{
 "slug": "pattern-interrupt",
 "name": "Pattern interrupt",
 "category": "hook",
 "group": "Textual hooks (what to say)",
 "media": [
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-10-13",
 "effect": "Breaks the scroll with something the viewer did not expect.",
 "use_when": "Crowded feeds, low-interest categories.",
 "phrase": "open on an action nobody expects in this setting: the founder drops the product into a bucket of water and keeps talking",
 "pitfalls": [
  {
   "text": "Hooks are judged by the first two seconds of retention on the platform. Test two openings of the same video instead of trusting a formula.",
   "evidence": "practitioner",
   "source": "The Director Chair hook framework (our 2026 synthesis of @marco.thecreative's TikTok series, OpusClip's hook formulas, a Brandefy article, Meta retention research and a Gemini research report)"
  }
 ],
 "per_model": [],
 "external_refs": [],
 "licensed": [],
 "site_names": [],
 "related": [],
 "rights": "own-work",
 "evidence": "practitioner",
 "source": {
  "url": null,
  "note": "Own words from the Director Chair hook framework (our 2026 synthesis of @marco.thecreative's TikTok series, OpusClip's hook formulas, a Brandefy article, Meta retention research and a Gemini research report)"
 },
 "body": "",
 "shown_with": null,
 "url": "https://directorchair.ai/hook/pattern-interrupt",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/hook/pattern-interrupt.md",
 "prompts": {
  "chat": "Write five opening lines for a short video about [your product], for [your audience]. Use the pattern interrupt pattern: breaks the scroll with something the viewer did not expect. Hooks are judged by the first two seconds of retention on the platform. Example: open on an action nobody expects in this setting: the founder drops the product into a bucket of water and keeps talking. Plain spoken language, no hashtags, no emoji. Tell me which one you would post first and why, in one line."
 },
 "licence": {
  "code": "MIT",
  "text": "CC BY 4.0",
  "third_party": "Clips and card texts inside a \"licensed\" block belong to their makers and are shown with permission and credit."
 }
}