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Sugar Daddy — Father's Day 26 · Katapult Social Works

Situation Analysis

Diabetes touches millions of families in Turkey, yet its communication is trapped in the language of institutions: statistics, warnings, clinical brochures. On social feeds, this content is invisible — worthy, but skippable. Meanwhile, Father's Day has become a wall of interchangeable sentimentality where every brand says "we love our dads" in the same voice. A pro-bono social work piece enters this landscape with zero media budget; every second of attention has to be earned organically, against an algorithm that rewards provocation and punishes public-service tone.

Strategic Pivot

Stop asking the feed for attention — steal it, then hand it to the cause. Instead of speaking like a health institution, the film borrows the most clickable, most taboo codes of the platform: the "sugar daddy" confession. The pivot is from institutional awareness messaging to native attention hijacking: open as the content people can't help but watch, then bait-and-switch the entire meaning toward diabetes. The provocative surface does the media buying; the twist does the education. What would normally be a skipped PSA becomes a story people watch to the end — and share because of the reveal.

Insight

On social media, provocation gets watched; prevention gets skipped. Everyone stops for a "sugar daddy" story — almost no one stops for a diabetes warning. But in Turkish, the twist was hiding inside the language all along: "şeker" (sugar) is the everyday word for diabetes. So the most important "sugar daddy" in a young woman's life isn't a wealthy stranger who spoils her — it's her own father, living with "sugar." The very phrase the internet uses for scandal is, word for word, the phrase millions of Turkish families use for the disease quietly threatening their dads.

Idea

"Sugar Daddy." A one-minute vertical film that opens exactly like the content it's disguised as: a glamorous young woman, luxury textures, a confession about the older man in her life — "he takes care of me," "he's much older," "sugar is at the center of his world." Every line is engineered to read one way and mean another. Then the reveal: the man is her father, and the "sugar" is his diabetes. In an instant, every earlier sentence re-frames itself — taking care of him, watching what he eats, being there for him. The film closes on Father's Day with a simple call: the best gift you can give your dad this year is his health — take him for a check-up. A zero-budget social work piece where the taboo title earns the reach, and the twist earns the meaning.

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