# Deadpan caption, evidence pile-up

**21,865,327 views proved it** · 9 of Damon's swipes use this format

## What it is

One claim is stated once — pinned unchanged on screen or left in the post caption — and then never argued again. Everything after it is a pile-up of visibly unconnected instances of the same thing, cut one to a beat: different rooms, different people, different sources, no continuity and no cast reverse.

## Why it works

A claim proved by accumulation cannot be rebutted one instance at a time, and every new clip is fresh evidence for a case the viewer already agreed to in the first two seconds. The unconnectedness is the point — if the instances shared a location it would read as staged.

## The beats, in order

1. the claim lands once — pinned caption or post caption — over instance 1
2. instance 2, plainly unrelated to instance 1
3. instance 3, different room and different people again
4. instance 4 — the pile-up is now the argument
5. a final instance, no summary and no CTA

## On-screen text

one claim stated once and never changed — either a meme caption pinned all runtime or nothing on screen at all with the claim in the post caption; no per-beat captions

## Camera

no continuity between beats: separately sourced or separately shot close shots, cut hard on each new instance, no shared location and no establishing shot

## Higgsfield — image prompt

```
vertical 9:16, instance shot: {the recurring thing described exactly} in {a specific unrelated setting}, {light source of that setting}, phone-camera look, slight grain, unstyled, no on-screen text — regenerate in {each of the other unrelated settings} with nothing shared but the recurring thing
```

## Higgsfield — motion

```
one static or lightly handheld shot per instance, no camera relationship between instances, hard cut on every beat
```

## Produce it

Paste those into the Higgsfield employee: https://higgsfield.ai/supercomputer/skills?employeeId=0d38d619-0ac2-45c9-bfd5-3371837ccad3

## The references in this folder

- **@druski** — 21,865,327 views — https://www.instagram.com/p/DZLqNIKiWTA/
- **@alexxjaa__** — 16,973,105 views — https://www.instagram.com/p/DUynYtTjzVZ/
- **@ayekaiyak** — 1,346,952 views — https://www.instagram.com/p/DUPN9zeDEkd/
- **@ayekaiyak** — 920,297 views — https://www.instagram.com/p/DS8-BJ8DIsJ/
- **@jexo.bro** — 920,232 views — https://www.instagram.com/p/Db_AZr6sLwO/
- **@kive.ai** — 369,619 views — https://www.instagram.com/p/DSVxiUMjLsg/
- **@thehoolest** — 241,696 views — https://www.instagram.com/p/DSN-Qf2EwIu/
- **@the_blackreign** — 233,634 views — https://www.instagram.com/p/DWVCXMMjadq/
- **@ykstandards** — 157,784 views — https://www.instagram.com/p/DYVc8KCBGYz/

Each `.md` beside this file is one reference torn down: its beats with
timestamps, what carries the value, how to shoot it, and its own prompts.
`frames/` holds the six beats of each as one picture.
