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@oliviabarbulescu Virtual doctor’s appointments have got to go. I also feel really bad for Rochelle #storytime #doctor
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Video #14704 · Yap
Tells embarrassing doctor appointment storyfrom @oliviabarbulescu
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Overview
The creator recounts a humorous story about a virtual doctor's appointment for suspected hemorrhoids, where the doctor asked her to email a photo to the front desk receptionist. She describes her horror and the awkward back-and-forth, then explains her meticulous process of trying to take a non-live, cropped photo. The story concludes with the punchline that two months later, her phone's AI created a musical slideshow titled 'Remembering This Day' featuring all 17 uncropped, live B-roll shots she had taken.
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Simple outline
- 1State relatable, awkward problem
- 2Introduce absurd third-party complication
- 3Establish false sense of security
- 4Deliver unexpected technological betrayal
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Classification
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Hook analysis
What stops the scroll in the first 3 seconds
Verbal hook · 70%
I had a virtual doctor's appointment...
Visual hook · 30%
A close-up, direct-to-camera shot of the creator speaking with expressive facial movements, creating an immediate sense of personal storytelling and intimacy.
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Hook template
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I had a virtual for suspected ...
- — I had a virtual dentist appointment for suspected bad breath...
- — I had a virtual vet appointment for suspected fleas...
- — I had a virtual tech-support appointment for suspected spyware...
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Hook and payoff
The promise the opener makes, and how the video pays it back
Hook
The Uncomfortable Premise: Immediately presents a highly relatable yet private and embarrassing situation, then introduces a shocking request that creates the initial conflict.
Payoff
The Technological Betrayal: A seemingly unrelated technological feature unexpectedly resurrects the embarrassing situation in a new, even more humiliating context, delivering a surprise punchline that subverts the audience's expectations of where the story was heading.
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Narrative framework
The structural pattern this video runs on
Framework
The Absurd Consequence Spiral
A narrative structure that begins with a relatable but uncomfortable problem, escalates it through a series of increasingly absurd social and technical complications, and culminates in an unexpected, often technology-driven, negative consequence that serves as the punchline.
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The Absurd Escalation
The initial conflict is magnified by involving an innocent, named third party, shifting the tension from a private issue to a public social faux pas.
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The Flawed Logic Rebuttal
The narrator engages with the absurd request, pointing out its logical fallacies and adding practical, TMI details that ground the ridiculousness in reality.
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The Technical Anxiety
The focus shifts from the social to the technical risks involved in fulfilling the absurd request, introducing a modern, technology-specific layer of anxiety.
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The Empathy Pivot
The narrator briefly adopts the perspective of the third party, speculating on their experience, which broadens the comedic scope of the situation.
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The False Sense of Security
The narrator asserts their competence and confirms that the immediate problem has been handled and contained, setting the audience up for the final twist.
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Post caption
Virtual doctor’s appointments have got to go. I also feel really bad for Rochelle #storytime #doctor
Text overlays
contextual · middle
Olivia Barbulescu To: Rochelle Front Desk > [CAUTION] Hemorrhoid or no Hi there major apologies for this photo but please let me know what you think.
contextual · end
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Transcript
Had a virtual doctor's appointment, and I was like, hey, doctor. I think I have hemorrhoids. And she was like, cool. Send me a picture. No. She was like, oh, just send it to the front desk. She sees it all the time. I was like, I'm not sending a photo of my asshole to Rochelle. And she was like, well, why not? She won't even know it's you. What do you mean? It's coming from my email. She's like, well, like, the photo itself. I was like, well, I wasn't gonna, like, take a photo of me with, like, my face in it. Obviously, I was gonna crop it. Do you know how many times I had to check to make sure that photo wasn't live? Because the only thing crazier than sending that photo is that somebody was expecting to receive it. Do you think that when Rochelle applied to that job, she knew that one of her core responsibilities was gonna be going through a portfolio booty hole every morning. And she said, well, we do this with all of our patients. I'm like, oh, now I don't feel special. Also, do all of your patients have hemorrhoids, or you best like to everybody? So we're gonna need your driver's license, insurance, and a photo of your asshole. I'm Gen z, so I like to think that I'm digitally proficient. Right? Like, pretty neurotic, and some would even call me anal. So I thought that all these photos were deleted. But tier, two months later, Apple put together an album called remembering this day with all 17 of the uncropped live tier roll shots best to some music like.