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Last updated 6 September 2026.
To Be Memed is an image editor that runs in your browser. It puts text on pictures. It is a tool, in the sense that a text editor or a paint program is a tool: it does what you tell it, and it has no opinion about what you make.
We claim no ownership of anything you produce with the editor, and no licence over it. Nothing you make is stored here — the finished image is produced by your browser and saved to your own downloads.
The corollary is that responsibility is yours too. Whether you had the right to use a particular picture, and what happens where you post the result, is your call and your risk. Nothing on this site is legal advice.
The library has two halves, and the difference matters — the credits page sets it out in full.
Around a thousand of the templates are public domain or CC0, sourced from Wikimedia Commons and filtered to those two licences only. Those are yours to use for anything, commercially included, with no attribution owed. Images under attribution, share-alike, non-commercial or no-derivatives licences are deliberately excluded, because each would hand you an obligation you never agreed to.
The classic formats are a different matter. They are drawn from the public template APIs published by imgflip and memegen.link. We do not claim ownership of those images and make no representation that any given template is free for you to use for any particular purpose — that depends on what you do with it, and it is worth actual thought if the use is commercial.
If you hold rights in an image reachable through this site and want it removed, write to the contact address. You do not need to send a formal legal notice, and sending one will not make it faster. In practice all that is needed is:
Requests are actioned on receipt. Nothing is weighed up first and no evidence is demanded before acting: the image is not ours, it costs nothing to remove, and arguing about it would be worse for everybody.
Removal is permanent. Templates on this site are drawn nightly from the imgflip and memegen APIs, so simply deleting one would see it re-added the next night. A removed image is recorded on a permanent blocklist which that nightly sync skips, and its file stops being served from this domain altogether — anyone holding the old link gets an error rather than the picture. It does not come back unless you ask for it back.
If you would rather send a formal notice under the DMCA, or your jurisdiction's equivalent, it should include: identification of the work; the URL of the material to be removed; your contact details; a statement of good-faith belief that the use is not authorised; and a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information is accurate and you are authorised to act for the rights holder. That is the statutory shape of such a notice — but again, it is not required here, and a plain email is treated the same way.
The caption positions — the measured rectangles the editor places text in, and the format guides built on them — are this site's own work.
The editor is free to use: every template, every layout, your own pictures, and the download button. Downloads from the free tier carry a visible watermark. That is the deal, and it is stated before you download rather than discovered afterwards.
Within 30 days of any charge, you get a full refund on request. No reason required, no questions asked. Write to the contact address from the address you paid with and it will be processed within five working days.
That applies to every charge, not only the first — so if a renewal catches you by surprise, the 30 days runs from that renewal.
After 30 days a charge is not automatically refundable, but cancelling stops the next one immediately and you keep access until the period you have paid for ends. If something was genuinely broken during a period you paid for, say so anyway; a rule is not a reason to keep money for a service that did not work.
Refunds are returned to the original payment method by Stripe. Your licence key stops working when a refund is issued.
Do not use this site to produce material that harasses a specific person, sexualises children, or is unlawful where you are. Do not attempt to overload the service or use the image proxy as general-purpose infrastructure — it serves the template hosts and nothing else, and is limited accordingly.
This is a small site run by one person. It may go down, change, or lose features. If it is ever shut down permanently, notice will be given on this domain and any active subscription refunded for the unused portion.
The site is provided as it is. It is not guaranteed to be available, error-free, or fit for any particular purpose, and liability is limited to the amount you have actually paid — which for most visitors is nothing, and for a subscriber is a few pounds. That is not a trick clause; it is the honest scale of the thing.
If these terms change materially, the date at the top changes. A change that affects what a paying subscriber gets will be emailed to the address on the subscription before it takes effect.
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