SoulGem · TBF Exp 98 · 8 September 2026

Richard Hook 2, with the Amoo edit

The full six-minute dashboard winner. Its original narration carries an unravelling embroidery opening, music and 30% supporting picture.

767 words preserved30.3% B-rollExperiment queued

The finished Amoo edit

6:02 · 3:4 · Original voice performance · V1

Intricate gold embroidery quietly unravels as an unseen force pulls away its thread. “YOUR LUCK / IS BEING STOLEN” sits above it. The visual carries the idea of something painstakingly built being quietly undone; Richard’s voice supplies the money context. Champa appears at 3.44 seconds, after “no matter what you do.”

Download the finished edit

The exact original · Control

6:02 · Square · Richard Hook 2

20260519 - TBF Monk Trial Task | Richard Hook 2 - 17 Jetsetters (Curses)

This is the Richard near the top of the TBF Cursed dashboard: #2 among its 90-day winners by spend, with $5,578.61 spend, $9,940.53 attributed revenue and 1.78 ROAS in the 8 September, 07:35 UTC snapshot.

Verified ad 120242208504860539 · Video 2881768695497035

Download the exact original · Original Facebook post

The Amoo reference

2:48 · Square · Original Amoo edit

20260301 - TBF Curses Monk Message | Amoo style edit - 2 - 17 Jetsetters (Curses)

The reference contributes the editorial approach: metaphor first, a strong headline, supporting imagery, inset authority and music. Its apple shot is not recreated. Its approximately 68% supporting-picture share becomes your 30% target.

TBF Exp 98

Queued in AdLauncher; not live yet. The queue owns verified copies of the full original and the finished edit. It will publish through the normal release cadence into a fresh adset in TBF Curses Testing.

ControlExact Richard Hook 2 original, 767 words
V1Same full narration and timing, with the complete Amoo treatment
Shared setupSame audience, canonical headline and primary text; both versions follow the same primary/quiz destinations
Delivery2 videos; 4 ads expected after the standard two-destination expansion
Spend settingAdLauncher’s $20/day adset minimum-spend target within the existing campaign
ReadoutNormal four-day/$50 eligibility; compare allocation, with purchase and ROAS context

This tests the complete editorial package. It cannot tell us whether the opening, captions, crop, cutaways or music caused a difference individually.

Queue receipt

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Verified queue custody

Saved SoulGem mode

Authority Amoo Edit · authority_amoo_edit

The reusable recipe starts with an original, non-obvious metaphor chosen for the script. Embroidery is this example’s concept. The mode adds word-timed cutaways, circular presenter insets, white/yellow captions and a musical arc, counting all supporting-picture time toward 30%.

For existing winners, source preparation preserves their original audio and timing. This run reframes the original to remove its baked-in text, adds 15 cutaways totaling 109.78 seconds, then burns captions from the exact 767-word script. No new narrator performance was generated.

Verification passed: complete video decode, exact caption words, original audio stream preserved through the edit before music mixing, matching source/final hashes, and product-shot review.

Production and source evidence

Earlier source error

The earlier 2:42 demo used Exp014 V1’s 397-word compression. Edward meant the full Richard Hook 2 dashboard winner. This six-minute rebuild corrects that mistake; Exp 98 uses the two full-length videos above. The earlier shortened demo is excluded from the experiment.

Earlier shortened demo · Its compression source