Since there has understandably been some disappointment (we couldn’t put everyone in the top 10 unfortunately 😭), we thought it would be good to clarify our decision process to you all so you know how we’re judging each and every submission. We care hugely about the meme animation community and are dedicated to making this a fair and thorough process so it’s enjoyable for everyone involved and people feel seen and heard. So we hope this clarifies things a bit for you. Our judging process begins with all 7 of our team viewing each and every submission, from which we all pick our favourites based on Animation Quality, Creativity/Originality and Emotional Connection/Story. These then make it to the final round where every member of the team gives each finalist a score out of 10 for each of the categories mentioned above, these scores get averaged out for each category and each category’s score is weighted equally to give a final score out of 100. We then decide our top 10 and honorable mentions based on those final scores. This way we give each and every submission it’s time of day and the chance to make it to the final round and ultimately to the top 10. There will always be an element of subjectivity at the end of the day but we think this process makes it as fair as possible. And just remember even if you didn’t make it to the top 10 that doesn’t mean your effort was for nothing, your dedication and skills are astounding and we’re so impressed with everyone who took part, so don’t be discouraged - keep drawing, keep animating and we appreciate all of you!

AAHHH 1ST!!!??? I can't believe it- thank you SO MUCH!!! I'm so incredibly grateful (and honestly a little shocked) about the amount of love received on my video- and to now win too? I'm literally speechless- This was honestly super fun to be a part of; great music and so many amazing entries! I discovered lots of new incredible animators to follow through this contest

Aaaa I’m so grateful to be able to be a runner up! This was a fun competition! Congrats to the winners!

Congrats to the winners! I submitted to this contest, too. Thanks for the sponsors for letting me use this great song!

There have been so many incredible submissions! We could not be more grateful to see so much amazing content that includes Loser! Thank you so much to everyone who spent their time creating so many incredible videos and congratulations to the top 10!

O my god. is it really happening? I didn't expect to even enter the top ten. Thank you so much (Neomi, CloudKid, wingedwolf94), the song is really beautiful. Making this animation was an incredible experience for me ✨ /I don't believe, no words, only emotional🥺❤️/

Congrats to the winners! And congrats to everyone that didn't win but for sure have made beautiful animations!

AAA YAYYY CONGRATES TO THE WINNERS AND THE RUNNER UPS, AND JUST EVERYBODY THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE COMPETITION

Yeah.. i do kinda feel like there should’ve been way more people that should’ve been shown here. There were entire 3D animators! But congrats to the winner’s though. I feel horrible for all the good people with good BS’s,Quality, and animation that didn’t even make the list. Congrats i guess, but also congrats to the good people who didn’t make it!

oh my gosh! it's such an honour to be one of the runner ups, i was totally not expecting to get a place since the Loser animation is one of my very first and I just started animating a few weeks ago! (I'm such a rookie compared to the other gods in there!) Everyone did such an amazing job, I'm absolutely speechless! Thanks again for hosting this, I guess I'll look out for more!

Oh it looks like I'm in the honorable mentions ! Yay ! Everybody did such an amazing job, congrats to the winners . Their animations are excellently beautiful !

Oh yea XD This was a fun contest so thanks for hosting it XD didn’t make it to the list this time but hey, it was still an experience XD to all the winners, you guys totally deserved it And I have no complains at all, except awe. And to everyone else that participated, you guys are still amazing XD

i made one of these animations! but i was okay that it wasn’t here. congrats on the winners! these animations are really good. they really do deserve to be in this video.

Thank you CloudKid for hosting such a fun contest and letting us monetize our videos! I hope there will be more even more animation meme contests in the future. I love seeing all the creativity and originality that come from these types of videos. Congrats to the winners!!

I think that some animators deserved to be shown at least in the top 10 instead of some here... Don't get me wrong, these are AMAZING animations but so many more talented artist made super animations with lot's of backstory and orginality and they didn't even make it to the honorable mentions, almost as if they have been never reviewed... I just feel sad for them.

