Neural Fiction
One walled city, one failing signal, and the best dystopia in AI series.
Known for: The Vine
About Neural Fiction
Neural Fiction is the independent YouTube channel behind The Vine, a photoreal dystopian sci-fi series set in Tarsis, the last walled city on an Earth consumed by a nanomachine. The channel is small — around 1,300 subscribers — and the work is anything but: four episodes in, the series has a complete mythology of orders, towers and graded infected, and some of the most confident world-building in AI filmmaking.
The pilot arrived in April 2026 and three further episodes followed by August — “Under The Walls”, “Full Hospitality” and the double-length “Babylon” — widening the story from Kael’s survival outside the walls to the smugglers, soldiers and Keepers who run what is left of the world. The channel also posts Roman-history AI videos alongside the series. The creator bills The Vine as cyberpunk, post-apocalyptic sci-fi, and documents the making of it in unusual depth: a full production-breakdown guide to The Vine’s workflow — characters, video, sound, editing, “every technique, every mistake and how I fixed it” — is offered to other AI filmmakers through Gumroad, with sales funding the channel.
At a Glance
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Main role: Series Creator
Known for: The Vine
