# I Want Wings Trend: Your AI Glow Up After Shot From One Photo > The I want wings trend is a TikTok glow-up meme: a "before" photo with a cockroach sticker and "Eww, squish it", a black slide with a butterfly, then a glowed-up "after" photo with a butterfly sticker and "Be gentle", to the line "In that case, I want wings". Canonical: https://www.makeviral.ai/templates/i-want-wings-ai-trend Updated: 2026-11-06 Published: 2026-11-06 Author: MakeViral Team (https://www.makeviral.ai/about) Publisher: MakeViral (https://www.makeviral.ai) The **I want wings trend** is a TikTok glow-up meme: a "before" photo with a cockroach sticker and "Eww, squish it", a black slide with a butterfly, then a glowed-up "after" photo with a butterfly sticker and "Be gentle", to the line "In that case, I want wings". Here the AI makes your after shot from one photo. Add one photo of you. MakeViral makes the "Be gentle" after shot of the I want wings glow up: the same face, styled up in warm golden light, with or without big butterfly wings. Post it after your "Eww, squish it" before photo. Also called: I want wings glow up, Eww squish it be gentle, In that case I want wings, Roach butterfly trend, Be gentle trend. **Make it now:** [Make this photo](https://www.makeviral.ai/templates/i-want-wings-ai-trend/create). 1 photo in · 2K photo out · 9:16 · 3 credits, charged once · ready in a few minutes · no prompt to write. Keyword: i want wings trend. 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On 19 October, @sin_alt posted an anime edit of Griffith from Berserk with the caption "Careful what you wish for Griffith" and his line "In that case, I want wings". That edit had 898,400 views, and its sound became the trend's sound. The format came on 27 October, when @omikko12 posted three slides to it: a before photo with a cockroach sticker and "Ew squish it!", a black slide with a butterfly, and an after photo with a butterfly sticker and "Be gentle". It reached 5.5 million views and 655,700 likes. The joke is the double standard: people squish a roach but are gentle with a butterfly. Fashion and brand posts followed on 28 and 30 October, a CapCut template version spread from 1 November, and by 6 November the sound held 81,900 TikTok videos. The I want wings glow up now also shows cars, birds and outfits. An AI version is new: we found no AI post of the trend yet. ### I Want Wings trend timeline - **2026-09-28**: @unicorna1ice posts the "Ew ew ew squish it" lip-sync; it has 429,400 views and 52,400 likes by 6 November. Source: [TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/@unicorna1ice/video/7690668544660442398). - **2026-10-19**: @sin_alt posts the anime edit with the line "In that case, I want wings"; its sound becomes the trend's sound (898,400 views on the edit). Source: [TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/@sin_alt/video/7698371423600921889). - **2026-10-27**: @omikko12 posts the three-slide roach, butterfly and "Be gentle" glow-up: 5.5 million views and 655,700 likes. Source: [TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/@omikko12/photo/7701497925322427681). - **2026-10-30**: The hair care brand @basedbodyworks posts its founder's "Good luck on that business bro" version: 845,600 views and 86,900 likes. Source: [TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/@basedbodyworks/photo/7702569831555452190). - **2026-11-01**: A CapCut template version spreads on a second sound (@thats5urie, 1 million views), and the #iwantwingstrend hashtag starts. Source: [TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/@thats5urie/video/7703211094264892673). - **2026-11-06**: The trend's sound holds 81,900 TikTok videos; its top post since 1 November is a 3.2 million view remake. ## What the I Want Wings photo looks like The clip at the top is a real post of the trend by @basedbodyworks, shown the way TikTok plays it: its three photos with the trend's sound. It is not a MakeViral result and was not made with AI. Your result is the after photo (or a 10 second video in the Video version), clean and without stickers, so you can add the cockroach and butterfly stickers yourself. - **Example 1** (27 s before-and-after clip, 9:16 MP4): A real post of the trend by @basedbodyworks on TikTok (30 October 2026, 845,600 views): the before photo with the cockroach sticker, the black butterfly slide, then the after photo with the butterfly sticker, on the trend's sound. - Video: https://www.makeviral.ai/media/templates/i-want-wings-ai-trend/original-carousel-v2.mp4 - Poster: https://www.makeviral.ai/media/templates/i-want-wings-ai-trend/original-carousel-v1.jpg ## How to make the I Want Wings photo on MakeViral Everything runs in the browser. No editing app, no watermark. ### The one-tap way (no prompt to write) 1. **Add your photo.