# Subtitled monologue, evidence cutaways — rebuild sheet

A 41.73s hair-removal post by @tryurbanbeauty: 13 seconds of 3D follicle animation with one bold word per beat, then a bedroom selfie monologue under running speech subtitles with a labelled anatomy diagram pasted over the top. 379,940 views · 7,198 likes.

**Why it works** — The rendered cutaway and the pasted three-panel diagram are material the creator plainly did not make, so the mechanism arrives as something published rather than something claimed, and she only has to be the person who found it. The subtitles are cut mid-sentence on every sampled beat, so there is never a clean line to leave on while the argument is being handed over.

**The beats**

| Time | What happens | On-screen text |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 3.34s | Full-frame 3D skin cross-section: one follicle in cutaway, a black razor blade sliding across the surface above it, white motion streaks. No person, no room, no product. | `DEFEND` |
| 10.02s | Same render, same angle and distance — blade gone, a pale thin hair shaft now rising out of the follicle. Nothing else changed. | `EVENTUALLY` |
| 16.69s | Cut to her: chest-up front camera in a plain bedroom (ceiling fan, white door, off-white walls), red sleeveless top, amber dropper bottle held up at frame-left, mid-speech. A white-bordered three-panel labelled diagram is composited across the top third. | Diagram headers `Normal Hair Follicle` / `Cyperus Rotundus Application` / `Weakened Follicle Result`, labels `Enzyme`, `Hair Root`, `Dermal Papilla`, `Cyperus Rotundus Activating`, `Shrinking Hair Follicle`, `Blood Vessel`, `The Cyperus Rotundus Doesn't Access Bloodstream` · subtitle `which causes` |
| 23.37s | Same room, framing tilted up and closer (the fan fills the top of frame). Both hands up beside her face, eyes wide. No diagram, no product in shot. | `finer, thinner.` |
| 30.05s | Same room, framing reset lower. Bottle low in one hand, glass dropper brought up to her own upper lip with the other, still talking. | `I've been using it for` |
| 36.72s | Same room, slightly wider. Bottle held up at frame-left, other hand blurred in motion across the lower frame. | `where` |

Six stills of a 41.73-second video, so what happens between beats is not visible — in particular, whether the render ever returns after 13s. The contact sheet carries no audio: the subtitles are read off the frames, not heard, and the two opening word cards are styled nothing like the act-two subtitles, so I cannot confirm they belong to the same narration track. The caption's free-gift offer ("Free gift when you order today! Pinned in comments") never appears on screen in any sampled frame.

**What carries the value**

The borrowed anatomy. The 3D razor-versus-follicle render and the published three-panel diagram do the whole mechanism argument; her own footage proves nothing — there is no before/after anywhere in the six frames, and the self-application at 30s reads as personal use rather than evidence. If you rebuild this and drop the graphics, you have a person talking with nothing behind her.

**Shoot it**

- **Camera.** Front-facing phone at arm's length, chest-up. Do not lock it off — the framing visibly drifts and resets between beats (the fan sits at a different height in every frame), and that looseness is what keeps it reading as a person talking rather than a produced spot.
- **Light.** Whatever the room has. Soft, even, from camera side; the ceiling is bare and the walls are plain. No fill, no ring light look, no colour.
- **Room.** Her own bedroom, unstyled — ceiling fan, white door, a picture frame, nothing arranged for the shot.
- **Wardrobe.** One plain top, no change across the runtime, nothing that pulls the eye off the pasted graphic.
- **Text.** Two tracks, different by design. Over the render: one bold all-caps word per beat, white with a heavy black outline, centred. Over the monologue: small white lowercase clauses, lower centre, same spot every time, each one cut off mid-sentence.
- **Graphics.** The opener is animation, not footage — you are sourcing or generating it, not shooting it. The diagram sits flat across the top third with a white border, plainly a pasted-in image, and appears on one beat only.

**Or generate it**

The beat to generate is 16.69s — the frame where the pasted diagram and the speaker share the screen, which is the whole format in one picture.

```
vertical 9:16, {SUBJECT} chest-up on a front-facing phone camera in a plain
bedroom — five-blade ceiling fan with a domed light overhead, off-white walls,
a white door and a dark picture frame behind — wearing a plain red sleeveless
top, mouth open mid-speech, holding {PRODUCT} up at frame-left, soft even
indoor daylight from camera side, phone front-camera look, slight grain, no
retouching, no on-screen text, with a white-bordered three-panel labelled
explainer diagram composited flat across the top third of the frame
```

**Motion:** handheld arm's-length front camera, framing drifting and resetting between beats rather than locked, only the subject's hands and face moving; the composited diagram sits flat on the frame and does not move with the camera.

**Text overlay:** opening render beats — one bold all-caps word per beat, white with a heavy black outline, centred: `{KEYWORD}`. Monologue beats — small white lowercase speech clauses in the same lower-centre position, one per beat, each cut off mid-sentence: `{clause}`.

**Reference:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DUHQjxoE-UJ/
