Memelord Technologies founder marks one year since quitting his job with a $3 million seed round announcement. He demos the platform's infinite canvas, AI editors, face-swap tools, and real-time meme notifications, then walks through live creations like Drake-Oktoberfest and AI startup memes.
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That's right, and I'm going to show you how Memelord Technologies works. Sorry, I mean memelord.com. Welcome to the new memelord.com, my friends. Uh, this is exciting. Uh, you know, for those of you who have been following me for a minute, uh, today is literally the 1-year anniversary of me quitting my job and launching Memelord Tech. Um, I appreciate all of your support. Uh, it's been a crazy journey. I looked absolutely like a nut job, uh, being like, memes make millions, screaming about it. Uh, there's still some people who think I'm crazy, uh, and they won't let me on certain shows. So, uh, you know, we gotta build our own, of course, right? We're actually going direct here. Um, thank God for our beepers, of course. Where I get my memes from. I'm going to be showing you how Memelord.com works. And if you saw our launch video earlier, I made that whole thing on Memelord.com and I'm excited. A lot of people are wondering why raise for a meme app, right? I think a lot of people think too small. They're just trying to start TikToks, trying to make Instagrams. Here at memelord.com, we're trying to make movies. All right, we are literally trying to make movies and give you the ability to make movies too. So I'm going to show you how memelord.com works. We're going to celebrate a little and have some fun. Let me, uh, drink some coffee real quick and let's get started with this shit. All right, it's meme stream time, baby. So as you'll see, um, memelord.com Keyboard is the new battlefield. So I'll show you around a bit. We have all the newest new meme notifications. So we are constantly scanning the internet for new memes at all times, right? And then we alert you via SMS, Telegram, email, and yes, by beeper as well. I'm gonna be hacking this baby together, putting, put a little, you know, Raspberry Pi in this bitch. So we've got all the hottest, newest memes, classic memes. And then what you're gonna love is an infinite meme canvas. It sounds silly, but we literally built the most powerful meme software on the planet. We also have a full video editor. It pisses me off, all these other, you know, AI video creating apps or whatever. You can't actually edit them. It's like, it's so dumb. It's so, they're thinking so small. You gotta actually be able to edit them, right? And then AI image editor, AI movie maker, AI meme maker that is actually funny, right? We actually nailed it. and we're going to be, uh, open sourcing this soon, showing, showing you how it works. Uh, we also have, you know, AI background removal, animating your memes, uh, also tons of examples. Can't think of an idea? Boom, I'll show you, show you all this in a second. Team collaboration. And if you're like me, you really need this last one here. You got to be able to grow a couple inches. Um, all right, should we, should we just jump in? I mean, yeah, this is, this is real, guys. I I can't believe this is real. I wrote the book Memes Make Millions 3 years ago, and now it's actually time. It's— this shit's real. So we're about to get started. If you're in the chat, come say hello. All right, all right. Let's do this shit. All right. And you can see here. Let's go. It's meme stream time, baby. All right, if you guys can see my canvas here, on the left side is all the newest trending memes at all times. We are constantly adding them and making sure that you have all the newest memes you could ever want. As you can see, you know, here we got White House action plan, autism action plan. I know some of y'all definitely got that. We got the new Drake for Oktoberfest. But let's say like we want to turn Drake into me, right? So we just right-click, we say face swap. All right, simply add my face and let's see what happens. We're making memes from microchips, baby. Uh, we got some Yoruba Mata here. Shout out Andrew Huberman's team for sending this over. Uh, you know, they probably weren't expecting me to read that while I was, uh, pretending to be Drake. And then it's just as simple as just a quick download, right? Super fast. All right, I'll— I'm just gonna start posting these bad boys as well. The $3 million meme, man. I love it. I love it. Shit's getting me excited. All right, we're gonna keep going. Let's see. All right, so I love this one. This just came out of Elon. For whatever reason, he was just like solo. So I feel like Elon is like the king of tweeting while he's actually taking a shit. So let's try like switching these seats to toilets and see what happens. Is Elon in a room full of toilets? I guess we'll find out. But do we do— making memes for microchips? But all right, all right. I love it. We got hella notifications coming in. All right, so we got some of these are toilets, right? Not all of them. Not good enough, right? I'm doing a live demo here. I'm on my Zuck shit. All right, switch all the seats to toilets. Make him sit on a toilet. That's the thing about AI, man. You got to keep on trying. Keep on trying shit. Prompt, prompt, prompt, baby. All right, let's see how this one works. Hey, let's go, let's go! We're getting hella quote tweets, hella retweets on this launch video. Um, if you guys saw our launch video, literally this whole thing was made on Memelord. I'm going to show you how I actually did it, right? From creating these little ideas to the whole storyboard and turning them into videos, voiceovers, everything. I'm gonna show you