# Reaction-panel repost — rebuild sheet

A 42.8s vertical split screen: a guy in a hoodie laughing at a borrowed street-interview clip playing underneath him, one punchline caption pinned across the seam the whole way through. 2,005,649 views · 199,802 likes · @jangreactions.

**Why it works**

The pinned caption tells you the payoff before you understand anything you're looking at ("THE SLAP BROUGHT OUT D SONG IN HIM"), so you stay to see it land — and the top panel gives you a face to check your reaction against, which is why the clip feels worth 42 seconds instead of 4. Nothing in the frame moves except the reactor's face and the borrowed footage, so all the attention goes to the one thing that carries it.

**The beats**

| Time | What happens | On-screen text |
|---|---|---|
| 3.42s | Split established. Top: man in a royal-blue hoodie, hood up, glasses, locked chest-up webcam frame, pink/purple LED-lit shelving behind. Bottom: a borrowed clip in a different room — bald man in a black jersey at right, a large silver handheld mic pushed at him from the left, corkboard of flyers and a wall AC unit behind, a crowd watching. `@JANGREACTIONS` watermark bottom-left of the lower panel in every frame. | THE SLAP BROUGHT OUT D SONG IN HIM · **OH** |
| 10.27s | Identical framing. Top: head back, mouth wide, laughing. Bottom: an arm reaches across toward the seated man's face. | THE SLAP BROUGHT OUT D SONG IN HIM · **WILL** |
| 17.12s | Top: he ducks his head so far the hood covers his face completely — no face in frame at all. Bottom: the woman holding the mic is bigger in frame; the man leans back away from it. | THE SLAP BROUGHT OUT D SONG IN HIM · **CASE** |
| 23.96s | Top: back up, laughing, one hand raised near his chest. Bottom: an arm raised across the frame again, crowd behind. | THE SLAP BROUGHT OUT D SONG IN HIM · **I** |
| 30.81s | Top: still laughing, same locked frame, same light. Bottom: mic held to the man, woman in headphones at left, crowd behind. | THE SLAP BROUGHT OUT D SONG IN HIM |
| 37.66s | Top: leaning forward and down, laughing, face turning out of the light. Bottom: unchanged — mic on the man, crowd behind. | THE SLAP BROUGHT OUT D SONG IN HIM |

Two things the frames do not show, so don't build on them: **the slap itself never appears in any sampled still** — an arm crosses the frame at 10.27s and 23.96s, but whether it makes contact isn't visible. And the yellow single words (OH / WILL / CASE / I) don't read as a sentence in these six samples; they are one-word-at-a-time captions tracking whatever is being said or sung below, and the sampled frames at 30.81s and 37.66s show none. Whether those captions belong to the original clip or were added by the reactor is not determinable from the frames.

**What carries the value**

The reactor's face losing it. The borrowed clip is the content, but the laughing face is the persuasion — it certifies the clip is worth staying for before you've seen the payoff. The pinned caption does the second half of the job by naming the payoff up front.

**Shoot it**

- **Camera (top panel):** one locked webcam or phone on a stand at seated eye height, chest-up, subject dead centre. It never moves for the entire runtime. No zoom, no reframe, no cuts.
- **Camera (bottom panel):** you don't shoot this — it's the borrowed clip, dropped in whole and unaltered, playing at its own pace.
- **Split:** hard horizontal seam, reactor roughly the top 45%, borrowed clip the bottom 55%. Same seam position start to finish.
- **Light:** one warm key on the face from the camera side, plus coloured LED strips (pink/purple in the reference) on the shelving behind. Ordinary room, ordinary webcam look — the slight compression and softness reads as real.
- **Wardrobe:** whatever he'd actually wear. Hoodie, hood up, glasses. Nothing styled — the panel has to look like a room, not a set.
- **Performance rule:** the reaction has to be genuine and readable at thumbnail size — head back, mouth open, ducking out of frame. This is the one thing that can't be faked, and it's why this format needs a person who actually finds it funny.
- **Text:** one punchline, pinned across the seam, unchanged for the whole runtime. Write it before you shoot.
- **Watermark:** handle bottom-left of the lower panel, small, present every frame.

**Or generate it**

```
vertical 9:16 split-screen frame, two stacked panels with a hard horizontal seam.
TOP PANEL: {SUBJECT} shot chest-up on a locked webcam-height camera in a home
room, hood or casual top, seated and centred, shelving behind lit by coloured
LED strips, warm key on the face, webcam look, slight compression.
BOTTOM PANEL: {PRODUCT} in a plain real room with a handheld microphone in shot
and onlookers behind, flat indoor light, phone-camera look. No on-screen text.
```

*Motion:* both panels absolutely locked — the top camera never moves and the subject stays in the same chest-up position for the entire runtime; all the change is in the face and in the borrowed clip playing below at its own pace.

*Text overlay:* one punchline pinned across the seam for the whole runtime, never changing — `{SETUP} BROUGHT OUT {THE THING} IN HIM` — two lines, all caps, white with a heavy black outline, two or three words picked out in red and yellow. Below it in the lower panel, one yellow all-caps word at a time tracking the borrowed clip's audio: `{WORD}`.

**Reference:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DUUCvXlki9t/
