Nowadays, there are many services and applications for creating memes. They allow you to quickly take a funny picture right on your phone and immediately send it to the chat.
Creating a meme can be difficult - you have to figure out how and what to joke about, what picture to choose, find out what is relevant now. We made a selection of popular services that will help you make a meme in a few clicks, and at the end we provided several life hacks for coming up with ideas with examples of memes. Keep it for yourself - it will come in handy.
Content
- Why are memes needed?
- GIPHY
- Mr-Mem
- Gifntext
- Risovac
- Canva
- Imgflip
- Meme Generator
- Imgur
- Creating demotivators (meme with black frame)
- Demconstructor
- Rusdemotivator
- Meme-arsenal
- Instameme
- Mug Life
- Meme
- Mematic
- Zhiza
- Stock photos
- Play with words
- Exaggeration
- Absurd
Why are memes needed?
Memes are funny pictures on social networks. They are often reposted and sent to friends, and they can also create an additional topic for discussion in the comments. You probably have a couple of memes that make you smile just thinking about them.
Memes make content diverse, attract the attention of the audience, increase their loyalty and involvement. Rambler Top 100 statistics confirm this: the average number of views on the yaplakal.com website is almost 3 million per month, and on the fishki.net website this figure has exceeded 5 million.
So, the first service:
GIPHY
The service pleases with the presence of an endless number of GIFs. An animated picture is created from a video, static image or other GIF. In the editor you can select the desired filter, add text, your own drawings or stickers.
Giphy main screen
Pesel from Giphy
There is a mobile version of GIPHY. The service is free, but to create memes from GIFs you need to register.
Creating GIFs in the mobile version of GIPHY
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Mr-Mem
In addition to different pictures and the ability to add text, the service allows you to change the color and size of the font, the position of the text and attach stickers. You can apply filters to create the desired effect.
The service is free and you can create memes without registration. But the “Favorites” section appears only for registered users.
Page with templates for memes in Mr-Mem
It can be stressful to register anywhere.
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Gifntext
The web editor is similar to GIPHY. But unlike it, more animation settings are available. Works only with GIF images.
Before starting work, the service offers to complete training, which shows all the capabilities of the editor.
For example, you can change the font, text color, animate it, apply layers, and adjust their duration.
Start page for creating GIFs
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Risovac
One of the most popular free services for creating memes in Russia.
In addition to a huge number of pictures, there are templates for creating comics. You just need to select one of the pictures/add your own, enter the text and the meme is ready.
Disadvantages - you cannot remove the watermark, change the position and font of the text, you come across 18+ pictures where you don’t expect them.
Meme generator in Risovac
And enjoy life
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Canva
Canva is a full-fledged online graphics editor. You can create a meme by adding your own picture, the required number of inscriptions and the desired effects.
The free version has a limited number of fonts, images, and templates, but this is enough if you work alone. The paid version is designed for company work. You can add access for multiple people.
The free trial period is 30 days, but this is enough to test all the features of the full version.
In the mobile version for IOS, you can download a separate application for creating a design, a video collage, and a separate video story editor. On Android there is one general Canva application.
The process of creating a meme in Canva
A little motivation from Canva
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Where to get pictures
Saved files. The holy grail of pictorial art. This is a folder on the desktop into which successful memes, templates and just any funny pictures or phrases are sent.
If you want to make pics, but you don’t have saves, make them right now. Keep anything that looks cool, even if it doesn't fit your topic and you'll probably never use it. The thought process of the pic's author, a situation or a phrase can inspire a useful meme. So once again, be sure to save. From my experience: if I see a good picture and don’t save it, I’ll never return to it. I don't remember or I can't find it. That's why I always keep it fresh.
I go to my saves first thing when I have an idea and need some kind of picture. And the first thing is when there is no idea, and this is 80% of cases. Then I just flip through the saved pictures, and an idea comes.
