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SY_C0002 — Editor Brief

EDITOR BRIEF Production-ready · plain-language · for the video editor

SY_C0002 · ~2:00 · symbia · for the video editor
01What this video is

A Black gut-doctor in his 40s, white coat on, talks straight into the phone camera from his clinic and levels with the viewer like a doctor who's done pretending — five everyday miseries the viewer can't explain (thinning hair, getting up at 2 and 3am to pee, a belly pooch that won't quit, sugar cravings, achy joints that wander) and he pins every one of them on parasites quietly eating them alive from the inside. Then he reveals Symbia as what he puts his patients on — the liquid that kills them at every stage, flushes the dead ones out, and even patches the holes they chewed in the gut — closing on a flat, no-risk dare: it's backed by a 30-day money-back guarantee, send the empty bottle back and get every cent, nothin' to lose but the worms. The whole edit is a five-count listicle: hard cuts on each number with a bold count stamp, one symptom per beat, dread building the whole way down into that guarantee close. The one job of this edit: keep it feeling like a real gut doctor who keeps it real — credentialed enough to trust, blunt and profane enough to believe — so the disgust, the 'it's not your age, it's real' vindication, and the count-to-five momentum all land like a doctor's verdict instead of a pitch.

02Format & look
Format
one Black gut-doctor in his 40s, white coat over a collared shirt, talking straight to camera from a clean clinic or a tidy at-home telehealth setup. Phone-camera framing, one-on-one, like he pulled out his phone to tell you the thing he can't say in a 10-minute appointment. No host, no second person — just the doctor leveling with you.
Cutting
built as a five-count listicle — a hard cut and a bold number stamp ('NUMBER ONE', 'NUMBER TWO'...) on every symptom, one symptom per beat, fast and punchy. Trim every breath so the count never drags; slam to a visceral b-roll shot on each symptom, then slam right back to his face.
Length
about two minutes, vertical 9:16 for the feed. Front-load the heat so the first 5 seconds grab the viewer with the sound off — the 'it's not your age, it's alive' caption does the work while his white coat reads 'doctor' at a glance.
03Who it's for

Anyone whose body's been quietly falling apart in ways nobody can explain — hair thinning out of nowhere, up at 2 and 3am every night to pee, bloated into a lower-belly pooch by dinner no matter how clean they eat, crashing for sugar they can't fight, achy joints that move around. They've been told it's just age, just stress, and their own doctor keeps shrugging — and they don't buy that's the whole story, because none of it adds up to anything they can name. NOTE: the copy + bro-doctor register here are deliberately GENDER-NEUTRAL (none of the symptoms are gendered) — cast and target broad, not woman-specific. Symbia's core base skews women 45-65 (brand §4) and men are an untested/secondary audience (§6), so this bro-clone runs broader than the brand's documented avatar — a deliberate call for this test lane.

