# Reaction-panel repost — rebuild sheet

A creator replies to a comment by reposting someone else's extreme close-up hair-removal clip as a floating panel over himself while he talks into a mic — 4,717,947 views, 29,518 likes, 32.6s, caption "Comment the word Simpletics for a surprise".

**Why it works**

The reposted clip is the whole payload and it costs nothing to make — the comment-reply sticker is the licence to run it, so the video opens on borrowed satisfying footage instead of a stranger's face. Because the panel floats over him rather than cutting away, the presenter never leaves the frame, so his talking beats read as a continuation of the clip rather than an interruption you can scroll past.

**The beats**

| Time | What happens | On-screen text |
|---|---|---|
| 2.61s | Inset panel over a blurred plate of the presenter: a woman in a pink terry headband and pale blue top presses a pink handheld device to her cheek in a plain interior. His black shirt, ringed hand and black mic sit blurred behind and below the panel. | "Reply to Like It•Love It•Use It's comment" / "This hair identifier video was the best asmr!" |
| 7.82s | Panel goes extreme macro — cheek and jaw under a thin layer of white foam, the pink tool drawn down the skin, one cleared stripe opening through foam and fine hair. Long pale manicured nails at the top edge. | none |
| 13.04s | Panel drops away. Presenter full frame, mid-shot: black polo, black handheld mic, plain pale grey wall, white chair back, flat soft daylight, talking straight to camera. | "comments" |
| 18.26s | Panel back — macro of the eye and cheek, fingers pulling the skin taut, the tool stroking through foam. | none |
| 23.47s | Presenter full frame again, identical framing, heavily blurred through this moment. | a caption word sits over the mic but is not legible in this frame |
| 28.69s | Panel at its widest read — extreme macro of jaw and neck densely covered in fine hair, one broad cleared stripe up the centre, gold hoop earring and pink headband at the left edge, tool entering low frame. | none |

**What carries the value**

The borrowed macro clip. Dense fine hair cleared in one wide unbroken stripe, shot close enough that skin texture fills the frame — that is the entire persuasion. The presenter carries none of it; he is the wrapper, the reply-sticker excuse to run the clip, and the voice.

Not shown in the frames, so not claimed: what he actually says (no audio read), what the product is called on screen (no label is legible anywhere), whether the woman in the panel is a partner, a customer, or a stranger, and whether the panel clip is his own earlier post or someone else's — the sticker only tells us a commenter called it "this hair identifier video".

**Shoot it**

Two layers, shot separately.

*The presenter plate.* Phone on a tripod, chest-height, mid-shot with headroom — the same framing for the whole video, it never changes. Plain pale wall about a metre behind, one chair edge visible is fine; do not dress the room. Flat soft daylight from a window in front of him, no key light, no colour. Wardrobe: one plain dark short-sleeve top, nothing with a logo or a pattern that will fight the panel. He holds a black handheld microphone at chest height in frame the whole time — the mic is a prop as much as a mic, it tells you this is commentary. He talks straight down the lens.

*The panel clip.* Phone as close as it will focus on the treatment area — jaw, neck, upper lip — so the frame is nothing but skin and hair. Even indoor daylight from the front, no ring light ring in the eye, no beauty filter, no retouching in the grade; the whole point is real pores and real texture. Hands only, one unbroken stroke per shot, and let the cleared stripe finish before you cut.

*The assembly.* Panel is a rounded-corner rectangle, roughly the middle 85% of the width, sitting slightly high in frame with the presenter plate blurred behind it. It comes and goes; it never takes the full frame. Auto-captions on, one word at a time, white bold with a dark outline, centred just above the mic — and only over the presenter beats, never over the panel. The reply-to-comment sticker sits top-left of the panel for the opening beat only.

You need a person on camera for this one. Half the runtime is a face delivering to a lens, so it does not rebuild hands-only.

**Or generate it**

The panel content is the part worth generating — the presenter plate is cheaper to film than to fake.

```
vertical 9:16 extreme macro photograph filling the frame with the jaw, chin and upper
neck of {SUBJECT}, skin lit flat and close so every fine hair reads as texture, one wide
clean stripe cleared straight up the centre where {PRODUCT} has passed, {PRODUCT}
entering low frame at a shallow angle held by a hand with long pale manicured nails, a
pink terry headband and a small gold hoop earring just inside the left edge, soft even
indoor daylight from the front, plain pale wall behind thrown out of focus, phone-camera
macro look, visible pores and real skin-tone variation, no retouching, no on-screen text
```

*Motion:* camera stays pinned on the contact point and drifts only a few centimetres to follow {PRODUCT} up the jaw as the cleared stripe opens — one unbroken stroke, no cuts, no zoom. In the edit this shot is dropped in as a floating inset panel over the presenter plate, never full-frame.

*Text overlay pattern:* beat 1 only, a platform reply-to-comment sticker pinned top-left of the panel — `Reply to {commenter}'s comment` above `{their comment, verbatim}`. Nothing over the panel after that. The presenter's speech runs as one-word-at-a-time auto captions, white bold with a dark outline, centred just above the microphone — `{word}`.

**Reference:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DT_qD6Tgd4S/ by dillonxlatham
