Cantina Labs · B2C · AI character video app
Remake your viral hook with different-looking actors, or in a cartoon style
Original hook went viral on TikTok; results of the remakes not shared
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What they did
Take a hook that already went viral (Cantina's: a guy tells his girlfriend he cheated on her, delivered via a hamster character) and feed the video plus images of different actors into the MaxFusion canvas to re-render the same hook with people who look different, or in a Pixar-like style, then test which version stops the scroll. Works with creator videos you already paid for if you hold the rights.
What happened
The source hook was one of Cantina's most viral on TikTok; no data on the variants
“this is one of their most viral UGC a- a hooks that went viral on on TikTok.”
“you could repurpose all of these hooks just to test if they work with people that look different, you know?”
“even even let's say if you guys paid already for some creators, and you have the rights, you could use it to replicate the hook now with different looking people”
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