For a year now, the people complaining loudest about AI have been the chatbot and coding crowd: vanishing limits, silent model downgrades, a flat plan quietly behaving like a meter. This week the microphone passed to a different room. The people who make AI video — Runway, Sora, Kling, the churn of open models behind them — spent the week documenting their own version of the squeeze, and it turns out the complaints rhyme almost exactly. Only the currency is different. Where the coding crowd counted tokens, the video crowd counts credits, and this week they watched them evaporate.
Quotes sourced from: Reddit (r/runwayml, r/SoraAi and r/KlingAI_Videos). Every quote below was read verbatim on the live thread and is listed with its username, subreddit and the thread’s date and permalink in the Sources section. We widened the window to the last week, because two days was thin, and we dropped a couple of “complaints” that were really adverts for rival tools. As always, we quote experiences, not verdicts — a forum comment is one creator’s account, often mid-project — and what makes this batch worth reading isn’t volume; it’s that the complaints are specific enough to check.
“70% of my credits in one go”: the credit trap
