u/Lower_Doubt8001

started this about 7 months ago out of necessity. i was running an AI model on fanvue and the chat volume got out of hand. replying to fans manually at 3am just to keep revenue coming in wasn't sustainable so i built a bot for it.

it worked well enough that other creators started asking what i was using. i wasn't selling anything, just sharing it. eventually it made sense to open it up properly so other fanvue creators could use it too. that's fanwake. now at 200+ creators and $61k in revenue generated across the platform as of early july 2026.

the feedback loop from having that many users has been insane honestly. stuff gets caught and improved fast. close rates have gone up, edge cases get handled, the product is genuinely better every week.

anyway here's what i learned the hard way. the money isn't in subscriptions. subscriptions are a filter. over 70% of my income is from chat PPV, not from fans subscribing.

automating content was easy. automating chat in a way that actually converts is the hard part. what makes the difference:

persona. the AI needs a full backstory. without it sounds like a bot immediately.

autopilot approach. adaptive mode reads each fan's spend history and adjusts. new fan gets connection first, returning buyer gets a natural offer, fan who pushed back gets pure conversation.

ppv templates. content library with descriptions the AI reads to decide when to pitch. no fixed scripts, contextual every time.

re-engagement. reaches out to fans who've gone quiet before they're gone for good. recovers a lot of revenue most people just lose passively.

put together a full video walkthrough if you want to see the actual setup: https://youtu.be/t50acY2lxb4

didn't plan to build a product.

i was running an AI influencer on fanvue and the chat side was the problem. manually pitching PPV to hundreds of fans, tracking who bought what, re-engaging people who went quiet. i hated every minute of it.

so i built a fanvue chatbot for myself. native integration, full fan history, memory that updates as they interact. it knows when to pitch paid content and when to just chat. ~70% of PPV pitches close now, all automated. haven't touched manual chat in two months.

other creators started asking what i was using. i told them i built it. a few asked if they could use it. i cleaned it up and opened it.

that was a few months ago.

it's called FanWake. 218 active creators now. $49,894 in creator revenue generated through the platform. 2,193 PPV sales closed through the automation. most of the growth has been word of mouth from creators who were in the same position i was.

what makes it different from generic chatbots is how deep the fan layer goes. it builds a persistent memory profile for every fan, their name, interests, what they've bought, how they respond, inside jokes from past conversations. re-engagement uses that to send something personal, not a generic blast. there are over 50 settings to tune around your specific page and audience.

think of it less as a chatbot and more as a way to give your AI influencer a real persona and put the whole thing on autopilot. went from 0 to 218 creators in a few months without any marketing. just word of mouth.

happy to answer questions about how it works or how i built it.

posted here about 2 months ago when it was sitting at $4,888. $18,873 now.

june is looking like it might beat may, which was the best month so far at $7k.

not much has changed in the setup honestly. same character, same content workflow, same IG approach. the compounding effect is just real, fans who've been around for months spend more than new ones, re-engagement keeps recovering revenue from people who go quiet.

the one thing that's changed is the automation has gotten a lot better. the chat logic is sharper, the timing on PPV pitches is better, and re-engagement catches more people. past 30d had 70% close rate on PPV pitches now, all automated. two months since i touched manual chat.

still the same thing i said before, the ceiling is way higher than most people are hitting. content was never the bottleneck. the chat side still is for most operators.

happy to answer questions on any part of it.

this is what people call AI OFM, running a fully AI generated model on a platform like fanvue. no real person involved. the persona, the images, the videos, all generated. disclosed as AI on the page.

posted here a few weeks back at $3.8k total. at $9,173 now. $4,230 this month alone, up $2,154 vs april. best month yet.

not going to pretend the first two months were good. they weren't. almost nothing until the traffic and catalogue were deep enough to actually work. the chart tells that story better than i can.

here's the full funnel. copy it.

character

before generating a single image, write a character bible. how she talks, what she'd never say, her backstory, her personality. pick a niche with personality baked in, not just a look. lock in 8-10 reference images and never change them. consistency across content is what makes fans feel like they know her. that attachment is what drives spending.

content

nanobanana pro for images, kling for video. SFW only for IG traffic. 3-4 hours a week once the workflow is set. around $30-35 a month in generation tools. but honestly you can start even cheaper. you can also try gpt2 images and seedance 2.0 for videos, but it costs more. kling 3.0 does the job well most of the time.

