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Hotel Lobby AI: Make the Hotel Lobby Trend Video

You and a friend, or your two pets, trade a rap into one hanging mic in a bright orange booth. Step into the real clip or the viral cat version with the original song, or get a new 10-second version with an original beat.

Hotel Lobby example video, made with AI-made peopleAI-made
  • 2 photos you add
  • 10 to 15 s clip with the original song
  • 16:9 like the original clip
  • No watermark

No prompt to write: Add your photos and tap once

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Ready in a few minutes · From 56 credits

The hotel lobby AI trend (the AI Hotel Lobby trend, also called the Migos AI trend) shows two people or two pets in a flat orange booth, taking turns rapping into one hanging microphone. It copies a 2022 music performance. You need two photos, left first. The Original song versions put you or your pets into a real clip, with the song.

Also called Migos Hotel Lobby · Viral Rap Duo · AI Rap Duo · Orange Booth Rap

Example

What the Hotel Lobby video looks like

The people and pets are AI-made, not real persons. The clip version keeps the song of the original clip; the other versions have original sound. Your result will differ from run to run.

Input photo for Hotel Lobby example (AI-made person)
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Result, 15 s, with sound

Original song: two AI-made people swapped into the real 2022 clip, left and right as uploaded. The moves, the camera cuts, the lip sync and the song stay the same.

Use this reference
Original reel by @therealmeowfia, 15 s

The original reel by @therealmeowfia: two AI-made cats in the orange booth. The black cat raps into the mic while the ginger cat dances, with the song. Original song, pets copies this reel.

Use this reference
Input photo for Hotel Lobby example (AI-made person)
Input
Result, 10 s, with sound

Two people: two AI-made people, left and right as uploaded, trading lines over an original beat.

Input photo for Hotel Lobby example (AI-made person)
Input
Result, 10 s, with sound

Two pets: two AI-made cats stand upright and take turns at the mic with small cartoon voices.

Step by step

How to make the Hotel Lobby video on MakeViral

Everything runs in the browser. No editing app, no prompt to write, no watermark.

  1. Add the two photos

    Press "Create your own" and add left person, then right person. Photo 1 goes on the left of the scene, photo 2 on the right. Take them with the camera or pick them from your library.

  2. Press Generate

    The button shows the price. H3 Max Recast puts your photos into the Hotel Lobby trend clip and copies it shot by shot for 15 seconds, with the song of the clip. You write no prompt.

  3. Download or share

    The video is ready in a few minutes as a 16:9 MP4. Download it, share it from your phone, or find it later in My videos.

Which photo works best?

Use full-body photos, head to feet, one person or one pet per photo. A cropped selfie leaves the model guessing about legs and paws.

  • Upload the one who should stand on the left first. Every version keeps the upload order.
  • In Original song, photo 1 takes the place of the performer on the left (in the striped shirt) and photo 2 the one on the right (in the orange knit shirt).
  • In Original song, pets, pet 1 replaces the black cat on the left, who raps, and pet 2 the ginger cat on the right, who dances. Show the whole animal, face sharp.
  • Plain clothes with one strong color read best against orange. An orange top disappears into the wall.
  • Use photos of yourself, of adults who agreed, or of your own pets. Never a celebrity or a stranger.

Where did the Hotel Lobby trend start?

The booth comes from a real performance. Quavo and Takeoff performed "Hotel Lobby" on the YouTube show A COLORS SHOW in June 2022, in front of a flat orange wall with one hanging microphone. By late September 2026 that video had more than 121 million YouTube views.

The AI version started in September 2026. XXL traced it to a clip of two cats in the booth on TikTok in early September; Know Your Meme names a TikTok swap from 16 September as the first big one. Within a week, people had put friends, pets, film characters and tech founders into the booth, and one-click template apps followed. The most viral AI version we found is two AI-made cats by @therealmeowfia, posted on 23 September: 6 million views by 12 October. Takeoff died in 2022, and some fans asked people to keep the swaps respectful.

