Road-trip friends
Three friends who saw the original make a Gas Station Dance AI video to recreate it without a sunset drive: the best dancer takes slot 1, whoever always holds the phone takes slot 2, and the driver gets the car.
Upload three photos. The first friend dances in the truck lot at sunset, the second flips the phone into a selfie, and the third leans into the lens and dances by the car. One take, ready for TikTok.
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Gas Station Dance AI turns three photos into a 14-second vertical video with sound: a dance on the paving stones at sunset, a selfie from the person filming, then a grin into the lens and a dance by the car, all in one take. It's a one-click template, not a prompt-based generator like Sora or Kling. Each of the three people keeps their own face, hair and outfit from their photo, so nobody ends up in someone else's clothes.
The gas station dance started as a phone clip of three friends on a road trip: one dances on an empty lot, the one filming turns the camera on himself, and the third steps out of the car. The AI version keeps that three-part, one-take format and casts your crew in it.
What makes people rewatch is the hand-off. Just as the dance peaks with both hands in the air, the camera whips around to a selfie, then swings to the car for a face nobody saw coming. Our test used an orange-haired dancer, an alien in a tweed jacket and a man with a giant flat-top, and all three stayed exactly themselves.
Upload three photos, one person each: the dancer first, the person filming second, the one by the car third. Our Gas Station Dance AI tutorial shows the photos we used and every setting.
Fan-made template, not affiliated with Mikhail Litvin, Ravshan Dzhulpaev, Adel Veigel or Akcent. Only upload photos of yourself or people who agreed to be in the video. You must be 18 or older, and photos of celebrities, public figures or children aren't allowed.
Three friends who saw the original make a Gas Station Dance AI video to recreate it without a sunset drive: the best dancer takes slot 1, whoever always holds the phone takes slot 2, and the driver gets the car.
Fans cast characters, costumes or AI portraits in the three spots, like our alien in a tweed jacket, and post the mash-up on TikTok with the trend sound.
Group chats put the least likely dancer in slot 1, with their OK, and save the car reveal for the friend nobody expects, then drop the clip back in the chat.
The gas station dance trend is a one-take phone video in three parts: someone dances on an open lot at a roadside stop, the person filming flips to a selfie, and a third friend appears by the car. The original clip is commonly credited to three friends on a road trip: Ravshan Dzhulpaev dancing, Mikhail Litvin filming and Adel Veigel by the car.
The earliest widely shared post is usually traced to Adel Veigel's Instagram on July 1, 2024, and reposts usually pair it with Akcent's "On and On". The AI remake took off in late September and October 2026, when template sites let people put their own friends, or characters, into the three spots.
Three photos: one friend dances at sunset, one films a selfie, one grins into the lens by the car.



The Gas Station Dance template is open at the top of this page with Wan 3.0 Prime and the prompt set up: 14 seconds, 480p vertical, with sound.
Slot 1 is the dancer (full body), slot 2 is the one filming (waist up, face to camera), slot 3 is the one by the car. One person per photo.
Press Generate. Ours took a little over 2 minutes and lands in My Videos. Download the MP4 without a watermark and post it.
The best photos for the Gas Station Dance AI video are three single-person shots: a full-body photo for the dancer, a waist-up face-to-camera photo for the selfie, and a clear-face photo for the one by the car, because each shot frames its person differently.
A full-body dancer
The first five seconds show the dancer head to toe on the paving stones, so a full-body photo keeps the outfit and shoes right.
Bold, distinct looks
In our test an orange-haired dancer, an alien in tweed and a flat-top with sunglasses each kept their look, with no outfits mixed up.
Two people in one photo
With two faces in a slot, the wrong person can show up in that shot. Crop each person out on their own.
A tiny, far-away face
The selfie and the car close-up fill the frame with a face, so a small or blurry face won't hold up.
The dance, the selfie flip and the car reveal play as one continuous handheld shot, the way the trend works. In our test each photo landed in its own shot in the order we uploaded them.
