Two-panel overreaction, Deadpan corporate voiceover, and 2 more
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Four formats did all the work over the weekend. Two of them will be in a brand deck by Thursday. Sorry.
Two-panel overreaction
Panel one: composed, reasonable, almost serene. Panel two: the same person eight seconds later, fully cooked. The gap between the panels is the entire joke, so the first frame has to be genuinely boring.
It spiked because it eats any grievance. Wifi, group chats, a coworker saying "quick call." Six of yesterday's top posts were just people re-skinning the same escalation with different tiny betrayals.
Fails when the first panel is already annoyed. No runway, no drop. Keep the setup flat and let the second panel do the screaming.
Here are some of the best uses of the format so far:
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Deadpan corporate voiceover
Flat LinkedIn-brain narration laid over footage of something collapsing. The voice never acknowledges the chaos. "We're seeing strong engagement" while a kitchen burns down. Tone mismatch is the payload.
Traction comes from everyone having sat through that exact meeting. It reads as satire of the voice, which means brands using it are satirising themselves, on purpose, and audiences currently find that acceptable.
Only works with self-awareness turned all the way up. Play it straight and you're just a company talking. The bit is knowing you sound like this.
Here’s the format doing numbers right now:
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Late-game reaction crop
One frozen frame from the back half of a match. A face mid-realisation, usually in the crowd, usually someone who has understood the result before everyone else. Caption does the rest.
Weekend fixtures reload the supply every seven days, which is why it moves faster than anything else here and dies faster too. Yesterday's crop is already stale by Tuesday.
Rights are the catch. Broadcast frames belong to someone with lawyers. Check usage before you put it anywhere with a budget attached.
Here’s what people are making with it:
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Seasonal price-shock format
Escalating panels, each one a higher number. Starts reasonable, ends absurd, no punchline needed because the final figure is the punchline. Three to five panels is the sweet spot.
Currently everywhere because everyone is pricing Q4 and nobody likes the answer. Back-to-school hauls, shipping upgrades, the annual candy tax. Relatable maths, zero setup required.
Retail and ecommerce can actually use this if they're the ones getting mugged, not doing the mugging. Punch at your own margins or don't punch.
Here are some of the funniest ones so far:
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