The viral clips reuse the original song. Original song puts your two photos into the real clip and Original song, pets puts your two pets into that cat reel, song included. Two people and Two pets make a new scene with an original AI beat.

  1. Quavo and Takeoff release the "Hotel Lobby" performance on A COLORS SHOW: an orange booth, one hanging microphone.

  2. A TikTok clip of two cats in the orange booth starts the AI version, according to XXL. The creator is unknown. XXL

  3. Know Your Meme records the first big AI swap on TikTok, which reached 1.7 million views in 12 days. Know Your Meme

  4. A cat version on X passes 7.7 million views and 73,800 likes (counted on 29 September).

  5. Quavo reposts the original performance with "Aye Take we viral again", and music press covers the trend. Complex

  6. @therealmeowfia posts two AI-made cats rapping in the booth on TikTok. By 12 October it has 6 million views and 713,900 likes, the most viral AI version we found. TikTok

  7. US Google searches for "ai hotel lobby" hit their peak for the month, per Google Trends data we pulled on 29 September.

Copy and paste

The Hotel Lobby prompts

You do not need these: the one-tap flow runs them for you, together with the trend clip. [Image 1] and [Image 2] are your two photos, and [Video 1] is the trend clip the video copies.

Original song

2 photos: left person + right personH3 Max Recast15 s · 720p · 16:9180 credits
Video prompt

Image 1 replaces the man on the left in the striped shirt and white sunglasses. Image 2 replaces the man on the right in the orange knit shirt and tinted glasses. Each person keeps the face, hair, clothes and accessories of their own image in every shot, with no sunglasses or glasses unless their own image shows them. A dress or a skirt stays a dress or a skirt in every move, with the legs and shoes under it. Keep the background, the motion, the camera and the audio exactly as in the video.

495 characters

Original song, pets

2 photos: left pet + right petH3 Max Recast15 s · 720p · 16:9180 credits
Video prompt

Replace both cats in the video with characters from image 1 and image 2, and preserve the original background, actions, poses, camera movement, lighting and timing. Only replace the two cats keep everything else unchanged. Image 1 replaces the cat on the left, who stands upright and raps into the hanging microphone, in every shot. Image 2 replaces the cat on the right, who stands upright and dances with its front paws, in every shot, also when it turns its back to the camera. Each pet keeps the face shape, ears, fur colors, fur length and markings from its own image, not those of the cats in the video. If an image shows a dog or another animal, that animal takes the same place, standing upright on its hind legs and doing the same moves. Keep the orange studio, the hanging microphone and the mouth movement exactly as in the video.

841 characters

Two people

2 photos: left person + right personSeedance 2.510 s · 720p · 9:16126 credits
Video prompt

A playful hip-hop duet filmed like a real music video, in one locked-off, centered shot with no cuts and no zoom. A small seamless studio booth with a flat matte orange wall and floor, soft even frontal light with a warm orange bounce. One black studio microphone hangs on a thin cable from the top of the frame, between the two performers. The camera frames both from the knees up, so both faces are large, sharp and well lit. The performer on the LEFT is the one 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) and the clothes from [Image 1]. The performer on the RIGHT is the one in [Image 2], in every frame: copy the exact face from [Image 2] in the same way, and the clothes from [Image 2]. If an image shows an animal, that performer is that animal standing upright, with its own face, fur and markings, not a person. They are two different people. Never blend their faces, never swap their places or their clothes, never add or remove facial hair. Each face stays the same from the first frame to the last, so their friends recognize them at once. The left performer leans toward the microphone and raps first with loose hand gestures while the right performer nods to the beat and reacts. Then the right performer takes the lead while the left one hypes them up. The timing feels natural and conversational, never mirrored. Audio: an original upbeat hip-hop beat with both voices rapping short, clean, playful lines. Photorealistic. Exactly two performers, no extra people, no text, no logos.

