The Pamba Blog

July 30, 2026·Field notes on AI UGC·No. 9·

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The avatar lottery: cycle your AI creators as hard as your content

One of our 110 AI creator accounts earned 17% of all 414 million views. Most never had a hit. The data says to audition avatars in about 20 posts, cut the cold ones, and pour volume into the winners.

· Eric Owusu Sekyere
All 106 accounts ranked by lifetime views: eleven glowing bars, then a long flat tail
All 106 accounts ranked by lifetime views: eleven glowing bars, then a long flat tail

Everyone tests hooks. Almost nobody tests creators. Across the accounts we run, which avatar posted a video mattered as much as what the video was: the same power law that rules content rules the accounts themselves, and it is measurable early enough to act on.

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