Congratulations to the winners and runner ups! It was fun to take part in the contest again

YO I WAS ONE OF THE RUNNERUPS??? Thank you so much! I’m not used to doing a lot of animation, but just being mentioned in this is amazing! I had a lot of fun doing this and I’ll definitely do any more that happen to come up in the future!

Well at least I'm in the honourable mentions x'DD didn't expect to be in it but dang everyone did great:00

YOO CONGRATS TO THE WINNERS AND THANK YOU SO SO MUCH FOR PUTTING ME IN THE HONORABLE MENTIONS!!! IT WAS SO FUN!!

definitely had fun with this contest. thank you for the opportunity to host this wonderful contest for the community! and congrats to everyone!

(I didn't know they made one with Omori :0 ) All of these animators did an amazing job ^^ this turned out so well :]

OMG I NEVER GOT A NOTIFICATION I GOT THE EMAIL TODAY RN AND JUST I AM SO GREAT FULL TO BE IN TOP 10! I seriously doubted I would be in, at anything but thank you so so much! I enjoyed doing this video and I learned so much during the process so I thank you again for organising this!💞💕❤️💞

1:31 AUBREYYYY

FAVENCY CAME IN WITH OMORI YASSSSS

Everyone did so good, there were so many different ways people did this meme!!! I loved making this meme, trying out a more "complex" animation style in this that I have never done before! It was so much fun animating my oc's story, congrats to all the runner ups and winners, they definitely deserve it!!!! ^w^

1:28 I see Omori, i click *And cry*

*Y'ALL, WHY ARE YA SO TALENTED I-* It was a fun contest and I'm glad I joinned! I hope one day I reach this level of animation because DAMN they are so smooth and amazing to look at 💖✨ Congrats to the winners!!

Everyone is so awesome!! Congrats to the winners yo! 💖💖💕💕💕

DANG there are some super talented animators here! Even though mine didn't make it, I'm so happy for the ones who did! I can see the effort poured into each and every one of these, and they all deserved their place here! Fantastic stuff to everyone who participated in this!!

Sad that some better animators weren’t in the top 10, but hey, what am I gonsta do..

Congratulations to the winners!🎉 They all looks so amazing! I have seen a lot of ones outside of the ones shown here and it all looks so good! You are all so talented! Keep up the drawing spirit! And thank you to everyone involved who made this contest possible. It was so much fun animation and putting your skills to the test! I got so motivated to keep on animating. So thank you all

Whoo!!! This was an epic competition to take part in :D Ty for the chance!! :D these are all amazing!!

Thanks so much for this opportunity and hosting this wonderful contest, and congrats to everyone who won! Everyone was so talented, and did an amazing job! Even though I didn't make it, I still enjoyed participating in this contest. I hope we can do another one really soon!

Congrats to all the winners! This was a really fun competition to join into and I'm glad I was able to participate!

Im so sad I missed this contest! I didnt have enough time to do this by the time I had an idea for it! But thats alright! Congratz to the winners! Im keeping my eyes peeled for the next one!!

3:03 the way he’s just “ur hell dead B)”

Congrats to all the winners!! It was alot of fun to do this!

Oh my gosh the shock I felt seeing my video in the thumbnail aaa!!! It was an absolute blast working on my video and I'm so happy I ended up being a runners up!!!

((Hell yeah I got in as a runner up~)) Everyone did amazing, the moment I saw Serenity's and Favency's animations I just K N E W they were going o be somewhere as the winners

i joined the contest too :3 i rlly like 3rd and 1st tho :O gg

Congrats to the winners!

Congrats to the winners! So many creative artists :)

Thank you for putting me on the honorable mentions✨joining the contest was really fun! Next time i will try to be even better👏🏻

Aww this one was awesome! All the competitors did super great! I love that painted won, theirs was one of my favorites!

