Gas Station Dance: Original vs Your AI Version

How to make a gas station dance video from 3 photos

A gas station dance video takes three photos and one click here: Photo 1 plays the dancer, Photo 2 films the walking selfie and Photo 3 steps out of the car. Pick a model, resolution and frame, check the price on the button, then generate. There is nothing to film, edit or prompt; the template supplies the moves, cuts and music.

1. 01

   Add three photos

   One person per photo, face clear. Photo order is shot order: dancer, selfie, car exit.

2. 02

   Pick model, quality and frame

   Seedance 2.0 Fast at 720p is the default. Mini costs least; Seedance 2.0 and 2.5 go up to 1080p; MiniMax H3 is 720p. 9:16 follows the template, 16:9 widens the scene.

3. 03

   Generate and download

   Seedance 2.5 checks the photos and the template first. A failed or refused video returns its credits. Download the MP4 with the music and post it.

Each photo plays only its own shot, so put the person you want stepping out of the car in slot 3.

Is the viral gas station dance real or AI?

The viral gas station dance began as a real clip: Russian blogger Mikhail Litvin and his friends Ravshan and Adel filmed it at a gas station at night during a 2024 road trip, according to write-ups of the trend. The sunset versions with new faces that spread from late September 2026, the "gas station AI trend", are mostly AI: one 15-second template with three photos swapped in, keeping the same moves, cuts and music.

• Night, gas station lights and three friends: the 2024 original.
• Low golden-hour sun, a red-striped canopy and two parked SUVs: the AI template most versions copy.
• The same cuts at about 0:05 and 0:07 whoever is in it: a template, not a new performance.
• Hands, a phone or a face that warps in the selfie or the car exit: a common AI artefact.

What song is in the gas station dance video?

The gas station dance video is usually posted with "On and On" by Akcent, the Romanian pop group, according to reposts and write-ups of the trend; searches like "gas station viral video dance akcent" point to the same track. The template this page uses carries its own music track, and the finished video gets that track back after generation, so you don't add music yourself.

Posting to TikTok or Reels? You can also pick a different sound in the app before posting; the song's rights belong to its owners.

Dance at the gas station: which video do you mean?

"Dance at the gas station" can mean three different videos. This page is about the three-shot gas station dance trend (a dance, a walking selfie, a car exit) and its AI versions. The 2026 Sunoco story, where a New York gas station gave customers a discount for dancing, is a news clip, and "Gas Station Love" is a line dance with its own steps. Neither of those two can be made here.

CNN: gas station encourages customers to dance for discounts (2026-08-08)

Gas station dance original vs AI version, side by side

The gas station dance original and the AI version share the three shots but little else: the original is a 2024 night-time phone clip of three real friends, while the AI version is a 15-second golden-hour template whose three people are replaced from photos. The table lists what differs, then what the AI version changes and what it keeps.

What the AI version changes and what it keeps

If you only remember the picture

• "A guy dancing alone at an empty gas station at sunset, hand on his hip, then both arms up": shot 1.
• "Someone filming a selfie while walking past the red-and-white pumps, pointing at the camera": shot 2.
• "A person getting out of a blue car and walking toward the camera with a phone": shot 3.
• "The gas station dancer with his arms up, then a guy filming himself": the same clip, shots 1 and 2.

Where the gas station dance trend came from

The gas station dance trend traces back to a 2024 clip by Russian blogger Mikhail Litvin with his friends Ravshan and Adel: Ravshan dances by the pumps, Litvin turns the phone into a selfie, and Adel climbs slowly out of the car. Write-ups describe it as unplanned, filmed around 4 a.m. on a road trip. In 2026 template sites rebuilt it at sunset with three photo slots, and the AI versions spread.

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Gas station dance prices and credits

A gas station dance video isn't free here: the cheapest costs 24 credits (about $0.85, Seedance 2.0 Mini 480p), the default Seedance 2.0 Fast 720p video 109 credits (about $3.85), and the sharpest 679. Sign-up credits (3) pay only for Seedance 2.0 Mini and don't cover its 24-credit video. From a zero balance, the $9.00 pack (100 credits) covers 4 Mini 480p videos, and $19.00 (300 credits) covers 2 default videos.

Every video is the full 15 seconds; the number of different photos and the frame don't change the price. Dollar figures use the cheapest credit, $99.00 for 2800 credits. See all credit packs

What the gas station dance template can't do

The gas station dance template recasts one fixed 15-second clip, so the scene, the cars, the length and the shot order are set in advance. Only the three people change, and how close each one looks to their photo depends on the photo and the model you pick.

• No night version: the forecourt stays in golden-hour sun, unlike the 2024 original.
• No other length or shot order: it's always the 15-second template, dance, selfie, car exit.
• No car choice: the prompt asks for the template's two parked SUVs, so you can't pick your own car (the examples come from other AI versions with other cars).
• One person per photo works best: crop a group photo to one person before uploading.
• Faces, hands and the phone can drift; the prompt asks the model to keep each photo's look, but results vary by model and photo.
• No custom music or captions here: add text or change the sound in your editing app before posting.

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