Recently, a god-like YouTube channel was uncovered, called "Fireplace 10 hours." How god-like is this channel? It’s so lazy it didn’t even bother to come up with a decent name, and the profile picture is just randomly chosen. The most outrageous part? It’s been active for nearly 10 years, and the entire channel has only this one video!

But just this one video, according to estimates from Oddity Central and some data websites, may have already earned the creator over $1 million (about 7 million RMB) in ad revenue.

A single video, ten years of passive income
The content of this video is so simple it’s almost infuriating: just a pile of wood burning in a fireplace, crackling for 10 hours.
No plot, no influencer faces, no shouting “everyone subscribe,” and even no background music—just pure white noise.
Since uploading in 2016, this video has been played over 157 million times. What does that mean? If we consider YouTube’s ad revenue sharing mechanism (RPM), the ad rates for long-form videos in Europe and America are usually quite high. Plus, many people play this kind of video as background noise for hours on end, leading to astonishing watch time and ad impressions.
Even conservatively estimating, this guy doesn’t have to do anything—just lying at home every day, and the account automatically earns hundreds or thousands of dollars. This isn’t just a video; it’s clearly a money tree planted on the internet!