Create a 30s animated video with sythesized voice where an animated pelican on a unicycle explains the shell command `w | tail -n +3 | cut -d ' ' -f1 | sort -u` with visuals while juggling several fish.
Make it yours. Swap the character and props ("an animated pelican on a unicycle", "juggling several fish") and the command in backticks. To match the creator's run, add "(Kokoro TTS)" after "sythesized voice".
Pelican explains a Unix shell pipeline
A 30-second narrated cartoon in which a pelican on a unicycle, juggling fish, explains the shell command w | tail -n +3 | cut -d ' ' -f1 | sort -u. Made from one prompt in the Claude mobile app, which did all the work in its own VM.
“No that’s the entire prompt; just using the Claude app on my phone”
You'll need
- The Claude app with code execution
How it was made
Made in the Claude mobile app at the Extra setting, with no setup: "it autonomously finds/installs whatever it uses in its own VM." The voice is Kokoro TTS. The creator says Claude picked it unprompted once and that they have named it in prompts since, because it beats the alternatives Claude chooses.
Posted Sep 24, 2026 · X · 445 likes · 66k views · 23 comments
Prompt from: Post body. The creator later said the prompt they ran also had "(Kokoro TTS)" after the voice request, which the post left out; the rest is verbatim, typo included.
Look notesby Reference
A circus-stage cartoon: a white pelican in a red bow tie balances on a unicycle and juggles fish beside a dark terminal that steps through the pipeline one command at a time.
- Color
- Deep red curtains under a red-and-cream striped valance, a warm spotlight on a wooden stage, a white pelican with an orange beak, and a near-black terminal with pastel blue, green, orange, and pink highlights.
- Type
- Monospace terminal text with the active command boxed in color and tiny labels under each step (sessions, skip 2, field 1), a who's logged in? title, and captions in a dark rounded bar with inline code chips.
- Framing
- The pelican on the left third in a spotlight, the terminal window filling the right half, and the caption bar under the terminal.
- Sound
- A synthesized voice made with Kokoro TTS, according to the creator.
- Structure
- A title in the terminal (who's logged in?), w with its session table, tail -n +3 dropping the two header lines, cut -d ' ' -f1 keeping the usernames, sort -u collapsing duplicates, then alice, bob, and riley ticked off as 3 unique users, with confetti at the end.
