1 photo. One South Park Filter video.

What this template does

The South Park filter is the TikTok trend where one photo becomes a flat, construction-paper cartoon of you in the style of the animated show: a big round head, two big oval eyes,

What is the South Park Filter trend, and where did it start?

The trend took off on TikTok in the last week of September 2026. common edit apps template makers built AI templates that redraw a photo in the flat, construction-paper look of South Park, the long-running animated show.

South Park Filter trend timeline

• Summer 2025The German tech site GIGA publishes three ChatGPT prompts that turn an uploaded portrait into a figure in the show's style; the first one puts it in front of snowy mountains and a small town.
• Fall 2026@jord627__x8 posts the first "south park ai filter tutorial" we found, for a common edit apps template; it has 594,100 views and 10,000 likes by 14 October.
• Fall 2026@sophiebennett0303 posts the sign-drop template, where a wooden sign falls over the photo and the cartoon wipes in. Its sound is in 6,942 TikTok videos by 14 October.
• Recent weeksA how-to video by @wudishaoxia goes up; it passes 1.8 million views and 64,300 likes by 14 October, the most viewed post of the trend we found.
• Recent weeksUS Google searches for "south park filter" reach their peak.
• Recent weeksAnother how-to video, by @ciqingyongcun22, passes 1.1 million views and 34,900 likes by 14 October.

Photo requirements for South Park Filter

• Face the camera in good light. The cartoon keeps what it can see: your hairstyle, beard, glasses, piercings and tattoos.
• Wear what you want your cartoon to wear. Your clothes, their colors and their prints carry over. A close selfie works too; the AI then adds simple trousers and shoes.
• Friends: everyone's face in view, nobody cut off at the edge, at most four people.
• Pets: the ears, the fur markings and any collar or bandana in view.
• Use your own photo, or a photo of friends who said yes. Never a celebrity or a stranger.

Troubleshooting South Park Filter

• What goes wrong — What people said
• --- — ---
• You come out as the other gender — "they turned me into a girl" (256 likes under the 1.8 million view tutorial)
• The beard or the hair is off — "they missed the beard and to much hair"

How South Park Filter differs from common face-swap templates

Caption & hashtag ideas for South Park Filter

• Trying South Park Filter
• Keep the AI label on
• Tag who has to go next
• Match a trending sound when you post

Hashtags that fit: #southparkfilter · #southparkcharacter · #southpark

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