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Bad Times AI Video Generator

Bad Times AI for pets: one photo of your dog or cat and a recording of your own voice become a clip of your pet talking back. No song included. 63 credits.

Bad Times AI turns one photo of your dog or cat and your own voice recording into a 5-second clip of your pet talking back. No song included. A clip is 63 credits, about $0.77 on the $4.90 first pack. Price shown before you generate · credits come back if it fails · your clips stay private.

  • From 63 credits per clip
  • Image to video
  • 5s / 10s / 15s
  • 480P
  • Audio available
Talk back: a terrier speaking our own recording.Made from this photo (AI-made, fictional)
  • Your petYour pet
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MiniMax H3 Max

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After signing in you can add your own recording as the clip’s sound.

One clear photo of your dog or cat, face visible and facing the camera. This page is not for photos of people.

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A preset fills the prompt below. Edit it freely; results depend on your image and model.

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This mode uses the shape of your input image. Upload a 9:16 image for a vertical video.

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Estimated cost: 63 credits
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Sample result

5s · MP4
Talk back: a terrier speaking our own recording.Made on Cicadas · MiniMax H3 Max · 5s
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About Bad Times AI on Cicadas

The Bad Times trend is a close-up in which someone mouths the song as an exaggerated argument with the camera, and pet owners have been redoing it with their dogs and cats. This page makes the pet part from your own voice: the photo is the first frame, and with your recording attached MiniMax H3 Max moves your pet's mouth while the recording plays. The song is not included, and the mouth follows the recording loosely, not word by word.

Bad Times AI examples made on Cicadas

Image to video5s · 480P

Talk back: a terrier speaking our own recording.

MiniMax H3 Max image to video, 5 seconds at 480P, from one square photo of a dog with our own five-second voice-over attached as the sound (card 101 test, 2026-10-18); back in 19 seconds as a square clip. The terrier sits by a window and its mouth opens and closes while the voice plays, then keeps moving for about half a second after it stops. The sound is the recording itself, an excited woman's voice about a coffee mug, not the Bad Times song. Made with the dog wording of this page's scene.

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Image to video5s · 480P

Second take: same terrier, same recording.

The identical request sent a second time for card 101 on 2026-10-18 (MiniMax H3 Max image to video, 5 seconds, 480P, the same square dog photo, prompt and five-second voice-over); it returned in 15 seconds. Placed beside the first take, it shows how close two runs of one request come: the pose, the window and the collar match, and only the head tilt and the mouth shapes differ a little. Here too the mouth goes on moving for a moment once the voice has ended.

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Why use Cicadas for Bad Times AI

Your voice, your pet's mouth

Attach a recording of yourself, an MP3, WAV or M4A of at least 2 seconds and up to 15 MB, and it becomes the clip's sound exactly. In our test clip the terrier's mouth opened and closed while the voice played and kept moving for about half a second after it stopped.

No song inside

This page does not include "Bad Times" or any other track, and the recording you attach must be yours or one you may use. Talk back in your own words; if you want the song, add it in TikTok or Reels from their sound library.

See the price of every clip first

At 480P, 5 seconds is 63 credits, 10 seconds is 125 and 15 seconds is 188; at 768P they are 100, 200 and 300. In dollars at 480P: about $0.77, $1.53 and $2.30 on the $4.90 first pack. A recording does not change the price, and a failed generation returns its credits.

Pets only, one photo

The photo is the first frame, so the clip keeps your pet, its fur and the room from the photo. Photos of people are not accepted here; for a lip sync of yourself, the AI lip sync page asks for your own or an authorized likeness.

How to use Bad Times AI

  1. 01

    Sign in and add one clear photo of your dog or cat, face to the camera.

  2. 02

    Attach your own recording (MP3, WAV or M4A, at least 2 seconds) and tick that it is yours or that you may use it; the clip length follows the recording, and you can change it.

  3. 03

    Check the quote, generate, and download the MP4 from My videos.

What the Bad Times trend is

"Bad Times" is a song by Imael Angel. In the trend, people film a close-up of themselves mouthing it as an exaggerated argument with the viewer: expressive faces, pointing, raised hands. Pet owners then swapped in their dogs and cats, often made from one photo with AI. This page makes that pet clip with your own recording as the sound; it does not copy anyone's performance or include the song.

Which pet photo works

Use one photo of one dog or cat facing the camera, with the face and mouth clear and the head not cut off. A sitting pet works well, because the photo is the first frame and the model mostly moves the head and mouth. Even light helps with dark fur. Our sample was a terrier with a teal collar sitting by a window, photographed square, so the clip came out square too. No people in the photo.

Posting it on TikTok, Reels or Shorts

The clip keeps the shape of your photo, so a vertical photo makes a vertical clip for TikTok, Reels and Shorts. It is an MP4 of 5, 10 or 15 seconds with your recording as the sound, and a paid clip downloads from My videos without a watermark. If you lay the song over it in the app, turn your recording down so the two do not clash.

Bad Times AI prompt ideas

Copy one into the prompt box above and adapt it to your shot. Or write your own shot by shot in the prompt generator.

  • “The pet in the photo looks into the camera and talks back, its mouth opening and closing with the voice on the soundtrack, with small natural head movements. Keep the pet's face, fur and the background as in the photo. One continuous shot, no other animals, no people, no text.”

  • “The pet in the photo leans toward the camera and talks back as if arguing with the viewer, its mouth opening and closing with the voice on the soundtrack, with small head shakes and raised eyebrows. Keep the pet's face, fur and the background as in the photo. One continuous shot, no other animals, no people, no text.”

What a Bad Times pet clip costs

5 secondsCredits63 creditsIn dollarsAbout $0.77 on the $4.90 first pack, $0.63 on the $15 pack
10 secondsCredits125 creditsIn dollarsAbout $1.53 on the $4.90 first pack, $1.25 on the $15 pack
15 secondsCredits188 creditsIn dollarsAbout $2.30 on the $4.90 first pack, $1.88 on the $15 pack

At 480P with sound, the setting the page opens on. At 768P the three lengths are 100, 200, 300 credits. The quote shows before you generate, and a failed generation returns its credits. Dollar figures use the packs on the pricing page; the $4.90 pack of 400 credits is for a first order only.

Bad Times AI FAQ

Tested on Cicadas · reviewed 2026-10-18

Two clips, the same request sent twice on 2026-10-18 for card 101 with MiniMax H3 Max image to video through fal.ai: 5 seconds, 480P, from the site's AI-made square photo of a terrier, with our own five-second voice-over attached as the sound. They came back in 19 and 15 seconds; in both the sound is the recording itself (loudness envelope correlation 1.00), and the mouth moved with it and for 0.5 to 0.8 seconds after it stopped. Cats, recordings longer than 5 seconds, 10 and 15 seconds and 768P were not run on this page. The Bad Times song was never used.

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