AI-generated videos of talking fruits and veggies are going viral across social media for their educational lessons, teaching adults how to properly cook and store food.
If you’ve been on TikTok lately, you’ve probably scrolled past a few videos of AI-generated fruits, veggies, or other foods in front of a refrigerator looking extremely concerned as they regale you with helpful tips and tricks in the kitchen.
The way they go about relaying this information, however, is what’s sparking a conversation online. The foodstuffs appear totally desperate, begging viewers to follow their advice lest they meet some terrible end. In other clips, the foods are aggressive, angrily telling viewers how they should be preparing them for a meal.
AI-generated food videos are taking over TikTok
For example, one of these videos shows a tomato urging the viewer not to stick them in their refrigerator’s vegetable crisper, warning them that “the cold breaks my cells, steals all my flavor and makes me mealy!”
Another one shows a steak being cut with the grain of the meat, something it frustratedly said was “making me chewy.”
While some viewers have a somewhat warm attitude toward the helpful veggies, others are warning that their advice can’t always be trusted. Many of the tips given in these videos aren’t wrong, but given AI’s propensity to hallucinate things out of thin air, it’s best to double-check their claims before making dinner.
“The cake needs to calm down,” one user wrote under a video of a cake desperately telling viewers NOT to open the oven while it’s baking to avoid “collapsing” it entirely.
“Omg, I can’t even do sh*t,” another joked about all the advice.
“They be having an attitude lmao,” yet another said.
Media psychologist Dr Pamela Rutledge explained why these videos might be so popular right now, claiming that absorbing information from cartoon characters is less ‘threatening’ than taking advice from real people.
“Real people, even friendly ones, trigger some amount of social comparison: Do I already know this? Should I know this? Am I behind? Cartoons and clearly non-human characters short-circuit that,” she told Australian outlet newsdotcom.
“A cartoon vegetable can give advice (and even call you names) without threatening your ego, so it’s easier to comply.”
This is the latest AI-generated fad to sweep social media after AI ASMR videos became a massive trend on TikTok in mid-2025, showing knives cutting through various impossible substances like glass fruits, molten lava, and more.