1688 characters

Two pets

2 photos: left pet + right petKling 3.010 s · 1080p · 9:1656 credits
Step 1 · Photo prompt

Use the two uploaded images as the base. The animal in the first image stands on the LEFT. The animal in the second image stands on the RIGHT. Keep each animal's breed, face, eye color, fur color, markings, collar and body shape exactly the same as in its own photo. Do not blend the two animals. Both animals stand upright on their hind legs in a confident, human-like pose, front paws loose like arms, with a clear gap between them. Show both full body, ears to paws. They stand inside a small seamless studio booth with a flat matte orange wall and floor. One black studio microphone hangs on a thin cable from the top of the frame between them. Soft, even frontal light with a warm orange bounce. Photorealistic, vertical 9:16. No text, no logos, no people.

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Step 2 · Video prompt

Two pets stand upright in a small orange studio booth with one hanging microphone between them. Keep each animal's face, fur and markings exactly as in the image, and keep their positions. The left pet leans to the microphone first and "raps" with small paw gestures and head bobs while the right pet watches and reacts. Then the right pet takes its turn while the left pet bobs to the beat. Independent, conversational movement, never a synchronized dance. Static, centered, full-body shot. No cuts. Audio: an original funny hip-hop beat with small cartoonish pet voices. No extra paws, no merged bodies, no text, no logos.

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How many credits does it cost?

You pay per video in credits, and the create page shows the exact price on the Generate button before you spend anything. The one-tap price covers the video, made in one step from your photos and the trend clip, charged once. Each version has its own price: Original song 180 credits, Original song, pets 180 credits, Two people 126 credits, Two pets 56 credits. The cheaper models are there if you run the prompts by hand in AI Video.

Video modelSettingsCredits
Original song: H3 Max Recast (this template)15 s, 720p, copies the trend clip, one tap180
Original song, pets: H3 Max Recast (this template)15 s, 720p, copies the trend clip, one tap180
Two people: Seedance 2.5 (this template)10 s, 720p, straight from your photos, one tap126
Two pets: Kling 3.0 (this template)10 s, 1080p + 1 scene photo, one tap56

One-time packs and plans are on the pricing page. A failed video gives its credits back.

Why does the Hotel Lobby clip work so well?

It is instantly readable. The orange wall, the single hanging mic and two figures side by side tell the viewer which trend this is before anything moves, so the only surprise is who is in the booth. That makes the joke portable: best friends, a couple, two siblings, a dog and a cat, two coworkers.

It is also a duet. Two people means two people tag each other in the comments, and each of them reposts it. Most of the big copies in September 2026 were pairs with a built-in contrast: a tiny cat next to a huge one, a calm person next to a hyper one. The biggest one we found on TikTok is exactly that: a sleek black cat who raps and a fluffy ginger cat who dances.

Which Hotel Lobby version should you pick?

There are four versions. All of them take two photos, left side first.

VersionWhat you getLengthFrameSoundPrice
Original song (default)MiniMax H3 Max Recast puts your two photos into the real 2022 clip in place of the two performers. It keeps the moves, the camera cuts, the lip sync and the song.15 sWide 16:9, the frame of the original clipThe real song with the real lip sync, inside the fileCosts more
Original song, petsMiniMax H3 Max Recast puts your two pets into the most viral AI cat version of the trend, in place of the black cat and the ginger cat. It keeps the shots, the moves and the mouth movement.15 sWide 16:9, a crop of the 4:3 cat reelThe reel's song, put back on after the run; you can turn it offCosts more
Two peopleSeedance 2.5 takes your two photos and films a new rap duet in the orange booth straight from them, with no AI picture in between, so both faces stay yours.10 sVertical 9:16, 720pAn original AI beat and generated rap linesLess than Original song
Two petsMakeViral builds an orange booth photo of your two pets with Nano Banana 2.1, then Kling 3.0 animates them standing upright at the mic.10 sVertical 9:16, 1080pAn original AI beat and small cartoon voicesThe lowest price

The exact price of each version shows on its card in the prompts section of this page and on the Generate button, before you spend anything.

