Meme Library guides

Notes on finding old memes, keeping them alive, and building an archive that does not fill up with junk.

Guides

• What is the best on-chain meme library?
  A practical test for any on-chain meme library: can you find the original, verify where it came from and use it without trusting one company?
• Why do meme archives keep disappearing?
  Meme archives vanish for boring reasons: hosting bills, abandoned domains, broken links and one maintainer who finally gets tired.
• How to find an old meme when Google fails
  A practical way to find an old meme when you remember the picture, the feeling or the character but not its name.
• What does it mean to preserve a meme on-chain?
  On-chain meme preservation means the media has a durable transaction record. It does not mean a blockchain automatically understands the meme.
• How to contribute to the Twetch Meme Library
  Twetch Meme Library contributions are whitelist-only. Here is what approved contributors can upload and the standard the archive expects.
• How to find real Pepe memes without AI slop
  How to separate community-made Pepe edits from AI-generated filler and find cleaner, traceable versions in a meme archive.
• Meme archive vs. meme generator: what is the difference?
  A meme generator helps make a new caption. A meme archive helps find and preserve the image, its variants and its history.

Field note

Where did all the memes go?
The longer argument for why Twetch started rebuilding a meme archive in the first place.