From “AI pet card point dancing” to “pet transformation into stir-fry”, waves of creative trends continue to be staged. Nowadays, AI animal earthy short dramas have quickly become popular on YouTube and TikTok, with more than 100 million views. These short dramas not only attract a large number of audiences with their cute animal images and absurd plots, but also achieve low-cost and efficient creation through AI technology. This article will provide an in-depth analysis of the creative logic, commercial value and development status of AI animal short dramas at home and abroad, and explore the future potential and challenges of this emerging content form.
The pet track has always been one of the most stable traffic passwords for short video platforms. When AI is integrated into content creation, this track is not only easier to use, but also expands more imagination. From the “AI pet card point dancing” that became popular all over the Internet last year, to the “pet transformation into stir-frying” some time ago, waves of “AI + pet” creative trends have continued to be staged, and the popularity has not diminished at all.
AI pet card point dancing
Pet transformed into a chef stir-fry
Driven by the dual drive of “pet economy” and “companionship economy”, the pet population continues to expand, and even if there is no real pet, you can also use AI to “cloud raise” ideal pets with one click. Human fantasies about animals are now being infinitely amplified by AI and transformed into video content that transcends reality.
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In the past two months, a large number of AI animal short dramas have emerged on short video platforms at home and abroad, and the overall popularity has risen rapidly. Taking the Douyin platform as an example, “Orange Cat Short Drama” has a total of 26 episodes, with a cumulative number of 10.245 million views; “Cat Drama” has a total of 68 episodes, with a cumulative number of views exceeding 130 million. Behind the relaxed entertainment, there is a clear set of content logic and mechanism design, will this be one of the entrances to AI short dramas?
One of the AI animal skits on the Douyin platform “Revenge of the Orange Cat”
01 “Hakimi” became the protagonist, how popular is such an AI skit?
The “AI + Animal” short drama can be traced back to the “Divine Cat Daddy” series on the YouTube platform. The highest single video of the series has been viewed more than 200 million, with 3.7 million+ likes and 6,800+ comments, bringing millions of fans to the creator, and the influence can be seen.
“Divine Cat Daddy” series of videos and blogger homepage
Due to the limitations of AI-generated video technology at that time, the production method of “God Cat Daddy” was more “PPT-style”: by splicing multiple AI-generated clips of no more than 5 seconds, a complete story was outlined. The content of the video revolves around a cat serving as a “dad”, which is full of bizarre scenes, such as cats fighting sharks in the sea, etc., but it is this absurdity and contrast that makes netizens swipe the screen in the comment area “The cat is so cute” and “Cat Dad is a hero” and other emotional expressions, which quickly detonated resonance.
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In 2025, YouTube blogger SuperCatPapa has been serializing AI short dramas with white cats as the protagonists since April, and has gained more than 2 million subscribers, with tens of millions of views on multiple videos and a maximum of more than 150 million. Compared with the rough “God Cat Daddy” in the early days, today’s works have been comprehensively upgraded in terms of picture accuracy, video fluency, hair details, expression capture, etc., and the sound effect processing is also more realistic and layered, and the overall expressiveness has been greatly improved.
From the content point of view, this type of short drama usually takes common domestic pet cats, puppies, etc. as the protagonists, giving them occupation, family and other identity settings in human society, and reproducing short drama hits such as revenge and slapping in the face, counterattack growth, and family warmth. These animals have transformed from pets in everyday life to the protagonists of short dramas, which themselves have a strong sense of contrast. And when they embark on ups and downs of adventures as anthropomorphic identities, they further hit the emotional resonance point of the audience in front of the screen.
At the same time, the AI-generated video clips are shorter and faster, which naturally fits the rhythm characteristics of short dramas of “short, flat and fast”. This type of short drama can complete the transition in a limited time, combined with the imaginative and fragmented expression brought by AI, bringing a novel viewing experience and more eye-catching ability in the information flow.