Why are the Original song versions wide? They keep the frame of the clip they copy. In the close shots the camera shows both performers side by side, so a vertical 9:16 crop would cut one of you out.

Which part of the clip is it? The 15 seconds that the viral swaps use. They start 12.4 seconds into the 2022 performance video; we found the spot by matching the audio of a viral swap to the original upload. We removed the show's logo. Original song, pets uses the first 15 seconds of the cat reel, from its first close shot, with the same opening verse.

Why this model? We tested two models on the real clip with AI-made photos. Higgsfield Genjutsu kept the original man on the left. MiniMax H3 Max Recast swapped both people, and both faces and outfits came out right, so Original song uses Recast. Original song, pets uses the same model on the cat reel. Every run is a new take, so results differ.

How do you get the left and right right?

In the Original song versions there is no still to check. In Original song, photo 1 always replaces the performer on the left, in the striped shirt, and photo 2 the one on the right, in the orange knit shirt. In Original song, pets, pet 1 replaces the black cat on the left, who raps, and pet 2 the ginger cat on the right, who dances. Add them in that order.

In Two people, the video prompt names photo 1 as the performer on the LEFT and photo 2 as the one on the RIGHT, and the one-tap flow sends your photos in the order you add them. In our tests photo 1 stayed on the left in every frame. If you get it the wrong way round, run it again with the photos in the other order.

In Two pets, the photo prompt names the first image as LEFT and the second as RIGHT, and AI Photo sends your uploads in the order you add them. If the still comes back swapped, do not animate it: press the remix button on it, remove both references, and add them again in the right order. Check the still before you spend credits on the video: everything the video model does starts from that one frame.

What goes wrong, and how do you fix it?

ProblemFix
One face looks like a blend of both peopleUse sharper photos with one person each, then generate again.
An Original song version puts someone on the wrong sidePhoto 1 is always the left one. Run it again with the photos in the other order.
Your pet keeps some fur or color of the cat in the reel (Original song, pets)Use a sharp photo where the whole pet and its face are in view, then run it again.
The faces do not look like you (Two people)Since 13 October 2026 Two people films the scene straight from your photos and the prompt lists every part of each face to keep. Use a sharp, close photo of each person, one person per photo.
The booth has corners or furnitureRun it again (in Two pets, generate the still again); the prompt asks for a seamless wall and a second run usually gets it.
Both people rap at the same time (Two people)Keep "never mirrored" and "conversational" in the video prompt. Shorter lines help.
A hand warps near the mic (Two people, Two pets)Common in 10-second clips. A second run, or 8 seconds instead of 10, often fixes it.
The video model refuses the photoSome models refuse some real faces. The credits come back; try another photo.

Can you use the real Hotel Lobby song?

Yes, with the two Original song versions. Original song starts from the real 2022 clip, so the song and the lip sync in your file are the real ones. Original song, pets copies the viral cat reel and puts the reel's song back on after the run, cut to the same 15 seconds, so the mouths match it; you can turn it off on the result screen. You do not need to add a sound when you post.

The Two people and Two pets versions are different. They make a new scene with an original AI beat and generated rap lines, and the lip movement follows those lines, not the song. If you add the trending sound to one of them in TikTok, Instagram or YouTube, the lines will not match it word for word, so many creators keep the original beat and put the joke in the caption instead.

The song belongs to its owners, and MakeViral gives you no rights to it. Music rules differ from platform to platform, so check them before you use an Original song clip in an ad or a paid post.

For a line-by-line look at why each part of the Two people prompt is there, with screenshots of every step, read the AI Hotel Lobby prompt guide.

