## Know Your Meme

Know Your Meme is a moderated internet-culture encyclopedia where signed-in users can submit meme entries and supporting references. The backlink path is a neutral source or additional-reference link that genuinely documents a meme, not a promotional profile or directory listing.

- URL: https://knowyourmeme.com/
- Guide: https://backlinkbadger.com/provider/knowyourmeme/
- Link type: nofollow
- Free option: yes
- Backlink value: 6/100
- Spam score: 2/100
- Difficulty: 70/100
- Estimated time: 60 minutes
- Requirements: Know Your Meme account, Meme or internet-culture evidence, Neutral source URL, Non-promotional contribution

Know Your Meme only makes sense as a backlink source when your page is a useful primary source, reference, or documentation page for an internet-culture topic. Do not use it as a general profile link: the site's rules prohibit advertising and promotional spam, and weak submissions can be ignored, edited, or removed.

### Method: submit a meme entry with neutral supporting references

1. Create or sign in to a free Know Your Meme account.
2. Open the [new meme submission page](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/new?guidelines=1). If you are logged out, Know Your Meme redirects this URL to the login page.
3. Pick a meme, trend, or internet-culture event where your page is genuinely useful evidence: an original source, timeline reference, data page, creator page, interview, archive, or other non-sales material.
4. Write the entry around the meme research first. Add your URL only where it supports the surrounding claim or belongs in **Additional References**.
5. Publish the submission and expect review. A low-effort or self-promotional entry may stay in Submissions or Deadpool instead of becoming a confirmed encyclopedia entry.
6. After publication, inspect the live entry before reporting the link. Link handling can vary by surface, and the safer expectation is citation/referral value rather than guaranteed dofollow SEO value.

A public Doge entry shows how external pages appear in Know Your Meme's **Additional References** area. In raw HTML, sampled reference anchors were direct outbound links without `nofollow`, while tag and navigation links on the same pages commonly use `rel="nofollow"`; because this is a moderated citation surface, this provider is still marked nofollow.

[Image: Know Your Meme Doge entry showing Additional References with external source links]

### Link quality notes

Know Your Meme's root domain is strong, but a new user-submitted entry starts with far less page-level authority. The real upside is that a useful entry can be internally discoverable through submission, status, tag, and topic pages, and an accepted reference can send niche referral traffic from people researching the meme.

### What not to do

Do not create a meme entry just to host a brand link, add sales pages as sources, or repeat the same URL across unrelated entries. Know Your Meme's site rules call advertising and promotional material spam, so the defensible route is a relevant citation that improves the entry.