alt Hacker News$25 is an exaggeration, because that wouldn't even cover lunch for your friends to say thanks for the favour.
OK Go blew up early youtube with Here It Goes again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTAAsCNK7RA .
But these are exceptions to the rule, most people don't have the ability to do much creatively with a shoestring budget.
( Which isn't to say this slop is better. This slop is far worse, it's utterly dreadful. )
>most people don't have the ability to do much creatively with a shoestring budget.
I'm sure in a room full of musicians they could come up with more creativity for a video than literally 0, which is what LLMs are currently capable of.