When an upload rejects a meme it usually gives you no useful reason — just a size limit you have already exceeded. The file is normally a phone screenshot or a saved download sitting at 2-8MB, and the platform wants it under 8MB, 10MB, or sometimes a few hundred KB for an avatar or a forum post. The good news is that memes carry almost no unique image data: flat backgrounds, big blocks of one colour, and text. Files in that shape commonly drop 80-95% with no visible change at all. Reduce meme file size first, then check the caption reads.\n\nThe efficient order is resize then compress. Memes are usually viewed on a phone at under 1000px wide, so resizing a 3000px screenshot down removes more bytes than any amount of quality fiddling, and the meme looks identical in a chat bubble.