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⚠️ Prompts for People Who Actually Use AI
Viral-worthy, visual, and totally remixable.
Phil Franco
May 11, 2025
Let’s be real — half the battle with AI is knowing what to ask.
What if you had a vault of image prompts so good, you could steal them, tweak them, and make them your own?
I pulled 24 of the most creative, viral-worthy GPT-4o prompts for image generation—across styles, tools, and weird use cases.
Whether you’re building a brand, launching a product, posting memes, or just playing—these are plug-and-play gems.
Take the structure, change the subject, test weird inputs.
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1. Blueprint-Style Patent Drawing
Ever thought of turning your product idea, podcast setup, or even a weird kitchen tool into a vintage-looking patent diagram?
This prompt gives you dusty patent office energy — perfect for mockups, posters, or making anything look like it was engineered in 1907. Ideal for creators, brands, or product designers who want that old-school blueprint vibe.
A blueprint schematic of a [subject], drawn in the style of early 20th-century industrial patents.
Rendered in crisp blue ink with white technical lines, featuring exploded views, angular labels, and stamped diagram codes. 
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2. Bobblehead from a Selfie
Turn yourself (or your client) into a merch-ready bobblehead.
Great for profile pics, avatars, or quirky product pages. Swap in any photo — your face, a friend’s, a fictional character — and you’ve got a collectible-style render with instant personality.
"Turn this photo into a realistic bobblehead version of me. Keep my face accurate, enlarge the head slightly, and make the body cartoonish. Place it on a neutral background."
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3. Vacuum-Packed Plush Icons
What if your logo or plush design looked like a limited-edition collectible pulled straight off a futuristic vending machine?
This prompt wraps your object in crinkled, vacuum-sealed plastic — highlighting every contour and texture like it’s a prized product on display. Great for edgy brand design or mockup art.
Create a high-resolution, hyperrealistic image of a [attached object] sealed inside a vacuum-packed,
crinkled metallic or transparent plastic pouch. The packaging should tightly conform to the shape of the object,
exaggerating its curves, edges, and texture as if suctioned in place. Include condensation or small creases
around pressure points for added realism. The object inside should retain a bold, clean look — graphic or
iconic in shape (e.g. smiley face, toy, tool, accessory). The background should be white/soft gray and minimal
to let the reflections and surface tension of the vacuum packaging stand out dramatically. Optionally, include
barcode labels, printed product codes, or branded text for a dystopian, collectible or archival look. 
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4. Retro Sprite Sheet Character
Ever wanted to see yourself as a fully animated video game character — complete with items, gear, and pixel style?
This one’s for game devs, indie creators, or anyone who wants to pixel-ify their likeness with style. You get a full sprite sheet of poses and props.
[CHARACTER=] [STYLE=pixel‑art] Create a cohesive sprite sheet. ─ROW 1 – Base Model ─ • Natural idle pose in 4-8 rotations. • Match the chosen STYLE exactly. ─ ROW 2 – Adaptive Equipment Grid─ • Add distinct gear/prop items that logically suit the CHARACTER including X, Y, Z. • Render each item in its own cell at the clearest modelling angle(s), using the same STYLE. • Ensure every piece fits the ROW 1 model without clipping. ─ Global Constraint ─ • Keep sheet visually and stylistically consistent (palette, light direction, line weight).
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5. Superhero VFX Anatomy Scan
What if you visualized your brand, product, or character like it was getting a sci-fi medical scan?
This prompt adds glowing red highlights to any body part or object — from brains to hearts to elephant tusks. Works for explainer-style images, surreal art, or stylized product anatomy.
A digital illustration of a [SUBJECT], portrayed with a network of glowing clean pristine blue lines outlining its anatomy.
The image is set against a dark background, highlighting the [SUBJECT]'s form and features.
A specific area such as [PART] is emphasized with a red glow to indicate a point of interest or significance.
The style is both educational and visually captivating, designed to resemble an advanced imaging technique. 
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6. Ghibli-Style Portrait (Preserve Layout)
What if your vacation photos, product shots, or office selfies looked like stills from a Ghibli movie?
This prompt transforms any image into a dreamy, hand-painted Ghibli-style scene — without changing the layout, objects, or camera angle. Great for nostalgic moodboards, whimsical social posts, or reimagining your brand in a totally new light.
Transform the input image into [NEW STYLE] while strictly preserving the original structure, composition, and camera angle.
Maintain all object positions, proportions, and spatial layout exactly as in the original.
Only change the visual style, texture, and artistic rendering to match [NEW STYLE],
without altering any geometry or perspective. 
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7. Cloud-Shaped Concepts
What if your startup’s logo, favorite emoji, or product symbol appeared in the sky — as a perfectly formed cloud?
This prompt visualizes symbols as skywriting-style clouds above beautiful landscapes. Use it to create dreamy brand visuals, metaphor-rich art, or just to make a cloud shaped like your pet.
