How to Take Your Own ‘Celebrity Elevator Selfie’

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If you’ve been checking TikTok lately, you’ve likely seen a ton of posts featuring people posing with celebrities in elevators, like this one . Of course, it’s fake—the result of artificial intelligence image-generating tools—but it’s a fun, easy-to-join type of fake.

There are plenty of free AI-powered tools out there that can create any photo or video you want, but if you want your post about meeting a celebrity in an elevator to be on trend, CapCut is the easiest way to go.

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How to Take the Famous Elevator Selfie with Capcut

CapCut is the easiest way to create a video that matches current TikTok trends. Here’s how.

  • Make sure you have CapCut and TikTok installed—both apps are developed by ByteDance, so they integrate seamlessly.

  • Find a celebrity elevator video you like on TikTok

  • Click the Share arrow and select Copy Link.

  • Click Back and then Try this template.

  • Confirm your choice and select “Use AI template”.

  • Upload a photo of yourself and your celebrity.

  • Click Next and CapCut will collect everything.

  • Click “Publish to TikTok” and voila—you’re a meme!

If you find it helpful, here is a video tutorial.

How to Take the Famous Elevator Selfie with a Gemini

Using Google’s Gemini AI is another easy way to take a photo of an elevator. Here’s how:

  • Go to the Gemini home page .

  • Drag a photo of yourself and one of your favorite celebrities into the window. (Mine is William Howard Taft.)

  • Add a hint. Here’s what I used, so feel free to copy and paste if you like the results: “Take these two photos and create a realistic, photo-like image of people standing in an elevator. The camera is positioned in the upper corner of the elevator, with a slight fisheye lens distortion pointing down at them. The elevator walls are metal, with soft overhead lighting reflecting off the surfaces. Both people are looking slightly up, toward the camera, creating a cinematic and dramatic effect.”

  • The twins will give you a picture. Here’s mine:

How to Take a Celebrity Elevator Selfie

If you need an animated video, you can upload an existing AI photo to an animation program. I used Grok because it’s free and works great.

  • Add a prompt. It doesn’t have to be complicated—mine was something like, “Two men greet each other and fall in love.”

  • Upload your video and post it on TikTok with relevant hashtags and you’ll get something like this .

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