The window peeper AI trend, with you in the window

How to make a window peeper video yourself

You do not need this page to make one. This is how the video is put together, with the prompts for every shot, so you can build it with any picture model and image-to-video model you like.

1. Step 1

   Draw one still per shot from your photo

   Use a picture model that takes a reference photo and draw five stills from the same photo: the lit window from across the street, the bite, the stare, the finger and the curtain. Describe the room, the table, the bag and the curtain the same way every time, or the room changes between shots.

2. Step 2

   Frame every close shot with the window

   Say first that the picture looks in from outside at night, with the window frame round all four edges and its outside ledge along the bottom, and only then who is in the room. Told only that it is "seen from outside", a picture model often draws the room from inside instead.

3. Step 3

   Animate each still, then cut

   Give each still to an image-to-video model with one line about what moves: the bite, the slow chew, the finger, the curtain pulled across. Keep the view fixed from outside with a slight handheld wobble, trim the clips to two to four seconds, lay them end to end at 9:16 with hard cuts, and add the sound on TikTok.

The shots, second by second

The prompts, shot by shot

Each shot is made in two steps. Give its still prompt to a picture model with your photo as the reference, then give the picture it draws to an image-to-video model with the motion prompt. Add these endings to every prompt: they set the look and keep the faces the same from shot to shot.

1. 0–2.5sThe lit window

   Still prompt

   Copy

   The front of a tall, plain concrete apartment block late at night, seen straight on from across the street and filling the whole frame from edge to edge: a grid of identical windows over eight floors, almost all of them dark, a few with pale curtains drawn. Exactly one window, in the middle of the frame, is lit up warm yellow, a mustard-yellow curtain hanging open at its right-hand side. Behind its glass, small, the size a person really is in a window seen from across a street, the person in the reference photo sits alone at a table eating, facing out. Nothing else is in the picture: no street, no foreground, no balcony, no room around the camera, and nobody in any other window.

   Motion prompt

   Copy

   The camera zooms slowly and steadily in toward the one lit window, with a slight handheld wobble, until the window fills most of the frame. The person inside keeps eating and does not look up. The building does not move.

2. 2.5–6sThe bite

   Still prompt

   Copy

   Looking in from outside, late at night, through one lit window of an apartment building. The thick dark grey frame of that window runs round all four edges of the picture, with its concrete outside ledge across the bottom; the camera is out in the dark, and everything else in the picture is in the room on the far side of the glass. The person in the reference photo, in their own clothes from the photo, sits at the table just behind the glass, facing out toward the camera, seen from the waist up, face in full view, holding a big, tall burger in a sesame bun, two beef patties, melted cheese and lettuce in both hands just below their chin, mouth closed, eyes down on the burger. Behind them, a small, plain room lit by one warm ceiling light, its back wall pale and bare, with no window in it. A light wooden table stands right up against the inside of the glass, and on it a plain brown paper takeaway bag and an open cardboard burger box, both blank, with no logo, print or writing on them. A long, heavy mustard-yellow curtain hangs open inside the room at the right-hand edge of the glass.

   Motion prompt

   Copy

   They lift the burger, take one big bite, lower it again and chew with their mouth closed. Still chewing, their eyes slowly come up from the burger and settle on the camera. They do not smile. The view stays fixed from outside the window, with a slight handheld wobble.

3. 6–10sThe stare

   Still prompt

   Copy

   Looking in from outside, late at night, through one lit window of an apartment building. The thick dark grey frame of that window runs round all four edges of the picture, with its concrete outside ledge across the bottom; the camera is out in the dark, and everything else in the picture is in the room on the far side of the glass. Closer now: the window frame shows only at the very edges of the picture. The person in the reference photo, in their own clothes from the photo, sits at the table just behind the glass, seen from the chest up, face in full view, cheeks full, holding a big, tall burger in a sesame bun, two beef patties, melted cheese and lettuce with one bite out of it in both hands in front of their chest, staring dead straight into the lens with a flat, unimpressed, slightly annoyed look. Behind them, a small, plain room lit by one warm ceiling light, its back wall pale and bare, with no window in it. A light wooden table stands right up against the inside of the glass, and on it a plain brown paper takeaway bag and an open cardboard burger box, both blank, with no logo, print or writing on them. A long, heavy mustard-yellow curtain hangs open inside the room at the right-hand edge of the glass.