** Press "Make yours" and add you, face clear. Take it with the camera or pick it from your library. Start here: https://www.makeviral.ai/templates/i-want-wings-ai-trend/create 2. **Press Generate.** The button shows the price. Nano Banana 2.1 puts your photo into the I Want Wings scene and makes one 2K photo. You write no prompt. 3. **Download or share.** The photo is ready in a few minutes as a 9:16 2K image. Download it, share it from your phone, turn it into a video, or find it later in My videos. ### The by-hand way, with the exact prompts The one-tap flow runs this prompt for you. The photo prompt puts your photo into the scene (Nano Banana 2.1, image mode, 9:16, 2K). To change it, copy it and edit it in AI Photo. #### Variant: Glow up Settings: 1 photo (you, face clear) · Nano Banana 2.1 · photo · 2K · 9:16 · 3 credits in one tap. 1. Open [AI Photo with this template](https://www.makeviral.ai/photo?template=i-want-wings-ai-trend) and add your photo (you, face clear). Pick 2K for the same size as the one-tap photo. The photo prompt is filled in: ```text Use the uploaded image as the base. This is the AFTER photo of a glow-up post: the same person on their best day. Keep the hair color and hair length from the photo, now freshly cut and neatly styled. Healthy skin with its real texture, pores and marks: no beauty filter, no smoothing, no slimmer face, no bigger eyes, no makeup the photo does not show. A sharp, well-fitted outfit in dark neutral colors that suits the person. A candid phone photo taken by a friend outdoors on a city street in warm golden evening light, soft glow on the face, the street softly out of focus behind. A relaxed, confident pose and a small confident smile, looking into the camera. From the waist up, the face large and sharp. Photorealistic, a real phone photo, not a studio retouch. Vertical 9:16. Exactly one person. No text, no stickers, no emoji, no captions, no logos, no watermark. ``` 2. Press Generate, then download the 9:16 image. To make it move, press "Make it a video" on it. One-tap version of this variant: https://www.makeviral.ai/templates/i-want-wings-ai-trend/create #### Variant: Glow up with wings Settings: 1 photo (you, face clear) · Nano Banana 2.1 · photo · 2K · 9:16 · 3 credits in one tap. 1. Open [AI Photo with this template](https://www.makeviral.ai/photo?template=i-want-wings-ai-trend&variant=wings) and add your photo (you, face clear). Pick 2K for the same size as the one-tap photo. The photo prompt is filled in: ```text Use the uploaded image as the base. This is the AFTER photo of a glow-up post: the same person on their best day. Keep the hair color and hair length from the photo, now freshly cut and neatly styled. Healthy skin with its real texture, pores and marks: no beauty filter, no smoothing, no slimmer face, no bigger eyes, no makeup the photo does not show. A sharp, well-fitted outfit in dark neutral colors that suits the person. A candid phone photo taken by a friend outdoors on a city street in warm golden evening light, soft glow on the face, the street softly out of focus behind. A relaxed, confident pose and a small confident smile, looking into the camera. From the waist up, the face large and sharp. Photorealistic, a real phone photo, not a studio retouch. Two huge, realistic butterfly wings rise from the person's back, between the shoulder blades: wider than the shoulders and taller than the head, with the orange and black pattern of a monarch butterfly, thin black veins and small white dots along the black edges, the golden light glowing through them. The wings are behind the body, never in front of the face or the arms, and they do not grow from the arms. Vertical 9:16. Exactly one person. No text, no stickers, no emoji, no captions, no logos, no watermark. ``` 2. Press