How to Do the I Love the Smiths Trend, With or Without AI

1. Pick roles: person 1 wears the headphones, person 2 says the line. Big over-ear headphones read best on camera.
2. Find a small space: an elevator, a hallway, a bench or a bus stop. People have filmed it on a park bench and on a London street.
3. Prop the phone at chest height, close enough to show both of you from the waist up.
4. Run it once: person 2 says the line, person 1 pulls the headphones down, person 2 says it again, then the smile.
5. Film it in one take, under 20 seconds, and add the sound in TikTok afterwards.
6. Post it with a caption and the tag, and tag your partner in the scene if they want to be tagged.

By 5 November 2026, the date of the earliest template posts we found, the scene had also become an AI template: you add two photos and the app makes the elevator scene with the two of you in it. TikTok tutorials such as this one, with 1.4 million plays on 8 November 2026, open a CapCut template from a post and add the photos. Most AI posts put famous couples in the elevator; yours is better with you and a friend or a partner who said yes.

The I love the Smiths AI effect on RapVideo does it in the browser: two photos, one of each of you, a 14-second wide video with the template result’s own sound. 14 seconds for 7 credits at 480p, 12 at 720p or 24 at 1080p.

1. Pick one clear photo of each of you, facing the camera, waist-up if you have them.
2. Open the I love the Smiths AI page; the editor opens on the I Love the Smiths effect.
3. Add photo 1 (the one in headphones, on the left) and photo 2 (the one who talks, on the right).
4. Pick 480p, 720p or 1080p and press Make the effect, then download the MP4.

We have not rendered this effect ourselves yet: the clip shown is the template result it follows. The voices on the clip are the template’s own, so they will not sound like you.

The sounds most used in the 151 posts we sampled on 8 November 2026:

Use the sound itself on TikTok rather than a copy, so your post shows up with everyone else’s. The film’s own song is the classic choice; Ariana Grande’s "ghostin" is the most used.

• Tag it: on 8 November 2026 #ilovethesmithstrend had 655 videos and 2.8 million views, and #500daysofsummeraitrend 232 videos.
• Post it soon: of the 151 posts we sampled that day, by 126 creators, 70 were from the previous 24 hours.
• Make it yours: your own elevator, your own song in the headphones, your own ending.
• Use your own photos and people who said yes. Famous faces and children are not for this.
• Label the AI version as AI. The rules are in does TikTok allow AI videos?.

What the line means, the song in the headphones and why the scene became a trend: I love the Smiths meaning.