# Reaction-panel repost — rebuild sheet

A 23-second repost: someone else's shower clip plays full-frame under one unfinished caption while the poster's deadpan cut-out sits locked in the corner and is never cut to. By netergold — 124,021 views, 1,432 likes, post caption "Yup".

**Why it works**
The borrowed clip is the entire event and the caption stops on an ellipsis, so the payoff always feels one beat away and there is no clean place to leave. The locked face in the corner tells the viewer how to feel about what they are watching without the poster having to perform, say or shoot anything — his presence is what turns a repost into a post.

**The beats**

| Time | What happens | On-screen text |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1.84s | Composite opens and never changes shape: full-frame borrowed clip of a shirtless man behind a fogged glass shower screen in a blown-out white bathroom, static camera several feet back. Bottom-left, a cut-out chest-up close-up of a bearded man in a maroon tee staring down the lens, neutral. Bottom-right, a red-ringed circle holding a third man among people. A thin red bar across the lower third. | "deshae beating the musty allegations until…" + a small emoji · TikTok @juzfheteap watermark |
| 5.52s | Behind the glass he holds a white cloth out at waist height, head down. Every overlay unchanged. | same caption, unchanged |
| 9.19s | He brings the cloth up to his face, elbow raised. Nothing else moves. | same caption, unchanged |
| 12.87s | Both arms up over his head, washing. The reactor still has not moved. | same caption, unchanged |
| 16.55s | Bent forward, hands at his waist; the source watermark drifts back to mid-left. | same caption, unchanged · watermark |
| 20.22s | He turns his back to the camera, reduced to a blur. The video ends in the composite it opened in — no cut to the reactor at any point. | same caption, unchanged |

Where the frames do not tell us: whether the caption was added by the poster or came burned into the borrowed clip (it sits in TikTok's default caption style over footage that already carries a TikTok watermark); which emoji sits under the line (it is a small yellow face, not resolvable at this size); where the red-ringed circular clip comes from or whether it is a still or moving; whether the reactor moves at all between the six sampled beats. There is no audio read here.

**What carries the value**
Somebody else's footage plus a man who refuses to react to it. Three things do the work at once and none of them is a claim: the clip is the event, the unfinished line withholds the punchline for the whole runtime, and the deadpan corner face supplies the verdict. Nothing is demonstrated, argued or sold on screen.

**Shoot it**
You are shooting one element only — the corner face. Everything else is sourced.

- **Camera:** front camera, phone propped or handheld at arm's length, chest-up, dead square to your face. Lock it and do not move it, do not zoom, do not reframe. One take that outlasts the clip you are reacting to.
- **Performance:** none. Look straight down the lens and hold a flat, neutral expression for the whole runtime. The format breaks if you mug, laugh or talk — the joke is that you do not.
- **Light:** flat and frontal — your own screen, a window in front of you, or a ring light. No shadow drama, no colour. It should look like a webcam, not a shoot.
- **Wardrobe:** one plain t-shirt, solid colour, no logo, no pattern. Nothing that pulls the eye off the clip behind you.
- **Assembly:** borrowed clip full-frame; cut yourself out and paste into the bottom-left corner, hard edge, no fade; caption box centred low over the footage, one line ending in "…", set once and never touched again. Do not cut to yourself, ever. Leave the source watermark visible — it is what makes the clip read as found rather than made.

**Or generate it**

```
vertical 9:16 composite, phone-camera look throughout. Full frame: {SUBJECT} using
{PRODUCT} behind a wet fogged glass screen in a plain domestic room, camera static at
chest height and several feet back, hard window light blowing the walls out to near-pure
white, no styling and no set dressing, soft compression and a downloaded-clip look.
Pasted over the lower-left corner, cut out with a hard edge, a chest-up front-camera
close-up of a second person in a plain t-shirt looking straight down the lens with a
completely neutral expression, lit flat by their own screen. Bottom-right, a small circle
with a thick red ring holding a third person among other people in an unrelated indoor
setting. A thin red horizontal bar across the lower third. No on-screen text.
```

**Motion:** nothing moves except the borrowed footage — the cut-out face, the red-ringed circle, the red bar and the caption are locked and identical from first frame to last, and the camera never cuts to the reactor; generate every beat from the same seed and change only the action inside the full-frame clip.

**Text overlay:** one caption box, centred low over the borrowed footage, word-for-word identical at every beat and never completed — `{NAME} {ACTION} until…` with a single small emoji on its own line beneath it.

**Reference:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DPnA4TbCTNI/
