The AI video trends on TikTok right now are remakes you make from a single photo: Bulin 47's freestyle at a red-lit door, Özil's 2016 goal, a fake chase at a French school blockade. The biggest, Bulin 47, had 1,014 posts from 540 creators on our trend tracker on 13 October 2026, and 722 of those went up in 72 hours.
- Biggest AI video trend on TikTok this week: Bulin 47 (1,014 posts, 540 creators), then the Ozil goal (280 posts, 203 creators, every one in the last 72 hours). Counts from our trend tracker, read 13 October 2026.
- Newest: Blocus Poursuite, a prank clip born from the French high-school blockades (49 posts, all in 72 hours).
- How to make one: the first eight trends in the table are YouInTheClip templates, starting with the Bulin 47 AI video: one photo in, a 12-second vertical clip back in a few minutes, $9.99 for that one clip, paid once (pricing). No CapCut template to hunt down, no prompt to write.
- Not made here: the zombie hug, Raindance, Burning Bridges and Hotel Lobby. Where to make those is further down.
Updated 14 October 2026. Post counts move every day, so each one carries the date we read it.
The AI video trends on TikTok in October 2026, at a glance
The first eight rows are the AI video trends you can make here, biggest first. The last four are big too; we just don't make them, and the section on them says where to go.
| AI video trend | What happens in the clip | Who goes in the photo | Sound to add on TikTok | Posts · creators | Read on | Where to make it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bulin 47 | You freestyle at a red-lit door while a fan holds up the speaker | You | "Dame Hombro", Bulin 47 X Kevin Wai | 1,014 · 540 (722 in 72 h) | 2026-10-13 | YouInTheClip: Bulin 47 AI video |
| Ozil goal | You round the keeper, let the slide go past, tap it into the empty net | You | Crowd noise is already in the clip | 280 · 203 (all in 72 h) | 2026-10-13 | YouInTheClip: Ozil goal AI |
| Keep On Steppin | Five of you step in sync across a parking lot | You (one photo, cloned five times) | "Keep On Steppin'", Mike Clark Jr. | 143 · 125 (all in 72 h) | 2026-10-12 | YouInTheClip: Keep On Steppin AI |
| Unforgettable car | You hold a 2 and a 4 to the lens, they sweep away, a car is parked behind you | You | "Unforgettable", French Montana and Swae Lee | 106 · 92 (104 in 72 h) | 2026-10-13 | YouInTheClip: Unforgettable car AI |
| Bad Times | Your pet stands up and argues the song at the camera | Your dog or cat | "Bad Times", Imael Angel | 81 creators, rising | 2026-10-11 | YouInTheClip: Bad Times AI |
| Tecktonik dance | You do the 2008 electro arm dance on a planter at a night party | You | Electro beat is already in the clip | 78 creators (70 new, 0 the window before) | 2026-10-11 | YouInTheClip: Tecktonik dance AI |
| Blocus Poursuite | A selfie at a school blockade, the police line charges, you run | You, a friend or the dog | The prank sound trending in France | 49 · 42 (all in 72 h) | 2026-10-13 | YouInTheClip: Blocus Poursuite AI |
| Rumpelstiltskin | You as the fairy-tale imp, tip-toeing through a hay barn | You | "tip toeing in my jordans", Riff Raff | First posted 27 August; press pickup 6 October | 2026-10-06 | YouInTheClip: Rumpelstiltskin AI |
| Zombie hug | One of you has turned, the other lowers the flare gun and hugs them | Two people | Varies | Not tracked here | 2026-10-11 | rapduo.ai, zombietrendai.org, zombietrend.app, makeviral.ai |
| Raindance | You and someone else in the 28-second pier scene from the Dave and Tems video | Two people | "Raindance", Dave ft. Tems | Not tracked here | 2026-10-08 | airaindance.com, rapduo.ai |
| Burning Bridges | You in the chandelier-lit party scene from Drake's video | You | "Burning Bridges", Drake | Not tracked here | 2026-10-11 | burning-bridgesai.com, burningbridgesai.video |
| Hotel Lobby | Two of you rap as a duo against a bright orange wall, one mic between you | Two people | "Hotel Lobby", Migos | Not tracked here | 2026-10-05 | rapduo.ai, makeviral.ai |
"Posts · creators" is what our trend tracker logged for each AI video trend on TikTok up to the read date, not TikTok's own totals.
Bulin 47: the AI video trend where you take the freestyle
Dominican artist Bulin 47 was walking into a restaurant in Spain when Kevin Wai stopped him with a portable speaker playing a dembow beat. Instead of walking past, Bulin 47 freestyled on the spot, and the clip went everywhere (Latination, 8 October 2026). The official release is "Bulin 47 X Kevin Wai - Dame Hombro".
The AI video trend puts somebody new on the mic. Footballers such as Mbappé, Messi and Ronaldo came first, by Latination's account; now it is anyone's grandmother. It is the biggest one on this list by a distance, with 1,014 posts from 540 creators by 13 October and 722 of them in the last 72 hours. Google searches were running at 5.6 times their 14-day base on the same day.
