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This One Boring YouTube Video Has Earned $1 Million

Fireplace 10 hours
  • Fireplace 10 hours

  • YouTube Channel
  • $1 Million estimated ad revenue

Shaan Puri and Sam Parr recently shared 4 dumb ideas that made people rich 💰…

One of them is a 9-year-old video on YouTube…

It’s a 10-hour video of a fireplace with 157 million views… they don’t even add logs to the fire… it must be a 30-second loop.

The channel has 120,000 subscribers but just that one video.

Apparently it was created by someone in Romania and the video has earned an estimated $1M from ad revenue 🤯

Sam calls this an “ambient channel” and cites some other examples he’s seen…

  • Old money Brazil music
  • 1980s finance
  • Classical music that goes hard

But the most famous is Lofi Girl 👀

15 million subscribers, 2.5 billion views… making about a $100,000 a month

These kinds of channels are getting much easier to create now with AI tools.

Could be worth setting one up, adding a few videos, seeing what happens 🧐

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Updated: January 29, 2026

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