AI Smalltown Boy Dance

Check your two photos

Drop in the photos you plan to use. They are checked on your device — size, light and sharpness — and you can see who lands in which role before you spend a credit.

+1. First close-upScreams first · stands left1 · First close-up

• Size
• Light
• Sharpness

+2. Second close-upHead clutch · stands right2 · Second close-up

• Size
• Light
• Sharpness

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Check these yourself: one person per photo · facing the camera · face and hair fully visible.

Add two photos to check them.

Create the video on FIKKU60 credits↗(opens in a new tab)

Photos never leave your browser. You’ll add them again on FIKKU, where the video is rendered.

How it works

1. Add the first close-up

   One photo of the person who screams into the lens first. In the wide shots they stand on the left.

2. Add the second close-up

   One photo of the person who answers with the head clutch. They take the right side in the wide shots.

3. Generate

   The video costs 60 credits, shown on the button before you confirm. You get a vertical clip of about 24 seconds with the track.

What is the Smalltown Boy dance?

It is a two-person video trend set to Bronski Beat’s 1984 hit. It opens with two close-ups on a wide-angle lens: one after the other, each person lunges at the camera clutching their head, mouth wide open. Then the picture cuts wide and the pair dance side by side in a courtyard with their arms in the air.

What makes it funny is also what makes it hard to film. The distortion only works with the right lens held inches from your face, and the screams have to land exactly on the beat. The AI Smalltown Boy danceskips the shoot: the camera, the cuts and the moves are kept from the original clip, and the two people are replaced with the ones in your photos — their faces, their hair, their outfits.

Shot by shot

Four beats in about 24 seconds. Tap a time to jump there in the player.

1. 

   0:00Photo 1

   First close-up

   The first person lunges at a wide-angle lens, hands on their head, mid-scream. The second is already dancing in the background.

2. 

   0:07Photo 2

   Second close-up

   Roles flip. The second person takes the lens with the head clutch while the first dances behind them.

3. 

   0:14Both

   Courtyard dance

   The cut goes wide: both dance side by side in the courtyard, arms in the air. Photo 1 stands on the left.

4. 

   0:18Both

   Final lunge

   Both rush the camera together for one last scream into the lens.

Photos that work

The close-ups put each face a hand’s width from the lens, so the source photo matters more here than in most dance effects.

Caption it

Pick who is in the video and a tone. Copy the caption, post with the original sound.

The song behind it

“Smalltown Boy” was the debut single of the British synth-pop trio Bronski Beat, released in 1984 and later included on their album The Age of Consent. Jimmy Somerville’s falsetto over that looping synth line took it into the UK top three, and its story — packing a bag and leaving a town that never understood you — made it one of the decade’s defining pop records.

Four decades on, the opening riff is doing a different job: it is the countdown to two people screaming into a camera. Post your version with the original sound so it is grouped with the rest of the trend.

Questions