A Christmas PFP is a profile picture with a Santa hat and Christmas scenery added, and Christmas PFP AI is the version where an AI redraws a photo of you or your pet that way. On videosi you upload one clear photo, pick a snowy or fireplace scene, and get one vertical 2:3 image back, with no prompt to write. The format comes back every Christmas: profile-picture posts existed in December 2023, Santa hat on PFP tutorials from December 2025 reached about 359,000 views, and the most-watched 2026 post, from 2 November 2026, has about 1.7 million views.
This guide to making an AI Christmas PFP goes past the basics on the trend page. It covers which photo to pick, how the round crop works, pets, matching sets with friends, why a face can change, uploading to apps, how this differs from a chat prompt, and why there is no anime version.
Key takeaways
- One front-facing photo in even light with room above your hair gives the best likeness and the best hat.
- The head and shoulders sit in the middle of the frame so a circle crop keeps the face and the hat.
- For friends, make one image per person with the same scene; each image costs 1 credit.
- The result is a silent, vertical 2:3 still image, not a video, and the Single pack is $6.90 for 10 credits.
- Photos of adults and pets only; anime and cartoon characters are not redrawn.
In this guide
- Which photo should I upload for a Christmas PFP?
- How does the round crop work, and where should my face sit?
- Why does the Santa hat on my PFP sometimes look wrong?
- How do I get a good Christmas PFP of my cat or dog?
- How do I make matching Christmas PFPs with friends?
- Why does my face look different in the result?
- How do I upload it as a profile picture, and what size is it?
- How is this different from writing my own prompt in ChatGPT or Gemini?
- Why is there no anime Christmas PFP?
- What does one Christmas PFP cost and what do I get?
Which photo should I upload for a Christmas PFP?
Choose a straight-on photo of one person in even light, with the whole head visible and some space above your hair. Your face, skin tone, hair and build are taken from that photo, so the more clearly the camera saw them, the more the result keeps. Sunglasses, heavy beauty filters and strong side angles all give the model less to work with and make the likeness drift.
Leave room above the forehead. The Santa hat needs that space, and a photo cropped tight at the top of the head tends to give a squashed hat. If your best photo is a group shot, crop it down to one face first, because a small face in a crowd has too few details to keep.
How does the round crop work, and where should my face sit?
Apps such as TikTok, Instagram and Discord show a profile picture inside a circle, so the corners of a rectangular image are cut off. The videosi image is vertical 2:3, not square, and it is framed with the head and shoulders in the middle and nothing important near the edges. When you crop to the circle, the face and the hat stay inside it.
The practical tip is to drag the crop circle so it is centred on the face, a little higher than the middle of the body, with the hat just inside the top edge. If the app lets you zoom, keep the hat's white pom-pom visible, because that is the part most easily clipped.
Why does the Santa hat on my PFP sometimes look wrong?
Most bad hats come from the prompt, not the photo. If a prompt only says add a Santa hat, the hat can float above the hair instead of following the head, or it can move the face to make room. The videosi version fits a classic red hat with white fur trim and a pom-pom to the head, centred and clear of the eyes and ears. The same logic applies to the framing: without instructions about it, the face lands off centre and a round crop cuts through an eye or the hat.
If your result still looks off, the usual fix is a better source photo: more space above the head, an upright pose and a face that is not tilted far to one side. You can then generate again with the other scene.
How do I get a good Christmas PFP of my cat or dog?
Use a close photo of the face with both ears in frame. The hat is fitted to the head, so the ears need to be visible for it to sit properly, and the fur colours and markings are taken from the photo. A full-body shot gives a small face and a weaker likeness.
The pet version is meant to keep the animal an animal. A prompt written carelessly can add clothes, human hands or a changed coat colour, which is why the recipe locks the fur and markings to your photo. The fireplace scene, with the tree behind, suits pets well; posts of cats in Santa hats by a fireplace were among those in the early November 2026 wave.
How do I make matching Christmas PFPs with friends?
Make one image per person and choose the same scene for everyone. Each person uploads their own photo, and each result is one 2:3 image that costs 1 credit, so a group of four uses 4 credits. Matching scenes give a consistent set that looks like a collection when you post them side by side.
A single image with several people in it is not supported. Keeping one face per photo is what keeps each likeness correct. Only use photos of adults who have agreed to it; photos of children are not allowed.
Why does my face look different in the result?
The new sweater, scarf, hat and festive lighting all change how a face reads, and small details can shift even when the identity is locked to your photo. Likeness is not guaranteed. The most common causes are a beauty filter on the source photo, sunglasses, a side angle or a small face in a group picture.
Try again with a different source photo: front-facing, soft light, no filter. If a generation fails or is blocked, its credit is returned automatically, so a failed attempt does not cost you.
How do I upload it as a profile picture, and what size is it?
The finished image is a vertical 2:3 still. Download it, open your profile in TikTok, Instagram, Discord or WhatsApp, choose to change the photo, and crop to the circle with the face centred. We did not find an official pixel size published by each app, so this guide does not quote one; use the in-app cropper and keep the face and hat in the middle.
The image has no sound. Profile pictures never play audio anyway, but if you are using the image inside a post, add any Christmas track you like when you share it. There is no single trend sound for this format.
How is this different from writing my own prompt in ChatGPT or Gemini?
A chat assistant can do it, but you do the work: you write the prompt, check that the hat fits, and rerun it when the face moves. The videosi page uses a fixed five-part recipe on OpenAI's GPT Image 2.6 covering identity lock, the Santa hat, outfit and scene, round-crop framing and rules, so you only upload a photo and choose a scene. The full prompt is not published.
If you only want a hat sticker on an unchanged photo, a simple editor with stickers is the simpler tool, because this page also redraws the outfit and the background. videosi is independent and not affiliated with TikTok, CapCut, Hypic, Google or OpenAI.
Why is there no anime Christmas PFP?
Most of the viral 2026 posts are anime characters in Santa hats, but those usually start from an existing character picture and add a hat and snow with a template. The videosi page works from a real photo of a person or pet in photographic style, and it does not redraw anime or cartoon characters. For anime characters, a CapCut or Hypic template is the closer fit.
The idea of a profile picture itself is old. Wikipedia describes flat two-dimensional avatars in online communities as profile pictures, or pfps, and the red hat with white fur trim is how it describes Santa Claus's classic look, which is the look this page copies onto your photo.
What does one Christmas PFP cost and what do I get?
Each image costs 1 credit, and the Single pack is $6.90 for 10 credits, which is 10 pictures. Credits do not expire, and there is no free tier. A failed or blocked generation returns its credit automatically.
You get one vertical 2:3 still image, usually in about a minute, with no sound. Open the Christmas PFP page to upload a photo and pick snowy or fireplace.
