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To Be Memed

A meme editor. Pick a template or use your own picture, put the text exactly where you want it, download the result.

Your photos stay on your device

There is no upload. Pictures you add are stored by your own browser, on this machine, and are never sent to this site or anywhere else. The same goes for any caption boxes you drag and save.

Two consequences worth knowing: your library does not follow you to another browser or another computer, and clearing your browser's site data deletes it. Download anything you want to keep.

Where the templates come from

Two places, and the difference matters enough to have its own page — see credits.

The classic meme formats come from the public template APIs published by imgflip and memegen.link. Neither service owns most of those pictures and neither can license them to you; they are here because they are the shared vocabulary of the form, and they are carried with a takedown process that is honoured on receipt.

The Inspiration shelf is public-domain and CC0 photography from Wikimedia Commons, filtered to those two licences only. Those are genuinely free: use them commercially, and you owe nobody a credit.

Images from both are fetched and cached here for one reason: a web page cannot save a picture it loaded from another site, so without serving them from this domain the download button could not work at all.

The caption positions — where the text actually goes on each template — were worked out here and are the part of this site that is its own.

Takedowns

If you hold rights in an image reachable through this site and want it removed, email hello@tobememed.com with the template name or a link. You do not need to send a formal notice, and sending one will not make it faster.

Removal is permanent. Templates are re-synced from imgflip nightly, so a removed image is recorded on a blocklist that the sync skips, and its file stops being served from this domain — it does not quietly reappear. Full detail in the terms.

Advertising, cookies and payment

The detail lives on one page rather than two, so it cannot drift out of step with itself: see the privacy policy for what is collected, which third parties are involved, and how to opt out.

The short version: this site runs no analytics of its own, your pictures never leave your browser, and payment is handled entirely by Stripe.

What this site does not do

What you make is yours to be careful with

This is a tool, like a text editor. What you put on a picture, and where you post it, is your responsibility — including whether you had the right to use the picture in the first place. Nothing here is legal advice.

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