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I earn £120,000 a year making social media videos go viral

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Eknoor Singh says he only needs his mobile phone and a decent internet connection to earn more than £120,000 a year.

The 22-year-old Londoner is a professional "clipper". He is paid by clients to make short, vertical videos for social media, in the hope of them going viral.

The way it typically works is that the client - who could be anyone from a clothing brand to a record label, movie studio, podcaster or influencer - has a longer video that the clipper watches first.

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