Faceless format

Reddit Story Video Generator

Pick a subreddit. AutoFeed pulls a real thread, narrates it with an ElevenLabs voice, times every caption to the audio and lays it over looping gameplay — then posts it on the schedule you set.

Credits per video
1,000, flat
Title cap
150 characters
Story cap
1,500 characters
Gameplay clips
21 across 5 categories
Caption styles
12

What a Reddit Stories Video Actually Is

A Reddit story video is the format that made faceless short-form work: a real post from a subreddit, read aloud, with the post card on screen and satisfying gameplay looping underneath so the viewer has somewhere to put their eyes while they listen. The gameplay is not decoration — it is what buys you the first two seconds, before the story has had a chance to land.

AutoFeed builds the whole thing from a subreddit name. It fetches a post and, optionally, its top comments; caps the title at 150 characters, cut at a word boundary so the card never ends mid-word; trims the body and comments to 1,500 characters, cut at the last sentence end so the narration never stops halfway through a word; and hands the text to ElevenLabs. The voiceover comes back with a start and end time for every single character, which is why the captions land on the exact syllable instead of drifting away from the audio halfway through.

Reddit Stories Videos Made With AutoFeed

Every clip below came out of this generator with no manual editing afterwards. Press play — nothing autoplays on this page.

A Reddit story video generated by AutoFeed — post card, AI narration, word-timed captions over looping gameplay.
A second render of the same format with a different thread.

How the Reddit Stories Generator Works

Every step below is a screen in the editor, in the order you meet it.

  1. 1

    Choose the subreddit

    Start from one of eight presets — r/AskReddit, r/AITAH, r/AmItheAsshole, r/relationships, r/TrueOffMyChest, r/confession, r/creepypasta and r/nosleep — or type any subreddit you want. The r/creepypasta preset is pre-filtered to the Text Story, Very Short Story and Trollpasta Story flairs so you only get posts that read well out loud, and r/AskReddit pulls the top three comments as well, because on that subreddit the answers are the content.

  2. 2

    Pull the thread

    Hit Generate Story and AutoFeed fetches a post from that subreddit. The title is capped at 150 characters and the body plus any comments at 1,500, both cut on a boundary rather than mid-word. Comments are stitched in with spoken connectors — "Top comment.", "Someone replied." — because a narrator reading "1." and "2." out loud breaks the flow. Both fields are ordinary text boxes, so you can rewrite, trim or replace them entirely before anything renders.

  3. 3

    Set the post card

    The Reddit card at the top of the video carries an author handle. It defaults to u/AutoFeed.ai — change it to whatever handle suits the channel you are publishing to.

  4. 4

    Pick the gameplay background

    Five categories ship with the format: Minecraft (7 clips), GTA V (6), Subway Surfers (1), Fortnite (3) and Satisfying (4). You choose the category and AutoFeed picks a clip from it at random on every render, so a daily series is not running the same footage back to back.

  5. 5

    Choose voice, music and captions

    Any voice from the ElevenLabs library, filterable by gender and by use case. Background music is optional and defaults to none for this format — a track fighting a narration is the fastest way to lose retention — but the picker holds the same 87-track library every other format uses. Twelve caption styles are available, from YouTuber and TikToker through Creepy and Glitch for horror subreddits, plus a Custom tile that opens a caption builder.

  6. 6

    Render, then let it run

    The video renders and lands in your library. Download it, or attach the format to a recurring series and let AutoFeed pull a new thread, render it and publish it to TikTok and YouTube Shorts on the days and hours you choose.

Everything You Can Configure

These are the controls this format actually ships with, and the values behind each one.

Subreddit

Which community the story is pulled from.

  • Eight presets: AskReddit, AITAH, AmItheAsshole, relationships, TrueOffMyChest, confession, creepypasta, nosleep
  • Or type any subreddit name
  • Flair filter — creepypasta ships with Text Story, Very Short Story and Trollpasta Story
  • Top-comment count — the AskReddit preset pulls 3

Author handle

The u/ name printed on the Reddit card.

  • Any handle you like
  • Defaults to u/AutoFeed.ai

Gameplay background

The looping footage under the post card.

  • Minecraft — 7 clips
  • GTA V — 6 clips
  • Subway Surfers — 1 clip
  • Fortnite — 3 clips
  • Satisfying — 4 clips
  • One clip chosen at random per render

Voice

ElevenLabs narration, returned with character-level timing.

  • Full ElevenLabs voice library
  • Filter by gender: any, male or female
  • Filter by use case: narrative story, narration, social media, news, meditation, conversational, ASMR, animation
  • No separate language control on this format — the voice you pick is the accent you get

Background music

Optional bed under the narration.

  • None — the default for this format
  • 87 tracks in the shared library: 76 from the sound picker plus the 11 original beds (Solitude, Assumptions, Passo Bem Solto, Calm Viral, Epic, Focused Viral, Happy, Mysterious Viral, Relaxing, Sad, Scary)
  • Shelved as Viral, Classics, Moods and Movies

Caption style

Animated captions burned into the render.

  • YouTuber (default), Supreme, Barbie, Neon, Glow, Thumbnail
  • Glitch, Creepy — built for horror subreddits
  • TikToker, Instagramer, Classic 1, Classic 2
  • Custom — a builder with 40 fonts, colours, outline, glow and uppercase

25 Reddit Thread Archetypes That Reliably Perform

Reddit story videos live or die on the first line of the post. These are the archetypes that keep working — grouped by the subreddit they come from, so you can either point the generator at that subreddit and pull a real thread, or paste the title in and write the body yourself.