A photograph captures a daytime scene with a [SUBJECT/OBJECT] formed by scattered clouds in the sky,
positioned above a [LOCATION]. 
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8. Seven Samurai Infographic
Give a classic film the infographic it deserves — or swap in your own cast of characters.
This prompt turns ensemble stories into stylish infographic spreads. Great for summarizing founders, product lines, community members, or just flexing design chops.
Use the uploaded infographics style for the film Seven Samurai with relevant accurate text content
in landscape mode. 
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9. Teacher Cartoon Stickers
Don’t focus on the teacher — focus on what this could be for your audience.
This prompt turns anyone into a set of expressive cartoon stickers with job-related catchphrases. Perfect for turning yourself, your audience, or a client into a branded pack of digital expressions.
A set of six high-resolution 2D cartoon stickers of the [attached image], each with a different funny expression and pose.
White background, clean bold outlines, bright colors, comic-style shading. Each sticker has humorous text related to her job:
“TEACHER MODE ON”, “I NEED COFFEE...”, “SUBSCRIBE”, “SELFIE TIME!”, “LET ME GRADE THAT”, “TOO EASY”. 
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10. Soft Vinyl Mushroom Toy
Design your own collectible vinyl toy — no sculpting needed.
Take any emoji, mascot, or character and turn it into a clean, pastel designer toy. Works great for visual branding, merch mockups, or just dreaming up your own line of collectibles.
Transform [🍄] into a soft vinyl figure with a smooth, glossy surface.
The material should look slightly rubbery and tactile, with minimalistic curves and a matte-gloss hybrid finish.
Use pastel or soft solid colors. Studio lighting, vibrant background, clean, playful, designer toy aesthetic. 
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11. Minimal 3D Object Set
Need sleek, studio-style visuals for your app, brand, or landing page?
This prompt creates floating 3D-style icons with soft shadows and muted colors. Think Apple-store aesthetics for your next product announcement or UI breakdown.
Minimalist 3D illustration of [object], soft shadows, smooth plastic textures, muted pastel colors like beige, gray, and olive green.
Soft lighting. Isometric view with subtle perspective, cute and friendly style, modern digital render. 
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12. Papercraft App Icon
Give your logo the arts-and-crafts treatment — with serious design vibes.
This turns app icons into paper-cut dioramas. Great for newsletters, product explainers, or playful social media posts with a handcrafted twist.
A paper craft-style "Spotify Logo" floating on a pure white background.
The emoji is handcrafted from colorful cut paper with visible textures, creases, and layered shapes.
It casts a soft drop shadow beneath, giving a sense of lightness and depth. Soft studio lighting highlights texture and edges. 
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13. Paparazzi Karl Marx at the Mall
Absurd? Yes. Useful? Absolutely.
This prompt drops historical or fictional characters into modern-day settings with paparazzi flair. Use it to parody public figures, create viral “caught in the wild” moments, or generate chaotic, meme-ready scenes with tabloid energy.
A candid paparazzi-style photo of Karl Marx hurriedly walking through the parking lot of the Mall of America,
glancing over his shoulder with a startled expression as he tries to avoid being photographed.
He’s clutching multiple glossy shopping bags filled with luxury goods.
His coat flutters behind him in the wind, and one of the bags is swinging as if he’s mid-stride.
Blurred background with cars and a glowing mall entrance to emphasize motion.
Flash glare from the camera partially overexposes the image, giving it a chaotic, tabloid feel. 
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14. Turn This Into a Renaissance Painting
Bring anything straight to the Louvre.
This simple prompt turns any image into an old-school oil painting — regal poses, rich textures, dramatic lighting. Use it for characters, product shots, or turning internet nonsense into classical art.
Turn this into a renaissance painting 
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15. Anime Poster From Any Film
What if your favorite movie was a lost 1980s anime?
This prompt reimagines modern films — or your own story — as Japanese anime posters. Swap in your title or plot, and let the AI create bold, stylized key art with that VHS-era magic.
1980s Japanese anime poster art, film <INSERT FILM HERE> 
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16. Elon vs. Shark Underwater Thumbnail
It’s Elon. It’s 8K. There’s a shark. You know the vibe.
This prompt generates absurdly cinematic scenes designed to look like viral YouTube thumbnails. Swap Elon for anyone. Replace the shark. You’re one AI render away from a banger thumbnail.
A hyperrealistic, 16:9 cinematic underwater scene designed to look like a viral YouTube thumbnail.
Elon Musk is at the center, shirtless and muscular, taking a dramatic wide-angle selfie underwater with a shocked expression.
Behind him, a giant great white shark charges with its mouth wide open, and several massive sea snakes thrash wildly around him.
One snake is mid-strike, while bubbles and sea debris fill the background.
