memes.name — Name any meme.

A concise answer card — not a rabbit hole.

Every result separates established fact from probable interpretation, cites its evidence, and tells you what to check before you hit send.

Distracted Boyfriend 96% confidence

Also called	Man Looking at Other WomanDisloyal Boyfriend
This instance means	Abandoning an established preference after seeing a more attractive alternative.
Current status	Widely understood; often used ironically or in remixed formats.
Source evidence	3 documented references · earliest appearances on file
Potential concerns	Recognizable stock image with an underlying rights holder.
Related	Drake Hotline BlingTwo Buttons

Established fact, probable interpretation, editorial opinion and automated inference are always labeled separately.

Built to be trusted, not just impressive.

Most reverse-image tools return “something similar”. We return a stable identity — or an honest “unknown”.

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Canonical identity, not lookalikes

Template families with stable IDs, aliases across communities and languages, variants, chronology and meaning drift — a knowledge graph, not an image dump.

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Evidence on every claim

Origins and meanings carry sources, dates, confidence and revision history. Corrections are collected, reviewed and versioned.

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“Unknown” is a feature

Open-set rejection by design: new variant, templateless meme, non-meme, or insufficient evidence — never a confidently wrong label.

For agencies & brand teams

Know the meme before your brand uses it.

A four-week Meme Radar pilot identifying emerging formats, changing meanings, saturation and brand risk — interpreted by analysts, not a firehose of mentions.

Monday emerging-meme briefing — ten relevant formats a week
Origin, evidence, velocity and lifecycle estimate for each
Dominant and alternative meanings; sensitive associations
Use-now / observe / avoid recommendations, with confidence
Weekly analyst call and a client-specific watchlist

Four-week pilot · $2,500 · limited seats while in validation

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This week’s watchlist — sample row

Lifecycle	Accelerating (week 2)
Spread	4 communities → crossing into mainstream feeds
Semantic stability	Shifting — ironic inversion emerging
Brand saturation	Low · no visible corporate uses yet
Risk	Watch: early political co-option in two niches
Recommended window	Use within 10–14 days, re-check meaning first

For developers & platforms

Give your product meme literacy.

Identify meme families, resolve aliases and retrieve source-grounded context through one API — with stable identifiers, calibrated confidence and explicit unknowns.

/identify/search/template/{id} /explain/related/feedback

Sandbox is free. Design-partner slots are open for moderation tools, community platforms, newsrooms and creator tools.

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// POST /identify
{
  "family":      "distracted-boyfriend",
  "name":        "Distracted Boyfriend",
  "confidence":  0.96,
  "aliases":     ["Man Looking at Other Woman"],
  "meaning":     "abandoning an established preference…",
  "status":      "widely_understood",
  "evidence":    ["src:kym", "src:archive-2017-08"],
  "concerns":    ["stock_image_rights"],
  "related":     ["drake-hotline-bling", "two-buttons"]
}

// and when we do not know — we say so
{
  "family":     null,
  "verdict":    "unknown_or_new",
  "confidence": 0.31
}

Private alpha — opening in stages.

Tell us who you are and what you’d throw at it: casual identifier, agency or brand team, or a product that needs the API. We onboard in small cohorts while the accuracy gates are validated.

Or email hello@memes.name

Uploads in the alpha are deleted within 24 hours. Private uploads are never used for training without explicit consent.