Nano Banana Pro's "Giant Play" Videos Go Viral, AI-Generated "Zootopia" Memes Trend

Victor Zhang
Victor Zhang
AI-generated image showing a giant banana character from 'Nano Banana Pro' interacting with characters from 'Zootopia', symbolizing viral AI content.

Recent AI-generated content, including a series of "giant play" videos created with Nano Banana Pro and secondary creations based on Disney's "Zootopia," has gained significant traction online.

Nano Banana Pro's "Giant Play" Videos

Overseas netizen Travis Davids used Nano Banana Pro to generate images and Veo 3.1 for video production, creating a series of "Gulliver's Travels"-style videos that depict giant figures interacting with miniature environments. One video, which has accumulated over 400,000 views on X, shows a giant woman in a macaron-colored hoodie playing with a yellow taxi on a busy intersection. The scene then shifts to her drinking bubble tea by a cherry blossom-lined lake, with the cup appearing as large as a water tower.

Other examples include a woman in a resort-style dress flicking a windmill blade in a tulip field near Amsterdam, a man with mud boots submerged in the River Thames next to the Houses of Parliament in London, and a giant orange cat asleep across rooftops in Kyoto, Japan.

Davids noted that using "forced perspective" in prompts, such as "A highly detailed, realistic, extremely low-angle ground-level photo, shot from the ground looking up, showing a giant Asian woman in cute clothing at Shibuya Crossing," can enhance the sense of scale. He also recommended upscaling AI-generated images to 4K resolution to maintain detail in tiny background elements, which is crucial for conveying immense size.

For animation, Davids tested Kling 2.6 and Grok Imagine before settling on Veo 3.1, stating it performed best in depicting the dynamics of giant creatures interacting with miniature environments. A shared prompt template includes details for camera angle, character description, location, action, and lighting, with instructions to include tiny elements like pedestrians or cars to emphasize scale.

AI-Generated Short Film "ARROW"

A short AI narrative film titled "ARROW," created by blogger "DiDi_OK," has gone viral across multiple platforms, garnering over 3.9 million views and 250,000 likes on Bilibili. The film, almost entirely produced using AI tools like Nano Banana, Veo3, Runway for visuals, and Gemini combined with Suno for the soundtrack, explores themes of reality and virtuality.

The plot features an "arrow" and an operating window appearing in the sky, causing a bridge to twist, cows to be enlarged and copied, and fighter jets to be framed and cut. The "arrow" disrupts normal life, with human resistance proving futile. The creator used this premise to conduct a thought experiment on whether our world might be pre-set by a program.

Viewers praised the film not just for its visuals but for the creator's storytelling and creative skills, including narrative rhythm, shot organization, visual presentation, and music design. The film suggests that while AI tools are powerful, "content is king," and genuine stories resonate most with audiences.

"Zootopia" AI Secondary Creations

The meme "Nick Wilde, you're under arrest!" from Disney's "Zootopia" has inspired numerous AI secondary creations. The hashtag #NickWildeYoureUnderArrest has reached 5.4 million popularity on Douyin's challenge chart, with many AI-generated videos receiving hundreds of thousands of likes.

These creations often feature abstract phrases like "Baldy Baldy" and "Jick Jinnie Jick" and blend characters and elements from various IPs, such as "Nezha," "Boonie Bears," "Minions," and "Nailong," into "Zootopia" scenarios. This has led to new, often absurd, creations like "Crazy Chentangguan" and "Crazy Xiongshouling."

While popular, these secondary creations have also generated controversy. Some find them humorously absurd, while others criticize them as meaningless and disrespectful to the original film, fearing they could diminish "Zootopia's" appeal. The low barrier to entry for AI tools is seen as a factor in the proliferation of such content, highlighting the need for creators to explore more valuable AI creative ideas.

AI Video Puts Zombies and Gaokao Together

An AI-generated abstract joke video posted by "Doro Observation Bureau" on Douyin on December 4th, depicting a zombie siege during the Gaokao (college entrance exam), has received over 320,000 likes and 360,000 shares. The video combines classic study scenarios—exam halls, cafeteria rushes, and memorizing on the way to school—with the urgency of a zombie apocalypse.

The video humorously exaggerates student life, resonating with many netizens. The account positions itself as an observer of human society, using absurd comedic sketches to deconstruct social pain points. This content reflects the mental state of a large number of netizens and suggests that successful abstract AI content often stays close to life, captures online trends, and provides an emotional outlet for the audience.