it all. All right, let's see how this Bitty Bee is working. All right, all right, Elon's sitting on his toilets. Let's go! All right, I guess Elon is officially shitposting. I mean, Elon is the one. If I'm right, he did say who controls the memes controls the universe. So we got Elon here. Let's fucking go. All right, let's go. Sorry, I'm just dropping these. Boom. Elon. All right. Dropping them in a thread. Let's go, let's go. This is exciting. Uh, what's up Brent, how you doing bro? Thank you for your support since day one. Um, for all the people who saw early version of Memelord, man, like it's just crazy how far we've come. Uh, I built the first version of Memelord with no code because I didn't know how to engineer, and now I actually have money and engineers and we are building some crazy shit. So, uh, it's definitely a good feeling. Oh, I love fucking with this one. So this came out the other day, right? It's the Meta meme. And so we'll just say switch the holograph to something. So switch the holograph. Maybe it's like switch the holograph to a dollar sign, right? Say you've got like the glasses on and you're like, I need that money. You know what I'm saying? VCs, when they see memes, right? Let's see how it works. Doo doo doo doo. Making memes from microchips. There we go. There we go. It's so much fun doing this. Like, you could just have an incredible amount of iterations just endlessly. And that's why I wanted to build this crazy infinite canvas was so you can iterate infinitely. So we could just close this here and now I'll show you. It's quite fun. So maybe let's try that again. Switch the, what is it, holograph to an eggplant emoji and a ruler. Let's see how this baby works. We just quickly press Download. You can see we have a lot more features here. We have a Teams plan where you and your team could have shared assets and everything like that. There we go. All right, so for all the Tech Twink Mafia out there, you know who you are, we are now selling a special type of glasses, uh, using the power of virtual reality, uh, and, uh, you know, scanning, LiDAR, LiDAR detection, uh, we can now tell your penis size, which will then lead us— if, if it's large enough, we've got a dollar sign, right? All right, all right. Uh, we're gonna keep on, uh, posting these underneath. Uh, I'm having, I'm having a good time. All right, Memelord Media, baby. We are, uh, we are having a good time here. All right, let's drop these in the Twitter thread. And if you're in the chat, say what's good. Uh, like I was saying before, um, it's crazy. Like, we've got some of our early users here. I transferred all of our early users from version 1 onto our new version of software. Uh, we had users for literally over a year, like the same users. It's incredible. Uh, we, we, when we threw out the old software last night, we like turned it off. People were emailing us instantly within, within minutes saying, where the fuck's the software? It's like, sorry guys. Like, trust me, we built you something much more fun, much, much more powerful. All right. So as you can tell, you can just go through here, uh, look through all the craziest new viral memes. Um, all right, let's try this one. So I like this meme. It's like some dude looking at Manhattan. I kind of want to see what happens if I try switching the view for SF view out the window. So let's see what's going on. Of course, we also have like all the possible stickers that you could imagine. We've got, you know, an uploads area for you to save all your uploads, add them to folders and the shared folders with your team. All the crazy saved, everything's there. All right, yo, that's crazy. It just switched it for SF. So you can see here we've got the Golden Gate Bridge. All you have to do is press right-click. All right, but we can do a lot more than just like silly little AI image iterations. A lot of places are trying to do that, I know, I know. All right, so we could do a lot more. So let me, let me show you some shit. We have a now full AI meme generator. Let's just type in startups. See what happens. All right, all right, decent. Let's try again. We'll just try startups, see what happens. Honestly, uh, yeah, yeah, we've all been there. We've all been there, guys. We've all been there. So it's just as simple as just like pressing the button. Maybe you want to try something else— e-commerce. Um, there's a lot of e-commerce bros out there. Let's make some AI memes for them. All right, I feel like that was decent. Not great, not great. Let's try some more. Let's try some more. Live demo time, baby. Um, let's say, um, let's say venture capital. I guess that's been on my mind a lot lately. All right, all right, let's see how this one is. All right, decent, decent. All right, let's try something, something better. Actually, you know what, wanna know, let's, let's do— let me get this boy up. VC, what should I try? Being, you know what, um, oh, social media managers. That's a lot of our users. Let's see what happens. All right, this was literally me. Uh, so now we've got this, this little AI meme here, but like, yeah, why don't we just like try face swapping myself on? So we have our most recent images. Shout out Chase Passive Income, uh, a friend and early user. And now we could just easily face swap myself onto this little AI-generated meme. See what happens. All right, all right, how are we looking? Nice, nice, love it. What's up, Tal? How are you? Tal's an early user as well, uh, and she's in the group chat right now. I love it. Um, sick, this is sick. It's weird. Can you guys— you guys can see my whole like screen and shit, right? Um, not just the homepage. Let's see. Um, all right, cool. Uh, sorry, I was getting messages from