The number of views of some AI animal skits on the TikTok platform
After smelling the breath of traffic, more and more creators have begun to enter the creation of “AI + animal” short dramas, and try this rapidly rising new content track at low cost and high efficiency through AI tools.
However, recently, domestic Conch AI (AI video generation tool) has begun to test the waters to cancel the free points mechanism, with a maximum annual fee of more than 10,000 yuan, which has greatly raised the threshold for AI video creation. This adjustment has had a big impact on the Douyin creator group that relies on Conch AI to produce “Moon Half Cat” videos.
It is foreseeable that with the continuous advancement of the commercialization path of AI video generation tools at home and abroad, the overall production cost of AI videos will continue to rise. If the monetization ability of the content itself cannot keep up with the investment, the creative pressure faced by individual creators will also increase.
02 New upgrade of AI technology, low threshold for creation, verification of “emotional transmission”
Let’s break it down, how are these AI animal skits produced? What about the commercial value behind it?
With the continuous evolution of domestic AI video products (such as Keling version 2.1) in terms of dynamic performance and picture aesthetics in the past year, creators have been able to build more complex and coherent visual narrative paths.
A complete production process usually includes: generating storyboards and prompts by GPT-4o or DeepSeek, combining AI images, and then generating videos through Jimeng or Keling, and finally editing and packaging by editing tools such as clipping.
At the same time, the monetization of this type of content is also rising, and ad placement is becoming one of the most direct sources of income. Taking the domestic market as an example, Huang Yong, the head of an MCN agency in Chengdu, mentioned in an interview with cover news that its AI pet short drama IP “Her Highness Bichon the Frize” achieved revenue of more than 500,000 yuan in the first month of launch, of which the quotation of a single customized advertising video was as high as 80,000 yuan, which is close to the commercial order pricing of live-action short dramas.
Xiaohongshu AI animal short drama “Her Highness Bichon Frise, She is the Most Powerful”
On the basis of platform sharing, the monetization potential of “AI + pet” content in overseas markets has gradually been revealed, and “AI + animal” short dramas can evolve into a comprehensive content form with fan growth, cargo power and IP scalability.
First of all, at the level of increasing fans, AI animal short dramas are naturally adapted to algorithmic recommendation mechanisms such as TikTok and YouTube with strong visual appeal and emotional contrast, making it easy to achieve account incubation and short-term outbreaks. Some accounts rely on a single popular video to achieve tens of thousands of followers, paving the way for subsequent commercialization.
The second is the opening of IP monetization paths. Virtual pet characters have a high degree of scalability, and once sufficient character recognition is established, they can try to derive multiple sources of income such as peripherals, authorizations, and co-branded cooperation, and also have the possibility of expanding to content forms such as emoticons and short drama IPs.
In addition, AI pet characters are naturally adapted to brand customized content and advertising placement, which are not limited by the time and environment of real animal shooting, and have higher execution efficiency and controllability. The superposition of these characteristics also opens up a content monetization path with a relatively low threshold and high conversion efficiency for overseas AI creators.
Written at the end
The outbreak of “AI + Animals” short dramas is not only a stack of visual interest, but also a dual evolution of content structure and technical capabilities. The pet theme has a natural affinity and traffic foundation, and the addition of AI makes the narrative more malleable and malleable, opening up new growth openings for traditional pet content.
Judging from the actual performance, this type of content has strong potential to go overseas. Relying on visual drive, low language threshold, and fast emotional reach, it naturally adapts to the content distribution logic of platforms such as TikTok and YouTube. Compared with live-action short dramas, their production costs are lower, the form is more flexible, and it is easier to iterate quickly to form a sustainable account model.
Of course, the key to whether the content can move from explosive to long-term operation is still whether the content has sufficient sustainability and input-output ratio. With the rise in creative costs, AI short dramas can truly support the long-term creative behavior of individual creators only by further establishing a stable commercial transformation mechanism in addition to emotional appeal. At present, “AI + Animal” short dramas provide a new path with light content and strong emotions, and have explored a starting point worth paying attention to for AI short dramas to go overseas.
