AI trends today, 25 Oct 2026

The 12 AI trends everyone is doing today

Twelve of the hottest, in order of heat on the morning of 25 Oct 2026. Each line says what the scene is, where it came from and the latest number we read, with its date. View totals are our own estimates and are labelled that way.

1. Angel or Devil Filter🔥 Hot ≈15M views · 1 person · 10s A meter floats over your head, a little devil on the left and an angel on the right, and the two percentages race while you wait with your hands together. Then one side wins: a halo of golden light, or small red horns and a cheeky grin. The effect dates from 2021; the October 2026 how-tos brought it back, and on 25 Oct MakeViral still counted about 100 new posts a day on two how-to sounds. We put the meter style at about 15M views (estimate, 25 Oct). Pick Angel wins, Devil wins or your pet. See yourself in it
2. Özil Goal🔥 Hot ≈100M views · 1–3 people · 10s Chest it down, lift it over the keeper, wait while two defenders slide past, roll it in: Mesut Özil's 2016 goal at Ludogorets, recast since about 7-8 Oct with Uncle Phil, SpongeBob, Shrek and office workers scoring it. FOX Sports MX covered it on 16 Oct and Italy's Sprint e Sport and Rivista Undici on 17-18 Oct; the biggest TikTok version we track, from 9 Oct, had about 5.1M plays on 24 Oct. Ours: you score it, you vs your mates as the keeper and defenders, in the office, your pet, or a bicycle kick. See yourself in it
3. Gangnam Style Dance🔥 Hot ≈10M views · 1–2 people · 10s Wrists crossed on invisible reins, a bouncing gallop, a lasso swing: PSY's 2012 horse dance is back as an AI remake. The first popular AI version went up on 12 Oct, and the #gangnamstyleai tag more than doubled in a day, from 255 videos on 22 Oct to 566 on 23 Oct (MakeViral's count). One photo puts you in a sharp suit on a sunset rooftop; there are duo and pet versions too. See yourself in it
4. Bulin 47 ≈382M views · 1 person · 15s The Dominican artist's freestyle over a dembow beat, filmed in Spain and posted on 2 Oct, with red lights and a crowd holding up phones. Day 24 and it still hasn't slowed: the original TikTok went from about 11.1M plays on 24 Oct to 11.7M on 25 Oct. Our estimate across TikTok, Reels and Shorts is about 382.8M views (25 Oct). You take his spot for 15 seconds. See yourself in it
5. Burning BridgesBeta ≈20M views · 1–2 people · 20s The chandelier party from Drake's music video: silver cup up, a hand shading your eyes, then a grin at the camera. The official video had about 28.11M YouTube views on 25 Oct, but the remakes are slowing: The Office repost held at 2.9M plays that day, and the next two biggest added about 4.5K plays between them since 24 Oct. Just you, with a friend, or a horror-night version, 20 seconds. See yourself in it
6. Bby Wow Guy ≈70M views · 1 person · 10s Someone shuffles up a party floor, takes one huge bite of a concha and stares into the lens with full cheeks. The clip is from 2025, but the name, the song pairing and the AI versions all date from 12–19 Oct 2026, per MakeViral. We put it at about 70M views across TikTok and Instagram (23 Oct). You or your pet, 10 seconds. See yourself in it
7. Ramalama Costume Walk ≈2000M views · 1 person · 10s A slow, swaggering walk down a foggy, pumpkin-lit street toward a camera lying on the cobbles, then it rises to your face and the whole costume lands, to Róisín Murphy's 2005 song "Ramalama (Bang Bang)". This is the walk's second Halloween: the biggest post we found, a witch group from 1 Oct 2025, had 94.0M plays, and AI kittens doing it from 11 Oct reached 17.6M (both read 16 Oct). Witch, vampire, pumpkin or your pet, 10 seconds. See yourself in it
8. Lion Friend ≈600M views · 1 person · 10s A lion walks out of the dark into a car's headlights on a night road, and you kneel to hug it. It began as @ten4ic's AI reel of 20 Aug, which people took for real; by 18 Oct the CapCut template showed 4,340,384 uses. No lion is filmed: it's made from your photo, 10 seconds. See yourself in it
9. Turn the Lights Off ≈500M views · 1 person · 10s Eyes shut, chin up, swaying alone on a packed dance floor, then both arms go up: Jon Hamm's club dance from Your Friends & Neighbors, set to Kato's "Turn the Lights Off". The meme peaked in December 2025, so this one is a catch-up, but people still want to make it: on 18 Oct Google completed "turn the lights off ai" ten ways, and on 19 Oct 72 YouTube uploads with Hamm in the title, nearly all the dance, held about 141.0M views together. You or your pet, 10 seconds. See yourself in it
10. Toc Toc Dance ≈430M views · 1–2 people · 10s One-foot hops, a knock on a door that isn't there, a sideways kick and arms flung wide: the French dance to Patrick Sébastien's 2015 song "Toc Toc", on TikTok from 24 Sep. MakeViral counted 36,674 videos and 510.1M views under #toctoc on 14 Oct, and the dorm-hallway version had about 27.1M plays on 16 Oct. Most posts are the real dance, which tends to last. You, your pet or the two of you, 10 seconds. See yourself in it
11. Clapping Cat ≈220M views · 1 pet · 5s Your cat or dog sits up on a tiled floor, flashes a wide toothy grin and slowly claps a pair of human hands at you. Aleksandr Kim's clip of his own black cat went up on 25 Sep and had 43.9M TikTok plays on 16 Oct; on 23 Oct his Instagram reel had 2.61M likes and Kitty POVs' YouTube compilation had grown to 10.4M views. Human hands like the original, or its own paws, 5 seconds. See yourself in it
12. Single Ladies Dog↗ Rising ≈66M views · 1 pet · 15s Odie, a long-haired dachshund, dances lead in a Single Ladies routine while two dancers whip their hair behind him. Posted by @king_odiee on 4 Oct, it had about 46.0M plays and 5.6M likes on 25 Oct (45.7M a day earlier), so it's peaking and growing more slowly now. Pets only: one photo of your dog or cat, 15 seconds with the clip's sound. See yourself in it

