Viral ChatGPT Stylish Image Prompts for 2025

AI-generated images are rapidly becoming a ubiquitous presence across social media platforms. In 2025, ChatGPT image prompts are at the forefront of this trend, enabling creators, influencers, and designers to generate dramatic, stylish, and super realistic scenes that capture attention online. These prompts allow you to transform ordinary concepts into cinematic visuals.

How to Use Viral ChatGPT Image Prompts

Getting started with these viral prompts is straightforward:

• Open ChatGPT and select the image tool.
• Copy your chosen prompt and paste it directly into ChatGPT.
• To include your own face, simply upload a clear, front-facing photo. The AI will then integrate your features into the generated image, often matching lighting, skin tone, and perspective realistically.

For more advanced face swapping, even with friends’ or celebrities’ faces, you can use a free face-swap tool like Deepswapper. This involves uploading your original image and the AI-generated image, then tapping “Swap” to download the result.

Top Viral ChatGPT Image Prompts to Try

The sources provide a diverse collection of prompts designed to create stunning, attention-grabbing visuals. Here are some of the most prominent viral prompts:

• Ultra-realistic Fisheye Selfies with Characters: Create a 9:16 vertical format fisheye selfie of yourself (or with a girlfriend) making silly, exaggerated faces alongside characters like Shinchan, Doraemon, Naruto, Nobita, Satoru Gojo, Sung Jin who, Ash from Pokimon, Black Fragon, Sonic, or Mario. These are set in a small, bright living room with white tones, featuring a high camera angle, extreme fisheye distortion, realistic, cinematic lighting, and anime characters integrated with stylized realism.

• Cinematic Boxer Portrait: Generate an ultra-realistic cinematic image of a young man (using an uploaded face) styled as a strong, focused boxer wearing a fitted dark athletic t-shirt with fists wrapped in tape. Set the subject against a bold red background and use cinematic lighting with deep shadows and strong highlights to emphasise muscle tone and facial expression.

• Double Exposure with Post-Apocalyptic Cityscape: Produce a cinematic double exposure of yourself in profile, featuring a destroyed, burning urban street, buildings in ruins, glowing embers and fire, and a dramatic sunset inside your silhouette. The mood should be moody, emotional, and introspective, with warm tones, high detail, and 8K resolution.
  
• Rainy Street Scenes:
  
  • Walking with an Umbrella in Heavy Rain: Picture yourself wearing an oversized black t-shirt, black box pants, and sneakers, using an umbrella on the sidewalk about to cross the road at a red light, with many trees beside the sidewalk in heavy rain. Ratio 9:16.
  • Walking Against a Rushing Cyber City Crowd: Create a cinematic shot of yourself walking against a rushing cyber city crowd, where others are blurred with motion trails and slow-shutter. You are in focus, in side profile, looking seriously into the distance, soaked in rain and wearing a long trench coat. The scene features neon cyberpunk tones, a 35mm film look, and ambient lighting from neon signs. Ratio 4:3.
  • Slow-motion Metro Station Walk: A slow-motion cinematic side profile shot of yourself walking against a rushing metro station crowd, with others blurred by motion trails. You are in focus with a serious face, wearing a long trench coat, set in cool blue tones with a 35mm film look and ambient lighting from train signs. Ratio: portrait 4:3.
  • Noir Car Interior: Sit inside a car at night, bathed in moody neon lighting, creating an intense and mysterious atmosphere with contrasting deep blue and magenta hues. Rain droplets streak the car window for a noir, suspenseful feel. You grip the steering wheel with a serious expression, your face partially shadowed, maintaining a "Neo-noir" thriller vibe with high contrast lighting, shallow depth of field, and ultra-realistic style, photographed through the car window. Text at the bottom reads “IN THE NIGHT” in a subtle, elegant font.
  • Close-up Portrait in Rain: A close-up portrait of a young 21-year-old boy in the rain, seen from profile, looking into the distance with a melancholic expression. He wears a dark baseball cap with a red detail and black over-ear headphones, with heavy dark hair tousled by coastal wind. Raindrops are visible on his skin, against a heavily blurred, dark, rainy outdoor background.