FAQ

Hotel Lobby trend questions

What is the hotel lobby AI trend?
It is a viral AI video format from September 2026. Two people or two pets stand in a flat orange studio booth and take turns rapping into one hanging microphone. It copies the look of Quavo and Takeoff's 2022 "Hotel Lobby" performance on A COLORS SHOW, with new performers swapped in.
Is this the Migos AI trend?
Yes. "Migos AI trend" and "Migos AI video" are other names for the same format. The clip it copies is Quavo and Takeoff of Migos performing "Hotel Lobby" on A COLORS SHOW in 2022, so many people search for the group's name. This page makes that video with your own photos: Original song puts two people into the real clip, and the other versions build a new orange booth scene or copy the viral cat version. Your video shows the faces from your photos, not the artists' faces.
What is the hotel lobby meme?
The hotel lobby meme is the orange booth clip: two people trade a rap into one hanging mic, as Quavo and Takeoff did in the 2022 "Hotel Lobby" performance. People also search it as hotel lobby Migos. The AI version swaps in new faces or pets.
Is there a hotel lobby AI template?
Yes. This page is a hotel lobby AI template: pick a version, add two photos, and MakeViral makes the clip.
Is this the Viral Rap Duo template?
Yes. Some AI apps sell this same template as "Viral Rap Duo": two people in an orange studio take turns rapping into one hanging mic, made from two photos. It is the Hotel Lobby trend. On this page, Original song puts your two photos into that same real clip with the song, and Original song, pets does it with your two pets.
How do I make the Hotel Lobby AI video with my own photos?
Press "Create your own" on this page, pick a version and add two full-body photos, left first. Press Generate. Original song puts your photos into the real clip for 15 seconds, song included, and Original song, pets does the same with two pets and the viral cat reel. Two people films a new 10-second duet straight from your two photos with an original beat, and Two pets builds the orange booth still with both pets, then animates it. You write no prompt.
Can I get the real Hotel Lobby song and moves?
Yes, with the Original song version. MiniMax H3 Max Recast takes the real 2022 clip and puts your two photos in place of the two performers. It keeps the moves, the camera cuts, the lip sync and the song, so your file plays the real Hotel Lobby audio. The clip is 15 seconds and wide (16:9) like the original, and it costs more credits than the Two people and Two pets versions. For pets, Original song, pets does the same with the viral cat reel.
Can I make the Hotel Lobby trend with my cats or dogs?
Yes, in two ways. Original song, pets puts your two pets into the most viral AI cat version of the trend, posted by @therealmeowfia on TikTok (6 million views by 12 October 2026): the same shots and moves, with the song. Pet 1 replaces the black cat on the left and pet 2 the ginger cat on the right; with a dog, the prompt asks the model to stand it upright and copy the same moves. Two pets makes a new 10-second scene where both animals stand upright and take turns at the mic over an original beat, at a lower price.
How long is the video and what format is it?
Original song and Original song, pets make 15 seconds, wide 16:9 like the clips they copy, with the song. Two people makes 10 seconds, vertical 9:16, 720p, and Two pets 10 seconds, vertical 9:16, 1080p, both with an original beat. All four are MP4 files, and the create page shows the exact price on the Generate button before you spend anything.
How do I do the Hotel Lobby trend on TikTok?
Make the clip on this page, download the MP4 and upload it to TikTok. With the Original song versions, the song is already in the file. With Two people or Two pets, the clip has an original beat; add the trending "Hotel Lobby" sound from TikTok's music library if you want it. Use #hotellobby, the trend's main tag (62,593 TikTok videos and 984 million views on 12 October 2026), and tag the person you put in the booth with you, because duets get shared twice.
Is it okay to put celebrities in the booth?
Do not. Many viral copies used famous faces, but a fake video of a real person can break platform rules and the person's rights, and some video models refuse well-known faces. Use yourself, adults who agreed, or your own pets.
Why does my version have a different beat from the trend?
Two people and Two pets make a new scene with an original AI beat and generated rap lines, so the lip movement follows those lines, not the song. For the real beat and the real lip sync, pick Original song or Original song, pets, which keep the song of the clip they copy. You can also add the trending sound in the posting app, but it will not match the lips in the Two people or Two pets versions.
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