Confession Bear Meme Generator

Drag text anywhere on the Confession Bear template, style every box its own way, drop in your own images, then download, copy, or share it.

Click a text box to edit it. Drag to move, corners resize, top handle rotates.

Blank Confession Bear meme template
The blank Confession Bear meme template. Add your own text in the editor above.

What is the Confession Bear meme?

Confession Bear shows a Malayan sun bear slumped against a log with its head tipped down and a sheepish, guilty-looking face, as if it has been working up the courage to admit something. The captions are confessions: small secrets, mildly shameful habits and opinions the poster would never say out loud, like never having watched a famous film or secretly enjoying a song everyone mocks. Its posture of quiet regret makes even trivial admissions feel like a heavy burden finally being shared.

Origin: The bear is a Malayan sun bear captured in a news agency photograph. Reddit turned it into an advice animal in 2012, and it became the standard image for anonymous confessions on the site.

Also known as: Sun Bear Confession, Confession Bear Meme.

How to use the Confession Bear meme

Split the confession across both boxes. The top box begins the admission and the bottom box finishes it with the guilty detail. Example: "i stole" / "the pic-i-nic basket".

The best confessions are relatable and low stakes, the kind of thing many readers secretly do too: re-gifting presents, pretending to have read the book, saying "on my way" while still in bed, or never having seen a movie everyone quotes. Write in the first person and keep the tone a little ashamed.

Confession Bear meme ideas

About the Confession Bear meme template

The Confession Bear template (cb) supports 2 lines of text. A classic example reads “i stole / the pic-i-nic basket”. Read about its origin on knowyourmeme.com.

Related searches: confession bear sun bear advice animal secret reddit guilty

Use it from the API

This meme is also just a URL. Replace the text in the path to generate your own image:

https://memegenscript.com/images/cb/i_stole/the_pic--i--nic_basket.png

Read the API documentation · Template metadata (JSON)