The Vimode blog
Real viral formats broken down beat by beat, hooks from reels with millions of views, and how to make animated videos that people finish.
10 viral video formats with millions of views (and how each one works)
Ten short-video formats that pulled 1 to 31 million views on Instagram, broken down beat by beat: what they look like, why they hold attention and what to use them for.
The outlier method: how to find videos that beat their own account
Raw view counts lie: big accounts get views on everything. The outlier method keeps only the reels that did at least 3× their own account’s average. Here is how to run it, with a real scan of 27 accounts.
How to make animated videos with Claude (and why most of them don’t go viral)
Claude can write the code for an animated video, but the code is the easy part. A practical workflow from idea to 1080×1920 MP4, and the reasons most of these videos never take off.
Hooks that stop the scroll: 6 openings from reels with millions of views
The first seconds decide whether anyone sees the rest. Six opening patterns taken from real reels that pulled 1 to 31 million views, with what each one does and how to reuse it.