Meme for Ukraine Challenge

The people of Ukraine are enduring various hardships due to the invasion of their country. The goal of this challenge is to show our collective support for Ukraine and spread awareness about the conflict by contributing original memes.

It’s easy to participate. Simply:

• Create an original meme or video and submit it to this challenge.
• Help this effort go viral by sharing the best memes you see here.
• Win a prize if your meme gets more traction than the competitors’ memes!

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We want to raise awareness about the war in Ukraine in a way that is accessible to just about anyone: through creating and sharing memes! 

To participate:

1. You must submit a meme that is your original content in the form of an image or a video before the Meme Submission deadline of April 28, 2022.
2. If your meme is marked eligible, begin posting your meme to your favorite internet communities (Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, TikTok, etc.) and keep an eye on how popular it becomes.
3. You then have until the Activity Submission deadline of May 5, 2022 to return to this site and share links to the top 5 posts where your meme had the most success with any supporting evidence.
4. The memes with the greatest success among their linked posts will win a cash prize!

Prize

The following prizes will be awarded to the memes with the greatest impact as determined from the 5 linked posts and supporting evidence provided in the Activity Submission:

Winners who wish to donate their money to a charity supporting Ukrainians may choose to ask the Challenge Sponsor to donate on the winner’s behalf to a specified charity.

Timeline

How do I win?

Step 1, the Meme Submission deadline:

• Participants have until April 28, 2022 to upload their memes to this page.
• Memes will be screened for eligibility within 48 hrs of submission.
• ‘Original content’ means that your meme, as a whole, must be an original composition. However, you may borrow elements from other sources.
• Memes that are determined to be wholly copied from another source will be ineligible to win a prize.
• You may submit multiple images and/or videos to this challenge.
• Your memes must be created in English or must provide an English translation in the submission form.
• Your submissions may not glorify violence, display gore or nudity, or contain other objectionable content as determined by the Challenge Sponsor. We encourage you to create memes that are supportive, creative, and/or humorous.
• All content posted to the HeroX website must also comply with the HeroX website’s Code of Conduct and Terms and Conditions. Scroll down to the Official Rules for further information.
• All submissions will be considered contributions to the public domain so that anyone may share, modify, and repost them elsewhere.
• All accepted submissions will also be made publicly visible on the challenge page soon after they are marked as eligible. This is to allow others to take inspiration from the challenge’s memes and to share the memes on their own networks.

Step 2, the Activity Submission deadline:

• As soon as your meme is marked as eligible, you should begin posting and sharing your meme on the internet! Make sure your posts are publicly visible.
• Then, after April 28, 2022, you will be invited to submit links to the top 5 places your meme was posted on the internet or evidence of how viral your meme became. You will have until May 5, 2022 to submit your links at this web page.
• Your links should either connect directly to your original post or to someone else’s share of your post.
• For example, you can link to either your original tweet or to a retweet if the retweet was more popular. However, your original post must still be referenced in the shared post for it to count. (Other examples of a shared post include a Facebook share, a Reddit crosspost, a link to a newscast that uses your meme, etc.)
• If you submit a video for your meme, you may link to the video’s original location on Youtube for its views, to a post on another website that references your video, or to both.
• The challenge cannot accept links to posts that have expired or are not visible to the Challenge Sponsor, such as Instagram stories. Your linked post needs to be visible after May 5, 2022.
• To be eligible for an award, you must show how your meme has gone viral. This will be determined by checking the links and supporting information you provide. The Challenge Sponsor will check for overall activity and engagement, compared with your competitors.

Official Rules

Participation Eligibility:

The challenge is open to all adult individuals. Submissions must be made in English or contain an English translation. All challenge-related communication will be in English. 

Individual competitors may originate from any country, as long as United States federal sanctions do not prohibit participation (see: https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/Pages/Programs.aspx).

To be eligible to compete, you must comply with all the terms of the challenge as defined in the Challenge-Specific Agreement.

Registration and Submissions:

Step 1 submissions must be made online (only), via upload to the HeroX.com website, on or before 5:00 PM EST on April 28, 2022. All uploads must be in PNG, JPEG, or Youtube link format. No late submissions will be accepted.

Step 2 submissions must be made online (only), via upload to the HeroX.com website, on or before 5:00 PM EST on May 5, 2022.

This challenge allows [only one / multiple] submission[s] per individual/team. Should you have multiple entries to submit to this challenge, they will be considered separately. Whether or not multiple entries from the same individual or team may be chosen for a prize is up to the discretion of the Challenge Sponsor. You are not required to submit multiple entries, if that option is available.

All content posted to the HeroX website must adhere with the HeroX Code of Conduct and Terms and Conditions. Any submission that violates these policies will be considered ineligible for this challenge. These policy expectations include, but are not limited to, the following points:

1. You may not post any Content that (i) is unlawful, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable; (ii) violates, or encourages any conduct that would violate, any applicable law or regulation or would give rise to civil liability; (iii) promotes discrimination, bigotry, racism, hatred, harassment or harm against any individual or group; (iv) is violent or threatening, or promotes violence or actions that are threatening to any other person; or (v) promotes illegal or harmful activities.
2. You may not post false, inaccurate, misleading, defamatory or libelous content
3. You may not post content that is harassing in nature.

Throughout the Challenge, the Challenge Sponsor reserves the right to determine what content is and is not eligible for participation.

Intellectual Property Rights:

As detailed in the Challenge-Specific Agreement – By entering, Innovator agrees that: (i) all Submissions are licensed under public domain (Creative Commons 0). Anyone has the right to use any and all Submissions, videos and images.

Awarding of the Prize:

The Individual Submitter is automatically designated as the Recipient of the prize monies. The Individual’s name must also match the Authorized Person on the receiving Bank Account. No changes are permitted to the prize Recipient after the first Submission Deadline date. If you wish to change who would receive the prize monies, those changes must be completed prior to the first Submission Deadline.

The Challenge Sponsor reserves the right to redistribute the remaining prize purse if there are not enough eligible entries to award all prizes.

Additional Information

• By participating in the challenge, each competitor agrees to adhere to the HeroX Intellectual Integrity Policy and promises to submit only their original idea. Any indication of "copying" amongst competitors is grounds for disqualification.
• All applications will go through a process of due diligence; any application found to be misrepresentative, plagiarized, or sharing an idea that is not their own will be automatically disqualified.
• All ineligible applicants will be automatically removed from the competition with no recourse or reimbursement.
• No purchase or payment of any kind is necessary to enter or win the competition.
• Void wherever restricted or prohibited by law.