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@goodworkmb Reporting from @tryramp’s NYSE takeover
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Satirical news report from 2006from @goodworkmb
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Overview
The creator acts as a satirical news reporter who travels back to the year 2006 at the New York Stock Exchange. He interviews actors playing finance bros about outdated stocks and pop culture, and narrates a fictional story about Tony Hawk being sent back in time by the company Ramp to live as a stock trader, culminating in a skateboarding event outside the NYSE.
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Simple outline
- 1Establish absurd premise
- 2Introduce celebrity in-world
- 3Integrate sponsor into narrative
- 4Resolve mock conflict
- 5Conclude with summary sign-off
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Classification
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Hook analysis
What stops the scroll in the first 3 seconds
Verbal hook
Sir, at what point is stock trading an excuse to ignore your wife?
Visual hook
Handheld camera moving through a busy, chaotic stock trading floor filled with people in suits, creating a sense of energy and immediacy.
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Hook and payoff
The promise the opener makes, and how the video pays it back
Hook
An out-of-context, jarringly absurd 'man-on-the-street' question that immediately establishes a satirical tone and creates comedic confusion.
Payoff
The narrator provides a formal news-style summary, recapping all the absurd elements as if they were serious news, followed by a professional sign-off that serves as the final punchline.
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Narrative framework
The structural pattern this video runs on
Framework
The Mockumentary News Report
A comedic narrative that presents a fictional, absurd event as a serious news report, using classic journalistic tropes (on-the-street interviews, reporter narration, B-roll) to heighten the satire. The core gimmick is the juxtaposition of a serious format with ridiculous content.
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The Premise Drop
The narrator, in a classic reporter pose, formally establishes the setting and introduces the central comedic twist or fictional conceit that will govern the rest of the video.
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The Time-Capsule Montage
A rapid-fire sequence of short, character-driven vignettes or 'interviews' that reinforce the central premise through specific, often anachronistic or nonsensical examples.
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The Catalyst Reveal
A well-known figure or concept is introduced into the fictional world, but is immediately rebranded or re-contextualized to fit the absurd narrative.
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The Sponsor Lore
The sponsoring brand is seamlessly woven into the narrative, not as an ad, but as the in-universe explanation or enabler for the absurd events taking place.
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The Energy Escalation
A return to the rapid-fire interview format, but with the characters' energy and the absurdity of their statements heightened to build momentum.
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The Micro-Conflict
A brief, fictional conflict or threat is introduced to create a moment of mock tension, which is then quickly and absurdly resolved to provide a mini-story arc.
Themes
Techniques
Trends
Post caption
Reporting from @tryramp’s NYSE takeover
Text overlays
contextual · beginning
Dan Toomey Investigative heartthrob
contextual · beginning
New York Stock Exchange they invented money here or something
contextual · throughout
Year: 2006
contextual · middle
Tony Hawk Skateboard legend, hot in real life too
title · middle
HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN?
branding · middle
tonyhawkprotrader.com
branding · middle
ramp
Transcript
Sir, at what point is stock trading an excuse to ignore your wife? I guess it's good. You wanna hold on. What do you do? So sorry. I So sorry. I'm here outside of the New York Stock Exchange in the year 2006. BP Oil and Bear Stearns. Invest everything in Blackberry. They're gonna be the biggest company ever. Do you think songs about Jane will continue to be the type of music that Maroon five will make in the future? It's a fantastic album. I'm not certain, but I hope so because it gets me in the hard place every time. Okay. Thank you very much. Famous skateboarder Tony Hawk is also tier, although the man is currently under witness protection, having assumed the nickname Tony Stock. The expense management platform Rank is responsible for sending Hawk back in time to 2006 and disguising him as a boring old stock trader hidden amongst this throng of revved up finance bros. The stock is gonna take you all the way to Pluto, which is not a a a planet anymore as of this year, 2006. Sir, you seem very energized. Thank you. I mean, that's what you have to be to make the money. Any narcotic you've been given tonight. Listen, Hawk's life was in danger after an aggressive group of skaters no as the oligarchy tried to kill him. For a second, it looked like things were gonna get violent, but then everyone made friends and happily skateboarded outside. Well, there you have it, folks. Today is indeed in a day filled with money, ramp, Tony, and stocks. Thank you for watching, and for good worse, I'm Dan Toomey.