Example. We need a pic about product placement. The inspiration for the article was a glass of coffee that was caught in the frame of the last season of Game of Thrones. Nothing sensible comes to mind, the situation has already been covered in all the public pages, it turns out flat, but I want something original. Then I go to my saves and come across this picture:
I understand that a cup of coffee fits perfectly into a cat’s paw. Instead of dogs, I put the mother of dragons, and to make it funnier, I make the cat a secret agent. It turned out pretty good.
And now what everyone has been waiting for so long and what they asked so many times in the comments. I share links to sites and public pages on VKontakte, from which I replenish my saves, on which I find templates for memes and comics, and with which I am inspired to create cool pics.
Risovac. You can find templates and make memes directly on the site. I rarely use it, but sometimes I go to replenish my saves.
Meme arsenal. A huge horde of meme and comic templates. Here everything is new, everything is old and there are also various funny and not so funny pictures that are uploaded by the users themselves. Just like on Risovac, you can make an inscription on the pic directly through the website or save an empty template. You can also search for memes by tags.
Cyanide and Happiness. American comic 18+. A lot of cynicism, sexism, racism, but at the same time very funny. I usually come here just to look and get inspired, but sometimes I borrow something for pics. There is a public page on VKontakte where they post comics “Cyanide” with Russian translation.
Bmem. A site with well-known pics, meme stories, templates and all sorts of useful things.
Lentach. Of course, where would we be without him? There are a lot of memes from “Lentach” in my saves. I like the way they think in the pics.
Educational Here you usually come across hand-drawn mini-comics. They are cool, there is something to be inspired and profit from.
How I encountered tetanus. A popular VK community with funny (and not so funny) memes. Sometimes it shoots something very good. They also have a website (you’ll find the link in the public page), where they talk about popular memes.
Folder with pictures. People post good pictures and make funny comments here.
Chilik. Funny author's comics.
Vadik? Another funny author's comics.
Duran. There are also comics here, also by the author. The pictures are not suitable for pictorial purposes, but the humor is good, I recommend it.
Empty memes. A public page where you post templates for your future memes. In addition to the content on the community wall, there is a photo album in which the admins have carefully collected more than 2,500 meme templates. Use it.
I have a few more links in my stash, I’ll keep a little for myself. Otherwise you will stop enjoying the pics on Texterra.
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And now another very important question.
Creating demotivators (meme with black frame)
Demotivators are usually made on a black background or in a black frame. Often, to enhance the negative effect, profanity is used in captions for demotivators.
In addition, there are three more services in which you can make a demotivator.
Demconstructor
A simple, free service for creating demotivators. There is one template in which you just need to upload a picture and text. If desired, you can change the height and width of the image.
Window for creating demotivators in Demconstructor
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Rusdemotivator
Also a free service, very similar to Demconstructor, but with expanded functionality. You can change the font and color of the text, look through examples of demotivators, and create motivators in a blue frame.
Creating a motivator in Rusdemotivator
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Meme-arsenal
A service with a huge number of current templates. There are black frame templates, but you can’t insert your own picture inside; you’ll have to do this in other applications. The color and font of the text cannot be changed, but you can arrange it the way you want.
Black frame templates in Meme-arsenal
Examples of current templates
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Create a meme for VKontakte
Go to the service page using the link above. At the top of the window there is an area designed for uploading photos. Click on it.
Now search on your computer and select the image you want. It will be downloaded and an editing form will open for you. She looks like this.
Let's figure out what's here.
First, there are two blocks for editing text - at the top and bottom. Just click on them with the mouse cursor and a text entry form will appear.
Write a phrase. If necessary, you can change the color of the letter and frame, and also select the font.
There are 4 buttons at the bottom of the window.
- "Filters". Used to apply ready-made design styles to an image.
- "Save". When you click on this button, you will be asked to save the finished meme to your computer.
- "Stickers". Here is a ready-made set of stickers that you can use.
