What is the CCTV Tiger Fight AI: You Wrestle a Tiger on Security Camera Footage?
A grainy black-and-white security camera watches a forest path. Someone walks into frame with a wine gourd, a tiger steps out of the bushes, and instead of running they wrestle it to the ground and sit on its back. The CCTV tiger fight is the AI trend of the week across Southeast Asia, and this template puts you in the clip from one photo.
The joke is an old one. The camera label in the original reads "Jingyang Ridge, south side", the place where Wu Song, the hero of the Chinese classic Water Margin, kills a tiger with his bare fists after a few bowls of wine: hence the gourd. It started in China as part of a wave of AI clips styled as "old surveillance footage" of famous legends, and a CapCut AI template followed on 8 November 2026. On TikTok @fahsai5350 made it a trend in Myanmar, captioned "tiger fight AI trend" with a phonk sound: her posts reached 992,000 and 564,000 views in two days, and @xdwshfzqi0k's added 525,000.
The template runs in two steps: an image model places you on the forest path in CCTV black and white with the tiger stepping out, then a video model plays 8 seconds of the slapstick wrestle with an original phonk beat. Nobody is hurt, the tiger included. The trend videos on this page are credited to their creators; the poster image is AI-generated.
What happens in the video
0-2 s: on black-and-white CCTV, you walk a forest path with a wine gourd and a tiger steps out. 2-4 s: you put the gourd down and square up. 4-6 s: the tiger pounces and you wrestle in the dust. 6-8 s: you sit on its back and look up at the camera.
Who is Wu Song?
The hero of Water Margin, a 14th-century Chinese novel, who kills a tiger with his bare hands at Jingyang Ridge after drinking. The trend retells the legend as a security camera clip. The template uses your face, not his.
Which photo to use
One adult, full body or down to the knees, face clear. Use your own photo or one of someone who said yes, never a celebrity, a stranger or a child.