Generate, then download the 9:16 image. To make it move, press "Make it a video" on it. One-tap version of this variant: https://www.makeviral.ai/templates/i-want-wings-ai-trend/create?variant=wings #### Variant: Video Settings: 1 photo (you, face clear) · Seedance 2.5 · 10 s · 720p · 9:16 · with sound · 126 credits in one tap. 1. The video prompt is filled in. Settings: Seedance 2.5, 10 s, 720p, 9:16, sound on. The video prompt: ```text A vertical phone video of the glow-up meme as it is posted, in three parts with hard cuts. THE PERSON: the person in [Image 1], in every frame: copy the exact face from [Image 1] (the face shape, eye color and eye shape, eyebrows, nose, mouth, skin tone, age, hair color, hair length and hairstyle, and any beard, moustache, glasses or freckles), so their friends recognize them at once. The face stays the same from the first frame to the last, in the before shot and in the after shot; never morph. [00:00-00:03] first the before shot: the same face looking at the camera in a plain phone selfie at home under flat, dull overhead light, the hair a little messy, a plain grey hoodie, held for a beat with a small, unimpressed look. [00:03-00:05] hard cut to a black screen with one orange and black butterfly flapping in slow motion in the middle, wings opening and closing. [00:05-00:10] hard cut to the after shot: the same person, lit warmer, outdoors on a city street in golden evening light, the hair in its own color and length, freshly cut and neatly styled, a sharp dark outfit, a relaxed confident pose and a small confident smile into the lens. Behind them two huge orange and black butterfly wings slowly open from their back, between the shoulder blades, wider than the shoulders. The face is large and sharp: exactly the face from [Image 1], the same person as in the before shot. If [Image 1] shows an animal, THE PERSON is that animal with its own face, fur and markings: scruffy in the before shot, freshly groomed and proud in the after shot, with small butterfly wings sized for it. SOUND: a soft, slow piano line over a light airy pad, NO voice, NO singing, NO lyrics; a soft whoosh on each cut. 真人实拍、五官清晰、面部稳定、不扭曲、不变形、人体结构正常、同一角色、发型颜色不变. Avoid: text, captions, subtitles, stickers, emoji, writing, logos, watermarks, a beauty filter, a different face in the after shot, a second person, wings in the before shot, wings from the arms, extra limbs, morphing, facial distortion. ``` 2. Press Generate, then download the 9:16 MP4. One-tap version of this variant: https://www.makeviral.ai/templates/i-want-wings-ai-trend/create?variant=video #### Variant: Pet Settings: 1 photo (your pet, face clear) · Nano Banana 2.1 · photo · 2K · 9:16 · 3 credits in one tap. 1. Open [AI Photo with this template](https://www.makeviral.ai/photo?template=i-want-wings-ai-trend&variant=pet) and add your photo (your pet, face clear). Pick 2K for the same size as the one-tap photo. The photo prompt is filled in: ```text Use the uploaded image as the base. This is the AFTER photo of a pet glow-up post: the same pet from the uploaded image on its best day, freshly groomed, with clean, brushed, fluffy fur in its own colors, pattern and markings, bright eyes, sitting proudly on its four paws and looking into the camera. Small, realistic butterfly wings sized for the pet rise from its back, with the orange and black pattern of a monarch butterfly and small white dots along the black edges. A sunny room by a window in warm golden evening light, a soft blanket under the pet, the room softly out of focus. Its whole body in view from the ears to the paws, with its tail. A real phone photo. Vertical 9:16. Exactly one animal and no people. No clothes on the pet. No text, no stickers, no emoji, no captions, no logos, no watermark. ``` 2. Press Generate, then download the 9:16 image. To make it move, press "Make it a video" on it. One-tap version of this variant: https://www.makeviral.ai/templates/i-want-wings-ai-trend/create?variant=pet ### Which photo works best? Upload **one photo of you**: the AI turns it into your after shot. For the Pet version, one photo of your dog or cat. - **A clear face, turned to the camera,** in good light. A selfie or a photo from the waist up works best, because the after shot keeps your face large. - **Any photo works,** even a plain one. The AI keeps your face, hair color and hair length, and changes the light, the styling, the outfit and the place. - **One person only,** no sunglasses and no heavy filter. - **Keep your real before photo for slide 1.