The Angry Dance Filter trend, explained

What is the Bad Times trend?

The dance plays out like a short skit. The person on screen lip-syncs the song at whoever is filming, as if the two of them were mid-fight, and the argument keeps escalating through gestures and facial expressions.

People search for it as the Bad Times trend, the Bad Times dance meme, the angry lady dance, the Imael Angel trend and the heated-argument or dispute trend; on Turkish TikTok it is the “Bad Times Dispute akımı.” On CapCut and on this site it is the Angry Dance Filter.

The song behind it: BAD TIMES by Imael Angel

The sound is “BAD TIMES,” a deep house single by Imael Angel released on March 30, 2026. If you came here looking for the angry dance song, this is the one.

On Deezer, Imael Angel’s own biography describes an artist created with AI by a deep house producer from Hungary. Who is Imael Angel covers the person behind the name, what is known about the AI side and their other singles.

The Angry Dance Filter moves

The routine is a handful of big gestures, all aimed at the camera:

• Point at the lens, straight at the person filming.
• Palms out, both hands open toward the camera.
• Hands on the head.
• An expressive shrug.
• Lean into the camera.
• A side turn.

Framing depends on the version. The doorway version is full body, while the kitchen take is a close-up built on big faces and arm swings, so a waist-up shot is enough.

Angry Dance Filter versions people copy: doorway, angry lady, babies, pets

A few takes get copied over and over:

• The doorway argument. VCap’s CapCut template shows a gray-haired man in glasses arguing with the camera in a wooden doorway. The template is called Angry Dance Filter, and that is where the trend’s second name comes from.
• The kitchen angry lady. A woman arguing in her kitchen, posted on TikTok on September 9, 2026, is one of the most-copied takes. Our Angry lady dance template uses that clip as its motion reference, and you can make the angry lady dance from one photo.
• Babies. zallmw_’s Bad times dance template puts a baby through the same moves as the doorway version, and Mila69429’s Aidance template has a baby in a white shirt pointing, palms out, shrugging and turning to the side.
• Sheldon. Karata’s Sheldon Bad Times template gives a sitcom character a playful routine of its own.
• Pets, friends and cartoon characters. As the trend spread, people started making AI versions from a single photo. Google’s search suggestions for “bad times ai” include dance, video generator and cat.

Why is it called the Angry Dance Filter?

Because VCap’s CapCut template for the argument version is called Angry Dance Filter. The trend now goes by a few names, each taken from a different part of it:

Bad Times

The song by Imael Angel, and the name most TikTok users give the trend; its main hashtags use the song and artist names.

Angry Dance Filter

VCap’s CapCut template for the argument version of the dance, and the name of this site.

Bad Times AI

What other websites call tools that turn a photo into the dance. It names a kind of tool, not a different dance.

Angry Dance Filter and Bad Times are two names for the same dance, not two spellings of one phrase. Google does not connect them yet, so search for both. On TikTok almost nobody tags the template name: as of October 27, 2026, #angrydancefilter had 4 videos.

How big is the Angry Dance Filter trend?

The trend took off on TikTok in September 2026, about five months after the song came out, and the song reached the UK charts that same month.

On CapCut, as of October 26, 2026, Mila69429’s Aidance template had 94.11K uses, VCap’s Angry Dance Filter 40.45K, zallmw_’s Bad times dance 34K and Karata’s Sheldon Bad Times 10.73K.

The song entered the UK Official Singles Downloads Chart dated September 10, 2026 at No. 32. As of October 27, 2026, its peaks are No. 2 on that chart, No. 4 on the Official Singles Sales Chart, No. 16 on the Official Dance Singles Chart and No. 67 on the Official Singles Chart Top 100, which it first reached on the chart dated October 1, 2026.

How to join in: three ways to make one

There are three ways to make an Angry Dance Filter video, from filming it for real to making it from one photo.

• Film it yourself. Get a friend to hold the phone, play the song in TikTok or Instagram Reels and argue at them with the moves above. How to do the Angry Dance Filter walks through it.
• Use a CapCut template. Open CapCut in the app or on the web, find a template such as VCap’s Angry Dance Filter, tap “Use template,” add your photo or video to the media slot, then preview and export. The Angry Dance Filter CapCut template guide covers each template.
• Make it from one photo with AI. AI motion control moves the person in your photo through a template clip. On this site you pick the Angry Dance Filter, Sheldon dance or Angry lady dance template, a length of 5 s, 10 s or the full dance, and 720p or 1080p. How to make a Bad Times AI video goes through it step by step.

Questions people ask

Sources

• Apple Music: the single — release date
• Official Charts: the single’s chart history — UK chart entries and peaks, checked October 27, 2026
• Deezer: Imael Angel — artist biography