04Why it works (the vision)
The real cause
the viewer's been told all this is just aging or stress, but a doctor here tells them there's something actually living in their gut, stealing their nutrients and dumping its waste into their body. That reframe is the whole engine — and it lands harder coming from a doctor, because it's one of his own kind admitting the brush-off was wrong. It ties five unrelated miseries into one enemy they can finally name and fight, instead of five separate things wrong with them.
What hurts most
being told it's just your age when it's clearly more than that — the doctor's shrug, the brush-off, the quiet fear that this is just how you are now. The vindication beat is the payoff, and it's a doctor saying it: 'That ain't stress, and it sure as hell ain't your age. That's parasites. Real ones.' Protect that line and give it air.
The smaller hurts
the hair thinning out of nowhere, the 2 and 3am bathroom trips wrecking sleep, the belly pooch that survives clean eating and exercise, the sugar cravings they can't beat, and the achy joints that wander — each one quietly carried and explained away alone.
What they actually want
to get these things out and feel normal again — to stop self-blaming, stop hiding the symptoms, and get their body back before the things multiply further. Hearing it's what a doctor puts his own patients on is what makes the fix feel safe to try.
Make them feel seen in the first 15 seconds by having the doctor name their exact symptoms back to them — the crawling feeling on the skin at night, the jaw clenched and unexplained — then flatly reject the brush-off their own doctor gave them: 'That ain't stress, and it sure as hell ain't your age.' They should feel caught, like he's reading their own body off a chart, before the relief comes the instant a doctor says it's not in their head and it has a name they can finally kill.
05The hook — on-screen text
▶ On-screen text — the first thing the viewer reads
6 variations to test — written with the comp + DR-craft method and gated for glanceability + loop-discipline (the mechanism stays withheld — the loop IS the hook). Each card shows the course concept it’s grounded in.
Each carries an evocative emoji (the production layer) and the principle that grounds the copy — so the editor sees not just the line but why it stops the scroll.
C · mixjuxtaposition
“Bloated by dinner, eating clean?”“It's not your diet. It's alive. 😬”
juxtaposition-as-curiosity-engine + setup→payoff (symptom sets up, 'it's alive' payoff opens the gap and rejects self-blame)
A · memorysingle-headline
“What your doctor calls 'just aging' 😳”
DR canon 'Why no one tells you ...' suppressed-secret skeleton + age qualifier (knowledge-gap dopamine)
A · memoryquestion
“The real reason your hair's thinning?”“It's not what your doctor said. 😲”
DR canon 'the real reason is X' mechanism-reframe-as-hook callout question fit to the thinning-hair symptom
B · compsingle-headline
“Somebody finally gotta say this 😳”
adapted from thebbco 1091695962938552 plainspoken confiding 'I've just...' guy-talk single statement — swapped to a peer-warning callout that qualifies women 45+ on the withheld reveal
C · mixsingle-headline
“It ain't your age. Something's eating you. 😳”
curiosity-gap bridge + blame-reassignment reframe (Zakaria knowledge-gap dopamine): take what the viewer blames on aging and reassign the cause to a withheld enemy
C · mixsingle-headline
“🚨 5 signs your body's being eaten alive”
chaining-open-loops + numbered-listicle curiosity (the count-to-five momentum IS the loop; promise a payoff the viewer must stay for)
How to build it (from the mined winners)
  • Structure: a bold static hook box with the claim, plus a second box for authority/setup — the two-box claim+authority shape that won across the mined ads.
  • Emoji: one that sparks emotion / urgency / curiosity (🚨 ⚠️ 😲 😳 😩) — never a neutral/informational one (📈, ➡️). Match it to the device.
  • Type: big, clean, readable. Serious-authority tone (investigative / lab-coat), not a playful TikTok question.
  • Reveal: claim lands first; the second line drops after — the loop snapping open.
⏱ Timing — read it, don’t rush it

Not a fixed 3 seconds. Each line stays up as long as the viewer needs to comfortably read it. Storyboard baseline: line 1 holds to ~4.5s, line 2 from ~5.2s to ~10s. Read-time is the floor — lengthen if a line needs it.

on-screen hook text reference
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storyboard · format match · resilia · click to enlargeOn-screen hook · “3 OIL OF OREGANO $17”Take ✓ the winning on-screen-text structure — match ITS format (line count + grammar), then adapt to our angle.
Comp-grounded — mined from winning ads (resilia · resilia). Winning hook = claim box + authority/command box; emoji as tonal punctuation; loop opened by withholding the mechanism. None resolve in the overlay.
06Editing brief — pace, style, vibe
Vibe
a gut doctor who keeps it real — credentialed and dead serious underneath, but blunt, casual, and profane on top, like he stopped sugarcoating it years ago. The white coat earns the trust; the swearing earns the belief. Never a polished spokesperson, never Gen-Z, never a salesman. Keep the profanity — it's what makes a doctor sound like he's actually on your side, don't bleep or soften it. If a cut looks too clean and corporate, rough it back up.
Pace
relentless down the count. The listicle should feel like rapid fire — number, symptom, gut-punch, cut to the next number — so they keep watching to see if the next one is them too. Don't let any single symptom beat overstay; the momentum to five IS the hook.
Slow down
on a few moments only — the credential-plus-verdict opener ('I'm a gut doctor... that ain't your age, that's parasites'), the mechanism reveal (carvacrol cracks the shield, black seed oil flushes them out), and number five (the joint-pain one nobody catches). Ease off the rapid cuts there so they land clean instead of flying by.
Tighten
the hook (first 5 seconds must grab sound-off and read 'doctor' instantly), every transition and inhale between numbers, the turn from the symptom stack into the mechanism, and the run into the CTA — no dead frames.
07Visuals — keep the eyes engaged

