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@johndeere tbh it does kind of look like a bunch of motorcycles

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Performance

Views
481.7K
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33.3K
Comments
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Engagement
7%
Outlier
4×
Length · 27 Jun 2025
1:10

Video #9023 · Interview Q&A

Students guess what farm equipment isfrom @johndeere

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Overview

An interviewer on a college campus shows a picture of a John Deere Planter to various students and asks them to identify it. The video compiles a montage of their humorous and wildly incorrect guesses, which range from a Star Wars machine and an apple collector to motorcycles and the Pokémon Blastoise.

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Simple outline

  1. 1State the obscure challenge
  2. 2Showcase confused first guess
  3. 3Escalate with absurd comparisons
  4. 4Climax with group reaction

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Related videos

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Classification

Concepts
Question MontageStreet Interview
Elements
Text Overlay
Account

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Hook analysis

What stops the scroll in the first 3 seconds

Title hook · 30%

today students recognize Deere

Verbal hook · 60%

I'm here today seeing if college students can recognize the John Deere Planner.

Visual hook · 10%

A man with a microphone stands in front of a large, classic university building, holding up a picture of complex machinery, creating immediate curiosity about the interview.

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Hook template

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I'm here today seeing if [audience type] can recognize [specific object, brand, or concept].

  • — I'm here today seeing if college students can recognize a John Deere planter.
  • — I'm here today seeing if Gen Z can recognize a rotary phone.
  • — I'm here today seeing if New Yorkers can recognize the Wendy's menu item that's been discontinued since 1999.

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Hook and payoff

The promise the opener makes, and how the video pays it back

Hook

A direct-to-camera statement of the video's premise: testing a specific group's knowledge of an object they are unlikely to recognize.

Payoff

The video ends on the final, most ridiculous guess, followed by collective laughter. The payoff is not resolution or information, but the peak of the comedic build-up, leaving the audience amused.

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Narrative framework

The structural pattern this video runs on

Framework

The Obscure Object Gauntlet

Presenting a niche or specialized object to a general audience to elicit humorous and wildly inaccurate guesses, leveraging the knowledge gap for comedic effect.

  1. 1

    The Premise Statement

    The host clearly defines the challenge, the target demographic (college students), and the object in question, establishing the central conflict of the video.

  2. 2

    The First Failure

    The first subject provides an imaginative but incorrect guess, setting the comedic tone and establishing the pattern of failure that the audience can expect.

  3. 3

    The Visual Punchline

    A subject makes a wildly inaccurate comparison, which is then visually represented on screen through an edit, amplifying the humor and rewarding the viewer.

  4. 4

    The Setting Contrast

    The interview moves to an unexpected location (e.g., a quiet library) where the confused reactions create humorous tension with the environment.

  5. 5

    The Group Climax

    The host presents the object to a group, whose collective confusion and layered reactions build to a final, peak-absurdity guess, often a pop culture reference.

Themes

  • humor
  • public perception
  • brand awareness
  • cultural disconnect

Techniques

  • vox pop
  • juxtaposition
  • reaction comedy

Trends

  • street interview comedy

Post caption

tbh it does kind of look like a bunch of motorcycles

Text overlays

  • contextual · beginning

    today

  • contextual · beginning

    students

  • contextual · beginning

    recognize

  • branding · beginning

    Deere

  • contextual · beginning

    Wars,"

  • contextual · beginning

    apple collector?

  • contextual · middle

    motorcycles?

  • contextual · middle

    [laughter]

  • contextual · middle

    water system deployer.

  • contextual · middle

    I don't even wanna know!

  • contextual · end

    Blastoise!

Transcript

I'm here today seeing if college students can recognize the John Deere Planner. Wow. That looks like a machine out of, like, Star Wars or something. What do you think it does? It looks like it goes for the the high hanging fruit, Maybe like an apple collector. What do you think this does? Oh, that's so cool. Are those motorcycles? This is a planter. This? No. I got no idea. Water water system deployer. That's a whole jumbled mess if I've ever seen one before. What do you think it is? I think it's for I don't even wanna know. Oh, good. I feel like it looks like a lot of things stuck together. Oh, well, that's obviously tier I'm sorry. Dude, I don't even know. That looks like a whole That looks dug on. That looks like Blastoise. That was tier green version.

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