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The dot-com bubble is TOO SIMILAR to 2022

What to study

Loss Avoidance

  • Two nearly identical mountain-shaped charts sit side by side, one labelled 2000, one labelled now.
  • Your eye finishes the pattern by itself, and the finish means a crash.
  • Anyone with money in the market clicks to find out how close the match really is.
How the packaging works
Title

The title names the famous crash and claims today looks worryingly like it.

Thumbnail

The thumbnail puts the two boom-and-bust charts side by side so the repeat is visible.

Remix this

Use a side-by-side pattern match when history genuinely rhymes with now. Keep both charts simple enough to read as twin shapes at a glance, and let the viewer draw the scary conclusion themselves.

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The transferable lesson

Let twin charts make the viewer predict the crash.

NicheNews
Video formatVideo Essay
Click driverLoss AvoidanceCuriosity GapStakes & Tension
Visual signalArrowSupporting TextSide-by-Side ComparisonSplit Screen

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