15:49I tried using AI. It scared me.
Stakes & Tension
- Tom's audience knows him as calm and careful, so It scared me from him carries more weight than from a hype channel.
- Everything is about to change ends with a period, not an exclamation point, so it reads as a sober warning.
Title
'I tried using AI' is something any viewer could do themselves, so 'It scared me' makes the fear feel close to home.
Thumbnail
A full-width red band carries one sentence across Tom's chest, his red shirt blending into it, and his worried frown above it backs up the warning.
When you have a genuinely serious warning, put it in one calm sentence that ends with a period rather than a shout. Show your real, worried face above it.
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Deliver a big warning in a calm, plain sentence, so it reads as sober rather than hype.
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- 2 Define your title, promise and thumbnail
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