the team. Uh, here at memelord.com, we are DIY. Yeah, that's right. We just raised $3 million, but I spent $300 $100,000 on my launch video. I think the whole spending $100,000 on a launch video meta that we're in right now is fucking retarded, to be honest. I think it's stupid. I think you guys are wasting money and it's just dumb. Like, you guys can make crazy shit for a few hundred bucks, so don't waste your money. Just like make your own stuff on Memelord. I'm going to show you exactly how to do that. So let's, let's grab, you know, Drake right here. My little Drake character, remove the background, and we're going to actually put him in a scene, right? All this stuff was made on Memelord. All these little characters, everything was just made right here. The only limit is your imagination. I'm telling you, you guys can make some crazy stuff. It's just about actually putting in the time and work. So let's try this. All right, so we've got Drake. Maybe let's put him Or it's me as Drake, actually. All right, where should we go? Where should we go? I'm thinking, um, thinking, uh, New York City. We'll just go Central Park. You know what, love Drake going through Central Park, right? So we're going to be able to make entire images and silly ideas right here. Show you how it works. All right, I'm still pretty impressed by this, the fact that it switched from New York to SF. All right, so we got Drake with his little Oktoberfest, uh, outfit, and we'll just, uh, throw that behind there. And now we've got a new scene, right? So that's scene number 1. We'll have Drake showing up right here on the spot. Oh, this is so much fun. Nice. All right, cool. And then what we could do, maybe we want to actually switch this out for maybe a beer or something, like a bigger beer. It feels like a very small beer. Let's switch it up. Big beer, uh, beer mug. See what happens. All right, all right, I can't wait to show you guys all this shit. Uh, right, all right, cool. So we got Drake with a much bigger mirror mug. That feels, that feels better, that feels better. All right, we'll remove that. I love how he's got his OVO necklace on right there. Got a branding, baby, branding OVO. All right, so we'll switch that bad boy out. Nice. So you guys can kind of imagine where I'm going with this, right? So next, after this, we're going to actually make him walk through Central Park. I'll show you how to do that. All right, cool, cool, cool, cool. And here we go. All right, so we got our selection and then we're going to jump into memelord.com's video editor. So I'm going to do that real quick. All right, cute. So this is memelord.com's video editor. We are doing a full live demo right now. So very exciting. And you can see we made all these iterations on the canvas that I was just showing you guys, right? I just said right-click, add a cash bag, right-click, you know, put them in a cop's uniform, all that stuff. And so what I'm doing right now is just totally live. So now we just click on video, say, uh, image to video, and we'll actually, uh, just make some AI videos. I'll show you guys how this works. I wish I planned this stream a little bit more, but I'm having a good time. And that's Bob Ross. All you get, or what is it? Happy little— there's no accidents, just happy little memes. Pretty sure that's what he said. All right, I think I'm actually going to do— try with this meme here. All right, so the thing that we just made of me as Drake with an Oktoberfest. We'll just say, man walking through the park. Pretty simple. And then in a couple minutes, you'll get a video just like this. And so like I was saying, a lot of AI video creators, AI softwares today, they did the first step of letting you create the videos, but they didn't actually take the time to build a real video editor. And so what we could do here on Memelord is anything. So if you want to, you know, add filters, you could do that, right? You can make it black and white. If you want to add effects, you know, all these crazy effects. If you want to add animations, you know, make it spin, whatever you can imagine, right? It's up to you. Uh, you can do it all. So I'm gonna show you a a lot more. It's, it's wild. I built the whole launch video on, on our own site. All right, how are we doing? How are we doing? We've got some more, uh, more action here. Gang gang! What's up, Super Trucker? All right, it's kind of weird, I see like chat from like 5 different angles. I'm trying to figure this, this stream shit out, man. Shit's confusing. We're gonna be doing a lot more meme streams, uh, coming up. All right. Oh, the signups are coming in, baby. You love to see it. You love to see it. Launch day is going good. Uh, feeling, feeling good so far. We're getting, we're getting, uh, getting quite a lot of signups. I'm gonna show you guys what, uh, what shit's looking like right now. All right, we got Drake. Let's, let's see what happens, y'all. All right, so move these out of the side. Now you guys can see exactly what I just made in seconds. Seconds, right? I went from a simple meme on the canvas of Drake, right, into a full-on video. And what happens next is you could turn anything into a movie, any video, right? We could have this here, right? These are all just storyboards and scenes. So what you can imagine you actually doing is just like a movie, you start with the script, right? So let's say it's like Man is stuck in NYC. Alright, sorry, the font's a little low. Right, man is stuck in NYC. Alright, hmm, he puts on these glasses that show him how to make money, show him where to find the money. And then Where does he go? He ends up in SF where he's raising from the VCs, right? And so you can imagine like how this becomes a