His face carries this — and so does the white coat, because the coat is what tells the viewer in a half-second that a doctor is talking. He's the spine of the whole edit, so live on him and only cut away when a specific symptom or noun earns it, then snap right back to his eyes. The b-roll exists to make the invisible feel real — the parasites, the shield they hide behind, the damage — and the count stamps are part of the visual grammar: every 'Number N' gets a bold on-screen number so the listicle reads even with the sound off.

Inserts to drop in, synced to the line:

  • "That crawlin' feelin' on your skin at night" -> a dark, uneasy nighttime shot, a faint crawling implied under the skin — creepy and intimate, not cartoonish; this is the body-horror cold open and it should make the viewer squirm.
  • "Twenty years pullin' these things outta people" -> a quick, restrained clinical insert (gloved hands, a clinic detail) that backs the 20-years tenure — enough to feel like a real practice, not a stock-photo montage.
  • "Your hair's thinnin' out of nowhere" (Number one) -> a real, unglossy shot of thinning hair / a hairbrush with strands, plus a bold 'NUMBER ONE' count stamp.
  • "stealin' the nutrients your hair needs to stay rooted" -> a simple shot of parasites pulling nutrients away from a hair root.
  • "Up at 2 or 3 in the mornin' to pee, every single night" (Number two) -> a bedside clock reading 2:47, a tired figure heading to the bathroom, with the 'NUMBER TWO' stamp.
  • "That lower belly pooch that won't go for nothin'" (Number three) -> a distended lower belly by evening over clean food / a workout, 'NUMBER THREE' stamp — the bloat survives eating clean and moving.
  • "a whole parasite colony livin' rent-free under your belly button" -> a creepy 3D shot of a parasite colony massed in the lower gut.
  • "Sugar cravings that won't quit" (Number four) -> a hand grabbing for sweets / candy, 'NUMBER FOUR' stamp.
  • "the little fuckers inside you screamin' to get fed" -> the parasites reacting/feeding when sugar arrives.
  • "Achy joint pain that moves around" (Number five) -> a hand rubbing a knee, then a shoulder — the pain wandering — with the 'NUMBER FIVE' stamp; this is the one everybody else misses, so give it a beat.
  • "That's parasite waste dumped straight into your joints" -> a simple visual of waste being dumped into a joint.
  • "The carvacrol in the oregano cracks the slime shield" -> the biofilm / slime shield the parasites hide behind, then the carvacrol drop hitting and visibly cracking it open. Sell that crack in one clear beat.
  • "wipes em the hell out at every stage. Adults, larvae, eggs" -> a simple three-step visual: adults, larvae, eggs all cleared.
  • "the black seed oil flushes the dead ones out" -> the dead parasites being flushed out and away.
  • "don't grab cheap oregano off the shelf... too weak to even crack that shield" -> the weak supermarket oregano bottle sliding off the shield doing nothing, then the high-potency Symbia drop cracking it. Sell weak-vs-real in one beat.
  • "drops under your tongue, not a horse pill" -> the liquid dropper going under the tongue next to an oversized pill that's clearly too much for a wrecked gut.
  • "It patches the holes they chewed in your gut wall" -> the gut wall holes being sealed so the survivors can't crawl back in (the light repair kicker — keep it quick, it's not the spine).
  • "backed by a 30-day money-back guarantee... send the empty bottle back, every cent" -> a clean, simple money-back / guarantee badge and a hand mailing back an empty Symbia bottle, then hard back to his face for the final CTA. Keep this beat plain and confident — it's the risk-reversal, not a hype graphic, so don't over-design it.

