Terms of Service

SameButMe ("we", "us") is operated by SameButMe, Hong Kong. It is a web tool that makes short videos from meme templates. Each template is a trending meme clip remade with AI characters, keeping its moves, camera, timing and original sound; you add one or two photos and get the same clip with the people from your photos in it. You can also build AI characters, people or upright animals, and use one as the star of a template instead of a photo. By creating an account or using the service you agree to these terms.

The videos are made by third-party AI models, currently Seedance 2.5 for the video, GPT Image 2 for the character cards and GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst for the AI characters' pictures, run through Kie.ai.

SameButMe is an independent tool for making meme videos with your own photos. It is not affiliated with the creators of the original trends. Only upload photos you have the right to use.

You must provide a valid email address and keep your sign-in secure. You can sign in with email or with Google. One person per account. You must be at least 18 years old, or the age of majority where you live. You can delete your account in Settings; the Privacy Policy says what that removes.

Videos are paid for with credits. Credits are bought as one-time packs or granted monthly by a subscription. Prices and the credit cost of each template, and of each AI character image or outfit, are shown before you buy and before you start, and are worked out on our server, never taken from your browser. A video or a character image costs its credits when you press the button; if it fails or is stopped at the time limit, the credits go back automatically (see the Refund Policy). Once started, it can't be canceled.

You pay on a Stripe checkout page; we never see your full card number.

Purchases are sold through Link, operated by Stripe, which acts as the merchant of record for the payment: it calculates and collects any applicable sales tax or VAT, may show the price in your local currency, issues your receipt, and handles payment and refund support. Charges appear on your card statement as LINK.COM*. Questions about the videos themselves go to us.

Credits have no cash value, cannot be transferred and can't be exchanged for money; refunds of purchases follow our Refund Policy. Credits you buy and bonus credits from invites never expire while your account is open.

A monthly plan renews every month until canceled and adds its credits with each payment; credits you don't use stay on your balance. You can switch to another plan or cancel any time from the billing page (Manage subscription). A switch takes effect right away: Stripe charges or credits the difference for the rest of the billing month on your next invoice, and each monthly payment adds the credits of the plan it pays for. Canceling stops future renewals, and the credits you already have stay usable.

If a purchase is refunded, or you dispute it with your bank, we take back the credits it gave (in proportion for a partial refund), never taking your balance below zero. If you win a dispute, the credits are returned.

Invites: bonus credits for inviting friends are a promotion, not cash, and never expire. A new account that signs up with an invite gets 50 credits with its first payment; a plan payment counts. The inviter gets 100 credits 7 days after that payment, only once the inviter has made a payment of their own that was not refunded or disputed, and for at most 10 friends a calendar month; the friend keeps their 50 either way. Only new accounts count, and a code typed in after the friend has paid, or more than 14 days after signup, does not count.

No bonus is paid when the invited account uses the inviter's own email address, browser or card, an email address or card already used by another of the inviter's invites, or a throwaway email domain. If the payment that earned a bonus is refunded or disputed, both bonuses are taken back (a reward still on hold is dropped), never taking a balance below zero. We may change or end the program at any time.

Only upload photos of yourself or of adults who agreed, and only photos you have the right to use. You confirm this with a checkbox before every render. Do not upload photos of celebrities or other public figures, of anyone under 18, or with nudity or sexual content.

You may not use the service to create content that is illegal, sexual content involving minors, non-consensual intimate imagery, harassment, or content that impersonates a real person in a deceptive way.

AI characters: a character of a person is made as an adult. Do not make a character of a minor, or one that imitates a real person, a celebrity or another public figure. If you add a face photo to a character, it must be your own face or the face of an adult who agreed, never a celebrity, public figure or minor, and you confirm this with a checkbox before every image. We do not review characters before or after they are made. The AI provider's safety filters may refuse some requests or results; a refused image's credits are returned to your balance.

We do not review photos before a render. The AI provider's safety filters may refuse some photos or results; a refused render's credits are returned. We may suspend accounts that break these rules or abuse the service, including attempts to exploit refunds, invites or payment flows, and we may take back credits obtained that way.

You keep the rights you have in your photos and in the videos made with them, subject to the rights of others in the template and to the AI providers' terms. You grant us a limited license to store and process your photos, AI characters and videos to run the service.

A finished video is an MP4 without a watermark that you can download and post on your own accounts for personal, non-commercial use. Don't use a video in ads, sponsored or paid posts, or to promote or sell a product or service: its sound, clip and trend belong to others, and we can't license them for that. Label it, and any AI character picture you post, as AI-generated; TikTok and Instagram ask for that. AI output can be unexpected or inaccurate; you are responsible for how you use it.

The clip, moves, camera, sound and trend behind a template belong to their original creators and owners. We do not own them and give you no rights in them, and platforms may mute or remove a video that uses someone else's sound. We may pause or take down a template at any time, for example when a rights holder asks (see Copyright). Credits are not lost, and videos you already made stay in your account.

The service depends on third-party AI providers and may change, be interrupted or switch underlying models. Most videos are ready in 5 to 10 minutes and a character image in a minute or two; one that is not done after 30 minutes is stopped. A template can be paused for a while; renders already running finish. We may update these terms; continued use after an update means you accept it.

The service is provided "as is". To the extent permitted by law, our total liability for any claim is limited to the amount you paid us in the three months before the claim.

Questions about these terms: support@samebutme.com.