Cast · Tech & gadgets
@yukibuildsdesks
Desk setups costed properly, including the ones that were a mistake
A setup persona that publishes the running total and the regrets column. Yuki's builds are always under a stated budget and every post names the item that turned out not to be worth it, which is the part every other setup account leaves out.
Loads this exact spec into the builder so you can change one thing and watch the seed move.
Why it works
Neon-lit desk photography is a heavily stylised genre where a rendered frame is the norm, so the visual register buys the persona a lot of latitude the tech-review register would not.
What would get it caught
A running total implies purchases. Keep the receipts real or drop the numbers entirely.
Character sheet
Paste the locked line verbatim into every prompt. Rewording it is the single most common cause of a face moving, and it never looks like the cause because the sentence still means the same thing to you.
Locked line
a woman, late twenties, East Asian features, a round face with full cheeks, dark brown monolid eyes, thick straight brows, a small button nose, evenly balanced lips, a scatter of freckles across the nose and cheeks, shoulder-length straight dyed a saturated colour hair with a blunt fringe, fair skin, a dewy finish, short with a slight build
Styling line
wearing black technical outerwear, a high-contrast palette, one saturated accent against black, in a desk setup lit by monitor light, coloured neon spill, camera at eye level
Negative prompt
beauty filter, airbrushed skin, plastic skin, waxy skin, over-smoothed, perfectly symmetrical face, extra fingers, malformed hands, warped jewellery, text artifacts, watermark, logo on clothing, duplicate person, changing facial structure, clear skin, freckles removed, flat matte skin
Trait ledger
Why this route
Content pillars
Prompt kits
Each generator holds a face by a different mechanism. Placeholders in square brackets are the things only you have.
Midjourney
Character reference (--cref) plus a pinned --seed
Photograph of a woman, late twenties, East Asian features, a round face with full cheeks, dark brown monolid eyes, thick straight brows, a small button nose, evenly balanced lips, a scatter of freckles across the nose and cheeks, shoulder-length straight dyed a saturated colour hair with a blunt fringe, fair skin, a dewy finish, short with a slight build. Wearing black technical outerwear, a high-contrast palette, one saturated accent against black, in a desk setup lit by monitor light, coloured neon spill, camera at eye level. Medium portrait, three-quarter angle, looking into the lens. Neutral expression, hands relaxed and out of frame --ar 4:5 --style raw --seed 1195029859 --cref [url of your approved reference frame] --cw 100
Flux
LoRA on the base model, or an in-context edit from a reference
Photograph of a woman, late twenties, East Asian features, a round face with full cheeks, dark brown monolid eyes, thick straight brows, a small button nose, evenly balanced lips, a scatter of freckles across the nose and cheeks, shoulder-length straight dyed a saturated colour hair with a blunt fringe, fair skin, a dewy finish, short with a slight build. Wearing black technical outerwear, a high-contrast palette, one saturated accent against black, in a desk setup lit by monitor light, coloured neon spill, camera at eye level. Medium portrait, three-quarter angle, looking into the lens. Neutral expression, hands relaxed and out of frame negative: beauty filter, airbrushed skin, plastic skin, waxy skin, over-smoothed, perfectly symmetrical face, extra fingers, malformed hands, warped jewellery, text artifacts, watermark, logo on clothing, duplicate person, changing facial structure, clear skin, freckles removed, flat matte skin seed: 1195029859 | guidance: 3.5 | steps: 28
Seedream
Reference image conditioning with an explicit subject lock
Photograph of a woman, late twenties, East Asian features, a round face with full cheeks, dark brown monolid eyes, thick straight brows, a small button nose, evenly balanced lips, a scatter of freckles across the nose and cheeks, shoulder-length straight dyed a saturated colour hair with a blunt fringe, fair skin, a dewy finish, short with a slight build. Wearing black technical outerwear, a high-contrast palette, one saturated accent against black, in a desk setup lit by monitor light, coloured neon spill, camera at eye level. Medium portrait, three-quarter angle, looking into the lens. Neutral expression, hands relaxed and out of frame Keep identical: a woman, late twenties, East Asian features, a round face with full cheeks, dark brown monolid eyes, thick straight brows, a small button nose, evenly balanced lips, a scatter of freckles across the nose and cheeks, shoulder-length straight dyed a saturated colour hair with a blunt fringe, fair skin, a dewy finish, short with a slight build Change only: [the one thing that changes in this shot]
SD + LoRA
LoRA plus IP-Adapter, run locally
<lora:[your lora trigger word]:0.8> Photograph of a woman, late twenties, East Asian features, a round face with full cheeks, dark brown monolid eyes, thick straight brows, a small button nose, evenly balanced lips, a scatter of freckles across the nose and cheeks, shoulder-length straight dyed a saturated colour hair with a blunt fringe, fair skin, a dewy finish, short with a slight build. Wearing black technical outerwear, a high-contrast palette, one saturated accent against black, in a desk setup lit by monitor light, coloured neon spill, camera at eye level. Medium portrait, three-quarter angle, looking into the lens. Neutral expression, hands relaxed and out of frame Negative: beauty filter, airbrushed skin, plastic skin, waxy skin, over-smoothed, perfectly symmetrical face, extra fingers, malformed hands, warped jewellery, text artifacts, watermark, logo on clothing, duplicate person, changing facial structure, clear skin, freckles removed, flat matte skin Seed: 1195029859, CFG: 6, Steps: 30, Sampler: DPM++ 2M Karras
Sora
First-frame conditioning from an approved still
Opening frame: [url of your approved reference frame] Motion: [what moves — keep it small] Camera: slow push in Duration: 8s | Aspect: 9:16
Veo
Image-to-video from a locked still, plus native audio
Image: [url of your approved reference frame] Action: [what moves — keep it small] Dialogue: "[one line of dialogue]" Camera: slow push in | Aspect: 9:16
Kling
Start-and-end frame conditioning
Start frame: [url of your approved reference frame] End frame: [url of your end frame] Motion: [what moves — keep it small] Duration: 8s
Runway
Reference-locked generation with per-shot camera control
Reference: [url of your approved reference frame] Shot: [what moves — keep it small] Camera move: slow push in Duration: 8s
HeyGen
A trained avatar, reused as an asset
Avatar: yukibuildsdesks Voice: [your saved voice] Script: [your script]
ElevenLabs
A saved voice, versioned like the face
Voice: yukibuildsdesks Stability: 0.45 | Similarity: 0.8 | Style: conversational Script: [your script]
Paired shots
Wide from behind and slightly above, person seated at a lit desk
Hands and lower face only, product held at chest height, shot on a 50mm at f/2.8
Two cards side by side on a dark surface, square crop
Directly above a surface, objects arranged with generous spacing
Disclosure
First line of the caption, above the 'more' fold, plus the paid-partnership label where money changed hands.
Profile bio line
AI生成のキャラクターです。運営は実在の人物です。
Caption line
このクリエイターはAI生成です。
AltF Persona summarises published guidance so you know which questions to ask. It is not legal advice, rules differ by market and change often, and responsibility sits with whoever operates the account.
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