Video trend
Much of the attention on this format came from AI recasts with look-alikes of famous basketball and tennis players. Oakgen's template does not make celebrity versions. It is built for your own team, crew or friend group, with the people in the photos who agreed to be in it. This page is about doing that well.
Upload photos of yourself and teammates who said yes. Do not upload photos of athletes, celebrities or anyone else who has not agreed. The famous versions are inspiration for the format, not something this template recreates.
Each person appears in the outfit from their own photo. If you want a team look, use photos of everyone in your own team shirts; plain clothes work just as well. The template asks for clothing without printed names, numbers or logos, so expect printed kit to come out plain and check the result.
Put the teammate who always steals snacks in the Back seat, the captain or coach in the Driver's seat for the blind reach, and the calmest face as the Passenger, who has to sit through the stare.
A 16-second portrait video fits Reels, TikTok and Shorts as it is. Use it for a group chat, a season recap or the team account, labelled as AI-made, and tag only people who agreed.
Each run uses exactly three photos, so a bigger squad can rotate: a different thief and driver in each version. The quote is the same for every three-person cast.
The preview on the trend page is an AI-made recast with look-alikes of three basketball players in team jerseys. It is used only as the motion and timing reference; none of those look-alikes, jerseys or the snack brand appear in your video.
Add a photo for each role shown below. All roles need a photo.
Choose the Passenger, who gets the awkward hand on the thigh, the Back seat, the chips thief, and the Driver, who does the blind reach. Use a head-and-shoulders photo for each, face forward, hair fully visible and no hat. Everyone pictured should have agreed to appear.
Pick 480p, 720p or 1080p and review the quote. It covers the full 16-second video and the preparation of all three photos.
Watch the snatch from the back seat, the driver's hand and the three faces in the long hold at the end, then download your 9:16 MP4 with the sound.
16 seconds from one fixed camera on the dashboard: the chips, the snatch from the back seat, the blind reach and the long, frozen stare at the end. There are no cuts, so the timing of the gag stays as it is in the reference.
The Passenger, the Back seat and the Driver each take the face, hair, build and outfit from their own photo. The reference clip's matching team jerseys are not kept, so your friends appear in their own clothes.
Your video keeps the reference clip's soundtrack, the slow romantic saxophone that gives the Careless Whisper meme its name. The song is not sent to the video model; the faces follow the motion guide and the sound is put back at the end.
Any three people who agreed to be in it work: a friend group, siblings, roommates, teammates or a couple and their third wheel. A pet can sit in the back seat and steal the bag.
A 16-second comedy clip filmed from a car's dashboard. The front passenger eats chips, the person in the back seat leans forward and steals the bag, the driver reaches across for more without looking and puts a hand on the passenger's thigh instead, and the two in front freeze and stare straight ahead while a slow romantic saxophone plays. Oakgen's template puts the three people from your photos in the seats.
People call it the Careless Whisper car meme, the Careless Whisper car trend, the stolen chips car meme, the car chip prank, three people eating chips in the car and the hand on the thigh car meme. They all describe this one scene, so there is one Careless Whisper Car tool on Oakgen.
The meme is named after "Careless Whisper" by George Michael, released in 1984 (in the US it was credited to Wham! featuring George Michael). Its saxophone intro has long been the internet's soundtrack for awkward romantic moments. Your video keeps the reference clip's own soundtrack, the slow saxophone ballad viewers know the meme by; Oakgen does not swap in a different song.
No. Well-known recordings are refused by the video model, so no audio is sent. The faces follow the movement tracked from the reference clip, and the original soundtrack is put back on the finished video.
An AI-made recast with look-alikes of three basketball players in team jerseys. The template is an unofficial fan-style format, not connected to any team, league, snack brand or the song's rights holders. None of the three look-alikes, their jerseys or the snack brand is kept in your video.
Yes. The Passenger, the Back seat and the Driver each need a photo, because the motion guide replaces all three people in the reference with grey silhouettes, so none of them is kept.
The Passenger, the person in the front seat on the left who starts with the chips. The Driver is the one whose hand lands there. Swap the photos between those two slots to swap the roles.
Yes. Put a clear photo of your dog or cat in the Back seat slot and it leans in, grabs the bag and sits with it in the back. Keep people in the two front seats, because the Driver and the Passenger use their hands for the reach.
No. There is no costume. Each person wears the outfit from their own photo instead of the reference's team jerseys, and their own hair and accessories stay. The bag becomes a plain red snack bag with no logo.
No. Nobody speaks or sings. The comedy is all in the reach and the stare, with the saxophone soundtrack over it.
Your own, or photos of people who agreed to be in the video. The joke is an accidental touch, so only cast friends who are comfortable with it. Do not upload photos of athletes, celebrities or anyone who has not consented, and label AI videos clearly when you share them.
16 seconds in 9:16 portrait, one continuous shot with no cuts, ready for Reels, TikTok and Shorts.
No. It is the AI reference clip the trend comes from, used as the motion and timing reference, not an Oakgen result. Its three performers are never reused.
3,476 credits per 720p video. The quote includes all three photo preparations and the complete video. Check it before generating.
Plan a story, keep your character recognizable, and make the finished clip your own.
Plan your Careless Whisper car meme before you make it: eight casting combinations for the three seats, caption ideas that fit the stare and a posting checklist.
Make the Careless Whisper car meme step by step: cast the Passenger, the chips thief and the Driver, read the quote, check the reach and post it.
What the Careless Whisper car meme is, why the sax makes a stolen bag of chips funny, where the athlete recasts fit in and what an AI version can and cannot do.
Upload 3 photos. Everything else is set.