** The trend works best with an old, awkward photo of yourself as an adult: a bad haircut year, a messy mirror selfie, a tired Monday face. - **Pets:** the whole face in view, in good light. A scruffy photo is fine: the after shot grooms the fur. - Use your own photo or the photo of an adult friend who said yes. Never a stranger, a celebrity or a child. ## How many credits does it cost? You pay per photo in credits, and the create page shows the exact price on the Generate button before you spend anything. The one-tap price covers one 2K photo, charged once. A smaller 1K photo costs less if you run the prompt by hand in AI Photo. | Model | Settings | Credits | | --- | --- | --- | | Nano Banana 2.1 (this template) | 2K photo, 9:16, one tap | 3 | | Nano Banana 2.1 (by hand in AI Photo) | 1K photo, 9:16, same prompt | 2 | Credits come with a plan; see [pricing](https://www.makeviral.ai/pricing). A failed photo gives its credits back. ## How do you post the I want wings glow up, slide by slide? The I want wings TikTok post is three photos in TikTok's photo mode (or a short video in CapCut), on the trend's sound, "original sound" by sin: | Slide | What it shows | Where it comes from | |---|---|---| | 1 | Your before photo with a cockroach sticker and the line "Eww, squish it" | Your own old photo | | 2 | A black screen with one butterfly | A black photo with a butterfly sticker, or the Video version | | 3 | Your after photo with a butterfly sticker and the line "Be gentle" | The MakeViral result | Our result has **no stickers and no text**, so you can place them yourself: in TikTok, tap Stickers and search "cockroach" and "butterfly" (or use the 🪳 and 🦋 emoji), then tap Text for "Eww, squish it" and "Be gentle". Many posts swap in their own lines, like "Good luck on that business bro". Pick the sound with the line "In that case, I want wings" when you post. ## Which version should you make? - **Glow up** (1 photo, a photo result): your after shot. The same face, with neatly styled hair in its own color, a sharp outfit and warm golden evening light, in a candid phone photo look. This is the classic "Be gentle" slide. - **Glow up with wings** (1 photo, a photo result): the same after shot with two huge orange and black butterfly wings on your back. It takes "I want wings" literally, which is the AI twist on the trend. - **Video** (1 photo, 10 seconds): the whole meme in one clip. A dull before shot of you, a cut to a black screen with a butterfly flapping in slow motion, then your glowed-up after shot as butterfly wings open behind you. It has the AI's own sound, a soft piano line with no voice: add the trend's sound in TikTok and turn the clip's sound down. - **Pet** (1 photo of your dog or cat, a photo result): a pet glow up. Your pet, freshly groomed and proud in golden light, with small butterfly wings sized for it. The photo versions are 2K vertical 9:16 photos, ready for TikTok's photo mode. The Video version is vertical 9:16 at 720p. ## What does "Eww, squish it" mean, and where is "I want wings" from? The eww squish it meme, and the ew squish it meaning, is a double standard joke: people say "Eww, squish it" about a cockroach and "Be gentle" about a butterfly, two bugs that are treated very differently. In the cockroach butterfly trend, your before self is the roach and your after self is the butterfly. "In that case, I want wings" is a line of Griffith, a character of the manga and anime Berserk. The I want wings Griffith edit by @sin_alt on 19 October 2026 gave the trend its sound, and the I want wings Berserk edits are still a small trend of their own. The words also fit the joke: the roach wants to become the butterfly. ## What goes wrong, and how do you fix it? | Problem | Fix | |---|---| | The face looks like someone else | Use a sharp photo with your face to the camera, in daylight, without sunglasses. Run it again. | | The glow up looks too retouched | The prompt bans a beauty filter and keeps your skin texture. A photo with a beauty filter stays smoothed, so use an unfiltered one. | | The wings look small or grow