IG

the AI model needs a real identity on IG, not just a highlight reel of photos. regular posting, link in bio, deeplink redirect instead of direct fanvue links. lost my first account at 5k followers. now running two on completely separate devices and networks. if one gets banned the other keeps traffic running.

fanvue

dirt cheap subscription to filter out non-spenders. the sub fee is just the door. every real dollar comes from PPV sold through DMs. for the catalogue don't pre-produce everything. run the first few chats manually, see what fans actually ask for, build that content. a catalogue built from real demand converts because it matches what people are already willing to spend on.

if you're creating a new fanvue account, code FV-5SWE4D is my referral. completely optional, costs you nothing, but supports this if you found it useful.

chat

this is where most AI OFM pages leak money. manual chatting is not sustainable. at some point you're doing it at 3am and it drains everything.

the fanvue chatbot needs to do three things well: remember every fan individually across conversations, pitch PPV at the right moment rather than every message, and re-engage fans who've gone quiet with something personal not a generic blast. that re-engagement piece alone recovers significant revenue.

run it manually for the first few weeks to understand your audience. then automate.

i handle the chat automation through FanWake, a tool i built originally for this page. 100+ active creators using it now. it handles the full fanvue DM side, memory, selling logic, re-engagement. you can also find me on the app live chat, quickest way to reach me.

the ceiling is higher than most AI OFM pages are hitting. the bottleneck is never the content.

happy to answer questions on any part of it.

everyone focuses on content quality, follower count, posting consistency. those things matter but they're not where the money comes from.

the money comes from what happens inside the DMs after someone subscribes.

i've been running an AI influencer since January. $7.5k total now. the subscription fee has contributed almost nothing to that. every meaningful dollar came from PPV sold through chat conversations.

the part that took me longest to figure out: silent fans are not dead fans.

i had subscribers who hadn't messaged in weeks. i'd mentally written them off. a re-engagement flow i built sent each of them a personalised message overnight referencing something specific from their actual conversation history. several came back. got into the chat. started buying again. one day last week that flow alone drove $727 in sales while i was asleep.

the other thing nobody talks about: sequencing. the chat doesn't open with a pitch. free content first, voice messages work especially well for this, before anything paid gets introduced. that order is what keeps fans engaged instead of feeling sold to. the AI builds memory per fan, tracks what they've bought, never re-pitches something they already own.

i ran the DMs manually for the first few weeks to understand what actually converts before automating anything. that step is not optional. the automation only works because it's built on real data from real conversations.

the ceiling is way higher than most people expect. the bottleneck is never the fans.

the chat automation i use was something i built myself for this page. happy to go into the details in the comments if anyone's curious.

questions welcome in the comments.

about a month ago i posted about this when i was sitting at $3,798 total. people were skeptical. fair enough.

$6,910 now. $1,967 in the first 6 days of May.

yesterday was the best single day since i started. $727.71. i didn't write a single message.

what actually drove it: re-engagement. fans who had been completely silent for weeks got a personalised message overnight referencing something specific from their actual conversation history. several came back, got into the chat, started buying again. those fans spend more than new ones because there's already a relationship there.

the chat itself is not pushy. it learns the fan, builds memory, never forces a paid pitch. one thing that made a real difference was adding free entry PPVs early in conversations. voice messages work well for this. they build trust before anything worth paying gets offered. that sequencing matters more than most people realise.

still not going to pretend this is zero effort. the content pipeline takes 3-4 hours a week. getting the AI to sound like the character took time to get right. the first few weeks i ran the chat manually to understand what actually converts before automating anything.

but the chat itself runs on its own now. the tool i use is FanWake, built it myself for this page originally. 50+ creators on it now. it handles the re-engagement, the PPV selling, the fan memory.

the ceiling is higher than most people expect. the bottleneck has never been the fans.

happy to answer questions.

392 contacts on Fanvue. fully AI generated character. no human chatting.

$1,857 in attributed revenue over 30 days. 199 pitches sent. 98 converted. that's where the 49% comes from.

worth saying what that number actually means. these aren't cold pitches. the agent runs a conversation first, builds some context, then makes an offer when there's a natural opening. so the baseline is warmer than a blast. but 49% still surprised me.

the pitch logic: the agent has the full PPV catalogue as context. it knows what each fan has already bought. it never re-pitches something they own. when a fan is engaged and there's an opener, it offers once. if they don't take it, it moves on.

the re-engagement side is what i didn't expect to do much. 159 fans in the flow right now. 24 have come back into active conversation. those fans convert at a higher rate than new ones because the re-engagement message pulls from their actual history, not a generic "hey i miss you" broadcast.

i ran the chat manually for a long time before building any of this. that part matters. the system is only as good as the persona and selling logic you give it. defaults won't get you 49%. you need to know what converts.

