The Flying Broom AI Trend: How TikTok Turned Halloween into a DIY Movie Scene

Over the past week, a very specific kind of Halloween content has started taking over TikTok and Instagram in North America and Europe: AI‑generated flying broom videos. The trend, often tagged as “My Ride Is Here,” uses photo‑to‑video templates so that users can drop in a selfie or costume photo and instantly turn themselves, their friends, or even their pets into witch‑style riders gliding above city streets or rooftops. According to social trend trackers, hashtags linked to the broom videos have racked up thousands of TikTok posts since mid‑October, with tools like MakeViral and ClipTrend rolling out multiple preset effects, from dramatic night flights to tongue‑in‑cheek “witchy pet” versions. Search data shows the craze is spreading beyond English speakers too, with Spanish queries like “how to do the broom trend” now auto‑completing on Google in the U.S. market. What’s notable here isn’t just another Halloween meme, but how everyday users are treating AI video as a default part of seasonal self‑expression: the costume is only the raw material, while the “real” output is a cinematic clip to share. For markets like Japan, where Halloween photo culture is already strong, this points toward a near future in which the benchmark shifts from costume craftsmanship alone to the overall AI‑edited universe each person can build around their look.