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How Romanticism Ruined Love

What to study

Expectation Violation

  • Saying romance ruined love flips a belief nobody questions.
  • You need the argument before you can dismiss it.
  • The balcony sketch points at the exact fairy tale being blamed.
  • The text simply repeats the title, spending the whole image on one idea.
How the packaging works
Title

The title accuses a trusted idea of wrecking the thing it was meant to protect.

Thumbnail

The balcony drawing shows the exact fairy tale getting the blame.

Remix this

If you teach, try blaming a loved idea for the very problem it claims to solve. Name the target in the title and let the image show its most familiar symbol.

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The transferable lesson

Attack a belief your viewer was raised on

What to avoid copying

Repeating the title word for word in the image only works with a strong house style behind it. Give your image its own line.

NicheRelationships
Click driverExpectation ViolationCuriosity Gap
Visual signalHeadline TextSupporting Text

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  2. 2 Define your title, promise and thumbnail
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