[memeatlas]

Although not as elegant a solution as this I've also tried my hand as well at indexing and categorizing memes. I wanted to save a very specific type of meme though since there are, in my mind, 2 main categories of memes. The first category are what I call "story" memes, they are standalone and typically what you see being shared on Facebook. They usually have text and are able to tell a story on their own with no additional context and can be presented as a single post, story, etc, (think 4 panel comics). The second type are reaction memes. These are used to respond to people and usually convey a feeling towards a post or tweet. They can also be standalone so they should probably be considered a subset of the "story" memes. I've gravitated towards the reaction memes as I see more utility in them and can be used in a more universal way. My site if anyone is interested (its still a work in progress):

https://www.memeatlas.com

[operator-name]

These different approaches really compliment each other - most of the memes you've categorised are used in a variety of situations and therefore not suited to text searching. Meanwhile if you're looking for a specific meme that you've seen, text search is the way to go.

Ideally there would be a best of both worlds where you could search memes by "characters" or "formats" in addition to text.

As feedback, it would be nice to search all memes from the homepage. The search on https://www.memeatlas.com/meme-templates.html also seems to be broken.

[suave_dude]

What are you using as the back end to host your website?