Meme Bubble
by SarusM
Meme Bubble lets players send animated GIF emotes and speech bubbles with sound above their characters, served from a Paper or Purpur server.
What it does
Installing the Fabric client mod renders emotes above a player's head and plays them with positional sound, and adds a UI for choosing them. The server streams its emote assets to clients automatically, so a player who installs the mod receives the full emote set without a separate resource pack. Fabric API is required.
The server side runs as a Paper plugin on Paper and Purpur. Its emote, GIF and speech bubble files sit in the plugin's server folder, and a new emote is added by placing an image in the gifs folder with a matching file name. Complete sets ship as zip packs with gifs, bubbles and sounds folders inside, and a starter emote pack is installed on the first run. Emotes are tuned in emotes.yml, and changes take effect after a restart.
Files are published for Fabric only, for 1.21.11, with 1.1.0+fabric for 1.21.11 as the latest build. The mod is licensed as All rights reserved and is not open source, though its source code is public.
Key features
Animated emotes
Animated GIF emotes and speech bubbles with sound appear over player heads in the game.
Emote panel and quick wheel
The G key opens a thumbnail grid with play and stop controls and per-emote hotkeys, and the B key opens a quick-access wheel with 4 pages of 8 slots.
Built-in emote shop
The shop lists emotes with prices, shows a Buy button for locked ones, and lets the server choose which economy charges the purchase.
Personal speech bubble
Each player picks a bubble frame that rides with the emotes, from the bubbles the server offers.
Viewer-side audio controls
Viewers can set a master emote volume, switch all emote sound off at once, and adjust volume or mute for each player separately.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 1
How it compares
WaveMotes is a client-side only Fabric emote mod under the MIT License, open source and built for 1.21 – 1.21.1, so it needs nothing on the server. Emotes is open source under the MIT License, covers 1.20.1 – 1.21.8 on Fabric, and is server required with the client optional. Memeified is a client-side only Fabric mod for 1.21 – 1.21.11 under All rights reserved, and it is not open source.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meme Bubble | Fabric | 1.21.11 | Not published | 2026-07-23 |
| WaveMotes | Fabric | 1.21 – 1.21.1 | Client-side only | 2026-07-11 |
| Emotes | Fabric | 1.20.1 – 1.21.8 | Server required, client optional | 2025-07-18 |
| Memeified | Fabric | 1.21 – 1.21.11 | Client-side only | 2026-01-14 |
Questions
Does Meme Bubble need Fabric API?
Can Meme Bubble run on a Paper or Purpur server?
How are new emotes added to a server?
In the catalog
Meme Bubble is one of 2,072 Economy mods on ModsFinder, and one of 1,159 Economy mods for Fabric. 19,862 mods support Minecraft 1.21.11.
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What the author says
Animated GIF meme emotes with sound in speech bubbles over players' heads. The server streams every asset to the clients automatically - players install one mod and get the server's full emote set, no resource pack needed. Emote panel on G: animated thumbnail grid, play/stop, per-emote hotkeys.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/memebubble
- Owner
- SarusM
- Published
- 2026-07-09
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-07-23
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15