Topic: 🎉 e6ai Meme Contest — February 2026! 🎉

Posted under General

After the awesome response to our Halloween event last year, we’re excited to launch the e6ai Meme Contest running through February 2026. This time, the theme is fun and open-ended: MEMES!

Whether your meme is clever, absurd, surreal, wholesome, or just plain hilarious, we want to see what you can come up with. The goal is creativity, humor, and originality.

How it works:

• Create and submit a post in a meme format of your choosing and tag it with meme_2026.
• You can interpret “meme” however you like. Anything that feels like meme culture is fine.
• NSFW content is allowed (as long as it follows e6ai's usual uploading guidelines.)
• You may submit as many entries as you want.
• Submissions must be posted by 2026-02-28.

Judging & Prizes:

• Winners will be chosen based on two criteria: half will be chosen based on the amount of faves, the other half will be picked by staff. To avoid bias, staff entries can only win through fave quantity.
• In order to combat fave bias, entries are split into two categories: NSFW (Explicit + Questionable) and SFW (Safe). Each category will have fave-based winners and staff picks for a total of 4 winners.
• Winners will receive the fabled green bar on their e6ai profile along with a special Discord server role commemorating the event!

That's all there is to it! Get thinking about your creations early: the sooner you upload, the longer your entry has to gather faves!

Got ideas for future themes? Drop them on Discord or in the comments.

🍿 Start memeing!

post #124899

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I know its too late for this contest, but perhaps a category for animated winners as well. Perhaps the idea is more trouble than its worth but something to possibly ponder on the next contest.

EDIT

A contest topic of "famous scene from a movie" might be good.

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chastitycoyote said:
I know its too late for this contest, but perhaps a category for animated winners as well. Perhaps the idea is more trouble than its worth but something to possibly ponder on the next contest.

EDIT

A contest topic of "famous scene from a movie" might be good.

An interesting idea to have a animated category! Will definitely take that into consideration!
As for the next theme I like your idea!

chastitycoyote said:
I know its too late for this contest, but perhaps a category for animated winners as well. Perhaps the idea is more trouble than its worth but something to possibly ponder on the next contest.

Perhaps an ‘honorable mentions’ category would be good too. Even if an artwork doesn’t get the most faves or isn’t a 1st staff pick (and thus no green bar), staff could still pick 2 or 3 additional artworks that deserve some praise for originality.

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Some ideas for contest topics:
- Mythology & folklore (references to myths)
- History (references to historical eras)
- Fashion (creating characters in unique or stylish clothes)
- Sci-Fi (futuristic settings and styles)

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I have three pictures that were created in 2025 - two were posted here, the third one was not. Can any of them be a contest submission, or does the contest entry need to be created in 2026?

tyto4tme4l said:
I have three pictures that were created in 2025 - two were posted here, the third one was not. Can any of them be a contest submission, or does the contest entry need to be created in 2026?

I think it just means its the contest year, not necessarily the creation date. If it fits the contest specifications it should be good to go. Worst case if its not correct is... nothing...
loose the meme-2026 tag would be the worst if that, unless it has QA issues of course.

tyto4tme4l said:
I have three pictures that were created in 2025 - two were posted here, the third one was not. Can any of them be a contest submission, or does the contest entry need to be created in 2026?

Since the contest is decided through favourites it would give you an unfair advantage to enter submissions that have had months to gather them.
However I can see what posts you mean and I don't think the fav count on them will disrupt the contest so I'll allow it!

We have our winners! 🎉

 
We'd like to first start off by thanking everyone who participated in the event! It has been such a treat to see all your wonderful takes on new, old, popular, and even obscure memes. We've had an absolute blast looking through all the amazing submissions, and judging by the reactions on the site and the buzz around the Discord server, it looks like you lot enjoyed it too! 🥳

Without further ado, here are the four winners, who will all receive a shiny commemorative green bar on their site profile, as well as a fun role on our Discord server:

NSFW/Questionable fave count winner: neural bunny
post #153223

NSFW/Questionable staff pick: Vian
post #151493

SFW fave count winner: Weytani99
post #150909

SFW staff pick: Diaspora
post #150921

Congratulations to our winners! You'll all receive your profile feedback shortly. Please reach out to us on Discord to get your vanity roles!

Narrowing down our staff picks came down to the wire. We'd like to take an extra beat to mention a few honorable picks that unfortunately weren't chosen as winners by staff, but that we absolutely adored as well: Caramelldansen by Diaspora, Rick Roll by nnam si3, and Praise the Sun & Confusing Feelings, both by gridanon.

Thank you to all who submitted their entries and everyone who got involved with the contest, whether that was through likes, faves, forum posts, and comments. It's been incredible to see the enthusiasm shown for this contest, and we can't wait to share the next one with you! If you have any theme ideas, we'd love to hear them, so feel free to share them either through the forums or our Discord server.