A 30 day virtual video-making challenge to help you improve and gain confidence as a video maker. Like Inkhaven, but you’re making videos instead of blog posts, and you don’t have to fly to Berkeley and pay $4000. (See also: Halfhaven)

Lots of people on LessWrong are great at writing, but many of us could reach a wider audience if we made video content. Maybe we’re inexperienced, nervous, whatever. This is perhaps why most normal `people have never heard of rationalism. By publishing one video every day, you can start to master this new-fangled technology, and help take rationalism mainstream.

Make 100 videos. It doesn’t matter what they are because they will be terrible, but do something you like doing. Your first 10 videos will be garbage. Then make 10 more. These will also be garbage, and so will the next 10. But eventually, things will start to improve. You’ll get better little by little. The best way to improve your content is to make content and see what people like.
Mr. Beast

The Vidhaven Challenge

Post 30 videos, between 30 seconds and 30 minutes each, every day over 30 days. Starting June 1st.

Make the videos as engaging as you can. Get as many views as you can (for the type of video you want to create), or at least meet your own standards for what makes a video interesting.

Mr. Beast says your first 100 videos will be terrible. It stands to reason your first 30 will be extra terrible. So let’s speedrun through the first 30.

You decide what kind of videos you want to make. Don’t let the Mr. Beast quote fool you: you don’t have to make cringey clickbait videos aimed at children. Video essays, video game let’s plays, explainer videos, vlogs, podcasts/interviews, it’s all allowed.

If you want to join, leave a comment below and then join the discord: https://discord.gg/WaYynRZVK2

ANYONE CAN JOIN. IF YOU ARE A HUMAN BEING WITH A PULSE, YOU MAY JOIN.

Rules

Content

Video should be at least 30 seconds long. It should feature your face or at least your voice.

All content should be original and new. No AI-generated video/audio. You can use AI to help you with your scripts, if your videos are scripted (and you like sounding generic). You can include older content in your video, e.g. you could react to an existing video, or read an existing blog post aloud. But your face/voice needs to be new.

No content that wouldn’t be allowed on Youtube or TikTok.

Publishing

You could publish on Youtube, Youtube Shorts, TikTok, wherever you want, but it should be accessible via a URL.

Publish a link to your video in the # videos-june-2026 channel of the Vidhaven Discord.

Publish and share in Discord each day before midnight (in your local timezone). You should share the video index in the 30 videos, and the date, and the URL. E.g. “2. June 2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?fake_url”

You can publish more than one video in a day and then share them one day at a time in the Discord if you want, but unless you’re catching up, you can only share one video in a day.

FAQs

Why should I bother? To improve your content-creation skills. To reach a different, larger audience than your writing will ever reach. And, most importantly, to earn a Digital Vidhaven Champion Trophy.

(As you can see, it’s a very prestigious award.)

You could just copy the image, but then you’ll know you didn’t earn it, and those pixels would then burn a hole of guilt in your hard drive.

What if I miss a day? If you miss a day, you can make it up the next day. That means you need to post two videos that day (or make one up the next day, etc.). If you fail to make up a video the next day, you lose, and will not earn your Digital Vidhaven Champion Trophy.

What if I know I can’t do all 30 days? What if I joined late? Then you can’t earn the Champion Trophy, but you can still participate. If you post diligently on most days, but not all 30, I’ll give you a special Digital Vidhaven Half-Asser Trophy

(It’s made of wood, if you couldn’t tell.)

What if I don’t have time to make a video? Make a shittier video. Don’t script it. Just talk for 30 seconds about how much you hate people who eat with their mouths open, or how you didn’t leave time that day to make a video, or whatever.

What topics are allowed? Make videos about rationalism. Make videos about AI. Make videos about how Donald Trump is a bad man. Anything you want. Just try to make it engaging.

I’m too scared to post my face or voice online! Me too, but it’s called the Vidhaven Challenge, not the Vidhaven Cakewalk. Your face isn’t mandatory, but your voice is. This challenge is about putting yourself out there and improving your speaking ability. It’s not really a videography challenge.

If you’re really scared, or have practical reasons for doing so, feel free to publish your video as unlisted on Youtube, so only your fellow Vidhaveneers can see it.

Do live stream VODs count? No.

If you want to join, leave a comment below and then join the discord: https://discord.gg/WaYynRZVK2