Make memes for your business

Two ways to make memes at scale

Which one? If you post a few memes a week, or nobody on the team uses a terminal, start in the studio. If you need a batch every week, a post every day on a schedule, or memes for several clients, an agent saves the most time. You can also use both: an agent for volume, the studio to fine-tune the ones that matter most.

What makes a good business meme

• Your scene, a famous reaction. Key the clip over your shop, product, menu, office or app screenshot. The reaction gets attention; your photo makes it yours instead of a repost.
• Your customers' situation, not your slogan. "When the oat milk runs out at 8:59" works; "Try our new oat latte" doesn't. One or two short lines.
• What's trending now. Formats move fast. GET /v1/trending (or the agent's get_trending tool) ranks the clips people use most in the Green Screen Memes app right now.
• Keep the sound. Most clips carry the meme's original audio, and it's half the joke.
• Animals, objects and cartoons for anything you'll boost. Clips of identifiable people stay in organic posts.
• Make more than you post. Make three takes of each idea and post the one that lands.

How it works for a coffee shop

Twelve memes for a week of Instagram Reels, from one afternoon of photos.

1. Take ten photos of the shop

   The counter, latte art, the pastry case, the morning queue from behind, the empty room at closing. Phone photos are fine. Leave the bottom third fairly plain, because that is where the clip goes, and keep customers’ faces out.

2. Write the moments

   Situations your regulars live through, in their words: "when the oat milk runs out at 8:59", "me telling myself the second croissant is for later", "Monday before coffee vs after". Write twenty, or ask the agent for twenty, and keep the best ten.

3. Make the memes

   In the studio: pick a green screen (search "excited", "shocked", "dancing"), add your photo under it, type the caption and export. A few minutes each.

   With an agent: paste one prompt, and it makes the whole batch:

   Make 12 vertical meme videos for our coffee shop's Instagram.
   Backgrounds: the photos in ./photos.
   For each one: write a caption about a moment our regulars would recognise,
   pick a green screen clip that fits (animals, objects or cartoons only, since
   we may boost some as ads), look at its thumbnail first, key it over the photo
   keeping the clip's sound, and save it as a 1080x1920 MP4 in ./memes.
   Check what's trending first and use a trending clip where one fits.
   Finish with captions.csv: file name, caption, clip name.

4. Check them and post

   Watch each one with the sound on and drop the ones that miss. Anything with an identifiable person in the clip stays an organic post, never a boosted one. Then schedule them through the week.

Set up an agent

You need a key (the Sandbox key is free), FFmpeg on the machine, and one of these.

Claude Code plugin

Add the Green Screen Memes marketplace, then install the plugin with /plugin install green-screen-memes@green-screen-memes. It adds the MCP server (reading your key from GSM_API_KEY) and a make-memes skill. The source is on GitHub.

/plugin marketplace add green-screen-memes/green-screen-memes-api

Or connect the MCP server directly

claude mcp add --transport http green-screen-memes https://api.greenscreenmemes.app/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $GSM_API_KEY"

Cursor, Codex and other MCP clients use the same URL and Authorization header; the MCP page has the configs for Cursor and Claude Desktop. Agents without MCP can call the REST API. To build your own pipeline instead, see the FFmpeg and Remotion guides.

Pricing

Studio: free to use. Free exports carry a small watermark, and each account gets 10 AI memes. Pro removes the watermark and makes 100 AI memes a month; it's in the iPhone app now and coming to the studio.

API, for agents and pipelines:

In US dollars; yearly billing is 20% off. A video download is one clip fetched once: the agent keeps the file, so one clip used in ten memes counts once. Searching and thumbnails don't use downloads. Nothing is billed past a plan; at the limit, requests stop until the next month or an upgrade.

What you can use them for

These are internet memes. Green Screen Memes makes and curates the green screen versions, but the original footage isn't ours and no plan hands you rights to it, so how you use a clip is your call and your responsibility. Posting memes on your own or your clients' accounts is what people use them for, and a paid API plan allows that, commercially included. Don't put clips of identifiable people in paid ads, sponsored posts or endorsements; animals, objects and cartoons are fine there. If a rights holder has a clip taken down, stop using it (GET /v1/removed lists them). The terms have the details.

Questions