- "Again." Reset changes and start again.
Now we have become familiar with all the available functionality. Use it to create a meme. I got it something like this.
Save the resulting image and use it.
How to make a meme on your phone
Instameme
This Android application contains a large number of different viral pictures. There are also filters, the ability to add stickers and text.
This application is not available on iOS.
Examples of current templates
Mug Life
The application is radically different from other editors. Here faces play the main role. You upload a photo and the application animates it using neural networks. Then all that remains is to add the text.
There is both a free and paid version. In the free version, you can choose animation from the proposed templates, and in the paid version, you can customize the facial animation manually.
Animation made from a picture in Mug Life
Meme
The application is only for IOS. There is a huge collection of fonts, frames, stickers and emojis - suitable for those who love processing and design. True, there are in-app purchases, which means not everything is free. But the collection is still quite large.
For 99 rubles you can buy separately: stickers, filters, emojis, fonts, remove advertising, or for 179 rubles you can buy all of the above.
Creating a meme in Meme
Mematic
The application is available for both mobile operating systems. There are few settings: you can add fields and text. You can create GIFs.
Both versions are free, but on iOS you can pay for additional formats, fonts, disabling ads and removing watermarks.
The cost of the pro version is 399 rubles per month.
If you pay for a subscription for a year at once, the cost is 199 rubles per month. There is also a 3 day free trial of the full version. Application in English.
Creating a meme in Mematic
What are the most popular memes right now?
I present to your attention an independent rating of the TOP 10 most popular memes of the winter 2021 - 2021 season.
Small clarification. The special value of the Internet is that here “every cook” can create a website on WordPress in 5 minutes and publish her own rating of the best beef and chicken cutlets.
As for the cook, this is a classic meme from Ilyich!
You guessed correctly, a rating of the most popular memes today according to my version will be presented))
Examples of funny memes (pictures and videos)
№1. Our office motto.
№2. How can SEOs take revenge?
№3. Quarterly report.
№4. Rev.
№ 5. Zhdun.
№ 6. The mouse is sneaking around.
№ 7. Mark Zuckerbot at a congressional hearing.
№ 8. Leg Akinfeev - our football won!
№ 9. Give him citizenship already! Another World Cup.
№ 10. Surprised Pikachu - well, it’s okay without him. ))
How to come up with ideas for memes
Services for generating memes greatly simplify the work and sometimes ideas come up on their own, but not always.
Where to get ideas?
Zhiza
Remember how you sent a meme to a friend and signed “zhiza”. Surely they did this, or at least thought about it. Therefore, if you want to come up with an interesting meme, then delve into your life situations.
Zhiza
Stock photos
Most stock photos look artificial and unnatural. But we are better off for it. Let’s bring our own life situations into their ideal world and the meme is ready.
Meme using stock photo
Play with words
The same word can have completely different meanings - use that.
Iron arguments are different
Exaggeration
If you want to joke about time, let it be unimaginably large or as few as sunny days in St. Petersburg; the weight is so heavy that the earth moves out of orbit.
Recall that Queen Elizabeth is 94 years old, and her son, who is still waiting for the throne, is 72 years old
Absurd
There is no such thing as “this is too much” in memes; sometimes not everyone can understand the joke. She can be so strange and stupid that you just think: “What the hell is this”? Then you forward it to a friend and it becomes funny because of the absurdity of the situation.
Potions, talking cats and dogs, escaping from spiders - everything is suitable for memes
What to do if you can't joke
Go to the army. But seriously, if you don’t learn how to joke, you can at least develop a good taste for memes and comics. To do this, subscribe to public pages with high-quality and original content, communicate, be interested, and observe. Try to catch the thought process of the authors of successful pics, be sure to save and practice.
Well, share your thoughts about picture making in the comments - is it a good activity or a waste of time for stupid people and youngsters? In the meantime, I’ll go make a pic for this article. I love everyone, memes to everyone.
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