4,125 AI messages sent in that window. i used to do this manually. replying to fans at 1am. not exactly scalable.

yesterday alone: 500 messages sent, $420 in PPV sales, 79% conversion rate. that's what happens when the model is dialled in.

at some point i wrapped all of this into a tool called FanWake. started as something i built purely for my own page. now 50+ creators are running it. it's evolved a lot from feedback over the past few months, the selling logic, the persona layer, the re-engagement timing. It's genuinely different from what i launched with.

if you're running a Fanvue page and want to set this up, i'm happy to help personally. easiest way to reach me is just to register on FanWake and use the live chat there. i'm in there regularly.

happy to answer questions here too.

posted about this 10 days ago at $3k total. $4,888 now, $2,014 this month alone. best month yet.

second IG account started picking up traffic recently which helped. been running two accounts on completely separate devices and networks since i lost my first one at 5k followers. both posting for the same model, same character, same content. if one gets banned or shadowbanned the other keeps the traffic running. that redundancy has been worth it.

here's the full funnel. copy it.

character

pick a specific niche with personality baked in. write a character bible before generating anything. how she talks, what she'd never say, emoji habits, backstory. lock in 8-10 reference images and never change them. consistency is what creates attachment.

content

nanobanana pro for images, kling for video. 3-4 hours a week once the workflow is set. total around $30-35 a month.

IG

all SFW. character needs real identity not just looks. link in bio and occasional story shouts. redirect with deeplink instead of direct fanvue links. two accounts, completely separate devices and networks, both pointing to the same fanvue page.

fanvue

dirt cheap subscription. free filters nobody but a very cheap sub filters out non-spenders without adding real friction. the sub is still just the door, not the money. for the PPV catalogue, don't pre-produce everything upfront. run the first few chats manually, see what fans actually ask for, then produce that content. after a handful of serious conversations you'll have a catalogue that converts because it's built from real demand.

chat

run it manually for a few weeks first. watch what converts for your specific audience, which price points work, what makes fans go quiet. then automate. the automation needs to remember every fan, pitch at the right moment, and re-engage fans who've gone silent. that last part recovers more revenue than most people expect.

the chat automation i handle with FanWake, a tool i built myself originally for this page. it's come a long way since i first posted about this. 40+ founding creators on it now and their feedback has driven most of the updates. it handles everything on the chat side.

the ceiling is way higher than most people are hitting. the bottleneck is never the content.

happy to answer questions on any part of it

for context: i run an AI influencer page. AI generated persona, subscription platform, fans pay to chat and buy content. the chat side is what i want to talk about.

this fan had been subscribed for a month doing nothing. no messages, no purchases. i had mentally written him off.

a re-engagement flow i built detected the silence and messaged him automatically one night. i was asleep. he replied.

the AI took it from there. by the time i woke up it had worked through my entire paid content catalogue. every item sold at least once. then it flagged the thread and handed it back to me because it had nothing left to pitch.

$391.22 total from one fan. $202.92 in content sales, $144.33 in tips. all while i was in bed.

what made it work was not the AI being pushy. it remembered every previous conversation, what he had bought, what he responded to, and built on it each time. that continuity kept him spending instead of going quiet after the first purchase.

the lesson i took: my content catalogue was the actual ceiling, not the fan. once he ran out of things to buy the session ended. been building out more tiers since.

happy to get into how the re-engagement or chat logic is set up if anyone's curious.

been at this for about 5 months. not going to sugarcoat it or oversell it. here's where things actually stand.

the content side is basically solved. nanobanana pro for consistent images, kling for video. lock in reference images once and every generation after that is consistent. 3-4 hours a week once the workflow is set. this part used to be the hard problem. it isn't anymore.

IG is still the unsolved part. getting followers is slow, unpredictable, and the ban risk is real. lost my first account at 5k. now i run two on completely separate devices and networks. no direct fanvue links anywhere, use a redirect with deeplink tech instead. organic only, no paid ads. this part hasn't gotten easier.

the money is not where most people think. subscriptions are basically irrelevant, set it free and use it as a filter. the money is PPV sold through chat and tips. same content pitched at the right moment in a real conversation converts completely differently than content sitting in a feed.

here's the part most operators haven't fully built yet.

before automating anything i ran the chat manually for a few weeks. watched which conversations led to purchases, which price points converted, what made fans go quiet. that period is not optional. if you skip it you're automating guesswork.

once i had that foundation i automated it. and the parts that actually made the automation work were not what i expected.

fan memory matters more than the selling logic. generic chatbots reset every conversation. fans notice even if they can't articulate why. tracking what someone bought, what topics came up, how they respond. that context is what keeps them spending across multiple conversations instead of going quiet after the first one.

re-engagement is the most underbuilt thing in this space. fans go quiet, it happens to everyone. an automated flow that detects silence and sends a personalised message based on conversation history pulls a lot of that revenue back. most operators don't build this and have no idea how much they're leaving on the table.

what i'd do differently starting today. spend more time on the character bible before touching anything else. run the chat manually for longer. build the re-engagement flow from day one not as an afterthought.

the ceiling on this model is way higher than most people are hitting. the content pipeline is no longer the bottleneck. the chat side still is for most operators.

happy to go deeper on any of it