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Sup memelords,
I’m Jovian, and I’m the designated Child Labor of Memelord.com.
That’s me at the back
Today’s is about memes, movies, and stories.
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I want to show you a Rotten Tomatoes comparison between two movies.
One is a highly anticipated sci-fi movie with over $100M budget directed by a legendary director.
The other one’s a $2M movie where the entire thing is just one guy talking on the phone while driving for 90 minutes. I’m honestly shocked it cost that much.
Movie A is Prometheus, directed by Ridley Scott. It marked Scott’s return to the sci-fi genre, had a $130M budget, and was visually stunning. Yet both critics and audiences felt it was meh.
Now that I think about it doesn’t he look a bit like Hooded Wojak?
B is a movie called Locke starring Tom Hardy.
I am not exaggerating when I say it’s literally a movie of Tom Hardy talking on the phone and having a crash out for 85 minutes.
This is the prequel to Mad Max: Fury Road
So why does a movie about a married man crashing out on the phone while driving have better reviews than the multimillion dollar project by the director of Gladiator?
It’s all about the story.
Prometheus was deemed as a flop because despite all of those cool visual effects, the writing was just…dull.
For all its spectacle, it left you cold. You only remember the look and the jacked bald alien, not the story.
In Locke, the story is so gripping that you would tell other people what you’ve just watched. You can’t believe you literally just watched Tom Hardy freaking out in a car for 1 and a half hour and you actually enjoy it.
There’s a parallel here with all the AI slops we’re seeing on social media nowadays.
We’re at the point where you can literally prompt your wildest imaginations into a short video: from Pikachu getting stopped by the police to a stack of sliced ham getting stopped by the police.
Plot twist: the sliced ham is also Pikachu
But what about coherent stories?
What about making the next Citizen Kane or Mean Girls? Is our creativity as a human being limited into making 10 second AI-generated videos? Are we that lazy?
Memelord.com might be a meme software, but we don’t only want our team and users to only make memes.
We want you to tell stories.
Make your own Budget Blockbuster
Yes, you can make movies on Memelord.
OpenAI just gave us a $10,000 credit to use Sora, and we’re giving it away to you. It’s basically a fire sale baby.
If you’re not familiar with Sora yet, here’s a hilarious video about Household Olympics, created by our Head of Meme Support within minutes.
Try it out at Memelord today while it’s still on sale!
Your story is your moat
On memelord.com launch day, the Memelord team made different launch videos to post on our meme accounts.
Yes, including our CTO who are currently posting memes on our medieval memes page.
For our Tech Bro Memes account, I made The Matrix-inspired launch video and integrated it with real current tech bros stuff such as working at Anduril and pitching on YC Demo Day.
For LinkedIn Lunatic, the story was about a 9-5 guy working in LinkedIn, found memelord.com, and then blew up the LinkedIn HQ.
(There’s also a Fight Club Easter Egg in the video. Can you find it?)
Imagine working in an office like this though
These aren’t exactly Hollywood-level box office stuff but I believe it’s more coherent than 90% of story-less AI slop out there with having a script and story.
That’s what we encourage anyone to do. Whatever tools you use, we want you to make stories, not slops.
On the memelord.com launch video, Jason spent more than 30 seconds talking about how to do storyboarding and make actual movies with the software.
That’s almost half of the launch video.
That’s how important we think having a story is.
Your story is your moat.
“But why do you care so much about making movies? Aren’t you a meme software?”
See, memes are about stories.
Internet memes are basically stories in their simplest, most repeatable form designed to spread online.
In his podcast, our lead investor Sam Lessin talked with Jason about how memes technically have existed for centuries in the form of Bible stories, Greek Tragedies or other legends and lores.
They have the same memetic traits: repeatability, mutation, and cultural relevance.
When a story is repeatable and remixable, they create a communal meaning.
Memes are powerful because they’re infinitely remixable.
It makes an idea and story repeatable because everyone already has this consensus of what a meme template means.
This is why on memelord.com we want you to tell stories. Stories about yourself, your work, or your brand.
Hell, our product is built around stories.
The nostalgic Windows 95 design, Jason’s lore on how he bet his career on memes, my interviews with other Memelords…These are all stories that can be retold and redistributed.
Memes are stories.
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Memelord is your silly studio
In an interview, legendary director James Cameron recently said that he wants to use AI not because he wants to cut cost, but so creative people can do more cool shit in half the time.
We’re basically thinking the same thing in memelord.com.
We want to be your production house for movies and funny marketing.
Making beautiful shit that people wants to watch AND then make him buy your product or service is hard as fuck.
That’s why if you don’t spend the time to actually have a good script or ideas, your creation will most likely flop.
We’re not kidding when we say our goal is for every user to make art.
Movies. Music videos. Creative ads. Comedy skits. Whatever you can imagine.
Sounds a little bit too grand? Don't care. Why not be a little ambitious?
Will the outcome be good? I can't guarantee that.
It depends on you. We just provide the studio of silliness.
You don’t need a $130M budget. You can just start with $42/month.
You’re the creator, producer, and director of your art. You have the agency.
Will it be fun though?
I promise it will.
If you’re ready to try out making movies and memes, try out Memelord.com for free.
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