from the arms | Run the wings version again: the prompt keeps them huge and on the back. | | The video's before and after look like two people | Use a close, sharp photo. A far, full-body photo gives the model less of your face to keep. | | You want the stickers in the picture | Add them in TikTok or CapCut. The result stays clean on purpose, so you can place them where your face is not. | ## I Want Wings trend questions ### What is the I want wings trend? It is a TikTok glow-up trend from late October 2026: a before photo with a cockroach sticker and "Eww, squish it", a black slide with a butterfly, then an after photo with a butterfly sticker and "Be gentle", on a sound with the line "In that case, I want wings". @omikko12's post of 27 October 2026 set the format and reached 5.5 million views. ### Is there an I want wings AI version? Yes, this page. The real posts use people's own photos; here the AI makes your after shot from one photo of you, or a 10 second video of the whole meme. You write no prompt: add a photo and press Generate. ### What is the song or sound of the I want wings trend? It is "original sound" by sin (@sin_alt), from an anime edit of 19 October 2026 with the line "In that case, I want wings". It held 81,900 TikTok videos on 6 November 2026. A second sound from a CapCut template version is used too. Our results do not carry the sound: pick it in TikTok when you post. ### Where do I get the cockroach and butterfly stickers? In TikTok, tap Stickers and search "cockroach" and "butterfly", or use the 🪳 and 🦋 emoji, and add the lines with Text. CapCut has the same stickers and text tools. Our results are clean, with no stickers, so you can place them where you want. ### Is it an AI glow up filter? People search for an AI glow up filter or a glow up filter, but this is a photo template, not a live camera filter: add one photo and the AI glow up photo lands in My videos. It keeps your face and changes the light, the styling and the place. For a glow up AI video with makeup going on, see our AI makeup filter. ### What glow up AI prompt does it use? No creator of the trend shared a glow up AI prompt, because the real posts are not AI. We wrote our own AI glow up prompt: keep the face exactly, then style the hair, the outfit and the light like a candid after photo, with no beauty filter. You do not need to type it. ### Can I make it with butterfly wings? Yes. Pick Glow up with wings for AI butterfly wings: two huge orange and black butterfly wings on your back in the after shot. People also call it a butterfly wings filter; here the butterfly wings AI result is a photo. ### Can I make an AI glow up video or transition? Yes, with the Video version: an AI glow up transition in one 10 second clip, from a dull before shot to a black butterfly screen to your after shot with wings. It is the AI glow up video form of the AI glow up trend. It has the AI's own soft piano sound, so add the trend's sound in TikTok. ### Is there a CapCut template for I want wings? Yes, an I want wings CapCut template spread from 1 November 2026: it puts your own before and after photos on the beats. A glow up CapCut template like that needs a good after photo, and that is what this page makes. People also search for a glow up AI CapCut or glow up AI template: here you need no app, just your browser. ### Is this a glow up AI app or generator? It is an online glow up AI generator that runs in your browser, so there is no glow up AI app to install. The button shows the price before you spend anything, and if a run fails, the credits come back. ### Can I make a pet glow up? Yes, with the Pet version: a pet glow up after shot of your dog or cat, freshly groomed and proud in golden light, with small butterfly wings. Post a scruffy old photo of your pet as the before slide. ### Is the I want wings meme only about faces? No. The I want wings meme also shows cars, birds, outfits and businesses: a 2 November post of a rebuilt car had 907,900 views. The glow up trend shape stays the same: an ugly before, the butterfly, a proud after. ### What makes a good before and after glow up? A real before and after glow up works best with a truly awkward before photo of you as an adult and an after shot with the same face, so friends see it is you. The cockroach butterfly