an index of memes, memeables, and pop culture items, under public licenses such as creative commons or in the public domain
ctrl+f is your friend here
most of the time this doesn't matter because youtube has contracts for most of the world's music and all the other companies know better than to sue random memesters for giving them free marketing
but if you're publishing something commercially (or if your teacher insists on properly licensed material for your slideshow) and you wanna put a haha funny in it then this might be helpful
a quick rundown of how the license column works:
pd(public domain) means it's too old for copyright so do Literally Whatever; this may vary depending on your country0means much the same but applied intentionally, so the work is probably more modernbymeans credit (e.g. link in the description, maybe a sneaky watermark if in an image); however it also usually means no drm which might be an issue if you're developing for iossameans if you publish edits of it (or things synced to it if music) you have to release them under the same licensendmeans don't you dare publish edits of itncmeans non-commercial*means there's a catch because copyright is often not as shrimple as that
very incomplete as of current; if you have any suggestions then contact is appreciated
see also:
- the
internet memescategory on wikimedia commons - some works on newgrounds and a few on deviantart (no way to search by license afaik)
images
| name | license | notes |
|---|---|---|
| historic tale construction kit | pd? | i mean i assume it's public-domain since the source material is, unless cutting characters out of it is copyrightable |
| bluemoji | by | aka that one blue smiley with puffed-up cheeks laughing about spreading misinformation on the internet |
| galaxy brain template recreation | by | it says cc0 but it uses cc-by content |
| awesome face | by-sa | |
| it ain't much but it's honest work | 0 | us government work; captionless version |
| xkcd | by-nc | "there's an xkcd for everything", at least in terms of hard sciences; the categories in explainxkcd might be of use when searching |
music
| name | license | notes |
|---|---|---|
| music by patricia taxxon | by-sa | best known for sd_bbb aka EEEAAAOOO (technically the video must be by-sa too but it's not explicitly stated to be such so eh); you might wanna watch out for samples from copyrighted music (sometimes noted in the lyrics) |
| music by kevin macleod | by | there used to be a way to see the most popular songs but it seems to be gone now; carefree is the infamous royalty-free ukulele song |
| chocolate rain | by-nc-nd | |
| lud and schlatt's musical emporium | by | of most interest are the animal crossing and wii shop channel soundalikes |
| little women (1933) theme song | pd | famously remixed in the opening cutscene of hotel mario (1994) |
| undertale shop theme soundalike | 0* | it might be that the samples are copyrighted but if toby fox could get away with yoinking them from the internet you probably can too |
| mitchie m - freely tomorrow (feat. hatsune miku) | by* | kind of a technicality, because the attribution marking was removed but cc-by is irrevocable |
sfx
| name | license | notes |
|---|---|---|
| bruh sound effect #1 | 0 | not the original but still good imo |
| various minecraft sounds | 0/by | here's the old oof sound |
speech
| name | license | notes |
|---|---|---|
| the missile knows where it is at all times | 0? | knowyourmeme says it's from a us air force training video, so assuming it's a government work it'd be public-domain |
| text2speech.org | 0? | Female US is the voice of remote from bfb, Male US and Male US (Scottish accent) were used by e.g. timotainment; it's theoretically downloadable here but you need to compile it |
videos
| name | license | notes |
|---|---|---|
| it's okay to not like things | by |
other
| name | license | notes |
|---|---|---|
| scp wiki | by-sa | with the notable exception of scp-173's former visage (nicknamed peanut) |
| the works of nicky case | 0 | as a furry i'm biased toward adventures with anxiety and femboy hooters (nsfw) |
| 1984 by george orwell | pd* | except in the us where it's copyrighted until 2044 |
non-meme freebies
| name | license | notes |
|---|---|---|
| typodermic public-domain fonts | 0 | not really pop culture but i've nowhere else to share these |