I Want Wings Trend

Upload one photo of you or your pet and get an AI glow up as the third slide of the I Want Wings carousel: the same face with the butterfly sticker and "Be gentle", clean, or with wings.

  • No prompt
  • Post-ready slide
  • Pets too
A man's plain kitchen selfie and his I Want Wings after photo: the same face in a navy knit on a sunny café street, under a monarch butterfly sticker and "Be gentle"
Photo in
Example · Be gentle slide
Choose an effect

PNG / JPG / WebP · up to 10 MB · at least 512px on the short side

0/1 photos

One recent photo of one person or one pet, face clear and toward the camera; a selfie or waist-up shot works best. Keep your old photo for slide 1.

Photo settings

No prompt needed. Only upload photos of yourself or people who agreed to be featured; celebrity photos and film stills aren't allowed.

What is the I Want Wings trend?

The I Want Wings trend, also called the "Ew squish it, be gentle" meme, is a TikTok glow-up post in three photos: an old or plain photo of you with a cockroach sticker and "Ew squish it!", a black slide with one butterfly, then a glowed-up photo of the same person with a butterfly sticker and "Be gentle", set to the line "In that case, I want wings".

Two slides side by side: a young man on his couch in a navy sweatshirt under a cockroach sticker and "Ew squish it!", then the same man in a navy shirt on a sunny café terrace under a monarch butterfly sticker and "Be gentle"

Both lines are older than the format. On 28 September 2026 @unicorna1ice posted an "Ew ew ew squish it" lip-sync on TikTok (431,400 plays by 7 November). "In that case, I want wings" is a line of Griffith from the manga and anime Berserk, and the sound comes from a fan edit of that scene. The trend has nothing to do with the Wingstop "I want wings" jokes about chicken.

It spread because it takes no editing: three photos, two stickers, two quotes. People now post cars, outfits, birds and small businesses the same way. The hard part is slide 3, a photo of you on your best day, and that is the slide this page makes.

"Ew squish it!"

What people say to a cockroach. Slide 1 casts your least polished self as the bug.

"Be gentle"

What they say to a butterfly. That double standard is what "Ew squish it, be gentle" means: same person, new look, and suddenly everyone handles you with care.

From a Berserk edit to a CapCut template: the I Want Wings timeline

  1. @sin_alt posts a Berserk edit captioned "Careful what you wish for Griffith". Its original sound, with the line "In that case, I want wings", becomes the trend's sound; the edit has 924,900 plays by 7 November.

  2. @omikko12 posts the three photos: cockroach and "Ew squish it!", a black butterfly slide, butterfly and "Be gentle". 5.5 million plays and 657,000 likes by 7 November.

  3. The "I want wings" CapCut template goes up; it has 79,501 uses by 7 November.

  4. @thats5urie posts a video made with the template on a second sound; it passes 1 million plays as template posts spread.

  5. The original sound is on 85,100 TikTok videos, and a post from 4 November has 3.3 million plays.

Sources: TikTok post and sound pages and the CapCut template page, read on 7 November 2026.

How do you post the I Want Wings glow up before and after?

Post the slides as a TikTok photo carousel and pick the sound "original sound - sin_alt", the one with "In that case, I want wings". In the post that set the format, each sticker is a small photo on a white square above the head, with its quote right under it, clear of the face.

  • A young woman's plain bedroom selfie in a white T-shirt, with a cockroach sticker and "Ew squish it!" above her head

    Slide 1 · Your before

    On the slide: "Ew squish it!"

    Your own old or plain photo, kept as it is. A hair care brand swapped the quote for "Good luck on that business bro"; any line that roasts your old self works.

  • A black slide with one orange and black monarch butterfly in the middle, wings half open

    Slide 2 · The butterfly

    On the slide: No text

    A black picture with one butterfly: a butterfly sticker on any black photo, or the 🦋 emoji. The CapCut template fills this beat with a swarm of butterflies.

  • The same woman with her hair up, in a white knit top on a sunny café terrace, under a monarch butterfly sticker and "Be gentle"

    Slide 3 · Your after

    On the slide: "Be gentle"

    The same person on a good day. The Be gentle slide look makes this one whole, sticker and quote included, so it goes straight into the carousel.

  • The same woman's glow-up photo in a cream cardigan top on the café terrace, with no sticker or text

    CapCut template version

    On the slide: No text

    The "I want wings" CapCut template adds the bug, the butterflies and both quotes itself and brings its own sound. Give it the Clean glow up look: a sticker baked into the photo would show twice.

Which I Want Wings glow up should you make?

All three looks keep the face, hair colour and hair length, and change the outfit, the light and the place. They differ in what sits on top: the trend's sticker and quote, nothing, or a pair of monarch wings. Here is one kitchen selfie through each look, plus a cat.

