Sup memelords,

Last week, I was invited to meet the goat Gary Vee and got to elevator pitch him Memelord in a literal elevator.

I raised $3M and I gotta be honest I low-key thought elevator pitches were just a myth from business textbooks and they’re called elevator pitches because it’s the time of an elevator ride. Well turns out it’s called an elevator pitch for a VERY GOOD reason!!!

The most successful social media entrepreneur and investor of all time might just say “hey come ride down and pitch me in the elevator” and you better be ready.

And I’m not saying it’s related, but all I’m saying is Gary’s team has been on a heater posting memes ever since then…

As a kid who grew up reading Gary’s books and watching his content, this has been a dream come true.

“How’d you meet Gary????”

His team invited me to go to this influencer summit down in Miami, but… what they didn’t tell me was it was an influencer summit for beauty influencers. I thought it was for tech nerds and I ended up being around hot Miami influencers all day (my wife was not happy, personally I plead the 5th! Thank you Constitutional Rights!).

And even though I’m not a hot blonde miami botoxed up boob job beauty influencer (yet), I still learned a lot about social strategy, AI x influencers, and community in 2026:

7 harsh truths from Gary Vee:

Gary Vee on Social Media Strategy in 2026:

Every day I try to make content for a younger version of me out there, the 15-year-old kid who had no idea what he was doing on the internet.

It's a simple strategy, but that's what I've been trying to do for the last four years across this blog, Twitter, and Memelord, and what I try to do every single day.

If my marketing hacks help one kid out there like me, I'm happy. The same thing with memes and comedy. If it makes one person laugh, I'm happy. This is why rage-baiting or lying to your audience is stupid. It’s selfishness at its core.

There's always a younger version of you out there somewhere in the wide world of the internet. Even if only a few hundred people see your content, it might be able to help somebody. Just keep going, give it all you got.

This is 1000% accurate and great advice for all memelords and marketers.

Memes slap harder the more niche they are.

I wrote in my book "Memes Make Millions." I couldn't make a hockey meme if you paid me $10k (Idk anything about hocker), but me and my team cook up marketing memes like crazy because that's the niche we get.

Right now me and my team are currently challenging Zuck to set up a pixel live on Meta Business Center. Only marketers get the pain of this which is why it’s only funny to us. It's better to be famous in your niche than just viral.

You’d think of me as the meme marketing guy I'm always trying to get everything to go viral, but I'm actually not.

I just try to post bangers for me and my friends on the internet, and sometimes they go viral and sometimes they don't.

If you see somebody who promises that they know how to go viral every single time, it's because they're botting it or paying people.

Nobody has the magic formula to virality, not even Gary Vee.

Gary Vee on AI x Influencers in 2026:

This is now becoming undeniable.

I remember like 5 years ago when that first AI influencer went famous and got brand deals from Pac-Sun and it felt like magic or something only a 7-figure marketing agency could cook up, but now anyone can do it.

You can even cook up 10 AI videos on my dumb software Memelord.com for $20/mo. I don’t even say this to promote us, it’s more the fact that it’s so goddamn cheap to do now. If you want to stand out against AI influencers, you need to be authentic and unhinged and weird AI can’t do it (that’s been my entire thesis building Memelord).

A room full of 200 beauty influencers who yap for a living went silent.

Shit was hilarious. I don’t got much else to say except it’s true af lol.

Gary is extremely bullish on AI influencers for live shopping. “They’re prettier than you and they’ll work 24/7 shifts.”

How do you stand out? You be so unhinged and authentic AI can never replace you (cough cough the memelord.com thesis)

My thesis for Memelord has always been: be so unhinged and authentic that AI can never replace you. This has remained true and will always remain true.

3 years ago, when ChatGPT came out, I doubled down on only writing about my adventures. I don't write case studies. I just write about my unhinged, real-life adventures that nobody else can take away from me.

I wrote about partying with Peter Thiel and billionaires in Miami, launching a fake viral boycott of Celsius, quitting my job and going founder mode, and much more.

My thesis is absolutely correct and becoming more correct every day.

Be authentically you. Be unhinged. Be real and people will love you for that (or hate you). All good either way. At least you’re not AI. Tell me, can AI get 24M views reading a book like this on the subway????

Gary Vee on Community in 2026:

This hit the room like a freight train.

Most of the people there were just chicks looking for attention on Instagram or to get called hot. It was like a self-awareness bubble just burst.

Meanwhile, me, I’m just a goofball memelord doing it for the love of the game and to help all my homies make some funny money. I was laughing my ass off at their faces. They ain’t real internet kids, half of them are probably escorts lol.

How much do I love my internet homies????

We rented out a movie theater in NYC on April Fools to watch Instagram Reels on the big screen. Apply here to join.

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Thanks for reading memelords.

Create some cool shit this week.

Jason “The Memelord” Levin

Founder of Memelord.com