Video trend
The reference clip stars a golden retriever, but nothing in the template requires one. Each of the two roles takes whatever your photo shows and keeps its species. This page is for pet owners: how a different dog, a cat or a pet in the Victim's role changes the clip, and how to pick photos that hold up.
Your dog replaces the golden retriever completely: breed, face, ears, coat colours, markings and tail. A black labrador stays black, a husky keeps its mask, a dachshund keeps its long back. The template does not add a golden coat or floppy ears unless your dog has them.
The reference dog stands about as tall as the man when it is upright, and the template scales the Prankster to fill that space. A small or short-legged dog has to stretch further from the source to walk upright, press the button and land the kick. We expect those bodies to vary more between runs, but that is an expectation, not a reviewed result, so watch the walk and the kick before you share.
A cat stays a cat with its own face, coat and tail, standing on its hind legs and using its front paws for the button and the throw. We have not published reviewed results for cats or other animals in this template, so treat the first run as a test and check the paws in the close-up at the end.
Nothing stops you from swapping the joke: put yourself in the Prankster slot and your dog in the Victim slot, and your dog gets walked to the lift, kicked in and pelted with the sneakers. The white sneakers stay in the scene as a prop, so a pet Victim may appear to step out of shoes it never wore; check that moment around 9 to 11 seconds.
Two pets work too, one per slot. Pick two that look clearly different, such as a dark dog and a light one, so the two roles stay easy to tell apart when they are close together at the lift door and during the kick.
One animal, standing or sitting, the whole body in frame, the face sharp and both ears visible, in even light. Avoid a pet on someone's lap, two pets in one photo or a cropped head shot: the Prankster is seen head to tail for most of the clip and the face fills the frame at the very end.
Add a photo for each role shown below. All roles need a photo.
Upload the prankster and the victim, one subject per photo: a pet, yourself, a character or someone who agreed to appear. Full-body photos with the face, legs and paws or hands visible work best.
Choose 480p, 720p or 1080p and review the quote. It includes both photo preparations and the full video.
Watch that paws stay paws when the prankster presses the button and throws the sneakers, that the two never swap at the kick, and that the close pass at the end keeps the prankster's face, then download your portrait MP4.
The reference prankster is a golden retriever walking upright, but your photo decides: your own dog, a cat, a friend or a character. An animal keeps its species, face, coat and tail; a person stays a person.
The victim gets smacked, pulls off a pair of white sneakers at the lift, is kicked in and ends up sitting on the lift floor. Put yourself, a friend or a second pet in that role. The white sneakers are the one prop the template adds.
The marble lobby, the walnut panels and the gold lift stay as they are. The template follows the reference beat for beat in one continuous 17-second handheld take, with the original spoken lines and hit sounds.
The preview is the AI reference clip the trend comes from, with its watermark removed. It shows the motion and timing your video follows, not an Oakgen result.
It is a 17-second portrait AI clip: a golden retriever walks upright beside a man to a gold lift in a marble lobby, smacks him on the neck, presses the call button for him, waits while he bends over to pull off his white sneakers, then kicks him into the lift and throws the sneakers in after him before strolling past the camera. Oakgen's template puts your two photos in those two roles and keeps the lobby, the timing and the sound.
We did not find an established name for this clip, so Oakgen names it by what happens. The posts around it use words like lift prank, elevator prank and dog prank; lift and elevator mean the same thing here.
Yes. Both roles are replaced in every video, so the prankster and the victim each need a photo before you can generate. Neither performer from the reference is kept.
Yes. The prankster keeps the uploaded animal's species, face, coat and markings and walks upright on its hind legs, using its front paws for the smack, the button and the sneakers. Bodies very different from a tall retriever vary more, so review the video before sharing.
Yes. Either role takes a pet, a person or a character photo and keeps its species. A person prankster does the walk, the smack and the kick with hands and feet. A pet victim still takes off the white sneakers at the lift, which is the oddest moment to check.
Their own outfit from the photo, plus one template prop: plain white sneakers that come off at the lift and get thrown in after them.
No song. The video keeps the reference's original sound: short spoken lines and the hit sounds of the smack, the kick and the sneakers landing. Your photos do not change the voices.
Your own pets, yourself, or people who agreed to be in the video. Do not upload photos of celebrities, public figures or anyone who has not consented, keep it obviously a joke and label AI videos clearly when you share them.
About 17 seconds in portrait 9:16, one continuous take from the walk to the lift to the prankster walking out of frame.
No. It is the AI reference clip the trend comes from, with its watermark removed, not an Oakgen result. Review paws, hands and faces in your video before sharing.
3,596 credits per 720p video. The quote includes both photo preparations and the complete video. Check it before generating.
Plan a story, keep your character recognizable, and make the finished clip your own.
Five ways to cast the Dog Elevator Prank: your dog and you, you and a friend, two pets, characters and the role swap, with what each changes and what to check.
Make the Dog Elevator Prank AI video step by step: pick the Prankster and Victim photos, read the quote, check the kick and the shoe throw, and post it.
Upload 2 photos. Everything else is set.