The man from the kitchen selfie in a navy knit on a sunny café street, under a monarch butterfly sticker and "Be gentle"Be gentle slide

Photo used

  • A man with messy wavy hair and stubble in a grey hoodie, taking a selfie in a bright kitchen
    Your photo

Ready to post as slide 3

The grey-hoodie kitchen selfie becomes a sunny café-street shot in a navy knit, wavy hair and stubble kept, with the monarch sticker and "Be gentle" above his head.

The same man in a navy button shirt on a sunny café terrace, with no text on the photoClean glow up

Photo used

  • A man with messy wavy hair and stubble in a grey hoodie, taking a selfie in a bright kitchen
    Your photo

Clean, for templates and Instagram

The same restyle with nothing on top: a navy shirt on a café terrace. Use it in the CapCut template, on Instagram or under a caption of your own.

The same man in a dark olive shirt on a sunlit street, with large orange and black monarch butterfly wings behind his shouldersButterfly wings

Photo used

  • A man with messy wavy hair and stubble in a grey hoodie, taking a selfie in a bright kitchen
    Your photo

AI butterfly wings behind the shoulders

Orange monarch wings rise from between his shoulder blades and stay behind his arms, with a dark olive shirt on a sunlit street: "I want wings", taken literally.

Wings in motion: the Angel Wings Catwalk video
The same ginger cat, brushed and fluffy, sitting on a sunny terrace ledge with monarch butterfly wings sized to its bodyButterfly wings

Photo used

  • A ginger tabby cat with ruffled fur sitting on a wooden floor in a bright living room
    Your pet

A pet glow up

A ruffled ginger cat just up from a nap comes back brushed and fluffy, sitting on a sunny terrace ledge with monarch wings sized for it.

Try it on your photo

What sizes and credits does the I Want Wings glow up use?

What sizes and credits does the I Want Wings glow up use?
Photos
1 photo of one person or one pet
Photo files
PNG / JPG / WebP, up to 10 MB, short side at least 512 px
Look
Be gentle slide, Clean glow up, and Butterfly wings
Output
1 photo per run, the after slide in the look you pick
Aspect ratio
3:4 or 9:16; 9:16 by default
Resolution
1K, 2K, or 4K; 1K by default
Credits
3 credits at 1K, 4 credits at 2K, and 5 credits at 4K
Failed runs
Credits come back automatically if a run fails
Visibility
Private: results are not shown in public galleries

How to make your I Want Wings AI glow up photo

One photo goes in and slide 3 comes out. It doesn't have to be flattering: the restyle supplies the hair, outfit and light, and only needs to read your face clearly.

  1. A young woman with a messy bun and a white T-shirt taking a selfie in a bright bedroom

    1 photoYour photo

    Becomes slide 3 in the look you pick: you on a good day, restyled and moved somewhere sunny.

    • A recent photo: the AI keeps the age it sees
    • A selfie or waist-up shot, so the face stays large

Which photo to upload

Glows up well

  • A curly-haired woman in a mustard sweater, chest up, smiling at the cameraFace clear and toward the camera
  • A grey-haired man in a navy sweater, chest up, in plain daylightUnfiltered, in daylight
  • A ginger tabby cat sitting upright and facing the cameraA pet, whole and facing you

Comes out wrong

  • Two men side by side in one photo at a cafeTwo people in one photo
  • A man in sunglasses and a low cap with a hand over his mouthSunglasses, caps or a hand over the face
  • A selfie under a cartoon filter with cat ears, huge eyes and stickersBeauty filters and AR effects

From selfie to slide 3

  1. Upload a recent photo

    One person or one pet, on the photo tile at the top of the page.

  2. Pick a look and generate

    Be gentle slide, Clean glow up or Butterfly wings. The button shows the exact price before you start.

  3. Post it as slide 3

    Download the photo and post it as the third picture of a TikTok slideshow, after your before photo and the black butterfly, with the trend's sound.

I Want Wings AI glow up prompts

The trend's posts are real phone photos, so there is no creator prompt to copy. These are the prompts behind every result on this page, written the way our generator sends them, with image 1 as your photo. Paste one into GPT Image 2.5 or any editor that takes a reference photo, and change the place or the wings to make it yours.

