12 seconds, 1:1 split screen. @image_1 is the person in the LEFT panel, @image_2 is the person in the RIGHT panel. Exactly two people, one per panel. COMPOSITION: the frame is split down the exact middle by a hard vertical edge into two equal panels with a thin black seam. Each panel is its own separate vertical phone video, filmed by a different person, on a different phone, in a different room, at a different time. Nothing ever crosses the seam and the two halves never merge into one room. ATTACHED IMAGES ARE MANDATORY AND FINAL: reproduce each person exactly as in their own attached image, in every frame — face, hairline, hairstyle, hair colour, skin tone, build and apparent age. Preserve each one's gender presentation exactly as shown. Do not beautify, slim or restyle either of them. They are two different people with different faces and different hair: never draw one with the other's face, and never swap the panels. Each voice belongs to its own person. Both wear a plain fitted black cotton t-shirt with a plain crew neck, a thin gold chain and small gold hoop earrings. SETTINGS, one per panel and deliberately different: left is a lived-in bedroom with an unmade bed and a cluttered shelf, daylight from the left; right is a kitchen worktop with mugs and a kettle, daylight from the right. The two rooms must never look like the same place. REALISM — the point of the shot: both panels are raw phone front-camera footage held at arm's length, natural daylight only, handheld drift, slight autofocus breathing, visible sensor grain, a little motion blur. Both faces read as real skin — visible pores, peach fuzz along the jaw, a faint sheen on the nose, soft shadows under the eyes, a few hairs out of place. No beauty filter, no smoothing, no retouching, no studio lighting, no colour grading, no gimbal steadiness. [0-4s] @image_1 in the left panel says: "everyone keeps asking what filter i use." @image_2 listens and half-smiles at their own lens. [4-8s] @image_2 in the right panel leans in, shrugs: "i don't use one either." @image_1 laughs quietly and looks off to the side. [8-12s] @image_1: "this is just my face." @image_2: "same." Both laugh once and both clips end mid-laugh. Only one person speaks at a time. Each panel is one unbroken take. The lines are in English, each in that person's own natural voice, close to the phone mic. The first frame is already lit and in motion in both panels; no fade from black. Do not add subtitles. No on-screen text. No music.