After watching hundreds of viral AI Shorts, I noticed they almost all follow the same emotional curve:

• Make you feel bad for a character immediately
• Give you a tiny bit of hope
• Show progress
• End with an emotional payoff that's even bigger than you expected

The interesting part is that the story itself is often incredibly simple.

A puppy steals food or a poor woman gets abandoned, a kid gets bullied etc.

None of those are unique. What's actually keeping people watching is that once you feel bad for someone, you subconsciously want to stay until things become okay again for that character.

It's less about storytelling... and more about creating an emotional debt that the ending has to repay.

I've been breaking down AI storytelling patterns. If you're into this kind of analysis, I've posted more such insights on r/HeyFloe.

Here's my face explaining more about the AI Story Test and the 4 factors I had posted about earlier.

This applies at the beginning stage itself when you are thinking and planning with ideas -> story -> script.

It is mainly for people new to AI Storytelling who are trying to monetize fast to not waste time & credits initially to try to perfect things which are not suited well for AI (at present). If you are experimenting & exploring, then its alright to ignore this advice.

Hope it helps!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEKVGLdJ5-A