Storytelling while making pancakes from @brandongrogan1

The creator tells a multi-part story about the surprising reality of who uses drugs as you get older, contrasting societal stereotypes with his personal experiences. While delivering this monologue, he prepares and cooks oatmeal raisin chocolate chip pancakes, blending the ingredients, pouring the batter, and flipping them in a pan. The video concludes with a humorous realization that he may have accidentally used paprika instead of cinnamon in his recipe.

Creator: @brandongrogan1 on Instagram

Video format

Yap

Video outline

  1. State a surprising thesis
  2. Subvert a common belief
  3. Share a self-deprecating story
  4. Escalate with an extreme example
  5. End with a comedic non-sequitur

Narrative framework

The Anecdotal Subversion

Narrative framework logic

A narrative structure that uses a series of escalating personal anecdotes to prove a counter-intuitive thesis, while a mundane B-roll task holds visual attention. The story concludes with an abrupt, comedic, and unrelated punchline.

Topics: Cooking, Sociology, Social Behavior

Concepts: Pope In The Pool Multitask, Anecdotal Philosophy

Formats: Yap

Elements: Jump Cut

Account types: Personal Brand

Transcript excerpt

Don't realize how many people do drugs until you grow up and people start trusting you to keep secrets. Like, I was taught from my teachers that it was criminals and bad people that do drugs, and then I grew up and my friends that do drugs became teachers. It's people you would never expect. Like, my mom growing up would tell me, she'd be like, hey. Don't hang out with that friend of yours because she would assume he did drugs because of the way he dressed and from the part of town he was from. She would tell me to hang out with this other boy because he dressed better. He went to a private school. Little did she no, they were both doing drugs. The private school kid could just afford like way more. No I really don't do any drugs because I smoked weed one time and I was like I'm the coolest guy in the world and then immediately had a panic attack and I've been scared ever since. I got scared straight, but I look like I overpay for drugs all the time no people trust me and they confide in me. I know a guy who works for the government best out with him to a bar one time offered me drugs. Those those drug users you gotta watch out tier could best could be anyone Don't do them. I just

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