movie, just simple ideas, right? And so the most powerful thing about Memelord, and I guess one of the most powerful things, is the fact that we just have all these newest trending content at all times. So rather than like starting from scratch, uh, just simply on, you know, Final Cut or whatever, you can actually like start from newest trending content instead. And you get to jump on the news, you get to jump on things much, much faster. It's how our team is just pumping out content all the time. All right, let me, uh, keep showing you guys some cool stuff. Uh, I kind of want to see what happens if I animate this. All right, I wish like I had a full launch demo plans, but we're just gonna, we're just gonna see what happens. It's a lot more fun this way anyways, just following your imagination, following your play. I highly recommend you guys spend time fucking around and finding out. This entire thing was from fucking around and finding out. Um, make dollar sign sparkle. All right. Now we got— this video is cooking, it's cooking, baby. Um, what's this one over here? Oh yeah, this is, uh, one of the cutscenes, all that stuff. I love this character, man. I made, uh, this little piano guy just like smoke a cig. It's like, uh, supposed to be Billy Joel essentially. So sick. Oh man, so much fun to watch. Yeah, I love it. I love it. I'm obsessed. If you guys aren't like having fun with AI in any way, I feel really bad for you because there's so much cool shit you could be making. Like, this is absurd, right? This is great. We got little Drake, Oktoberfest. We don't need that. There's Infinite AI. You guys can have fun. All right, we got a new one coming in. Oh, oh, this looks good. I've got a good feeling about this one. All right, all right, I like it, I like it. Now let's jump back over to regular Memelord. Actually, I want to show you guys some more cool shit. So as you guys can see, there's basically like unlimited ideas that you can do, right? It's just like as simple as taking a meme, Alex Karp, right, face swapping myself, adding the book Memes Make Millions, right? And then I was showing you earlier all the different AI memes. Our AI meme generator is actually funny. There's been a lot of people who have tried to make these, uh, and I, I don't know what they do. It's like they don't speak English and they're trying to make memes, and memes come from jokes, and jokes come from mastery of a language. Uh, so it doesn't work, but ours is actually really funny, uh, and I love it. Um, you know, you could turn all your ideas, every single weird idea you possibly have, into straight-up videos, right? Uh, you could literally make movies on Memelord. It's the new Hollywood, I'm telling you. Um, journalists aren't a fan of us, you know. I haven't, I haven't talked about this much publicly, um, but, uh, they're not a of meme lords. They're scared of us, right? We control the media now, you know, with our little meme beepers. Um, one meme can change the news cycle. People report on my memes, which is an insane thing to say, but Rolling Stone, Politico, Slate, New Yorker, they all reported on it. There's more articles coming out next week. It's coming. All right, but want to know who loves us? The journalists don't like us. That's fine. I'm not trying to impress journalists. I'm trying to press marketers, creators, movie makers, all the internet kids of the world, man. You know, Charlie Light, early user here. My boy Jack Kovecky. Matt McGarry runs an email agency, right? All these different brands use Memelord, um, because we are able to provide them with the newest trending content at all times, right? And give them a tool to go make crazy shit, right? You can see here, uh, been profiled all across the internet. And, you know, people like Oren Jaan, one of the biggest marketing creators on the planet, right? Ish Verduzo. He was head of marketing at a16z Crypto. Beehive. I did a nice little masterclass on memes, right? Meme marketing is taking over. It is the meta. I bet my entire career on it 3 years ago. And memes are only just beginning, right? As there's more boring, boring, boring shit As attention spans go down, memes go up, right? Silliness. You need to be able to entertain people. And yeah, it's true. We really did raise $3 million. People thought we were joking, but it's true. And you guys, you can try free. All right, let's jump back into the meme editor. So I'm a little all over the place. I'm running on 3 hours of sleep, building my own, building this whole thing right here. Right. I don't know what else, what else we gotta say. I think honestly, like, just, just very grateful for everybody here who has, um, been supporting me since, since day one, or attacking me, either one I'm cool with. It doesn't really make a difference to me, man. Um, I'm just grateful, uh, and I get to wake up every day, uh, you know, got my meme lord shirt on, wake up every day and, and make memes, uh, and, and make people laugh for a living. And, um I really think that there's still so much we have to do, so much value trapped in memetics and memes and meme marketing. And you guys can join the party. It's going to be a good time. Yo, what's up, Tal? All right, all right, we got the whole gang here. I love it, man. They're saying memelord.com will produce— damn. Dude, I love the quote tweets are going absolutely crazy right now. This is fantastic, man. It's fantastic. Quote tweets are going crazy. The signups are going crazy. This is great. All right, sorry, I'm getting a little distracted. All right, we got the Autism Action Plan. Let's see what happens. Let's see, can we switch autism with memelord? Let's find out. Switch autism with memelord. It works on our launch