# Filth-extraction montage — rebuild sheet

A hands-only washing-machine clean-out: filthy tub, brown sludge, a mat of gunk pulled out by hand, then the same drum wiped clean with a flower sitting in it. 45.3s, by justdodealsfinds — 3,209,279 views, 26,103 likes.

**Why it works**

The persuasion is the debris, not the claim: brown water and a lifted mat of gunk are things you can't fake or argue with, and watching them come out is physically satisfying. Running the same treatment through two different machines turns one product into a household verdict rather than a single use case, and the clean-and-dressed final drum pays off the whole runtime in one frame.

**The beats**

| Time | What happens | On-screen text |
|---|---|---|
| 3.62s | Top-down into an open top-load tub — brown-orange sludge ringed around the white agitator plate, a hand holding a black-handled tool (reads as scissors) over it | *POV: Washing Machine Care Tips* |
| 10.87s | Same machine, top-down, the plate area now flooded with dark brown sludge water and floating debris. Cat stickers on the lid | none |
| 18.12s | Cut to a front-load washer, door open, a hand in a cream knit sleeve reaching past the grimy door seal. A small green toy on the drum lip, a yellow artificial flower in the foreground | none |
| 25.37s | Close inside the drum: standing brown water, a hand lifting a pale slimy mat of gunk clear of the surface, sludge running off it | none |
| 32.62s | Dark, low-light drum half full of murky water, a highlight on the surface, shapes submerged | none |
| 39.86s | Same drum, clean and bright — a hand wiping the perforated wall with a white cloth, a white vase with a yellow rose sitting inside the drum | none |

**What carries the value**

The extracted filth. Brown sludge water and the gunk mat lifted out by hand, then the identical drum clean and dressed at the end.

*What the frames do not show, said plainly:* the product itself never appears in any of the six stills — no pack, no tablet, no label. The caption sells a washing-machine cleaner, but nothing in frame is the product. The frames also can't tell us whether the POV line stays pinned after the first beat (it's absent from every later still, so treat it as an opening card), whether there's voiceover or music, where the cuts fall between the sampled beats, or what the 32.62s frame is actually showing beyond dark water in a drum. Whether the two machines are the same household is unknown.

**Shoot it**

Camera: phone, vertical, handheld, held close to the contact point — hovering top-down over an open top-loader, then just outside a front-loader looking in. Never cut to a face; the face is out of frame the whole way. Change position on each machine, and keep the hand and the debris in the same part of the frame each time.

Light: plain domestic laundry-room light, no fill, no colour correction. Grain and dinginess help — the filth has to look real. The one exception is the final beat: it's noticeably brighter and cleaner-looking than everything before it, so shoot the payoff where the light is best.

Wardrobe: a plain long sleeve, nothing branded. Hands bare. No manicure styling, no jewellery.

The one rule that makes or breaks it: shoot the machine genuinely dirty first and don't cut away between the water and the extraction — the value is in seeing the gunk come out of that water, in one take.

**Or generate it**

Image prompt for the hero beat (25.37s, the extraction):

```
vertical 9:16 close photograph shot from just outside an open appliance
looking in, {SUBJECT}'s bare hand in a cream knit sleeve lifting a pale
slimy mat of gunk clear of standing brown water inside the drum, sludge
streaming off it, stainless perforated drum wall and grimy rubber seal
around the frame, plain domestic laundry-room light with no fill,
phone-camera look, slight grain, no retouching, no on-screen text, face
out of frame, {PRODUCT} not in shot
```

Motion: handheld and close, the camera holding on the contact point while the hand lifts the debris up out of the water toward the lens, no cuts inside the shot.

Text overlay: `POV: {topic} Tips` — italic white, upper third, opening beat only. No text on any later beat.

**Reference:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DVOTUEsDVyp/
