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Remake everyday creators' problem videos
Regular, everyday creators facing a problem the product solves make good source material. A before-and-after video called My face before peptides is an example: it uses no AI and no slideshow, the creator passes the uncanny test, and the comments are full of people writing that they need it.
In the video, she makes viewers wait ten seconds, and in the last two seconds she says her face is still before peptides because she still doesn't know what they are. People in the comments ask where to get them. Swap the ending for a call to action and the same before-and-after works for a peptide app or a peptide product alike.
Job-market content worked the same way: organic creators' videos got recreated with a call to action added at the end. Copying and remixing a competitor is the easiest route, and format discovery is what's left when there are no competitors to study.
Why does near-human imagery unsettle viewers?
Robotics professor Masahiro Mori described the effect in 1970 and called it the uncanny valley. His idea was that comfort with a figure rises as it looks more human, then drops sharply when it looks almost, but not quite, human. The same dip appears with computer-generated faces, humanoid robots, and some animation. Mori's essay appeared in the Japanese journal Energy in 1970.
Why do before-and-after videos hold attention?
Economist George Loewenstein proposed in 1994 that curiosity arises when a person notices a gap between what they know and what they want to know. A before-and-after structure opens that gap in the first second and closes it only at the end. Making viewers wait ten seconds stretches the gap. Loewenstein's information-gap theory was published in the journal Psychological Bulletin.
Why do problem-focused videos draw buyers?
Copywriter Eugene Schwartz laid out stages of audience awareness in his 1966 book Breakthrough Advertising. A viewer who feels a problem but doesn't know the solution is at the problem-aware stage. A video that shows the problem plainly meets those viewers where they already are, so comments asking where to get the answer follow naturally. Schwartz placed these viewers between people who feel nothing and people who already know the product.
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