🖼️ Turn Reddit Pain Points into Comic Ads using GPT-4o + Dumpling AI in n8n

🚀 What This Automation Does

This powerful automation built in n8n allows you to:

• Extract real pain points from Reddit using GPT-4o and Reddit’s API
• Turn those user frustrations into marketing messages
• Generate ad concepts as comic panels
• Render them with AI-generated images via Dumpling AI
• Upload the results to Google Drive

It’s ideal for creators, marketers, and DTC brands who want to:

• Create relatable ad content
• Use real audience language
• Test ad angles before production

🧩 Workflow Breakdown: Node-by-Node

🟩 1. Trigger: Form Input from Brand

Node: When a Form is Submitted

Form includes:

• Brand Name
• Website
• Product Explanation

This form starts the automation. It collects basic info about your brand and product. This input powers all the AI nodes later.

🧠 2. Generate Reddit Keyword

Node: Generate Reddit Keyword from Product Description

• Uses GPT-4o to extract a likely keyword Redditors would use to discuss this product’s pain points.
• For Try Brez (THC-infused tonic), GPT returns: “hangxiety”

🔍 3. Search Reddit for Posts

Node: Search Reddit Posts Using Keyword

• Pulls top 10 Reddit posts matching the keyword.
• Sources content across subreddits like r/Anxiety, r/hangxiety, etc.

🔎 4. Filter for Quality Posts

Node: Filter Posts With 2+ Upvotes and Text

Removes:

• Posts with no body text
• Posts with fewer than 2 upvotes

This ensures the content used later is human-written, relevant, and community-validated.

🧠 5. Classify Post Relevance to Product

Node: Classify Post Relevance to Product

Uses GPT-4o with a structured prompt that asks:

• Does this Reddit post describe a pain our product can solve?
• Returns JSON: { isRelevant: true, reason: ‘Matches the pain Brez helps solve’ }

🧹 6. Format Relevant Reddit Data

Node: Edit field:Format Relevant Reddit Post Fields

Selects and renames:

• Post title
• Post content
• Subreddit
• Upvotes
• URL

📦 7. Aggregate All Relevant Posts

Node: Aggregate Relevant Reddit Data

Combines relevant posts into a single array of context for GPT to analyze when writing marketing messages.

✍️ 8. Turn Reddit Pain into Ad Messages

Node: Generate 10 Ad Angles From Reddit Posts

GPT-4o reads the pain points and crafts 10 punchy ad lines in the style of comic scripts:

• “You wake up with heart-racing dread? Meet Brez – the hangxiety killer.”
• “No hangover. No regrets. Just Brez.”

🎯 9. Rank the Top 10 Ad Angles

Node: Rank Top 10 Ad Angles

Asks GPT to:

• Evaluate the emotional & strategic power of each line
• Rank and return the top 10 in order

🖼️ 10. Convert Ads to Comic Prompts

Node: Create Comic Prompts from Ad Angles

GPT now writes image generation prompts for a 4-panel comic structure:

• Panel 1: Introduce pain
• Panel 2: Escalation
• Panel 3: Product enters
• Panel 4: Resolution

🧠 11. Parse JSON from GPT

Node: Parse Comic Prompt JSON Output

GPT returns prompts in structured JSON. This node ensures they’re readable for the image generation API.

🔄 12. Split Comic Prompts & Loop

Nodes: Split Comic Prompt Objects & Loop Through Comic Prompts

Breaks the array into one-by-one executions so images can be generated individually.

🧠 13. Generate Comic Image

Node: Generate Comic Image via Dumpling AI

Calls Dumpling AI to render a 4-panel comic in square format (512×512). Uses the model FLUX.1-pro.

⬇️ 15. Download Image

Node: Fetch Comic Image URL

Pulls the final rendered comic image for download.

☁️ 16. Upload Image to Google Drive

Node: Upload Image to Google Drive

Uploads the file to a specific folder (e.g. n8n Testing) on Google Drive.

• File is named after the original comic prompt.

✅ Final Result

You’ve turned:

• A product description
• Real Reddit pain points
• Into emotional, visual comic ads

All without writing a word or opening Photoshop.

🎁 Use Cases

• DTC brands launching new ads
• Meme marketers
• Creators building audience-first campaigns
• Designers needing fast mockups
• AI marketers and agencies building demos

🧠 Conclusion

This n8n workflow is a perfect example of problem-first marketing. It listens to real people, pulls from real pain, and turns that into emotionally grounded creative. By combining GPT-4o, Reddit, and Dumpling AI, you now have a repeatable system to generate social ad content in minutes.