Layouts to use:

  • Small bottom-center insert (default): most symptom inserts ride here, lower-third, for a beat on the concrete noun, then cut back to his face.
  • Horizontal split-screen (his face top / the visual bottom): use when you want him reacting while the b-roll runs — the biofilm shield cracking, the weak-vs-real oregano knock, and the kill-then-flush explanation, so we see the doctor AND the mechanism at once.
  • Full-frame B-roll (big beats only): reserve for the carvacrol-cracks-the-shield moment and the parasite colony under the belly button so they hit like a reveal.

Two camera moves worth it:

  • A slow push-in on his face through the verdict line — 'That ain't stress, and it sure as hell ain't your age. That's parasites. Real ones.' — so the doctor's call feels like he's leaning in to tell them directly.
  • A small push-in on number five — 'the one everybody else misses' — so the last symptom feels like the thing he saved for the end.
08Speakers

Pick an ethnicity (face + matching voices) and a market. Image/voice prompts written for GPT Image 2 / Nano Banana Pro + ElevenLabs.

The gut doctor who keeps it real
Stylized 3D-animated Black gut-doctor character (clean Pixar/CG-render look), white coat. A Black gut-doctor in his 40s, white coat over a collared shirt, talking straight to camera from his clinic and running down five symptoms their own doctor keeps brushing off — pinning every one on the parasites eating them alive, then putting them on what he puts his patients on. Authoritative and dead serious underneath, but casual, blunt, and profane on top: a doctor who stopped sugarcoating it. He's a fictional, generated avatar — no real name, no real institution — leveling with the viewer one-on-one.
Animated character · generated, not cast
This speaker is a generated 3D / animated character — build it straight from the image prompt below. Vision-picked face frames are for realistic avatars and don’t apply here.
Ethnicity — sets the face and matching voices:
Image prompt
Medium-close shot of a Black man with warm deep-brown skin, expressive dark-brown eyes, close-cropped natural hair and a neat short beard, in his 40s, a stylized 3D-animated gut-doctor character, a blunt, authoritative gut-doctor — casual, a little profane, dead serious underneath. He is addressing the camera directly, one-on-one, like a no-nonsense doctor leveling with you. He wears a clean white doctor's coat over a collared shirt. Background: a clean modern clinic or office (or a tidy at-home telehealth setup), natural light. Rendered as a stylized 3D-animated character (clean Pixar/CG-render look), vibrant even studio lighting, smooth shapes, bold readable features. NOT photorealistic, NOT a real photograph.
Matching ElevenLabs voices (market + a voice):
Voice · AAVE cadence
Black grown-man AAVE real-talk delivered by a doctor — written-in dialect markers throughout (copula drop, g-drops, double negatives, 'I'ma keep it real with you / lemme tell you'), but carried with a practitioner's authority and certainty, not street energy. The VO talent has ad-lib latitude to make it land naturally in his own cadence — he can adjust phrasing as long as the meaning, the credential, and the count-of-five beats hold. This is the grown-man register, NOT Gen-Z slang. Full profanity is intended, aimed at the parasites and the cheap-supplement industry, never at the viewer. Cast a native speaker and validate the read with a native ear before ship — inauthentic AAVE reads as caricature and will sink it. Accent / voice: General American with a clear African-American (AAVE) cadence and a warm lower-chest resonance.
Voice · Light / neutral
Black grown-man AAVE real-talk delivered by a doctor — written-in dialect markers throughout (copula drop, g-drops, double negatives, 'I'ma keep it real with you / lemme tell you'), but carried with a practitioner's authority and certainty, not street energy. The VO talent has ad-lib latitude to make it land naturally in his own cadence — he can adjust phrasing as long as the meaning, the credential, and the count-of-five beats hold. This is the grown-man register, NOT Gen-Z slang. Full profanity is intended, aimed at the parasites and the cheap-supplement industry, never at the viewer. Cast a native speaker and validate the read with a native ear before ship — inauthentic AAVE reads as caricature and will sink it. Accent / voice: General American with a gentle Black heritage warmth, cadence mostly neutral.
09Comp inspiration — pick what fits (you won't use it all)

