Week of November 9, 2026
TikTok trends this week
Six AI remakes going round TikTok right now and eight sounds climbing its US Viral chart, picked from what our trend radar saw between 5 and 10 November 2026. Every AI trend here was checked against the original post and its remakes before it went on the list.
Updated
AI trends going round
Remakes where people put themselves, their friends or their pets into a clip, made with AI.
1. La Mujer del Pelotero dance
An eleven-second hand routine danced on the spot to Ángel DR’s regional Mexican cover of La Mujer del Pelotero: a sway, one arm thrown up, forearms crossed over the forehead, an imaginary bat swung from the hip and claps from side to side. It took off from a kitchen video posted on 18 October, and now it is danced alone, in pairs, with mums and with kids.
How to join: Use the La Mujer del Pelotero sound by Ángel DR from its start and post under #lamujerdelpelotero. The AI version takes one photo.
Why it is here: By 10 November the sound was under more than 375,000 videos. On 9 November the sound most AI versions use grew 168% in a day, to 876 videos.
2. AI dunk
An AI-made clip from late October: one long-lens shot follows an ordinary-looking man in a plain top as he takes the ball in a packed pro basketball game, dribbles the length of the floor past a running referee, dunks one-handed and roars at the crowd. The take-off lands on the hook of “Forever”, which is why some call it the Forever dunk.
How to join: Remakes put in themselves or a friend and post over “Forever” under #aidunktemplate. The AI version takes one full-body photo.
Why it is here: On 8 November one remake had passed a million plays in under three days, on an account with 6,700 followers.
3. I Love The Smiths
A restaging of the elevator scene from (500) Days of Summer: one person lost in big headphones, the other leaning over to say “I love the Smiths”, a “Sorry?”, and a second try that leaves them speechless. People cast themselves and a friend, partner or crush in the two parts and post it over the scene’s own sound.
How to join: Start the scene’s sound from its first second and post under #ilovethesmithstrend. The AI version takes a photo of each of you.
Why it is here: On 8 November two remake sounds crossed our radar’s bar for the first time, and Google began finishing “i love the smiths trend” with “meaning” and “tiktok”.
4. Grandpa Said He’d Handle Dinner
An AI-made clip posted on 4 November by an account built around a made-up bodybuilding grandfather. Over the line “POV: Grandpa said he’d handle dinner”, he chops at a fish longer than he is, laid across the kitchen island, with a completely straight face. Remakes put a dad, a daughter or an actual grandpa behind the same counter and change the POV line to match.
How to join: Post over the original sound under #grandpasaidhedhandledinnertrend and type your own POV line on top. The AI version takes one photo.
Why it is here: The first clip passed 13 million views in three days, and by 7 November its sound was under 447 videos.
5. Stadium Calm Down
An AI-made clip that looks like live football coverage: a whole stadium on its feet and roaring, and one man in a dark suit who turns his back on it, walks slowly toward the camera and presses both palms down, calm down. It also goes round as the nonchalant stadium video.
How to join: Put whoever is least bothered in the suit and post under #stadiumcalmdown or #nonchalant. The AI version takes one photo.
Why it is here: The first AI remakes under #stadiumcalmdown went up on 4 November, and two AI template apps had added it by 6 November.
6. I Just Beat The Case
A real handheld clip of a young man pushing out through the glass doors of a courthouse, telling the camera he just beat the case, then flexing, roaring and skipping off down the walkway. A CapCut template cut it to thirteen seconds in October, and the AI remakes took off from there.
How to join: Keep the clip’s own sound, because the line is the joke, and post under #ijustbeatthecase. The AI version takes one full-body photo.
Why it is here: The upload that spread it passed nine million views, and by 5 November Google was finishing “i just beat the case” with “ai template” and “ai video”.
Sounds climbing the US Viral chart
From TikTok’s in-app US Viral chart on November 9, 2026, in order of how many videos each sound gained since we first saw it this week.
- 1
Housewife
Tate McRae
578K videos, up 75K since November 5
Use this sound
No. 28 on the chart - 2
Can I Ride
VERY GOOD
431K videos, up 68K since November 5
Use this sound
No. 9 on the chart - 3
nothing
Steve Lacy
92K videos, up 6K since November 5
Use this sound
No. 29 on the chart - 4
Stolen From Each Other
Nova Charisma
15K videos, up 2K since November 7
Use this sound
No. 6 on the chart - 5
Wyw my sweetie #JerseyClub (Slowed)
nissi & 25Hzz
104K videos, up 2K since November 8
Use this sound
No. 26 on the chart - 6
Beauty School Dropout (from “Grease”)
Frankie Avalon
20K videos, up 1K since November 7
Use this sound
No. 4 on the chart - 7
my lovin (mrbluejay)
baxxtrd
32K videos, up 1K since November 8
Use this sound
No. 24 on the chart - 8
wonder wander
Bella Kay
5.4K videos, up 500 since November 7
Use this sound
No. 13 on the chart
How we pick these
Every morning our trend radar pulls the newest videos from a dozen AI hashtags and searches on TikTok, groups them by the sound they use, and reads TikTok’s in-app US Viral chart. It also watches which trends AI video apps add as templates and which new domains get registered after a meme.
A trend goes on this list only after we have watched the original post and its remakes ourselves: who posted first, when, what happens second by second and which sound people use. The sound numbers are the video counts TikTok shows on each sound’s page, rounded the way TikTok rounds them, on the day we read them.
We make AI video templates, so every AI trend here has one of ours. The sounds are listed whether or not anyone has made an AI version of them.
Questions about TikTok trends this week
What are the TikTok trends this week?
For the week of November 9, 2026: La Mujer del Pelotero dance, AI dunk, I Love The Smiths, Grandpa Said He’d Handle Dinner, Stadium Calm Down and I Just Beat The Case, with “Housewife” and “Can I Ride” adding the most videos on the US Viral chart.
How often is this page updated?
Once a week. The date at the top says which week it covers and when it was last updated, and earlier weeks stay listed at the bottom of the page.
Can I use these sounds in my own videos?
On TikTok, yes: open any video with the sound, tap the sound name, then Use this sound. TikTok handles the licence for sounds in its own library. Outside TikTok the songs belong to their owners, so a file with the song baked in is a different matter.
Do I need AI to join these trends?
No. The sounds are free to use on TikTok and you can film the dances yourself. The AI trends are remakes where people put themselves into a clip they could not film; each one here links to a template that makes that version from your photos, for 80 credits a video.
angles.video is not affiliated with TikTok or with the people and labels behind these sounds. The sample frames above are AI-generated.
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