1:29 after two years i finally know who those people are! I thought it was just someones oc but now that ive joined the omori fandom i remember each and every one of them! (Aubrey, Kel, Sunny, and Basil) Im so happy i finally understand. I even noticed that this is pretty much exactly what happened in the game. Even the designs and personalities are spot on! (sorry im a little obsessed with it right now lol)

Wow! Another incredible meme animation competition. Thank you to every single one of you who took part... you all seriously have an unlimited pool of talent and creativity. For LOSER, we were especially blown away by the way you all manage to adapt your own unique style to the song, as well as the powerful storylines you construct around the lyrics. 400 submissions later, here is a montage of our top 10 finalists and some worthy mentions! Special thank you to wingedwolf94 for the perfect original meme animation. And to XP-PEN for some super exciting tablet prizes. You can find out the top 3 winners in the montage now!

Holy heck!! I didn't expect my animation to show up here, even less to win 3rd place! Thank you so much CloudKid, Neoni and wingedwolf94 for this opportunity! Every single video in here is amazingly animated and the stories protrayed are so cool! Congratulations to all!!

Congrats to everyone who participated! Even if you didn't win, I'm sure it was still fun, and that all of you made some kickass animations!

Congrats to everyone who participated! I'm thinking of joining the next contest! :D

Reminder to people in the comments to be civil, and that pure technical skill was not the only choosing factor in this contest. An entry with a 5/5 animation score and a 2/5 visual storytelling score is still beat by an entry with a 3/5 animation score and a 5/5 storytelling score. Also, this is a fun contest with the purpose of promoting a new song (fantastic work, Neoni! Been looping it since release) and having fun. It is not a thesis film competition with a prestigious review board. Anyway, fantastic work from every applicant and congratulations to the winners and runners up!

I actually KNEW that PaintedSerenity Would win. I mean- an amazing work! Congrats dude!

Everything is so satisfying if it's HD quality... So satisfying, it feels like I'm watching a Movie when I'm not watching a movie... This was so cool as well! Good job to everyone!

I'M LOSING MY MIND AT THE STAR WARS OC OH MY GOSH???? These are all so good!!!

the aubrey one is my favorite but EVERYONE DID SO WELL

not me waiting until the competition is over to do the meme because im genuinely scared that im gonna accidentally win and my parents will get frustrated w me or some shiy 💀

I love this song!!! I've been listening to it since 9 this morning!!! I'll NEVER stop listening to it. I honestly can't believe my friends haven't heard this song before. It's. So. GOOD!!! 😮❤😮❤

YESSSSSSSSS MY FAV ONE GOT 3RD PLACE YESSSSSS

Of OK congrats to the winners. DID ANYONE NOTICE NO DRAGONS OR DINOS ARE EVER MENTIONED IN ANY CONTESTS?

the artists shown here are amazing, but i'll be honest, i personally would've judged some particular ones much higher or at least placed them in honorable mentions one of the things i noticed is that... aside from the original animation and first place, they're all humans/mostly human, when a majority of submissions were furry characters, as is most of the animation meme community. some of the best entries to this contest that should've definitely made it in featured furry characters. i think it's worth bringing into question how bias towards the subjects of the animation may have played a part in the judging here..?

It was such a fun meme and a great contest to be a part of! And congrats to the winners of the competition!😄

Congrats to the winners!!! ^^

W-wow I'm lost for words this song is amazing! Wait amazing is not enough.. It's exstrodinary(idk how to spell that) the pictures are stunning and the song is great❤❤❤❤❤❤tysm

Everyone’s animations were very creative and amazing! This contest gave me inspiration to improve and continue animating😁 congrats to the winners and thank you CloudKid and wingedwolf94 for hosting this, it was very fun!!☺️

Congrats to everyone! Even if you did not get into this video I think you did an awesome job. This was such a fun contest to participate in, and I can't wait until you guys host another one!

Upd#2. Thank you for motivation to become rich so I can make a fair contest myself, I guess? Definitely congrats to every lucky person here I'd be silent if my work was only one that didn't make it, I worked hard and put my soul, but it's not something I'd fight over, because I know that I still need to learn a lot + deadline.... BUT works of my favorite animators not even in top 10 TOO??? Was they looked at at all?? :( So much unrecognized work, like I looked through competitors myself and thought wow these are SUPER HIGH QUALITY these are 1000% 1st-3rd place! Have you seen this Fyrtrix tizi, such a hard work and mind-blowing rezult?? Have you seen Piki-Bird?? So fun! Have you seen Cyan. Y?? Mothcry? Rocky Rakoon? Owly ghost? Ria Garas?? McCauley sisters studio??? All others??? Of course NOT, because they would be in this compilation too :/ was it like "let's just pick RANDOM people and pray if one of the good ones will be there??" Well, your luck, that some of them really here, but that's just disappointment Yep, I'm angry, but I'm saying truth, because I'm tired of all these contests where judges can not even take some time to really look at works and give decision to system. Should've put this in rules then??? Upd. YEP, I'm bitter to judges Well, at least favency and paintedserenity are here from all