Make your Bulin 47 AI video: the Bulin 47 AI video template keeps the red-lit door, the crowd and the fan with the speaker. Your clip has its own beat and freestyle, so add "Dame Hombro" as the sound when you post.
Ozil goal: the AI video trend about waiting
On 1 November 2016, away at Ludogorets in the Champions League, Mesut Özil ran through, chipped the keeper, let two defenders slide past him on the line and rolled the ball into the empty net (BBC Sport match report). Nearly ten years later TikTok remakes the finish with someone else as the scorer.
This AI video trend is young and fast: all 280 posts from 203 creators on our tracker landed in the 72 hours before 13 October, and Google searches were at nine times their base. The joke is the wait. Everyone else would shoot; you stand still and let the slide go by.
Make your Ozil goal AI video: pick a school match with full bleachers, a sunset park game or a floodlit kickabout on the Ozil goal AI template. The shirts are plain, so nobody's club badge ends up in your clip.
Keep On Steppin: five of you, one line dance
"Keep On Steppin'" is a southern soul song by Mike Clark Jr., and people line-dance to it for real. The AI video trend turns one photo into five people stepping in sync across a parking lot, each in a different suit, all with the same face. It came out of a CapCut template and took off fast: 143 posts from 125 creators, every one in the 72 hours before 12 October.
People keep searching "is Keep On Steppin AI". The five identical dancers are; the line dance itself is not.
Make your Keep On Steppin AI video: the Keep On Steppin AI template clones you into the whole line. Add the song when you post; your clip carries its own beat.
Unforgettable car: the 2 and the 4, then the car
Car owners film this one for real. You hold a 2 and a 4 up to the lens, the cards sweep past to French Montana and Swae Lee's "Unforgettable", and when the frame clears there is a car parked behind you. The AI version starts from one photo and parks the car for you, which is the whole appeal if you don't own a coupe.
Our tracker logged 106 posts from 92 creators by 13 October, 104 of them in the last 72 hours, and Google searches for "unforgettable car ai" were 16 times their base.
Make your Unforgettable car AI video: pick the cream coupe, the black SUV at night or the sedan in a garage on the Unforgettable car AI template. The cards and the car carry no logos.
Bad Times: the AI video trend for your pet
A dog, a cat or sometimes a toddler stands up and argues along to Imael Angel's "Bad Times": eyes closed, a paw raised like "hold on", a tilt of the head, then a lunge at the lens. Owners post their own pets doing it, and "is Bad Times AI generated" is one of the top searches about it. It is.
On 11 October the trend had 81 creators on our tracker and was still rising, with searches for "bad times ai" up on their base.
Make your Bad Times AI video: one photo of your pet is all the Bad Times AI template needs. Pick the Bad Times sound in TikTok when you post.
Tecktonik dance: the 2008 arm dance comes back
Tecktonik was the French electro dance of the late 2000s: arms folding, wrists rolling, elbows flicking out. In June a party video went viral where one guy climbed onto a planter behind the DJ booth and danced it, and the most-liked comment said he had been practising in his room for years for that moment. A CapCut template followed.
On 11 October our tracker had 78 creators posting it, 70 of them in the latest window and none in the window before. Searches for "tecktonik dance ai" were 57 times their 14-day base.
Make your Tecktonik AI video: the Tecktonik dance AI template builds the courtyard, the string lights and the crowd filming you. You get the moment without the years of practice.
Blocus Poursuite: the newest AI video trend, from France
French high-school students started blocking their school gates with bins on 21 September 2026 at the Lycée Saint-Exupéry in Créteil. By 30 September, 356 lycées had been hit by blockades or attempts, 45 of them fully blocked (Planète Grandes Écoles, 2 October 2026).
TikTok turned it into a prank. "Blocus poursuite" means blockade chase: a fake selfie clip of you at a blockade, the riot police behind you start running, and so do you. The captions say it outright: prank your parents with it. It had 49 posts from 42 creators on 13 October, every one inside 72 hours.
Make your Blocus Poursuite AI video: the Blocus Poursuite AI template works with you, a friend or the dog. The police carry no badges or lettering and nobody gets hit. Tell your parents before they ring the school.
Rumpelstiltskin: the AI video trend that looks like an old film
This clip looks like a scene from a forgotten 1980s fairy-tale film: a gnome-like imp tip-toeing through a hay barn with a smug grin, usually set to Riff Raff's "tip toeing in my jordans". There is no film. The original is AI-generated and was first posted on Instagram on 27 August by the account stroinaya, as LADbible reported on 6 October, after a wave of people went looking for the 1987 movie they thought it came from.
Make your Rumpelstiltskin AI video: the Rumpelstiltskin AI template turns whoever is in your photo into the imp, barn and velvet jacket included.