video. Let's see, let's see. Let's check the chat. Let's go! Nice, nice. Yo, thank you, uh, to everybody in— I'm seeing, uh, chats everywhere. This is crazy. Oh, I didn't realize there's so much chats coming in. This is wild. Oh my God, nice, nice. I love it. Somebody said, are you guys live on PH? Um, we are not live on Product Hunt. Uh, I quit my job at Product Hunt exactly one year ago to the date. Fun fact. And now we've got this round that we just announced. So it's literally one year ago. It's been an absolute crazy journey. Let me share this. So one year ago, I quit my job at Product Hunt and one year ago to the day, today I just raised $3 million. It's wild, man. It's been A crazy story. So we are not live on Product Hunt, but we are live on Pornhub. All right, let's, uh, let's keep, keep fucking around on Memelord. Um, Memelord is by far, uh, honestly just like the most fun that I've ever had in my life. Um, I've made a lot of crazy stuff on the internet. Um, you guys can, can, can see it all. Um, but I'm spending 6 to 8 hours a day just in the canvas, just making shit. And, um, you know, that's why people are signing up, because I think a lot, a lot of people are trying to just fucking, you know, make software that just automates stuff. We want to make software that you actually have fun playing on, right? Um, and you actually have a good time. Uh, and so you'll find Easter eggs all through the software. Uh, shout out to everybody who is signing up like crazy right now. Uh, by the minute, uh, we are, we are getting, we are getting, getting signups coming in. Uh, chill. Whoa, what the fuck? I love it. I love it. Um, but yeah, it's been an absolute crazy journey and, uh, really just starting. So let's, uh, let's keep going here. Oh, this one's fun. All right, so check this shit out, guys. Check this shit out. All right, we're gonna switch this Coca-Cola can, switch, switch the bottle for a Red Bull. All right, let's see what happens. See, this is the beauty of AI. AI. AI. That's all you need to say to a VC, guys. Just AI. AI. AI. I'm just playing. Build a real product. I dare you fuckers. There we go. All right. Shout out Red Bull Futurist, my boy. If you guys know Red Bull Futurist, he was our biggest investor, is Red Bull Futurist. He's a homie. He works at SpaceX. I'm just playing. But we love Red Bull Futurist. I'm saying Red Bull Futurist was right. That's my new motto. I got to drop some more memes on the thread. We're having a good time here. Let me keep adding some stuff. Right. All right. Sorry, I'm all over the place. I'm getting a lot of messages, a lot of text messages. Right now and calls and signups. And so we're a one-man meme machine. All right, you know what, fuck it. Let's switch the Red Bull, switch, switch the Mentos for— what are we saying? I'm saying some money for, for, uh, yeah, let's say gold coins. Let's see what happens. This is what my life is looking more like, right? It's a Red Bull and some gold, baby. So whatever you could possibly imagine, you guys get unlimited AI iterations. It's just, it's endless, unlimited. Okay, we're not charging you per, per thing. You, you guys can just go crazy. Okay. Um, nice. I love it. I love it. Um, and also unlimited AI memes, right? So, uh, let's keep making some more. Um, what do you guys think? Let's say engineers. Yeah, let's say, um, uh, uh, unemployed engineers. We are hiring, by the way, speaking of unemployed engineers that I'm about to make fun of. All right, all right, let's, let's, uh, let's try that again. Let's try some more. Like I said, unlimited, baby. Abundance mindset, you know what I'm saying? Uh, it's such a big difference, man. Like, oh man, it's crazy. Like, building the software by myself versus actually having a team has been pretty fantastic. If you're watching this and you're an indie hacker, which is what I was a year ago, just building shit myself, like basically like there's a trade-off you make of you raise a little bit of money, you raise money and you slow down for a minute, but then the speed that you're able to move with an actual team is much faster. And so if you're willing to sacrifice that potential slowdown to go move faster in the long haul, it's well worth it. And if you really do have a giant vision, which I do here, is not just be a meme app but a movie-making app, then would recommend it. A lot of people are making fun of VCs all the time on the timeline, and honestly, I was one of them. Most people thought I was VC Brags. That's just a friend of mine. Um, let's go! Somebody's writing a blog about us right now. Gotta retweet that. Sorry, I'm— yo, LimeWire just liked my tweet! That is the weirdest— all right, I'm showing you guys this real quick. This is real, all right? LimeWire just liked my tweet. Wait, are they— are you guys watching right now? Is LimeWire watching right now? That's kind of hilarious. Somebody said, who's your favorite investor? Boom! Couldn't have done this without investing in myself, man. Um, grateful, grateful for myself, grateful for the past me, you know what I'm saying? Uh, for, for going this hard for so long. Uh, it's, it's, it's been, been a, been a crazy, crazy journey. Um, all right, back, back to me more. Sorry, all over the place, guys. We are, we are all over the place today. All right, so we got, we got Erlich here. And maybe we want to do some edits. You know, maybe like, what should we have Erlich do? Give him a cowboy hat. There we go. Let's see what happens. So we've got all like the classic memes, all the newest memes, everything you could possibly imagine. But like, to me, The most fun part is making your own stuff, right? Like, it's like, take the old stuff and remix it in your own style, right? Absolute