trend and the butterfly glow up trend are the same post: it is the contrast that makes people laugh. ### Does it change my face? It must not. The prompt keeps your face shape, eyes, nose, mouth, skin tone, age, hair color and hair length exactly as in your photo, and bans any beauty filter. Only the light, the styling, the outfit and the place change. If a run still looks off, run it again with a sharper photo. ### Is MakeViral linked to the creators or to Berserk? No. The trend uses the line and the sound, but our results show only you or your pet, with no anime footage, no sound from the edit and no logo. ## Other AI video templates and tools - [Angel Of My Dreams Trend: Your Angel Wings Reveal from One Photo](https://www.makeviral.ai/templates/angel-of-my-dreams-ai-trend): You open your front door at night, step onto the porch light, and giant white feathered wings slowly unfold behind you while feathers drift down. Add one full-body photo of you, or of your dog or cat. - [AI Makeup Filter: Watch Your Full Glam Happen on Video](https://www.makeviral.ai/templates/ai-makeup-filter): Add one photo with a bare face. AI makes the 10-second glow-up: a makeup artist's hands do your base, eyes, liner, lashes and lips, then you open your eyes and smile in full glam. - [Victoria Secret AI Runway Video: Your Angel Walk in Giant Wings](https://www.makeviral.ai/templates/victoria-secret-runway-ai-trend): Cameras flash as you walk a glossy runway in giant feathered wings: you wave, strut to the end, reach out to the crowd and blow a kiss. Add one full-body photo of you, or of your pet. - [Nano Banana 2](https://www.makeviral.ai/tools/nano-banana-2-image-generator): Google's image model, in a browser tab, with the reference-image dropzone that makes it useful: up to 14 photos in, one new image out. - [AI photo generator](https://www.makeviral.ai/ai-photo-generator) - [All AI video templates](https://www.makeviral.ai/templates) ## New AI video trends this week - [Santa Sleigh AI: Point at the Sky, the Reindeer Sleigh Lands](https://www.makeviral.ai/templates/santa-sleigh-ai-trend): You sit on a chair in a snowy clearing and point at the sky. A reindeer sleigh flies in on a rocket-like flame, lands behind you in a burst of snow, and the reindeer run past your chair. Add one photo, pick a look, and you or your pet star in the Santa sleigh AI video. - [Suave Cat Dance: Put Your Own Cats in the Three Kittens Meme](https://www.makeviral.ai/templates/suave-cat-dance-ai): Three kittens on a beach at night: one does the whole routine, one dances with its back to you, one just stands there. Add 1 to 3 photos of your cats, your dog or yourself, and get the clip with the song. - [Counting Money Meme: You as the Boss Flipping Stacks of Cash](https://www.makeviral.ai/templates/counting-money-meme-ai): Add one photo. You stand behind a desk piled with banded cash in a sharp dark suit, flip through a thick stack one bill after another, then fan it out and wave it at the camera with a smug look. - [Chased by Hyenas AI: Sprint Across the Savanna With the Pack at Your Heels](https://www.makeviral.ai/templates/chased-by-hyenas-ai-trend): Add one full-body photo, and you sprint straight at the camera across dry savanna grass while a whole pack runs at your heels, in the trend's own AI clip. Your pet can run for its life too, or you and a friend together. - [I Thought We Were Having a Nice Date: You in the Obsession Scene](https://www.makeviral.ai/templates/i-thought-we-were-having-a-nice-date-ai-trend): Add a photo of you and one of your date, or two pets. One of you giggles "no, no, no", stands up from the booth and breaks down crying "I thought we were having a nice date" while the other begs them to sit down, in a 15-second vertical video with the spoken lines. - [Pet Rock Dance: Your Pet Headbangs Like a Metal Fan](https://www.makeviral.ai/templates/pet-rock-dance-ai-trend): Add one photo, and your dog or cat stands up in a black hoodie and headbangs hard to the trend's rock song, then hops to the camera for a grinning close-up. Or step in yourself, or put two pets on the bed. ## Make your own I Want Wings photo Add one photo and press Generate. No prompt to write. 3 credits, charged once. [Make this photo](https://www.makeviral.ai/templates/i-want-wings-ai-trend/create)