Which AI video trend should you do?
| You have a photo of… | And you want… | Do this AI video trend |
|---|---|---|
| Yourself | The biggest one right now | Bulin 47 |
| Yourself | Something your football group chat will get | Ozil goal |
| Yourself | To look rich for twelve seconds | Unforgettable car |
| Yourself | A dance without learning the dance | Tecktonik dance or Keep On Steppin |
| A friend or a parent | To prank them | Blocus Poursuite |
| Your dog or cat | The pet one | Bad Times |
| Anyone | The strangest clip on their feed | Rumpelstiltskin |
AI video trends we don't make
Four big AI video trends on TikTok are not on YouInTheClip. Here is what each one is and who makes it:
Zombie hug
One of you has turned into a zombie but keeps your face; the other raises a flare gun, can't fire, and hugs them instead. It needs a photo of each person. rapduo.ai, zombietrendai.org, zombietrend.app and makeviral.ai all make it, from two photos.
Raindance
A 28-second scene from the video for "Raindance" by Dave featuring Tems: one person waits at the end of a pier at sunset, the other walks up singing. It took off in late September. airaindance.com makes the full 28-second scene, and rapduo.ai has it as an effect.
Burning Bridges
You in the chandelier-lit party scene from Drake's "Burning Bridges" video. The first AI versions showed up on X on 23 September and the trend took off the week of 7 October. burning-bridgesai.com and burningbridgesai.video both make it.
Hotel Lobby
Two people rap as a duo against a bright orange wall with one microphone hanging between them, to Migos' "Hotel Lobby" (Tom's Guide wrote up the trend on 5 October). rapduo.ai and makeviral.ai make it.
How to do an AI video trend on TikTok
Every AI video trend we make works the same way, and the whole thing takes a few minutes in the browser on your phone or laptop, with nothing to install.
1. Pick the trend, then the look
Open the trend's page and pick a template (the pitch, the car, the suits) or keep the default. The template already holds the scene, so there is no prompt to write. The "Use your own clip" tile starts from a video you bring instead of a template.
2. Add one photo
Upload from your camera roll: one clear photo, face toward the camera, daylight from a window in front of you rather than behind. For Bad Times, a photo of your pet. For Blocus Poursuite, anyone you want to see running.
The Ozil goal page, read 14 October 2026: photo on the left, three pitch templates underneath, the cost on the button before you press it.
3. Make it and post it
The clip comes back in a few minutes: 12 seconds, vertical 9:16, 720p. It lands in your library with a download button, and from there it goes straight into TikTok. It costs $9.99 for that one clip, paid once with nothing recurring, or 925 credits from a pack (pricing). A technical failure hands the credits back automatically.
When a run stops before it starts, it is nearly always the photo: a face turned away or covered, or a famous face the safety check won't put in a clip. Swap the photo and run again. A finished clip you don't love is not a failure, and a rerun costs the same again, so change the photo or the template before you rerun.
Before you post: add the trend's sound in TikTok, since most of our clips carry their own beat; post this week, because a 72-hour spike like Ozil's is worth most while it is still climbing; and only use photos of people who agreed to be in it.
When you post, TikTok asks creators to label realistic AI content: open "More options" and switch on the AI-generated content toggle. It also saves you fifty "is this real?" comments.
What's new on this page
- 14 October 2026: first version. Eight AI video trends we make, four we don't, with post counts read between 11 and 13 October.
FAQ
What are some popular AI trends on TikTok?
In mid-October 2026 the biggest AI video trend on our tracker is Bulin 47 (1,014 posts from 540 creators by 13 October), followed by the Ozil goal (280 posts, all in 72 hours) and Keep On Steppin (143 posts). Raindance, Burning Bridges, the zombie hug and Hotel Lobby are also everywhere.
What kind of AI videos are trending?
Remakes of one famous moment with a new person in it: a freestyle, a goal, a music-video scene, a dance. You supply one photo and the AI rebuilds the scene around that face. Pet versions, like Bad Times, are the other big group.
What AI videos do well on TikTok?
The ones posted while a trend is still climbing, with the trend's sound attached and a person the viewer knows in it. A 72-hour spike like the Ozil goal rewards posting this week, not next month.
How are people making those AI videos on TikTok?
Mostly with templates: CapCut templates started Keep On Steppin and Tecktonik, and sites like YouInTheClip turn one photo into the finished clip.
Is there a one-time payment, or do I need a subscription?
On YouInTheClip one clip is $9.99, paid once, with no plan to cancel. Credit packs start at $19.90 and their credits never expire (pricing). Browsing every template is free; there is no free generation, so the $9.99 single clip is the cheapest way in.
Can I make these on my phone?
Yes. It all runs in your phone's browser: open the trend's page, upload a photo from your camera roll, and download the finished clip straight to your phone for TikTok.
Why won't it make a video of a celebrity?
The templates put the person in your photo into the scene, not Bulin 47, Özil or Drake. Use a photo of yourself or someone who said yes.
Bulin 47 has 540 creators and is still climbing; the Ozil goal went from nothing to 280 posts in three days. Pick your AI video trend and post it while the numbers are still going up.