   Motion prompt

   Copy

   They keep chewing slowly with full cheeks, holding the burger still, and stare dead straight into the lens without blinking or looking away, one eyebrow lifting slightly. They do not smile. They do not speak. The camera creeps a little closer, with a slight handheld wobble.

4. 10–12.5sNo.

   Still prompt

   Copy

   Looking in from outside, late at night, through one lit window of an apartment building. The thick dark grey frame of that window runs round all four edges of the picture, with its concrete outside ledge across the bottom; the camera is out in the dark, and everything else in the picture is in the room on the far side of the glass. Closer now: the window frame shows only at the very edges of the picture. In it, a small, plain room lit by one warm ceiling light, its back wall pale and bare, with no window in it. A light wooden table stands right up against the inside of the glass, and on it a plain brown paper takeaway bag and an open cardboard burger box, both blank, with no logo, print or writing on them, the bitten burger back in its box. The person in the reference photo, in their own clothes from the photo, has got up from their chair and stands on the far side of the table, facing the glass and leaning a little toward it, seen from the waist up, face in full view, still chewing, glaring straight into the lens, one hand raised at shoulder height with the index finger pointing up. A long, heavy mustard-yellow curtain hangs open inside the room at the right-hand edge of the glass.

   Motion prompt

   Copy

   Glaring into the lens, they wag the raised index finger slowly from side to side: no. They do not smile. The view stays fixed from outside the window, with a slight handheld wobble.

5. 12.5–16sCurtains

   Still prompt

   Copy

   Looking in from outside, late at night, through one lit window of an apartment building. The thick dark grey frame of that window runs round all four edges of the picture, with its concrete outside ledge across the bottom; the camera is out in the dark, and everything else in the picture is in the room on the far side of the glass. Closer now: the window frame shows only at the very edges of the picture. In it, a small, plain room lit by one warm ceiling light, its back wall pale and bare, with no window in it. A light wooden table stands right up against the inside of the glass, and on it a plain brown paper takeaway bag and an open cardboard burger box, both blank, with no logo, print or writing on them, the bitten burger back in its box. The person in the reference photo, in their own clothes from the photo, has got up from their chair and stands on the far side of the table, facing the glass and leaning a little toward it, seen from the waist up, face in full view, still chewing, glaring straight into the lens, arms at their sides. A long, heavy mustard-yellow curtain hangs open inside the room at the right-hand edge of the glass.

   Motion prompt

   Copy

   Still glaring into the lens, they reach to the side, take hold of the curtain and in one quick, firm movement pull it all the way across the glass, hiding themselves and the room. The closed curtain fills the whole window, glowing softly with the warm light behind it, and stays closed. The view stays fixed from outside the window.

Where it goes wrong

• Keep the camera outside

  The commonest miss is a still taken from inside the room: you in front of a window, or out on the far side of an open one, looking in, with the table and the food in the foreground. Frame the shot with the window, describe the person before the room, and say the room is on the far side of the glass.

• Only one window in the room

  Say "the window" about anything in the room, the table pushed up against it or the curtain at its side, and the model may add a second window behind you and film that one from inside. Call it the glass you are looking through, and say the back wall is bare.

• Draw the curtain shot without the curtain in hand

  A still of someone gripping a curtain is usually drawn the way people close their curtains, from inside with their back to you. Draw them standing behind the table facing the glass, and put the reach for the curtain in the motion instead.

• Keep the stare deadpan

  Left to itself, a video model has the person grin at the camera, which kills the joke. Say in every shot that they do not smile, and have them hold the burger still and chew slowly while they stare.

• Leave the logos off

  The original has a fast-food chain's bag on the table. Ask for a plain brown paper bag and a blank burger box, with no logo, print or writing: someone else's trademark has no place in your video.

• Only people who said yes

  Use your own photo or one of someone who agreed. Do not use celebrities, or anyone who has not agreed to be in the video: a realistic video of a real person made without their consent can hurt them, and platforms take it down. Never film a real window.

• Label it as AI-generated

  Switch on TikTok's AI-generated content label before you post. A realistic clip filmed into someone's window is exactly the kind people ask about, and viewers trust a post that says so.