Can a fully automated, faceless

Can a fully automated, faceless YouTube channel actually run for free?

That question is basically what turned into crank, a terminal AI agent I've been building for myself. It's turned into a full video production system: it writes, renders, voices, captions, and publishes, start to finish, with no editing on my end.

It's currently running from production to upload at: https://youtube.com/@ecnivs

Not public yet, but it's coming