DADABOTS
The 24/7 neural death-metal stream that never turned off
Teardown
- Creator
- CJ Carr & Zack Zukowski
- Launched
- 2019 (Relentless Doppelganger)
- Platform
- YouTube + Twitch
- Status
- live
- Narrative
- None — continuous generated audio (technical death metal, mathcore, breakcore)
- Update cadence
- Live, 24/7 — running since 2019
- Generation model
- Custom neural audio models trained on specific bands (SampleRNN era, later diffusion)
- Middleware
- Open-source training and inference stack, with published papers
- Playback
- Continuous generated audio with minimal visuals
- Viewer interaction
- None (one-way stream)
Audience data
- Peak concurrent
- Not published
- Typical concurrent
- Not published
- Cumulative views
- Not published
Data source: Ableton blog (2026-07), The Daring Creatives (2026-08), VICE (2019) · Last updated: 2026-09-04
The longest-running proof of the 24/7 generated-stream format — seven years of continuous output. The economics lesson: audio-only generation is cheap enough to run unsponsored for years, video at API prices is not. Also the philosophical opposite of closed hosted models: they publish code and papers.
What it costs to run a channel like this
At H3 Max list price ($0.08/s @768p), a 24/7 channel generates 17,280 clips a day ≈ $6,912/day ≈ $207K/month. Run your own numbers:
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