• Dramatic Portraits with Special Effects:
  
  • Burning Newspaper: A person standing against a black background holding a newspaper labelled ‘LATEST NEWS’, partially on fire at one corner with blue flames and a faint smoke trail. The fire is stylized and striking. Lighting from the blue fire casts blue highlights and shadows across the face and hands, with the subject wearing a black shirt and layered silver chains. The expression is serious and contemplative, creating an intense and mysterious atmosphere.
  • Submerged Face with Neon Lighting: A hyper-realistic close-up portrait of a young man’s face, with only the left half visible and partially submerged in water. Illuminated dramatically with soft, ambient blue and pink neon lighting, casting colourful reflections on wet skin and damp hair. Water droplets and small bubbles cling to the face, enhancing the cinematic mood, showing skin texture, slight beard stubble, and intense eye focus.
  • Lighter Flame Illumination: A glow from a lighter flame illuminating your face, with soft green light on one side and red rim light on hair and shoulder. Features dramatic shadows, a dark black background, slight sweat on skin for glossy texture, a red and black checkered shirt, and metallic chain bracelets. Ultra-realistic details, sharp focus on eyes, moody low light photography style, shallow depth of field, high resolution, 8K, and dramatic lighting.

• Fashion and Editorial Styles:
  
  • Confident Man in Suit with Coloured Smoke: A well-groomed beard and mustache wearing a dark velvet suit and sunglasses, posing confidently in a moody studio setting. The background is dramatically split with blue smoke on the left and red smoke on the right, creating a high-contrast, cinematic atmosphere. Features multiple rings and a luxury watch, with lighting highlighting contours.
  • Aesthetic Portrait under Spotlight: Convert an image into an aesthetic 0.6 lens portrait of a boy standing leaning against a wall under a dramatic spotlight in a construction building. The boy wears a blue denim jacket with black jeans and classy sunglasses, with hands in his pockets, and the light creates a "nightmare" effect, leading to an AI-generated image.
  • Patterned Shirt with Deep Shadows: A man in a dramatic spotlight in a dark room, wearing a patterned white shirt with a black suit and sunglasses, exuding a confident, intense expression. Hands are in pockets, and lighting casts deep shadows, emphasizing facial and body contours. The background is black, creating a 9:6 ratio image.
  • Nostalgic Subway Vibe: Orange-yellow moody tones, a soft glow with a slightly vintage or film-like filter. The background is a tiled subway wall with an old advertisement and a Knorr poster saying ‘MAKE IT AT HOME FASTER THAN MY MOM’. The vibe should be 90s nostalgic with a modern editorial twist, maintaining realistic proportions and replicating facial features accurately.
  • Streetwear Fashion Shoot: An ultra-realistic portrait of a confident young man wearing a dark navy oversized streetwear t-shirt with a glowing blue mandala pattern and a silver Trishul symbol at the center, black cargo pants, black sunglasses, and a silver chain. He stands casually with hands in his pockets against a clean gradient background (deep navy to sky blue), looking straight at the camera. No text or logos in the background. Use shallow depth of field, shot on a Canon EOS RS + RF 85mm f/1.2L lens, studio lighting, 12K resolution, cinematic editorial fashion shoot style.
  • Luxury Fashion Magazine Look: Replace the face with an uploaded photo, matching lighting, skin tone, and perspective realistically. The person stands against a bold red gradient background confidently. The lighting is dramatic and cinematic, emphasizing facial structure and giving a luxury fashion magazine vibe. Ultra-realistic, high-detail, editorial photography style, 4K resolution, symmetrical composition, minimal background elements, 4:3 ratio.
  • Moody Studio Portrait: Create a moody portrait with dramatic studio lighting. The subject stands slightly off-center in front of a large, soft golden spotlight circle on a deep navy background. Use soft shadows and a cinematic feel. The subject wears a plain black t-shirt, has slightly long, wavy hair, flawless fair skin, and no glasses or facial hair. Lighting falls from the top-left, casting a clear shadow to the right. Maintain a 4:3 aspect ratio and keep the camera angle and distance consistent with classic editorial portraits.
  • Black and White Dominant Portrait: A dramatic black and white portrait of a confident-looking man sitting on a wooden stool against a dark studio background. He wears a well-fitted, all-black suit with a black shirt and black pants, a small silver chain at the neck, and a small silver watch, slightly unbuttoned at the top, exuding a moody and powerful aura. His posture is relaxed yet dominant, with one arm resting on his leg and the other in his pant pocket. Lighting is soft but directional.
  • Modern Watch, Fashion Editorial: A modern black watch on your wrist. Your pose is stylish and bold, with one fist gently raised near your chin. The background features warm, textured golden particles illuminated by a side light, blending into deep shadows for a moody, studio-style atmosphere. Lighting is soft but directional, creating strong highlights and shadows on the face. Ultra-realistic, high-resolution, 85mm lens look, shallow depth of field, professional fashion editorial lighting.

