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X Profile Page Prank Video Prompt

A detailed 15-second video prompt that animates a cartoon character climbing out of an X profile page avatar circle, peeling the page's text off into paper planes, sweeping the leftovers away with a broom, and writing two lines across the blank space with a marker. Built for GPT-6 Astra with MiniMax H3, it takes two reference images, one for character identity and one for page layout, and locks the camera for the entire shot.

Here's the thing.

@Chengzilhy saw someone asking for help in the morning, and casually built her a new version of her X profile page. Then posted it.

The stack, GPT-6 Astra for the prompt, MiniMax H3 for the video. He credits 津軽 for sharing the idea in the first place. The quoted post is where it started, a Japanese creator who animated her own profile icon and let it run wild across the page, prompt in the replies.

X profile page prank
X profile page prank

So what does the prompt actually do?

You feed it two reference images. Image 1 is the character, a red-dressed folk-style cartoon girl, the only identity reference for face, hair, outfit and art style. Image 2 is a screenshot of an X profile page, the only reference for background, UI and layout.

The rules are strict. Keep her face recognizable, keep the braids, the headdress, the red dress, the boots, the soft illustration texture. Don't turn her realistic, don't go 3D, don't swap the outfit or the art style. Same for the page. Banner stays, avatar circle stays, white UI stays, buttons, icons, spacing, proportions all stay. And the camera never moves. No zoom, no pan, no rotation, no perspective shift, for the whole 15 seconds.

Then the 15 seconds play out in six beats.

0 to 2.3 seconds. The page is frozen and only the inside of the avatar circle moves. She blinks, smiles, straightens a cuff, tugs at her skirt, glances out at the page, looks down at the text, then back at the lens with a slow mischievous grin.

2.3 to 4.0. She grabs the rim of the avatar circle and climbs out of it like it's a little doorway. Hands on the frame, upper body first, one foot then the other, lifting her skirt so it doesn't catch. It snags once on the rim, she turns back and tugs it free, then lands lightly on the white space below.

4.0 to 7.6. She looks around, spots all the text on the page, and gets that look, the one that means she's just had an idea. Three times she peels a chunk of text off the page like a sticker, folds it twice into a paper plane, and throws it at the camera. Each time the words fly out of frame, the place they came from is left blank white. Only text goes. The banner, the avatar circle, images, icons, button outlines and dividers all stay.

7.6 to 10.4. There's still text left. She puts her hands on her hips, pulls a broom out from behind her back, and sweeps three times. Top row swept sideways, middle swept down and to one side, then one last push toward the bottom right. The text gathers like paper scraps and only disappears where the broom actually touches.

10.4 to 13.7. She leans the broom aside, pulls out a thick black marker, pops the cap, and writes two lines by hand across the empty middle of the page. Stroke by stroke, you watch the nib move, nothing appears all at once. In the original the two lines name the person the page belongs to, written in Chinese.

13.7 to 15.0. Cap back on, a small step back to admire it, broom in one hand, marker in the other. Then a look back over the shoulder at the camera, the small pleased smirk of someone who got away with something. It holds on that frame for about 0.7 seconds.

And that's the whole trick. A profile page where the avatar climbs out, clears the place of text, and writes its name on what's left.

At the time of writing, the post sits at 62 likes, 48 bookmarks and 7.2K views. The full prompt runs long, it's in the original thread here, x.com/Chengzilhy/status/2096456212246364322

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