AI Influencer Week Challenge

The challenge

The AI Influencer Week Challenge was a 7-day phased competition inside the AI Video Bootcamp Skool community in mid-May 2026. Daniel Riley posted one daily scenario for the same recurring AI character, and members had to build a consistent influencer identity across seven different lifestyle situations - introduction, fitness, celebrity collab, night out, brand deal, luxury, and a hero portfolio shot. 700-dollar prize pool split across five winners.

This was the largest challenge submission count the community had ever seen - thousands of comments across the seven daily posts. Daniel personally selected 10 finalists, then the community voted to pick the top 5 prize winners.

Final 5 winners (community vote)

• 1st place (200 dollars): Youssef Benali — blonde character at a Spanish flamenco tablao
• 2nd place (160 dollars): Joshua Bridge — brunette in Mexico cowboy hat on the beach
• 3rd place (140 dollars): Jean Sebastian — Emporio Armani-style mature male character with a vintage car
• 4th place (110 dollars): Réka Harsányi — the photoreal lizard-headed humanoid character that drew a wave of comments
• 5th place (90 dollars): Alaba Owotuyi — pink From The Gloss promotional bus mockup with consistent product branding

How character consistency worked

The standout images from this challenge all shared one trait: ruthless character consistency. Each contestant used a reference image of their influencer character and maintained the same face, hair, body type, styling, and overall vibe across all seven daily prompts. The community-voted winners were the ones whose seven daily images felt like seven posts from the same real person rather than seven unrelated portraits.

How it ran

This page groups submissions by their day prompt. Each phase shows the day’s task, then ~7 curated submissions from that day’s comment thread. Click any creator name to follow them on Skool.

Note: each winner’s hero image was selected by community vote from across all seven days they posted - so a winner’s prize image may not match the day shown here. Winners are placed under the day that best fits their winning image content.