Snapchat-style prank text story: Wrong delivery
A ready Snapchat-style chat for a harmless prank, seven messages long and about 26 seconds as a video. Load it, change the words and export it as a labelled, fictional mock-up.
The full script (7 messages)
The first four messages open on the Free plan; the rest need a paid plan.
The script: Wrong delivery
Load Wrong delivery and you get seven messages: Pip starts with "Your order is on its way: one traffic cone.", Pip closes with "Gary is delighted.", and the read-through takes roughly 26 seconds.
Message 1 is the longest at 9 words ("Your order is on its way: one traffic cone."); message 7 is the shortest ("Gary is delighted."). One line asks a question, so the other person keeps answering.
How the Snapchat look carries the story
The look suits quick, jokey exchanges and "streak" style banter, where the humour lives in how little each person writes. This look starts at the Standard plan, which is worth knowing before you plan a batch of stories. Switch on typing dots and read marks when you build the scene; reactions and an online status are not offered for Snapchat. This look has a typing indicator and read marks in ChatsRat, but no reactions, so keep the scene to words. This look uses ChatsRat's shared layout, so treat it as a style guide.
Writing notes: prank
Make the prankster's lines confident and the target's lines get shorter and more confused. The shrinking replies are the comic engine of the scene. Do not make the target a real person or a minor, and do not use a real company as the sender. Invent the sender and say the chat is simulated.
What the Free plan shows
On a Free account you see four messages of Wrong delivery, ending at "Pip, is this you?". To get to "Gary is delighted.", three messages later, upgrade to a paid plan.
Tips
- Pause on Raz's "Pip, is this you?" before moving on to the next bubble.
- Let the opening "Your order is on its way: one traffic cone." breathe so a late scroller still knows who is talking.
- A prank story loves a quick payoff, so aim for a video under thirty seconds with the reveal in the last five.
- Make the ending your own by editing "Gary is delighted."; add "fictional chat" to the caption.
- Try two new names in place of Pip and Raz, then read the story out loud once.
Questions
Can I use Wrong delivery on the Free plan?
The Snapchat look needs the Standard plan or above, so a Free account cannot open it. The Plans page lists what each plan includes, and the Free plan shows the first four messages of a free look.
How long is Wrong delivery as a video?
About 26 seconds at a comfortable reading pace, counting seven messages with a short beat between them. Add a second or two for the ending card and a little more if you use a typing indicator before the last line.
What makes a prank story funny rather than mean?
The target should be fictional, the trick harmless and the ending warm. If the story would embarrass a real person, change it.
Is this Snapchat-style chat a real conversation?
No. It is an invented story between Pip and Raz, made as a mock-up. ChatsRat is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Snapchat, and the name describes a style only. Label the video as fiction.
This is fiction. The people and events in this story are invented. ChatsRat makes mock-ups and fictional conversations for creators, designers and teachers. Do not use it to pass off a made-up conversation as a real one, to impersonate a real person, or as proof of anything. See the Acceptable Use policy.
About the watermark. Exports on the Free plan carry a visible ChatsRat watermark, and every export carries an invisible mark that the verify page can read. Plans list what changes on paid plans.
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