15 more AI trends that are hot right now

More that are hot on 25 Oct 2026, in order of heat: the big clip remakes from September and early October (Bad Times, Hotel Lobby, Raindance, the Rumpelstiltskin imp, the Smalltown Boy cats), the hair dye filter and Toy Car to Real Car, then, with Halloween six days away, four costume templates and the La Calabaza kittens.

Views are our estimates across the platforms each trend is on, with the date we read them; a blank means we haven't estimated it yet. Stage is our hot or rising tag, or else the word on each trend's own page, and refreshes with them.

How "today" is decided

Heat is two things together: what people opened, previewed and made on Jump on the Trend in the last 72 hours, and how big the trend is out there, on TikTok and on the other sites that sell AI trend templates. A trend that is huge on TikTok but that nobody here has tried sits lower than one people are making right now.

That's why a two-month-old clip like Bad Times can sit on the same list as Toy Car to Real Car, which is six days old, and a 2016 goal can top a 2026 freestyle. Every count on this page has its own read date, the views figure on each card and the table's numbers refresh from each trend's page by themselves, and the order is the heat order on the morning of 25 Oct 2026. For what started this week, see this week's AI trends; for the whole month, October 2026.

How to do the AI trend everyone is doing

The same four steps for any trend on this page, and nothing to install.

1. Pick the trend

   Tap any card above. Each trend page plays the original scene first, so you know what you're getting.

2. Add one photo

   A clear, front-facing selfie in good light; for pet trends, the whole animal with its face to the camera; for car trends, your whole car in shot.

3. Check the free preview

   A still of you in the scene comes back in about a minute. Not right? Try another photo before you pay anything.

4. Make the video and post it

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