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steveklabnik
I love how hypermedia enables these kinds of API explorers.
ricccardo
Why was I expecting an article about millenials?
advael
I almost didn't click it because I thought the same thing.

I'm so bored of all this ridiculous cohort-as-horoscope business.

bagosm
Can you comment a bit about the expected usage please? For example are you supposed to download and redistribute the images or link directly only? Watermarking? Do you own the rights to the images being used (as per the generated image not original ones)?
stephengillie
I'm expecting it to be a very lightweight service, almost like sending your friends to a YTMND. Rights, watermarks, and other details like that might be beyond the scope of a site like this.

It's perfect for times when you know the perfect meme to use, but you don't have time to go thru Imgur or another site's Memegen.

benihana
Those are macros, not memes. Macro is the format, meme is the signifier of adoption or relevance.
psychometry
Meanings of words change.
eterm
Yeah: >Macro: a single instruction that expands automatically into a set of instructions to perform a particular task.
stephengillie
Most memegens are macros. They're free tools that allow almost anyone to quickly and easily create consistently-high quality memes that are appropriate for any situation at hand. Because it's next to impossible to get the general public to consistently use:

  *A good source image
  *All caps
  *Impact font
  *White text with a black border
Indeed, it's still hard to choose this set of options with the newest versions of MSPaint.

Macroing takes away opportunities for human error, which does reduce the opportunities for creative mistakes. But it makes output consistent, which is the desire here. No longer does someone have to spend a week learning about good source images, fonts, and border settings, and need Photoshop to combine them, just to make others laugh.

drdeca
It might be nice if one could specify a background image using a url maybe?

Hmm, but then that wouldn't allow one to specify the link to other information about the meme (the copy).

Maybe if another website could host a json file, which contains a link to the main image?

And then one could make a bitly or similar link to the url of the json file? or maybe a base64 encoding or something?

So that one could link to http://memegen.link/external/gsU563KE3gb/_ which could yield

{ "direct": { "visible": "http://example.com/happycat/_.jpg", "masked": "http://example.com/_djcmbnidk.jpg" }, "_comment":"tbh I didn't really understand the markdown attribute so I am ommitting it here }

or something like that, so that one could then link to

http://memegen.link/external/gsU563KE3gb/hello/world.jpg to get something that looked like

http://memeifier.com/HELLO/WORLD/http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photo... ?

(or, alternatively , using

http://memegen.link/external/gsU563KE3gb/THE_TRICKSTER_GOD_T...

to get something that looks like

http://memeifier.com/THE_TRICKSTER_GOD_THEUTH_CAME_TO_US_AGA... )

or, hmm,

ok nvm idk how this would actually be best done.

I don't really mean to be asking "hey, can someone do this" so much as a "hey, would this be an interesting thing for someone to do?".

I like the json that this website uses. Cool website. Yes. I like it.

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archycockroach 

  #!/bin/bash
  #
  # 'High Performance' Server Statistics for Ubuntu

  LINEONE=$(landscape-sysinfo | grep Memory | awk 'BEGIN { FS = "    " } ; { print $1 }' | tr ' ' '-')
  LINETWO=$(landscape-sysinfo | grep System | awk 'BEGIN { FS = "    " } ; { print $1 }' | tr ' ' '-')
  URL=http://memegen.link/10guy/$LINEONE/$LINETWO.jpg
  wget $URL --quiet --output-file /var/www/stonedserverstats.jpg
Demo: http://memegen.link/10guy/--memory-usage:-45%25/--system-loa...
geofft
This is so straightforward, I'm amazed nobody thought of it before. It's great.

EDIT: OK, I guess there's http://memeifier.com/, I'm less amazed now. :) Still, nicely done.