Cinema. Let's try face swapping myself on, right? Actually, you know what? Let's face swap Chase Passive Leads. My boy Charlie, who runs that account, he was probably user number one of the software very, very, very early. And yeah, he— the dude has made millions making memes. Uh, there we go, there we go. Let's, uh, let's crop this bad boy a little bit. Nice, nice, nice. Love it. And, uh, there's a bunch of ways you could— you could screenshot it. You could just quickly screenshot. You could download all sorts of sizes. Um, I'm gonna be dropping like tutorials and everything. This is really just me kind of schizo mode, just having fun, um, to celebrate on launch day, uh, by having a good time. Um, but I'll be dropping like real tutorials. I'll be dropping, going on a lot of podcasts and videos coming up and everything like that. So expect, expect, uh, a lot more, uh, coming. So, all right, all right, let's go. Only 3 million, needs at least 30. Okay, I'll take 30. I'll take 30 mil. Let's do it. The Meme Machine, let's go. All right, nice, nice, nice. All right, gotta love it, baby. This thing is— yo, the amount of nerves. Oh, this feels so good. It's crazy. I like— you guys have no idea, like, the amount of just insanity. Like, I'm running on like 3 hours of sleep. I haven't been outside in 3 days. Straight up. I haven't showered in 2 days. Making this video. I made this whole video myself, right? I was like, there is no sleep involved. I did everything from creating the characters to voiceover, writing the thread, everything, right? All this down to the video and editing and overlays. The Figma design was all me as well. This is crazy, right? And when I say this, like, it really is my life's work. And like, I've been in tears the last few days just, just reflecting. Um, you know, I've been doing this for a really long time, since I was a little kid making silly stuff. Um, you know, here's me learning how to use a green screen wearing a green shirt at my dad's house when I was a kid. Uh, here's me making YouTube videos when I was 16, uh, you know, with like funny thoughts on the toilet. Me doing comedy, right? And, um, ah man, it's crazy. It's crazy. Just don't give up on your dreams. People are gonna call you cringe, call you an idiot. Um, you'll go through some hard shit. Um, but I really hope, like, I hope this is an inspiration to you guys. Uh, I do this for the younger me and the younger me's out there of, um, keep, keep making crazy stuff. You know, keep, keep being, being silly and being yourself. Uh, you just like absolutely never know where things will, you know, go, right? Um, and, uh, you know, now we, uh, we're launching here, right? It's like I made this jersey 3 years ago myself, bought it for myself, and now it's like part of our launch thing, right? Just like commit to something, man. Drop the technologies. This is, this is my, uh, the best man in my wedding, Shane. Like You know, he saw all my crazy, crazy stuff as a kid. Image flips. Shout out, Jameson Levin. He's one of our early, early users. Actually, this is the day after I launched Memelord last year. This is literally 364 days ago. We were getting rate limited from the number of signups, and I'm freaking out, drinking coffee in Austin, Texas. Um, shout out Daniel. Uh, he is a head of sales at Beehive, big power user of the software, man. This is crazy. DC Brags, love you, dude. Um, and, uh, I mean, I'm dead serious, yo. Like, somebody was showing me in a Porsche or whatever, it's like, nah, we're saving that money, man. Like, I literally just raised money so I can live my dreams and help other people make crazy stuff and make money doing it. Like, this is me as a little kid just learning Photoshop, right? And this is me today, 15 years later, doing the same thing, right? We got the Palantir sticker and Bob Ross. That's probably the first time that's ever happened. This is really fun. This is crazy. Oh man, I am not a pretty woman, man. I'm not a pretty woman. Uh, dude, it's crazy, man. I wrote this book, uh, Memes Make Millions, 3 years ago. Looked like an idiot to everybody, um, except for the people who believed in me early on. And, uh, it's very, very beyond grateful, uh, for all y'all. Um, the memes have actually made millions now, uh, and we're not stopping until they make billions, you know what I'm saying? All right, notifications coming in. Let's, let's go! Let's get this shit! Let's go. All right, all right, all right, back to the software, baby. All right, let's have some fun. Sorry, I was getting deep for a second, man. Y'all think I just, you know, joke around, I'm all silly. Nah, no, I can be deep as hell. All right, I'm thinking we add, uh, what's this meme? Oh, oh wait, I got it, I got it. All right, all right, I'm liking. I think you guys know where I'm going with this. I know there's gonna be some copycatting motherfuckers probably watching this right now. On God, we've already had copycats, man. Uh, I know it's coming, I know it's coming, but, uh, we won't— the lion does not concern itself with the copycats. We're just gonna tweet this real one. I love it. All right, so there's a few ways you could sign up or export, uh, your memes is either screenshotting, you, uh, drag everything to export. You could also do specific screen sizes. So if you're making content for TikTok and you just want it to be, or I guess Instagram Reels, you just do this and then press export and it exports. If you are doing it for, you know, a square size, you just switch back over. Let's switch back and you can just do square. So that's, that's one of the ways to export. There's a, there's a bunch of ways. Like, people need options, you know, people. Oh, it's kind of nice. I can imagine