On the Content tab, press Edit on the post and paste any of these into Post title, then write or paste the story into Post text underneath. AutoFeed narrates whatever text is in that box.

r/AskReddit — question threads

The AskReddit preset pulls the top 3 comments as well, because on this subreddit the answers are the content.

  • What's a secret you'll take to the grave?

    The evergreen. Works because every single comment is a self-contained story.

  • What's the fastest you've ever seen someone get fired?

    Short answers, clear endings — ideal when you want three comments inside 45 seconds.

  • Hotel workers of Reddit, what's the strangest thing you've found in a room?

    Occupation threads give you a built-in narrator persona for the voiceover.

  • What did you think was normal until you left home?

    High reply-rate in the comments of your own video, which is what the algorithm reads.

  • What's a red flag people ignore way too often?

    Advice-shaped, so it gets saved and sent rather than just watched.

  • Nurses of Reddit, what's the weirdest thing a patient has said under anaesthesia?

    Funny beats dark here — pair it with a bright caption style, not Creepy.

r/AITAH and r/AmItheAsshole — verdict bait

The whole format is an argument the viewer has to finish in the comments. Keep the story under 1,500 characters and stop before the verdict.

  • AITA for refusing to give up the seat I paid extra for?

    Money-versus-manners setups split an audience almost exactly down the middle.

  • AITA for telling my sister the truth about her wedding dress?

    Weddings are the highest-engagement subgenre on the whole subreddit.

  • AITA for not splitting the bill evenly when I only had a salad?

    Small-stakes, universal. Everyone has had this exact argument.

  • AITA for reading my partner's group chat after they left it open?

    Privacy dilemmas keep working because there is no clean answer.

  • AITA for uninviting my brother from the trip he never paid for?

    Family plus money — the two things people cannot scroll past.

  • AITA for refusing to babysit for free every single weekend?

    Reliably brings out two loud camps, which is the point.

r/TrueOffMyChest and r/confession — first-person confessions

No verdict to argue about, so these need a stronger opening line. Use a slower voice and let the pauses do the work.

  • I've been pretending to go to work for four months.

    A premise that raises three questions in seven words.

  • I found out my best friend was the one who reported me.

    Betrayal confessions retain better than shocking ones.

  • I never told my family I paid off their debt.

    The rare wholesome confession — good for breaking up a dark feed.

  • I've kept a separate bank account since the day we married.

    Money secrets get more comments than affairs do.

  • I let my parents believe I graduated.

    Shame-based confessions land hardest with a plain, unstyled caption set.

r/relationships — slow-burn drama

Longer stories. Cut them to a single scene before you render, or the video runs past the point where anyone is still watching.

  • My partner's ex is still in the family group chat and nobody sees a problem.

    In-law conflict is the most durable subgenre here.

  • He proposed the same week my sister announced her engagement.

    Sibling rivalry plus a wedding — two engines in one story.

  • We agreed on no gifts and she bought me a car.

    Inverted stakes: the "problem" is generosity, which people argue about harder.

r/nosleep and r/creepypasta — horror

Pair these with the Creepy or Glitch caption style and the Scary music bed. The r/creepypasta preset is already filtered to the Text Story, Very Short Story and Trollpasta Story flairs so you only get readable posts.

  • There's a door in my basement that wasn't there last week.

    Domestic horror outperforms monsters because the setting is free.

  • The night shift has one rule and I broke it.

    The "rules" structure gives the narration a built-in countdown.

  • My daughter's imaginary friend knows things about our old house.

    Children and houses — the two cheapest ways to make a listener uncomfortable.

  • I work as a lookout on a fire tower. Do not answer the radio at 3 AM.

    Isolation jobs are the most-repeated nosleep frame for a reason.

  • Every photo in my grandmother's album has one extra person in it.

    Visual premise — it gives the gameplay background something to contrast against.

Reddit Stories Questions, Answered

Does AutoFeed post to Reddit or use my Reddit account?

No. It reads public posts from the subreddit you choose in order to build the video, and it never signs in to Reddit on your behalf. Publishing happens on your connected TikTok and YouTube Shorts accounts only.

Can I write my own story instead of pulling one from Reddit?

Yes. The title and body are ordinary text boxes — clear them, paste your own story, and the format renders exactly the same way: post card, narration, timed captions and gameplay. Plenty of channels use it purely as a narrated-story renderer and never touch the subreddit picker.

How long does a Reddit story video end up being?

It follows the narration. The body is trimmed to 1,500 characters before it is read, which keeps almost every story inside short-form length, and the render adds a two-second tail after the final word so the video does not cut off mid-breath.

Why do the captions line up so precisely with the voice?

Because they are not estimated. The voiceover is requested with timestamps, so ElevenLabs returns a start and end time for every character in the script, and the renderer uses those numbers directly instead of guessing from word counts — which is what causes captions to drift in most tools.

Which gameplay backgrounds are included?

Minecraft, GTA V, Subway Surfers, Fortnite and a Satisfying category — 21 clips in total. You pick the category; a clip from it is selected at random on each render, so a daily series does not open with the same footage every time.

Do I need to credit the original poster?

AutoFeed prints the author handle you set on the post card, not the original poster’s username. If you are republishing somebody’s story, check the subreddit’s rules and credit the author in your caption. That part is on you, not on the tool.

Can this run without me every week?

Yes. Attach the format to a series, pick the days and the whole-hour slots you want, and AutoFeed generates a fresh video and publishes it to your connected TikTok and YouTube Shorts accounts in your own timezone. Plans cap a series at 3, 7 or 14 posts per week.

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