Trend Hunter System

3 trends with runway (ranked by your fit):

1. "Loud budgeting" follow-up wave, Status: rising, ~10 days from peak The original "loud budgeting" content peaked 6 weeks ago. The second-wave content ("I tried loud budgeting for 60 days") is just starting to climb. Your angle: post a results video, not a how-to.

2. Treasury bond rate confusion, Status: rising fast, peak unknown TikTok comment volume on "I-bonds vs T-bills" up 240% in the last 14 days. Most existing videos are from rate experts. Your angle: explain it the way you'd explain it to your sister.

3. "Stealth wealth" backlash, Status: just starting The aesthetic has been dominant for 8 months and the contrarian content is forming. Get ahead of it: "Why I'm done pretending to be middle class."

Skip: "Cash stuffing" (saturated 4 months ago, declining views), "no-buy year" (off-trend in your demo).

This week's filming priority: #2. Highest engagement potential, lowest competition right now.

Currently working (act this week):

• "Anti-productivity" / "I quit productivity for 30 days" framing, climbing on long-form
• AI-assisted workflows for non-developers (Claude, ChatGPT, NotebookLM specifically), sustained climb, 6+ months runway
• Single-app deep dives (one full video on Obsidian, one on Things 3), outperforming roundup videos by ~3x watch time

Played out: skip:

• Notion templates (saturated, declining CTR)
• "Day in my life of a productivity creator" (oversupply)
• Pomodoro/time-blocking 101 explainers (covered to death)

Emerging: set up for next month:

• The backlash to "5 AM club" content is forming. Counter-content ("Why I wake up at 9") is starting to climb.
• "Slow productivity" reframing, Cal Newport's book is driving a 90-day window of relevance.

Filming priority order: AI workflows → single-app deep dive → anti-productivity reframe.