GPT Image 2.5 edit · image 1 = your photo

Prompt length 1888

Edit image 1 into the "after" photo of a glow-up post: the exact same person on their best day, in a believable phone photo a friend took. Keep their identity so friends recognize them at once: the same face shape and features, eye colour, skin tone, age, body build, hair colour and hair length, and any beard, glasses or freckles. Change only the styling: the hair freshly cut and neatly styled in its own colour and length, healthy skin with its real texture, a sharp, well-fitted everyday outfit that suits them, and a relaxed, confident pose with a small, sure smile toward the camera. Move them to a pleasant everyday place, such as a sunny street, a cafe terrace or a bright room by a big window, in warm, soft natural light, the background softly out of focus. Vertical framing from the waist up, the face large, sharp and well lit, with clear space above the head. If the photo shows a pet, it is the same animal with its own species, breed, coat colours and markings, freshly groomed with clean, fluffy fur, sitting proudly and looking into the camera, with no clothes. Lay the caption sticker of the trend over the photo, the way a phone app places it: in the upper third of the frame, above the head and never over the face, a small square photo of a real orange-and-black monarch butterfly on a plain white square, and centred just below it the words "Be gentle" in double quotes, in white rounded sans-serif letters with a soft dark shadow. "Be gentle" is spelled exactly once and is the only text in the image: no other words, numbers, emoji or watermarks.
Unretouched photo look: no beauty filter, no skin smoothing, no slimmer face, no bigger eyes, no makeup the photo does not show, no younger or older face; a child stays a child in modest clothes. Only the person or pet from the photo: nobody added, removed or merged. No logos, brand names or trademarked characters.

Lines that keep it you

  • List what friends know you by

    Face shape, eye colour, skin tone, age, hair colour and length. "Glow up" on its own lets the model invent a new face.

  • Place the sticker

    Upper third, above the head. Left open, the butterfly and quote land on the forehead.

  • Ask for a friend's phone photo

    Real after slides are candid snaps. A studio portrait reads as an ad, not as you on a good day.

Lines that cost the likeness

  • "Perfect skin" or "model looks"

    That is the beauty filter that makes friends say it isn't you.

  • The whole carousel in one image

    Three slides squeezed into one picture shrink every face. Make one image per slide.

  • "Ew squish it!" on the after photo

    The cockroach line belongs on your real before photo; on the after shot the joke flips.

A short prompt next to one that holds the face

Invents a stranger

Give me a glow up with butterfly wings.

Holds the face

Edit image 1 into the "after" photo of a glow-up: the exact same person, with the same face, skin tone, age, hair colour and hair length, restyled and moved into warm daylight. Two monarch wings grow from between the shoulder blades and stay behind the body.

The short version often returns a stranger with wings growing from the arms. Listing what stays and where the wings attach fixes both.

More trending AI video effects

Every template works the same way: add your photos, press Generate and get a shareable video without writing a prompt.

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I Want Wings AI glow up FAQ

Is the I Want Wings AI glow up free?+

No. It runs on credits, with no subscription needed. New accounts get 10 free credits at signup. The price depends on the resolution you pick, and the Generate button shows the exact amount before anything is spent.

Will my glow up still look like me?+

It should. The prompt keeps your face shape, features, eye colour, skin tone, age, hair colour and hair length, and bans beauty filters, smoothing and slimming; only the styling, outfit, light and place change. When a result drifts, the face in the photo is usually small, turned away or filtered: use a sharper photo facing the camera and run it again.

Is this an AI glow up filter or an app?+

Neither. It is not a live camera filter and there is nothing to install: you upload one photo in your browser and get a new photo back to post anywhere.

Can I make an AI glow up video or transition?+

This page makes photos. For a video, drop your after photo into the "I want wings" CapCut template, which plays the slides on its own sound, or use the Skull Cap AI video effect on Oeneo AI for a glow-up transition clip.

Can I upload my old or childhood photo?+

Keep the old photo for slide 1 exactly as it is. For the glow-up, upload a recent photo: the AI keeps the age it sees, so an old picture gives you an after shot of your younger self.

Can I glow up my cat or dog?+

Yes. Upload a photo with the whole animal and its face in view. It comes back brushed and fluffy, sitting proudly in warm light, and the Butterfly wings look gives it wings sized for it.

Can I change the "Be gentle" text?+

The Be gentle slide always writes "Be gentle" under a monarch sticker. For your own line, pick Clean glow up and add a sticker and text in TikTok's editor, or use the 🦋 emoji.

Which size should I pick for TikTok or Instagram?+

9:16, the default, fills a TikTok photo carousel edge to edge. 3:4 suits an Instagram carousel or a print.

Will my photo or result be public?+

No. Results from this template stay private to your account and are not shown in public galleries.

Is this linked to TikTok, CapCut, the creators or Berserk?+

No. It is an Oeneo AI photo template. Results show only you or your pet, with no anime frames, no sound and no logos.

Make your I Want Wings glow up photo

One recent photo in, your Be gentle slide out: with the sticker and quote, clean, or with monarch wings.

Make my after slideSee the three slides