• Dynamic Urban Scenes:
  
  • Motion-Blurred Crowd, Overhead Shot: A cinematic overhead shot of yourself standing still on a brick city sidewalk, wearing a dark oversized sweater or a dark oversized blazer. A motion-blurred crowd rushes past around you. Features moody lighting, a 35mm film look, shallow depth of field, and sharp focus on you. Ratio portrait 4:3.
  • Street Racing Game Aesthetic: Visualise yourself as a young man wearing a drop shoulder t-shirt and baggy jeans confidently leaning against a customised BMW E46 M3. The car is modified with a modern blue and silver paint job, street racing aesthetic. You are in the middle of a busy Phaka city road where people are rushing in motion. The style is inspired by a street racing game like Need for Speed.

• Inspired by Pop Culture:
  
  • Squid Game Transformation: Transform a person into a scene from the Squid Game TV series, keeping the face exactly the same. Add a green tracksuit with a white number tag, dim indoor lighting with a dramatic and intense atmosphere, and background characters in similar outfits. Make it look like a cinematic shot from a survival game show, keeping facial expression and identity unchanged.

• Unique Themed Portraits:
  
  • With Virat Kohli: You (with a black tie) and Virat Kohli (in a black suit with a white shirt) resting shoulder to shoulder. The street is empty and dramatic. Features moody lighting with a 35mm film look, shallow depth of field, and sharp focus on the three of you. Aspect ratio 9:16.
  • Man in Seawater: A man, styled but not overly revealing, with light seawater splashes rising around his chest and face for a dramatic, dynamic effect. His expression is confident and calm. The background is a soft, overcast sky meeting a tranquil sea at the horizon. Shot at chest level, wide-angle framing, shallow depth of field (f/2.8), and stylized with a muted teal-orange cinematic color grade.
  • Film Noir Street Scene: A cinematic night-time shot of a man standing in the middle of a dark, empty street under a streetlight. He is wearing a long, dark trench coat, looking serious and mysterious. Fog surrounds the background, with soft light illuminating parts of his face. A pair of car headlights are visible far behind him. Features moody blue color grading, film noir style, 35mm film grain, dramatic shadows and contrast. Ratio 9:16, ultra-realistic style.
  • Moody Mysterious Portrait: Create a moody, mysterious portrait using your selfie. Keep the same lighting, background, and camera angle as the reference: warm golden-hour sunlight casting dramatic shadows on a plain wall. Replace your hairstyle with medium-length, slightly wavy hair, remove glasses, smoothen the skin to make it fair and flawless, and maintain a calm, introspective expression. Ensure the strong shadow of the face on the wall is visible. Ratio: 4:3. Match the pose and overall cinematic tone.

• Hyper-detailed Graphic Design Portrait: Generate a hyper-detailed graphic design featuring a striking portrait of a young man (with an uploaded face) with a confident demeanour. His head is adorned with voluminous features, adding texture and depth. The portrait is rendered in a high-contrast black-and-white style against a minimalist background. His expression is calm yet determined, with one eye partially obscured by a bold red rectangular overlay. The background is a smooth, textured grey canvas. Overlaid vertically along the left side, the word “paul somendra” is repeated in large, bold black letters with a slight transparency effect. Interspersed are iconic design elements: a prominent Nike logo in red, a stylized red “s”, and a vertical red line. To the right, a red geometric frame surrounds the obscured eye. At the bottom right, “work smart not hard” in bold red capital letters, with “smart” in a smaller, elegant cursive script. Signed off with “graphics”. The bottom left corner features the hashtag #paul in red. The attire is a partially visible black leather jacket with an open collar. Lighting is soft yet dramatic, highlighting textures, while red accents pop against grayscale tones, creating a cohesive, high-energy visual blending streetwear culture with graphic artistry. Photorealistic, shallow depth of field, high-resolution DSLR quality, Hasselblad X2D 100C, sharply focused on the subject, 4:5 aspect ratio, 8K ultra-realistic, hyper-detailed.
  

ALL THE DEMO IMAGES ARE BELOW ->

AI image generation is transforming digital creativity, offering endless possibilities for stunning visuals. Use these viral prompts as inspiration, push your boundaries, and remember to share your impressive results online!