The ocean floor is visible, scattered with seaweed, rocks, and lobsters, adding to the chaos.
Bright sunbeams cut through the surface water, highlighting the action with intense cinematic lighting.
The image is rendered in 8K ultra-detail, with exaggerated expressions, motion blur, and surreal energy —
crafted to instantly grab attention as a YouTube thumbnail. 
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17. Luxury Water Bottle Ad
Hydration never looked this expensive.
This prompt turns a plain glass bottle into a luxury product campaign image. Great for mock brands, packaging design, or clients who want that high-end “aesthetic startup” treatment.
Create a luxurious, cinematic ad image of a sleek Saratoga glass water bottle with condensation,
set on a glossy black stone. Cool blue lighting and soft mist add a refreshing glow,
with a waterfall and lush greenery in the background.
Include the tagline: 'Saratoga – Purity in Every Drop' in elegant white font. 
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18. Unhinged Tweet Printout
Sometimes the best AI idea is… printing a dumb tweet and scribbling all over it.
This prompt generates a real-looking printout of any post, then lets you “manually” ruin it with red ink, cutouts, and chaos. Great for meme commentary, fake zines, or unhinged carousel slides.
Print this out as a tweet and add unhinged red ink hand written annotations, doodles, scribbles, little cut outs if you want 
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19. Recipe Infographic (Mushroom Pasta Edition)
Make your favorite recipe scroll-stopping.
This prompt turns a simple cooking method into a clean, step-by-step visual guide — ingredients, process, icons, and final dish. Great for creators, food bloggers, or turning Grandma’s recipe into an aesthetic content piece.
Create step-by-step recipe infographic for creamy garlic mushroom pasta, top-down view,
minimal style on white background, ingredient photos labeled: "200g spaghetti", "150g mushrooms",
"3 garlic cloves", "200ml cream", "1 tbsp olive oil", "parmesan", "parsley",
dotted lines showing process steps with icons (boiling pot, sauté pan, mixing),
final plated pasta shot at the bottom 
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20. Medieval Meme Rework
Turn any modern image into a manuscript illustration.
Whether it’s a viral moment or a subtle flex, this prompt transforms the tone into medieval chaos — scroll texture, faded ink, and all. Perfect for meme remixes or historical branding satire.
Turn this into medieval art 
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21. Foreground Title Composition
Make your title part of the image’s environment.
This prompt inserts bold, layered text behind your subject — so parts of the title are obscured by the character, product, or scene. Great for magazine-style mockups or cinematic posters.
Add a title that says "[YOUR_TEXT]" on the background layer, positioned behind the [SUBJECT]
so that parts of the letters appear hidden by the [SUBJECT] in the foreground. 
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22. Squid Game YouTube Thumbnail (from Sketch)
Sketch → chaos. This prompt gives you cinematic drama in full 16:9.
Whether it’s billionaires, game shows, or commentary content, this setup is perfect for turning ideas into clickable visuals with that “I’d watch this” energy.
Turn this sketch into a squid-game style hyper-realistic 16:9 aspect ratio YouTube thumbnail,
the guy on the right should be a rich billionaire smoking a cigar & holding champagne,
the background should be faded but be many squid game characters (contestants in blue jumpsuits)
& a bright blue sky behind them. 
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23. Reflective Forest Logo Render
It’s your logo, but it’s glowing and floating in an enchanted forest.
This prompt creates ultra-stylized brand renders — think moss, sunlight, depth of field, and chrome. Use it for nature-meets-tech branding, intros, or mystical landing pages.
Create a hyper-realistic 3D render of a floating, chrome-like reflective logo (based on a clean, modern icon design),
standing upright in the middle of a soft mossy forest clearing. Surrounded by lush greenery, soft grass,
tiny blue and white wildflowers, and glowing dappled sunlight piercing through the trees.
The logo casts a soft shadow and reflects the environment like a mirror.
The camera angle is cinematic, low and slightly tilted upwards to enhance scale.
The atmosphere is magical and serene, like a peaceful enchanted forest.
Depth of field, rich textures, and detailed lighting make it feel like a professional product photoshoot in nature. 
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24. Thumbnail Face Swap
Steal the layout, keep the lighting, swap in your face.
This one’s super direct — drop in your own face to replace a character in a viral YouTube thumbnail layout. Useful for content creators who want a shortcut to studio-quality visual bait.
The first image attached is a thumbnail I want to use.
Replace the guy with my face. It must be 16:9, check the reference image. 
Your Turn:
That’s the list — but don’t treat these like finished ideas.
They’re creative ingredients. You make the final recipe.
Pick a few and experiment.
Swap in your niche, your audience, your product.
See what happens when you break them on purpose.
And when you make something cool?
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Know someone who’d use these?
Send them this post — or tag me @ai.withphil if you make something wild.
— Phil
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