A menu, not a checklist — these are the strongest references for this ad. Borrow the technique that serves it and leave the rest; one video won't (and shouldn't) carry all of them.

resiliaclosest format match
“5-symptom parasite listicle + animated-doctor agitation…”
Take ✓ the direct-address symptom-listicle structure, the animated-doctor authority delivery, per-symptom visceral agitation b-roll, and the blunt "that's parasites" verdict.
resiliamechanism-anim
“micro kill-demo, parasite vs oregano oil…”
Take ✓ the live microscopic kill-demo (a parasite reacting to oregano oil, the biofilm cracking and dissolving) as visual proof on the mechanism beat.
10Script

Clean spoken dialogue — copy-ready.

0-22sHook — doctor introduces himself and keeps it real; names the crawling-skin and jaw-clench symptoms, rejects the 'stress / your age' brush-off, names parasites, cites 20 years pulling them out of people who were told they were fine, promises 5 signs with the last one a surprise
gut_doctor_real_talk_male

I'm a gut doctor, and I'ma keep it real with you. That crawlin' feelin' on your skin at night, buddy? The jaw clenchin'? That ain't stress, and it sure as hell ain't your age. That's fuckin' parasites. Real ones. I've spent twenty years pullin' these things outta people who got told they were fine. And here's 5 signs your body's bein' eaten alive. And I'ma tell you. For number five, bro.. you won't see that shit comin'

22-32sNumber one — thinning hair, doctor shrugs; parasites stealing the nutrients the hair needs to stay rooted
gut_doctor_real_talk_male

Number one. Your hair's thinnin' out of nowhere and your doctor shrugs. Nah, bro. That's them little bastards stealin' the nutrients your hair needs to stay rooted.

32-44sNumber two — up at 2 and 3am to pee every night; prime time for them doing their dirty work while they sleep
gut_doctor_real_talk_male

Number two. Up at 2 or 3 in the mornin' to pee, every night. That's prime time for these things doin' their dirty shit while you sleep.

44-58sNumber three — the lower-belly pooch that survives clean eating and exercise; a whole parasite colony under the belly button, which he sees every week
gut_doctor_real_talk_male

Number three. That lower belly pooch that won't go for nothin' Eatin' clean, movin' your body, still bloated like a fuckin' balloon by dinner? That's a whole parasite colony livin' rent-free under your belly button. I see it every week.

58-68sNumber four — unstoppable sugar cravings; not a sweet tooth, the parasites screaming to get fed
gut_doctor_real_talk_male

Number four. Sugar cravings that won't quit. You think you just got a sweet tooth? Nah, buddy. That's the little fuckers inside you screamin' 'feed me, bitch!'

68-84sNumber five — the one everybody else misses: migratory joint pain from parasite waste dumped into the joints; payoff to the cold-open promise
gut_doctor_real_talk_male

And number five, the one everybody else misses. Achy joint pain that moves around. That's parasite waste dumped straight into your joints. Nasty, right? These freeloaders don't pay rent and they still eat for free.

84-110sMechanism reveal — what he puts his patients on: Symbia, oregano oil + black seed oil; carvacrol cracks the slime shield and kills at every stage, black seed oil flushes the dead out before they rot
gut_doctor_real_talk_male

So here's what I put my patients on. It's called Symbia. Oregano oil and black seed oil, two of the strongest parasite killers there are. The carvacrol in the oregano cracks the slime shield these things hide behind and wipes em the hell out at every stage. Adults, larvae, eggs. Then the black seed oil flushes the dead ones out before they rot and poison you. But that's not all. It's loaded with wormwood and black walnut to strip their armor, clove to kill the eggs so the cycle don't restart, and pumpkin seed to sweep the whole mess out. The entire lifecycle, handled.