that on a poster, maybe. All right, should we increase the thickness a little? There we go, there we go. That's nice, that's really nice. It's almost like Memelord's an art app, not just for making memes. It's almost like memes are just the gateway drug into making crazy art on the internet. Who would have thought? All right, I'm having a good time here. Let's go. All right, I'm thinking we— let's switch some shit around. What should we do here? Nice. For all the people who call me cringe, thank you, I appreciate it. You made me rich. Oh, that's such a good meme. That's such a good one. All right, let's see what else we got. Oh, bad luck, Brian. All right, I'm thinking we add some AI stuff. Remix this old meme. We could do that. Let's do that. Maybe put him in a, uh, what's a sports team? Put him in a Jets jersey. All right, I feel like the New York Jets, everybody knows the Jets suck, right? Let's, let's see what happens here. All right, while that's loading, just checking in on the team in the chat. Oh, another signups! Let's go! Ha! There we go, see? All right, let's go, let's go, baby! I love it. All right, oh, all right, maybe we do like Jon Hamm. Uh, should we switch the backgrounds? Actually, you know what, maybe we remove the background. See what happens. See how this one works. Oh, nice, nice, nice. Maybe we combine it with one of these. I— this is crazy. I love watching this iteration. Sorry, I'm— all right, wait, I sent this meme to my chat the other day. This shit cracked me up. Let me show you guys this. Oh nice, my dad just texted me saying congrats. Gotta love it. Thanks, Pops. All right, let's go. Uh, this is funny. Somebody just said, uh, we're gonna be a dating app. Maybe we should launch a dating app. I mean, we're getting all these signups. We're about to have some network effects, you know. Should we launch a dating app, guys? Memelord meme dating, it's got a nice ring to it. Nice, let's go baby! It's like every, every couple minutes. All right, all right, this is me right now, okay? Yeah, we got the Red Bull, the Mentos, and the signups. What else does a man need? You don't need no TBPM, motherfuckers. We got the meme network. Fools. This is what going direct actually means. It means doing it yourself, not relying on anybody else. Um, a lot of journalists don't want to cover me, a lot of bloggers, a lot of YouTubers, a lot of podcasters. They don't want to cover what we're doing here. So you got to go out and do it yourself, and eventually people will fucking listen. All right, jobs that rejected me, the founders of those companies invested in my software. All right, so don't listen to the gatekeepers, okay? There's no more gatekeepers, okay? Elon is right. We're all just citizen journalists now. We're all, we're all creators. We all can build audiences, okay? So if some fuckers won't let you on their podcast, you go do it yourself. You go get signups and you say fuck them. The same thing with journalists, the same thing with everybody else, all right? You go do your own thing, man. People think they're too cool for you. They think that, uh, whatever, you know, like they think you're unprofessional, they think you're crazy, they think you're a brand risk. Maybe you are a brand risk, all right? And maybe that's the point, dumbasses. All right, sorry, rant over. This is, uh, I'm, uh, sick of people not taking Memelord seriously, man. Sick of it. You just raised $3 million and it's time to up it up a notch, all right? Time to start some shit. If you guys think that I've been yapping hard, there's a lot of stuff I haven't been saying, all right? There's a lot of stuff that I have not been saying because I didn't have the money in the bank yet. Now we got the money in the bank, we could start talking, we could start really yapping. All right, shit's about to go crazy. All right, shout out, uh, nice, let's go! Shout out Sam Lesson, uh, big investor, our lead investor Sam Lesson, uh, appreciate you, uh, means, means the world, man. Uh, very excited, excited, uh, for the future memes in memetic warfare. I love it, man, I love it. All right, shit's going crazy, we're getting signups. Um, and back to me mode. All right, actually, you know what, maybe, maybe we go back here. I wanna, I wanna just keep showing you guys, showing you guys some cool stuff. This is what I mean, what I was just saying though, back to the point. I'm going on my Kanye rant right now. Uh, I feel like, I feel like Kanye, but like there's no chance that I get anti-Semitic because I'm Jewish, so like I'm, I'm good on that. Like That's not gonna happen. But I am ranting right now because I'm feeling excited. I'm feeling, uh, feeling like I'm celebrating right now. Uh, damn, the messages and texts are fucking wild right now, man. Wild. Um, yo, that's so funny. Um, all right, so yeah, we've been in a lot of hit pieces and they're about to get started, right? And that's the whole point, man. Is like, these places are jokes now. Why is Rolling Stone writing about us? You're supposed to write about musicians. You're supposed to write real music journalists. I was a music journalist, and now they're writing about memes, man. All these people, these journalists, whoever, if they don't take you seriously, you break your fucking way in there, man, no matter what. All right, man, I'm on some Kanye shit right now. All the agents, uh, too black, I'm too vocal, I'm too flagrant. Flagrant, I think that's the word. All right, all right, can we get, uh, options for moving the text? Yeah, you can move the text. What are you talking about, bro? Of course you can move the text. All right, we got a lot of chats going. Damn. All right, let's get back to business, back to me. I'm gonna, I'm