exact times — 9:02, 12:47, 7:17 — so I’m not competing with everyone else posting on the hour.
The scheduling itself is the least fun part of the process. It’s copy, paste, upload, repeat across five platforms for every single clip. But once you get a rhythm it becomes almost meditative — low effort, low thought, just grinding out the work.
It feels like farming.
How AI Fits In
I use ChatGPT and Claude to help me think through decisions — caption ideas, hashtag strategy, what time to post, how to frame a clip. But I want to be clear about something: AI doesn’t know what’s right for your channel. It’s a thinking partner, not a decision maker. You still have to test things, trust your gut, and learn from what works.
What Going Viral Actually Felt Like
Here’s the part I didn’t expect.
When the clip started taking off, I went for a jog. And while I was running, the thought appeared — you’re going viral right now, for something you actually care about. And then… nothing. No rush. No dopamine spike. No excitement.
Which was strange, because I used to imagine moments like this all the time. Years ago, when I was starting my creative journey — the bands, the rap, the apps, the podcasts — I used to visualize success while jogging and get completely high off the idea of it. The fantasy felt more real than reality.
But now that it was actually happening, I just kept running. Present. Content. At peace.
And I realized — that peace was what I had been looking for all along. Not the viral moment. Not the numbers. The process itself. The showing up, the creating, the putting something real into the world and seeing what happens.
The clip went viral because it was real. Because Reed said something genuinely insightful and I cut it out and shared it because it was worth sharing — not because I was chasing an algorithm.
That’s the whole point of this channel. That’s why I’m doing this.
If You’re Just Starting Out
Start simple. One clip a week. Then two. Then three. Your bandwidth will expand as the process becomes familiar. You’ll develop an instinct for what’s worth clipping and what isn’t. You’ll find your rhythm.
This post is part of the How I’m Making It as a Content Creator series on Inside The Minds Eye. Watch the full video on YouTube.
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My Process for Farming Clips (& How I Went Viral)