{
  "_comment": "Only outliers belong here. Both source channels are one-hit distributions (Unfeeling 2.0M -> 683K -> 18K; powerxmotiv 884K -> 7.2K), so their medians are failure and must not be copied. Titles only — Apify has no valid token yet, so the caption bodies for these are unknown and deliberately absent rather than invented.",
  "exemplars": [
    {
      "hook": "I wish I had never watched p**n...",
      "why": "First person, past tense, trailing ellipsis. States a regret already lived through and refuses to resolve it in the hook — the viewer clicks to find out how it went. No number, no promise, no second-person address.",
      "source": "https://www.youtube.com/@Unfeeling-0 — 2.0M views, 182s",
      "metric": { "views": 2000000, "durationSec": 182 }
    },
    {
      "hook": "I watched my dad die...",
      "why": "Six words, one concrete irreversible event, ellipsis. Carries no advice and makes no offer. The whole hook is a fact the viewer cannot look away from.",
      "source": "https://www.youtube.com/@Unfeeling-0 — 683K views, 488s",
      "metric": { "views": 683000, "durationSec": 488 }
    },
    {
      "hook": "Partying is weakness for the soul...",
      "why": "Indicts something the viewer probably does, in the present tense, as flat assertion rather than advice. Judgement invites disagreement, and disagreement is engagement. Same trailing ellipsis.",
      "source": "https://www.youtube.com/@powerxmotiv — 884K views, 119s",
      "metric": { "views": 884000, "durationSec": 119 }
    }
  ]
}