110-120sPotency disqualification — cheap shelf oregano is too weak to crack the shield; Symbia uses the high-potency stuff
gut_doctor_real_talk_male

And don't grab cheap oregano off the shelf. Most of it's too weak to even crack that shield. Symbia uses the high-potency stuff. That's the whole game.

120-132sLiquid superiority + repair kicker — drops under the tongue, in your blood in minutes, and it patches the holes they chewed in the gut wall so they can't crawl back in
gut_doctor_real_talk_male

Plus it's drops under your tongue, not a horse pill your wrecked gut can't even absorb. In your blood in minutes. And it don't just kill em and dip. It patches the holes they chewed in your gut wall so they can't crawl right back in.

132-145sClose — 30-day money-back guarantee / risk-reversal (don't feel the difference, send the empty bottle back, every cent, nothin' to lose but the worms) plus stock-check scarcity and the direct CTA
gut_doctor_real_talk_male

And it's backed by a 30-day money-back guarantee. Don't feel the difference? Send the bottle back, even if empty. So you got nothin' to lose but the worms eatin' your gut, bro. Go see if they still got it in stock, cause this stuff moves fast and go get your goddamn life together.

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Spoken transcript · full
I'm a gut doctor, and I'ma keep it real with you. That crawlin' feelin' on your skin at night, buddy? The jaw clenchin'? That ain't stress, and it sure as hell ain't your age. That's fuckin' parasites. Real ones. I've spent twenty years pullin' these things outta people who got told they were fine. And here's 5 signs your body's bein' eaten alive. And I'ma tell you. For number five, bro... you won't see that shit comin'.

Number one. Your hair's thinnin' out of nowhere and your doctor shrugs. Nah, bro. That's them little bastards stealin' the nutrients your hair needs to stay rooted.

Number two. Up at 2 or 3 in the mornin' to pee, every night. That's prime time for these things doin' their dirty shit while you sleep.

Number three. That lower belly pooch that won't go for nothin'. Eatin' clean, movin' your body, still bloated like a fuckin' balloon by dinner? That's a whole parasite colony livin' rent-free under your belly button. I see it every week.

Number four. Sugar cravings that won't quit. You think you just got a sweet tooth? Nah, buddy. That's the little fuckers inside you screamin' 'feed me, bitch!'

And number five, the one everybody else misses. Achy joint pain that moves around. That's parasite waste dumped straight into your joints. Nasty, right? These freeloaders don't pay rent and they still eat for free.

So here's what I put my patients on. It's called Symbia. Oregano oil and black seed oil, two of the strongest parasite killers there are. The carvacrol in the oregano cracks the slime shield these things hide behind and wipes em the hell out at every stage. Adults, larvae, eggs. Then the black seed oil flushes the dead ones out before they rot and poison you. But that's not all. It's loaded with wormwood and black walnut to strip their armor, clove to kill the eggs so the cycle don't restart, and pumpkin seed to sweep the whole mess out. The entire lifecycle, handled.

And don't grab cheap oregano off the shelf. Most of it's too weak to even crack that shield. Symbia uses the high-potency stuff. That's the whole game.

Plus it's drops under your tongue, not a horse pill your wrecked gut can't even absorb. In your blood in minutes. And it don't just kill em and dip. It patches the holes they chewed in your gut wall so they can't crawl right back in.

And it's backed by a 30-day money-back guarantee. Don't feel the difference? Send the bottle back, even if empty. So you got nothin' to lose but the worms eatin' your gut, bro. Go see if they still got it in stock, cause this stuff moves fast and go get your goddamn life together.
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