Orange hair and a pink dress, an alien in tweed, a flat-top with sunglasses: all three kept their faces and outfits from start to finish, with nobody wearing someone else's clothes.
480p 9:16 with sound, sized for TikTok, Reels and Shorts.
Download a clean MP4 on every plan, free credits included. Failed renders refund credits automatically.
Unlike Sora or Kling, you don't write or tune a prompt to keep three people in the right shots, and there's no app or CapCut to install. Add three photos in your browser and press Generate.












Upload three photos, one person each: the dancer, the one filming and the one by the car, then press Generate. You get a 14-second vertical video with sound and no watermark; ours was ready in a little over 2 minutes.
The gas station dance trend is a one-take phone video in three parts: a dance on an open lot, a selfie from the person filming, and a friend appearing by the car. The original is commonly credited to road-trip friends Ravshan Dzhulpaev, Mikhail Litvin and Adel Veigel, and AI remakes took off in October 2026.
0–5s, the first person dances on the paving stones of a truck lot at sunset and ends with both hands overhead; 5–7s, the camera flips to a selfie of the second person grinning to the beat; 7–10s, the camera swings to a silver car and the third person leans into the lens and laughs; 10–14s, they step back by the open car door and dance.
It's also called the Litvin dance and the "Delai!" ("Do it!") trend. Litvin comes from the friend usually credited with filming the original, and "Delai" is how reposts label its sound.
Reposts usually pair the gas station dance with Akcent's "On and On". Our video comes with sound that matches the moves, but it isn't the official track; pick the trend sound in TikTok or Instagram when you post if you want it.
Slot 1 is the dancer in the first five seconds, slot 2 is the person filming who appears in the selfie, and slot 3 is the person by the car at the end. In our test each person showed up in the shot that matched their slot.
Yes, as long as each photo shows one clear figure. Our test used an alien character in a tweed jacket and a man with a giant flat-top and sunglasses, and both kept their look.
The template has three photo slots and fills all three. We've only tested it with three different people, so we can't promise how the same photo in every slot would come out.
Not completely. New accounts get 75 free credits, and one Gas Station Dance AI video takes 590. Together with the $5.99 trial pack (540 credits) that's enough for one video; on the Lite plan each video works out to about $5.89. The exact cost shows on the Generate button, and failed renders are refunded automatically.
About $5.89 on the Lite plan, or one video for $5.99 with the trial pack plus your free credits. That is 590 credits for a 14-second, 480p vertical video with sound; ours rendered in a little over 2 minutes.
Four reasons: everyone looks like their photo, it costs less, you get a clean video, and it's ready to post.
Looks like your friends: each person keeps their own face, hair and outfit in their own shot, and nobody ends up in someone else's clothes. We ran this setup until each photo landed in the right shot, so you don't spend credits on retries.
Costs less: about $5.89 a video, and the cheapest per video among the tools whose prices we found, with no subscription needed for your first one.
Clean video: no watermark on any plan, free credits included, and failed renders refund credits automatically.
Ready to post: 9:16, 14 seconds with sound, straight to TikTok, Reels or Shorts with no editing.
Usually the photos are in the wrong slots, because the order decides the shots: slot 1 dances, slot 2 is the selfie, slot 3 is by the car. Put them back in that order and generate again with this template.
Usually it's a small, blurry or side-on face, because the selfie and the car close-up fill the frame with a face. Use a sharp, front-facing photo for that person and generate again with this template.
No. The template runs in your browser on phone or desktop; you upload three photos and download an MP4.
Add the trend sound, a caption like "we did the gas station dance", and #gasstationdance, #gasstationdanceai and #gasstationtrend. Label it as AI-generated where the platform asks.
Your photos and videos stay in your account, so you can download them again from My Videos at any time. They are never used to train AI models and are not sold or shared, except with the video model provider that renders your clip.
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