Cutout Chronicles
Animated skits about sports, tech, and everyday chaos — one cutout at a time.
December 2025
TikTokAI Video7.2M Views
7.2M
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6.4K
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436K
Likes
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@cutoutchronicles →The Story
How It Started
I built 100+ AI-generated YouTube videos with zero traction. Then I posted a few NFL cutout skits on TikTok and accidentally went viral. Turns out, the secret wasn't better prompts or fancier tools — it was leaning into the absurdity of sports culture with a format that felt native to the platform. The @cutoutchronicles channel now has 7.2M views, 6.4K followers, and a production pipeline I never expected to need.
“I accidentally aligned with the precise frequency of collective brainrot currently vibrating through the internet.”
By The Numbers
Top 15 Videos
Ranked by views — data from TikTok Studio
| # | Video | Views | Likes | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alix Earle & Tom Brady | 1.1M | 73K | 95 |
| 2 | Shedeur / Cleveland Browns | 852K | 113K | 684 |
| 3 | Diddy and Maduro | 663K | 30K | 940 |
| 4 | GD's Crib / NBA | 452K | 45K | 102 |
| 5 | Melania / Secret Service | 357K | 20K | 1,062 |
| 6 | Seattle Seahawks | 274K | 16K | 62 |
| 7 | Joe Burrow Fossils | 240K | 10K | 112 |
| 8 | 6-7 Seed / NFL Playoffs | 231K | 5.4K | 134 |
| 9 | Carson Beck / NCAA to NFL | 220K | 21K | 53 |
| 10 | New England Patriots | 181K | 11K | 91 |
| 11 | Jake Paul Older Fighters | 171K | 3K | 122 |
| 12 | Anthony Joshua | 166K | 8.9K | 87 |
| 13 | Kim K & Lewis Hamilton | 143K | 2.1K | 107 |
| 14 | Travis Kelce | 118K | 2.1K | 10 |
| 15 | Tomlin / Aaron Rodgers | 109K | 9.4K | 53 |
The Tools Behind the Channel
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SceneStitch
Production PipelineCustom-built script-to-storyboard-to-voiceover pipeline for rapid video production.
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Cue
Prompt OptimizerAI video prompt refinement tool I built in Replit that turns vague ideas into Sora-ready prompts.
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Sora 2
Video GenerationOpenAI's text-to-video model that generated the animated cutout footage.
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TikTok
DistributionPrimary platform for @cutoutchronicles. Native format drove organic virality.
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About This Project
Cutout Chronicles is a TikTok channel built around AI-generated animated skits — paper-cutout-style characters reacting to sports drama, pop culture moments, and internet chaos. Every clip is produced using a custom pipeline: scripts written with ChatGPT, visuals generated through Sora 2 and refined with Cue, and the full production assembled in SceneStitch. The channel crossed 7.2 million views in under three months, with the top video — an Alix Earle and Tom Brady skit — hitting 1.1 million views on its own.
What I Learned
Going viral taught me that distribution matters more than production quality. I spent months building sophisticated AI pipelines, but the breakthrough came from matching content to platform culture. The NFL cutout format worked because it felt native to TikTok — quick, absurd, and shareable. The tools I built (SceneStitch, Cue) turned out to be the real product; the viral videos were just the proof of concept.
