Make a meme
What you get: A captioned image, at the size you supplied, with text that says exactly what you typed.
Two routes in. Upload a photo and caption it, or write a description and skip the photo — the picture gets drawn, then captioned. The caption is typeset over the finished image with a real font rather than drawn by the model, which is the whole reason it is legible.
Steps
- Open the studio and choose the meme card. Sign in and go to Create. The meme card is the one that accepts a caption; the plain image card does not.
- Give it a picture, or a description of one. Upload a photo if you have one. If you do not, leave the upload empty and write what the picture should show — with no upload and no separate scene, your prompt is read as the picture description and the image is generated first.
- Write the caption. Type the words you want on the image. Split two lines with a slash for the classic top-and-bottom arrangement: "when the build passes / on the first try". You can also say where a line goes in plain words — "add GET IN LOSER at the top" — and it goes there.
- Submit and wait for the queue. The job goes into a queue and runs on our machines. A still with a caption is one of the cheaper jobs here, so this is usually seconds rather than minutes.
- Download it. The result appears in your gallery. Download it — the gallery is a workshop, not an archive, and generated files are swept automatically after about a day.
Tips
- A long caption wraps rather than running off the edge: the text is measured against the real output width, wrapped, then shrunk if it still does not fit. You do not have to guess at a length.
- Latin, Cyrillic and CJK all typeset properly. Captions are not restricted to ASCII.
- If a generated picture is nearly right, run it again with the same description rather than fighting the caption — the caption layer is not the part that varies.
- For a meme built on a photo of a real person, expect an AI-generated label if the picture itself was generated. A caption on an unmodified photo you uploaded is not a synthetic image of anyone.
Limits worth knowing before you start
- There is no watermark on your output. The only mark that ever appears is the AI-generated label on an image that depicts a real, identifiable person, and that is disclosure rather than branding.
- The caption is typeset over the image, so it is always a flat overlay — it will not curve around an object or follow a surface in perspective.
- Nothing is archival. Uploads are deleted as soon as the job finishes, generated files are swept automatically after about a day, and the prompt text is blanked on the same schedule. Download what you want to keep — this is a workshop, not an archive.
- Adult content is absent from this product rather than switched off. There is no setting, plan, administrator action or support request that introduces it, on the site or on the API.
- Four things are refused on every plan, each one traceable to a law rather than to our taste. They are listed in full, with the statute behind each, on the safety page.
Questions
- Do I need a photo at all?
- No. With no upload, your prompt is the picture description and the image is drawn before the caption is applied.
- Why is the text not warped like other tools?
- Because it is not generated. The model draws the picture, then a real font is typeset over the finished image, so the letters are the ones you typed.
- Is my uploaded photo kept?
- No. The upload is deleted as soon as the job finishes, overwritten rather than merely unlinked.
Account, billing and retention questions are on the FAQ.
More about this tool
Make a meme in about a minute — what it does and why it works the way it does, rather than how to drive it.
Make a meme
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