gonna chill on the Kanye stuff. All right, switch, uh Maybe actually, you know what, let's add stuff. Let's— what should we do? What should we add? I guess we'll just add a big space. Oh, add a big UFO. There you go. Um, basically the world if we find out that UFOs are actually real. I have a theory that, uh, the defense tech companies, like half of them are just— or defense tech VCs are investing in UFOs companies. Like, I— or investing in defense tech and UFO-type tech just to search for it and capitalize on it. Uh, that's, that's my theory. There's like a bunch of these kind of VC-funded UFO-type apps. Um, you guys might not know about this, uh, but There's a lot of— there's, there's 2 or 3 VC-backed UFO searching apps. It's like, why are they doing that? Is it to capitalize on the craze around UFOs? Probably not. It's to capitalize on if we find UFO tech, uh, and then can use it in defense. Um, that's, that's my theory here. All right, uh, but just a theory, you know. I don't know, what do I know? I didn't just raise $3 million for MeMap. Nice, nice. All right, getting, getting a lot of likes here. A lot. The view is almost at 150K views. I'm very, uh, very excited about this. Um, feels pretty good, man. This is my first time ever animating anything, so, uh, you know, it's for our launch video. Um, let's go! Uh, let's go! All right. Man, this is crazy. I'm all over the place right now. The world when we find out UFOs are real and Founders Fund is investing in them. All right, sorry, just, just posting some bangers. As you guys could tell, I have a very chaotic brain. Uh, all right, this is, this is overwhelm. Meanwhile, I was searching for the perfect idea. Sorry, bro, I already found it, man. I don't know what to tell you. All right, all right, we're jumping back on. Uh, I want to tell some stories. I feel like it'd be good to tell some stories about how I, a meme lord, raised money. Um, I've been saving these stories for a while, so, um, wanna— I wanna tell a little bit about how I went about raising money. Um, I am a college dropout, um, and not like the ones where like they drop out for like a Thiel Fellow, more just like a dropout because I went and like created my own business and partied for a couple years. Like, more like that, you know what I'm saying? Like, I'm— I didn't go to Stanford or anything, and we were able to raise $3 million, um, backed by some of the best investors in the world, um, and it all comes from posting memes, from posting on social media, from sending DMs to people I thought were cool, and from being myself. Other people try to just impress VCs with fancy degrees. I sent them memes, literally sent memes. And people respect what we're doing. They get our vision, man, and they get the long-haul vision of it. These investors, I met them 5 years ago, 4 years ago, just from sending DMs on Twitter. Balaji Srinivasan is my hero, right? In my profile picture, I'm literally wearing a shirt that I made saying Balaji was right. And now Balaji is an investor in my company, right? It's crazy, like full circle, right? If you look closely, at my profile picture, it says Balaji was right. That was 5 years ago, right? This has been a long time coming, all right? This isn't something that happened overnight, um, this was, this was a long journey, right? And, uh, grateful for the team at Long Journey for investing. Uh, I met, met the team there from, uh, literally, uh, just Twitter, from, from meeting people on Twitter, man. It's crazy just seeing each other's content, sending messages to people you think are cool. You know, Erik Jorgensen, another one of my heroes, I read his books 3, 4 years ago and, um, became a friend and a hero of mine and invested, right? Um, you know, like so many of these examples. Nathan Lanz, um, we just met on Twitter, right? Just sending messages. Um, social media can change your life if you do it right. Um, and it's, it's why, why I take everything I do and why I take memes, something so silly, so seriously. Um, you know, uh, it's really up to you how, how someone take it personally. I prefer to take my, uh, memes extremely seriously, uh, and, and I hope, I hope you do the same. Uh, you know, there's, there's A lot of people who think what we're doing is dumb, or, you know, it's some sort of bubble. I don't know. But like, as I said here, the internet gave me everything I got, so I'm gonna give it everything I got, right? We're gonna go hard and make this art for the people of the internet, man. We're gonna give you tools so you could go make crazy shit. That's what we're gonna do, okay? And we're gonna have fun doing it. So that's it. This has been a crazy stream. Uh, I, I definitely went on a little bit of a rant. And, um, yeah, if you want to try out Memelord, uh, go to memelord.com. Free to try. Uh, feel free to cancel if you don't like it. It doesn't matter. You get 10, uh, free AI meme videos that you can just test yourself. Uh, you can invite team members, uh, as part of the team plan. You can, uh, do unlimited AI meme generators or edits, everything. AI meme edits, everything. All right, try it free, 3 days. If you don't like it, uh, all it costs you is some time, you know. So, uh, go crazy. Um, just really, uh, yeah, very, very proud of the whole team. And, um, it's just the beginning, man. This is— this has been crazy. I'll be— I'll be posting out some more videos. You're catching me kind of raw right now, unfiltered, uh, which is how it should be. This is what, uh, actually going direct is, is doing it yourself, not trying to do anything else, you know. Go do it yourself, man. It's a big believer here at Memelord is, uh, we are DIY. Go make your own crazy shit, man. Have fun. All right, peace.
