# Pinned hook, roaming monologue — rebuild sheet

A man in a plain black t-shirt talks to his phone for 94 seconds about software he hooked up to his computer, with one unchanging white box — "AGI is here…" — sitting over every second of it. 893,517 views · 23,307 likes · 93.78s.

**Why it works**

Nothing on screen ever finishes: the pinned line trails off in an ellipsis and every speech subtitle underneath is cut off mid-sentence, so the viewer is permanently one beat from the payoff and there is no clean place to leave. The one cut away from his face — a full-frame screen recording of the real product page, with named strangers' testimonials and an actual one-line install command — is the only checkable thing in the video, and it lands in the middle rather than at the end, so the claim gets its receipt before the argument is over.

**The beats**

| Time | What happens | On-screen text |
|---|---|---|
| 7.5s | Standing wide, slightly low, in a room with white walls. A desk fills the lower right — a monitor showing a dark screen of code or text, a small pale box and a speaker beside it. He's mid-word to the lens. | "AGI is here…" (pinned) · "experienced so far" |
| 22.51s | Hard cut to a full-frame screen recording — no person, no room. A dark web page: a "What People Say" testimonial section with real handles, a "Quick Start" block with a macOS/Linux tab and a one-line `curl … \| bash` install command, then a "What It Does" heading. The pinned box stays on top of it. | "AGI is here…" (pinned) · "So you create it up as a bot, WhatsApp or Telegram, and" |
| 37.51s | Back to him, now in a visibly different, larger room. Chest-up, mid-word, background thrown out of focus. | "AGI is here…" (pinned) · "that context and knowledge now, but then hooked up the" |
| 52.52s | Wider, hand up beside his head, eyes wide. Room readable now: white built-in shelving one side, a wall-mounted flat screen the other, pale seating behind. | "AGI is here…" (pinned) · "These are creative fatigue" |
| 67.52s | Medium-close, brow furrowed, mouth closed. A tall doorway with a bright panel behind him; a camera on a tripod standing in the background. | "AGI is here…" (pinned) — **no speech subtitle at this instant** |
| 82.53s | Tightest frame of the six — head and shoulders nearly fill it, mid-word, same doorway behind. | "AGI is here…" (pinned) · "brief new creatives and even create them what" |

Two things to flag honestly. The pinned line is word-for-word the opening clause of the post caption ("AGI is here… hooked up Clawdbot/Moltbot to my Mac Mini and the results were mind blowing…") — that is how it was written, not a coincidence. And at 22.51s the word after "So you" is small and partly ambiguous at this resolution; it reads as "create" but may be a different verb. The subtitle is transcribed as it appears.

**What carries the value**

The unfinished claim held over everything. "AGI is here…" never resolves and no subtitle card ever closes its sentence, so the whole runtime is one long approach to a landing that never comes. The screen-recording beat is what keeps it from being pure talk — it is the only moment a viewer can check anything, and it is someone else's page full of other people's names, not a product shot.

**Shoot it**

- **Camera.** Phone, vertical, handheld at arm's length, roughly eye level. Do not lock it off. Change the framing between every beat — a standing wide with your workspace in shot, a chest-up medium, a wider frame where a raised hand fits, a tight face frame. Move rooms partway through; the frames show one room at the desk and a second, larger living space for the rest.
- **The one cutaway.** Screen-record the thing you're talking about and cut to it full-frame, mid-argument — not at the end. Let it be a real page with real names and a real, specific instruction on it. Keep the pinned box on top of it.
- **Light.** Bright, soft, even daylight from off-camera windows. White walls and ceiling. No lamp in shot, no hard shadows. Shoot in the middle of the day.
- **Wardrobe.** One plain black crew-neck t-shirt, no branding, same in every beat. Nothing else changes on the body.
- **Text.** One white rounded box with black text, top-centre, in exactly the same place on every beat including over the screen recording. Set it once and never touch it. Write it as the first clause of your post caption, ending in an ellipsis. Speech subtitles underneath, white with a dark edge, centre-low, cut every card mid-sentence. Let one beat run with no subtitle so the pinned box is alone.
- **Talent.** This one needs a performer. There is no product demo, no transformation and no debris to fall back on — 94 seconds of one person's energy is the whole payload, and a flat delivery leaves nothing on screen.

**Or generate it**

```
vertical 9:16, {SUBJECT} standing in a real domestic living space, framed chest-up and slightly off-centre at a handheld arm's length, roughly eye level, mid-word talking straight into the lens with one hand rising into frame beside their head, wearing a plain black crew-neck t-shirt with no branding, behind them white walls and a white ceiling with white built-in shelving to one side, a wall-mounted flat screen on the other and a tall doorway with a bright panel in it further back, bright soft even daylight from off-camera windows with no visible lamp and no hard shadow, phone-camera look, slight grain, no retouching, no on-screen text, {PRODUCT} not in frame — this format never shows one, it only cuts to a screen recording of it
```

**Motion:** handheld at arm's length with natural sway and no zoom inside the beat; between beats the framing jumps freely — a standing wide in one room, a chest-up medium, a wider gesture frame, a tight face frame — and once cuts away entirely to a full-frame screen recording before returning.

**Text overlay:** one white rounded box, black text, pinned top-centre in the identical spot on every beat including over the screen recording, never changed and never finished — `{claim}…`, taken verbatim from the first clause of the post caption. Underneath and changing every beat, white speech subtitles with a dark edge, centre-low, one to two lines, each cut off mid-sentence: `{spoken clause}` → `{spoken clause}`. Let one beat run with no subtitle at all.

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