CapCut guide · Updated Oct 28, 2026
The Angry Dance filter spreads on TikTok through CapCut templates. Here is the template most people use, the steps inside CapCut, and what to do when the link will not open.
Updated Oct 28, 2026: the Angry Dance routine is in final testing and opens soon. Nothing is charged until it is live.
01Add your photo
02Set model, resolution & length
The best-known Angry Dance CapCut template is "Angry Dance Filter" by VCap: one 15-second, 9:16 segment that takes a single photo and showed 19,886 uses on October 27, 2026. To use it, tap the CapCut template link on an Angry Dance or Bad Times post in TikTok, choose Use template, pick one photo and export. If the link does not open or the template is gone, you can make the same clip without CapCut in a browser with Angry Dance AI.
You need the CapCut app and a TikTok post that links the template.
Search TikTok for #angrydancefilter or #badtimes and open a template post. Look for the CapCut template link above the caption.
Tap the link; it opens the template in the CapCut app. Check that it is the 15-second single-photo version.
Tap Use template, choose one clear waist-up or full-body photo, and let CapCut build the preview.
Export the video, then share it to TikTok. The template keeps the BAD TIMES sound attached.
Templates are made by CapCut users, not by CapCut or TikTok, so there are several versions under slightly different names. The one most posts link to is "Angry Dance Filter" by VCap: one photo slot, 15 seconds, vertical 9:16. When we checked it on October 27, 2026 it showed 19,886 uses. Older templates of the same routine are titled Bad Times, after the song.
The most common problems are a link that opens CapCut but not the template, a template that has been removed or replaced, and a template that is not available in your region or app version. Updating CapCut and opening the link from a different template post fixes the first one; for the others, the only route is to find another template.
If you would rather not hunt for a working link, the browser route skips CapCut entirely: you upload one photo to Angry Dance AI and download the MP4. Our without-CapCut page compares the two routes side by side.
A CapCut template maps your photo onto the template video, so the room, camera and timing come from the original edit and the BAD TIMES sound is already attached. Angry Dance AI works from the same original clip, but an AI video model re-renders the whole performer as you, body and outfit included, and puts the BAD TIMES sound back on. Both end as a roughly 15-second vertical clip.
The same maker sits at the top of every page, so you can start your angry dance from any of them.
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