THE OMORI ONE MADE ME SO HAPPY OMG

I wasn't in this, but it was awesome!!! Congrats to the winners!

O just love all of the animation, is just BEATIFULL

Congrats y'all! ✨🎉

Congrats to the winners! I figured I wouldn't win since there's so many other videos that were better than mine X'D But since the youtube algorithm is difficult to deal with and using the search function might not show everyone, how about we use this comment to give exposure to the others who entered and hadn't gotten shown in this video? That way it takes the pressure off the hosts and we keep the good vibes going? So reply to this comment if you entered the contest so we can check out your video, maybe tell us a bit of the backstory on it or what programs you used? With there having been so many entries, it's understandable that not everyone could get featured, so it's up to us to give the other entries attention. ^w^

Wow! Congrats to the winners! ❤️ Everyone did such an amazing job. Though they weren’t mentioned here, my favorites were from Mothcry, 0.6Chii, and Owlyghost.

Great job everyone holy heck!! This meme was so fun to create, congrats to all the winners and runner ups!

congratulations to all the winners ✨💖

I'ma be taken as a bitch so go ahead and fight me but; I rlly feel like there WAS BETTER but their not even in the honorable mentions?! Cloudkid c'mon... This isn't just for the Loser meme ... At first it was ok like, MAYBE it'd be fixed but n o p e. Ppl are getting angry... After reading your comment you state ( from my understanding) that you looked for character but the animation that qualifies can't even make honorable mentions? I'ma be the one to say this; Wtf..?

They all did amazing! Also the person who won is who i mainly wanted to win lol, but it was hard for me to decide my opinion bc there all amazing

Congratulations😆😆😆!!! I really enjoy this contest 😆

those were fire

HELL FUCKIN YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAA GO SERENITY MY BELOVED

OMG, these were incredible!! Can't believe how well these are made in such short time! Congratulations to everyone, and good job to everyone else who participated!

LOLL I HAD THIS ON FULL BLAST IN MY EAR PLUGS AND I TURNED IT OFF AND I HEAR KIDS IN THE BACK OF MY BUS SINGING SWEET CAROLINE XDDDDDD

Omg I made this meme also :') but Congrats all the winners!!

Love this song ❤

Dont know if intentional or not but this is youtube musics official vid for this song if you click to see the music video. Either way brought me here! I used to be apart of the amv community and am so glad to see it doing so well 10 years later 💜💜💜

Wow, 2 years later Ik but wow. These animations are INSANELY GOOD

Everyone did so good!

Umm. Uh. Congrats to those who worked hard on their full animations. You are all truly wonderful.

Too bad mine didn't get in :')) Congratulations to the winners and runner ups! everyone did amazing :DD

I watch this over and over yalll are so good at art!

Congrats for the winners everyone did a good job! nwn

I like this nice jobbb

REALLY COOL ANIMATION! 👏😄

OMG EVERYONE SUBMISSIONS WHERE AMAZING AND EVERYONE I THIS DID AMAZING JOBS!1!1💜💜❤❤❤

YOOOO CONGRATS EVERYONE. I REALLY LOVED ALL OF EM. Had no clue serenity would win, but they deserved! I remember being in shock when I first saw their animation!

This is by far my fav song

Wooow the animators were awesome :00

Sa part dans la playlist

Eeeee im so excited for the next one!!!

This is now my new fav song!😅😂😊❤

Although i didnt win, im still happy that i got a chance to do it!!! Thank you so much!!!

I can feel that badass vibe while hearing this song , great animation also 💜