How to make the Gas Station Dance video with your friends

By ReelMe team · Updated 2026-11-01

To make your own Gas Station Dance video, open the Gas Station Dance template on ReelMe and add up to three photos: the dancer in the white polo (required), plus the bucket-hat guy and the girl by the car if you want them. Pay $3.99 once and the AI recasts your friends in the original road-trip clip with its original sound. It's ready in about a minute, so you don't have to film at a real gas station or edit anything.

How to do it in 4 steps

Pick a template, for example Gas Station Dance.
Upload one clear photo (one per person or pet in multi-person templates).
Pay $3.99 once. No app, no sign-up, no subscription.
Download your video in about a minute and post it anywhere.

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The original is a Russian road-trip video. A group stops at a gas station, one guy in a white polo and light jeans breaks into a wild, loose-limbed dance by the pump, a friend in a black bucket hat hangs around, and a girl leans by the car. The caption, "тот самый вайб дальних путешествий", means "that long-road-trip vibe". Russian-language posts credit the clip to Litvin and Ravshan and call the trend "Делай" after the track. The AI remakes took off in Russia around September 2026 before spreading in English as the "gas station dance". If you search "gas station dance trend original", that's the clip, not the unrelated US stories about gas stations giving discounts to dancing customers.

Option one is to film it for real. Get three people and a car, find a quiet station (ask the attendant, and stay away from the pumps while the engine is running), prop a phone at hip height and play the sound. The dance doesn't have a fixed routine. It's flailing arms, bent knees and total commitment, so the funnier and less coordinated it looks, the better. It costs nothing, but you need everyone in the same place, and getting the same energy as the original usually takes a few takes.

Option two is a prompt tool. Prompt guides for this trend describe a dusk-lit forecourt, a man in a white polo dancing energetically, a friend in a bucket hat and a girl by a parked car, with a handheld phone-camera look. Getting all three faces to stay recognizable through the dancing is where these tools struggle, and each rerun uses credits. "Gas station dance CapCut template" results are mostly edit layers: the sound, cuts and captions over footage you bring. They don't put your friends in the clip.

Option three is ReelMe, where the clip comes from the original and each of your photos replaces one person. It's the only option on this list where all three friends can be in the video without being in the same place. Only the dancer is required, so a solo version works too. If generation fails, you get an automatic refund.

Which friend goes where: put whoever is the biggest show-off in the dancer spot, because that role carries the clip. Use one photo per person, each with a clear face and ideally the full body. Group photos cropped down tend to be too small and blurry. Hats and sunglasses are fine for the hat-guy role, but keep the dancer's face uncovered.

ReelMe at a glance

What it is: ReelMe is a web app with ready-made viral video templates. You upload a photo and the AI puts you, your partner or your pet in place of the person or animal in the clip.
Price: $3.99 per video, one-time payment. No subscription, no credits, no free tier.
Account: None. No sign-up, no app to install; works in any modern phone or desktop browser.
Input: One clear photo per person or pet (JPG, PNG or WebP). Some templates have 2 or 3 spots.
Output: An MP4 of the template clip with the original audio and no watermark, on a private link kept for 30 days.
Speed: Usually about one minute after payment.
Templates: 56 trends: dances, music video scenes, movie and TV moments, memes, couple and pet trends.
Refunds: Automatic full refund if generation fails; refund on request within 14 days.
Limits: You cannot upload your own motion video or write a prompt; only the listed templates are available. Results depend on the photo, and one video is generated per payment.

FAQ

What is the original Gas Station Dance video?

A Russian road-trip clip: a man in a white polo dances wildly at a gas station while a friend in a bucket hat and a girl by the car look on, captioned "тот самый вайб дальних путешествий" ("that long-road-trip vibe"). AI remakes that recast the three people spread from there.

What song is used in the Gas Station Dance trend?

The original road-trip clip's audio. Russian-language coverage calls the trend "Делай" ("Do it") after the track. The ReelMe template keeps the original audio, so you don't need to find it.

Is there a Gas Station Dance CapCut template?

There are CapCut templates with the sound and the cuts, but they only edit footage you already have. To appear in the actual scene you either film it yourself or use an AI tool that recasts the people in the clip.

Is there a free Gas Station Dance AI video generator?

Prompt tools with free credits can produce a gas-station dance scene, but usually not with your real friends' faces holding steady through the dance. ReelMe charges $3.99 once for the whole video, up to three people included, with an automatic refund if it fails.

Can I make it with just one photo?

Yes. Only the dancer is required. Leave the hat guy and the girl empty and they stay as in the original.