# Captioned steps, comment gate — rebuild sheet

A 57-second nighttime foot-soak routine given away in full from one fixed frame in a warm stone bathroom — 1,680,378 views, 32,896 likes, by askoliviahealth.

**Why it works** — Nothing is withheld: three things anyone already owns, the soak time stated out loud, all of it handed over before a single ask is made, so the comment gate in the caption arrives as a next step rather than a toll. The one beat that lifts it above a home remedy is the anatomy illustration dropped into the middle of the frame — for four seconds an ordinary bowl of salt water is a stated physical mechanism, and the viewer has something to believe instead of something to try.

**The beats**

| Time | What happens | On-screen text |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 4.54s | Close side angle from floor level — she sits on the bathroom floor pouring a clear liquid from a glass bottle over her foot, which rests in a foamy white basin | "what happens to your" |
| 13.63s | Frontal frame at tub height — crouched behind the basin, both feet in the water, looking down at them | "for 10 minutes" |
| 22.72s | The same frontal frame — seated knees-up behind the basin, talking to the lens; a glass bottle and a small wooden bowl sit on the floor beside the tub | none in this frame |
| 31.80s | The identical frame with an anatomical foot illustration — bones of the foot over a bed of salt crystals — composited across the middle of the shot | "The salt is denser than" |
| 40.89s | The identical frame — hands resting on her knees, feet still in the basin | "your legs feel lighter," |
| 49.98s | Closer standing frame, chest-up, basin out of shot, pointing down toward the caption | none in this frame |

Two honest gaps. The six stills are 9 seconds apart, so the two frames with no caption almost certainly had one running between samples — the pattern is continuous speech subtitles, not four isolated cards. And stills cannot show camera movement: frames 2 through 5 are framed identically, which reads as locked, but I cannot prove the camera never drifted, and frames 1 and 6 are plainly separate setups.

**What carries the value** — The routine given away complete and free, with a duration attached. The anatomy cutaway is what makes it stick: it is the only moment that names a mechanism, and it is a pasted graphic, not footage. The bottle labels are not legible in the stills; the caption is where "warm water, salt and vinegar" is actually stated.

**Shoot it** — One phone on a low tripod at basin height, square-on, and then do not touch it. She is at floor level, so the camera is too. Room: one warm-lit bathroom, no window light, soft ceiling downlights only — the whole video lives in one place and never leaves it. Wardrobe: plain fitted black athletic top and black leggings, nothing branded, nothing that dates. Props on the floor in shot: a white oval basin, a glass bottle, a small wooden bowl. Shoot the opening pour as a separate close side angle from the floor, then the whole middle of the video as one unbroken locked take, then stand up and shoot the closing point-down as its own frame. Leave the upper middle of the locked frame empty — that dead space is where the anatomy graphic goes in the edit. Talk the routine through normally and subtitle it afterwards; the captions must break mid-sentence, never on a complete thought.

**Or generate it**

```
vertical 9:16, {SUBJECT} seated on the floor directly facing a fixed camera at tub height, knees up, both feet in a white oval basin of water in front of them, wearing a plain fitted black athletic top and black leggings, in a warm beige stone bathroom with a walk-in rainfall shower behind, brushed-gold fixtures, recessed wall niches holding small plants and bottles, {PRODUCT} and a small wooden bowl on the floor beside the basin, warm soft overhead ceiling light and no window, phone-camera look, slight grain, no retouching, no on-screen text, upper middle of the frame left clear for a composited cutaway graphic
```

Motion: camera locked at tub height and identical for every beat (same seed) — only the operator and the water move, and the anatomy cutaway pastes into the cleared upper-middle area on the mechanism beat.

Text overlay: one mid-sentence clause per beat, centred at mid-frame, white, same position all runtime, never a complete sentence — "what happens to your {body area}" → "for {duration}" → "The {ingredient} is denser than" → "your {body area} feel {result}," — and the gate stays in the post caption: Comment "{KEYWORD}" and I'll send you the full routine.

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