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Why no aquarium has a great white shark

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Curiosity Gap

The video's subject does not exist to photograph, so the image draws the absence, a dashed shark and a question mark over the crowd. The gap becomes something you can see. The title's why promises there is one real answer waiting.

How the packaging works
Title

The title turns a famous absence into a question with one answer.

Thumbnail

The dashed outline makes the missing shark visible where it should swim.

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Use this when your topic is a missing thing, a gap or a never-happened. Draw the absent thing in outline where it should be. Making the missing visible beats showing a substitute photo.

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The transferable lesson

Draw the absence when the subject is missing

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Click driverCuriosity GapExpectation Violation
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