BrainRotTok

Brain Rot Tok

A TikTok video generator that creates those iconic TikTok videos with subtitles.

Table of Contents

• What is BrainRotTok?
• What is brain rot?
• Why did I make this?
• What can you do with this?
• What technologies are used?
• How to run this?
  • Docker
    • Run
    • Stop
    • Remove Container
    • Remove Image
    • Logs
    • Help
  • Server
  • Client
• Examples
• License

What is BrainRotTok?

BrainRotTok allows you to create those iconic TikTok videos with subtitles. There are different types of videos you can create, you can find the list of them below in the "What can you do with this?" section.

What is brain rot?

Brain rot is a term used to describe the feeling of your brain rotting away after watching those highly addictive, short videos on TikTok. It is also used to describe the content that causes this feeling. Brain rot content is usually low effort, low quality, and highly addictive.

Urban Dictionary

Why did I make this?

I kept seeing these videos on TikTok and I thought it would be fun to make a website that allows you to create these videos. I also wanted to use FFmpeg and OpenAI's Whisper API, so I thought this would be a good project to do that.

What can you do with this?

• Basic: a video with subtitles underneath
• Subway Surfers: a top and bottom video with subtitles for the bottom video and the top video is muted
• Minecraft Reddit: a background video with subtitles (provided by you) in the middle and the subtitles are spoken by a text-to-speech voice
• Rumble Video: a Rumble video link is provided and you can choose between different clips from the video. The subtitles are automatically generated and a zip folder is returned with the video and the subtitles.

What technologies are used?

• React (with TypeScript)
• HeroUI (with Tailwindcss)
• Python
• FastAPI
• Whisper (OpenAI)
• FFmpeg
• Docker
• ImageMagick

How to run this?

Docker

Execute the following command:

Make sure the bash script has the right permission by running chmod u+x run.sh

Run

./run.sh

• Builds the Docker image (if not already built)
• Runs the containers (using docker compose, if it isn't already running)
• Opens the app in your default web browser at http://localhost:5173/

Stop

./run.sh --stop

• Stops the running containers

Remove Container

./run.sh --remove-container

• Stops the running containers (if not already stopped)
• Removes the containers

Remove Image

./run.sh --remove-all

• Stops the running containers (if not already stopped)
• Removes the containers
• Removes the Docker image

Logs

./run.sh --logs

• Shows logs of the running containers

Help

./run.sh --help

• Print the help message containing info about the available options

To run it yourself using Docker, you can run the following commands:

docker compose -f docker-compose.yaml up -d --build

You can also individually run the server and client in the next two sections.

Server

Execute the following commands:

cd ./brain-rot-tok-server
pip install -r requirements.txt
python server.py

Client

Execute the following commands:

cd ./brain-rot-tok-client
npm install
npm run dev

Then just open the link that is printed in the console. This should be http://localhost:5173/

After the server is running, you can go to the client and start using the website.

Examples

You can find how the site works and looks like in the readme-assets folder (both in light/dark mode).

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

MIT License

Copyright (c) [2025] [Denis Topallaj]

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