Chubby AI Filter
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About
The Chubby AI Filter is a CapCut filter that uses artificial intelligence to make a person in a photograph look overweight or obese. The filter was popularized on TikTok in March 2025 via a trend in which users show themselves through the filter and share their amusement over the results. The trend inspired controversy on social media as it garnered attention, with some calling it fatphobic or bullying. While the original filter was deleted as the trend went viral, copycats took their place, including one by TikToker @jyoung101capcut.
Origin
As early as March 15th, 2025, TikTokers began posting videos showing the results of running a photo through CapCut's "Chubby AI filter," which edits the photo to make the subject look overweight. The filter shows the original photo transition into a chubby version of the photo. One of the earliest examples of the trend was posted by TikToker[1] @demi_jane1 that day, garnering over 12.4 million views in three days.
@demi_jane1 #CapCut ♬ original sound – leviemealone🩶
Spread
The trend continued to spread throughout mid-March 2025. On March 15th, 2025, TikToker[2] @anneglen1 posted a video using the filter, captioning it, "This is how I felt after being on holiday for a week HAHAHA," garnering over 3.8 million views in three days.
@anneglen1 This is how I felt after being on holiday for a week HAHAHA #aifilter #chubby #chubbyfilter #chubbygirl #fyp #foryoupage❤️❤️ ♬ original sound – Riley2612
On March 16th, TikToker[3] @meganalicemai posted a video using the filter, writing in the description, "This is not a post against bigger people, everyone’s bodies are different. Personally in MY OWN SKIN; I like to be on the smaller side. If you do not like this, keep scrolling," garnering over 2.2 million views in two days.
@meganalicemai This is not a post against bigger people, everyone’s bodies are different. Personally in MY OWN SKIN; I like to be on the smaller side. If you do not like this, keep scrolling. Have a lovely day guys🤣🫶🏼#CapCut #fyp ♬ original sound – leviemealone🩶
Later that day, X[4] user @Brocklesnitch reposted @demi_jane1's version of the trend along with a caption criticizing it, writing, "There’s an amaaazing new trend on TikTok where skinny girls use a filter to become 'chubby' and laugh at the results and everyone else laughs and it’s sooooooo funny and we definitely aren’t spiralling back down to pro ana death to fats era that damages every young woman," garnering over 31,000 likes in two days.
On March 17th, 2025, Newsweek[5] published an article about backlash towards the trend, followed by the Daily Mail[6] on March 18th, in which the writer shares comments from videos following the trend suggesting it could support eating disorders.
Various Examples
@jyoung101capcut New chubby ai filter CapCut #capcut #chubbyfilter #capcut #capcutpioneer #pioneertemplate #aifilter ♬ original sound – capcut.trend.uk
@bellafloyd2744 i have no words tbh 😭😭
@jesslahoud What are you actually doing. #chubbygirl #chubbyfilter #bodyshaming ♬ original sound – leviemealone🩶
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Search Interest
External References
[1] TikTok – demi_jane1
[3] TikTok – meganalicemai
[4] X – Brocklesnitch
[5] Newsweek – Filter Causes Outrage on TikTok
[6] Daily Mail – Influencers branded 'horrible' for using TikTok filter that 'makes you look fat'
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