Content License & Terms of Use

Last updated: April 29, 2026

Brainrot Characters (brainrotcharacters.net) hosts a wide range of original creative content: hand-drawn illustrations, coloring pages, character artwork, decorative borders, written character lore, battle arena graphics, and AI-assisted user-generated character creations. This license page explains how each type of content can be used, what is permitted, and what requires permission.

If you are short on time, jump to the Quick Summary for a one-paragraph overview, or to the section that matches your intended use.

Quick Summary

  • Personal use is free — view, share on social media with attribution, print at home, color, enjoy.
  • Educational use is free — teachers, parents, libraries, and homeschoolers can print and distribute non-commercially.
  • Commercial use requires a license — selling, monetizing, or using our content in a paid product or service requires written permission.
  • Republishing on other websites is not allowed — link to us instead of re-hosting our files.
  • User-created characters have shared rights — you retain rights to your own creations, but using our platform grants us the rights described below.

Types of Content on This Website

Our license terms vary slightly depending on the type of content. The following categories cover everything published on Brainrot Characters:

1. Hand-drawn original artwork

This includes our coloring pages, decorative borders, character spotlight illustrations, blog post header images, and any other artwork drawn by our team. All hand-drawn artwork is original creative work owned by Brainrot Characters Team.

2. Written content

This includes character lore, descriptions, blog articles, guides, FAQs, and any other written material on our website. Our written content is original work and protected under copyright.

3. Battle arena and gameplay graphics

This includes the battle arena UI, character cards, leaderboard graphics, badges, trophies, and any visual elements that are part of our interactive features.

4. Logos and branding

The “Italian Brainrot” logo, our site icon, and any other branding elements are protected trademarks. They cannot be reused without permission, even for non-commercial purposes.

5. AI-assisted user creations

When users create their own brainrot characters using our character creator tool, those creations have a shared rights structure described in detail below.

6. Source meme characters

The original Italian Brainrot meme characters (Tralalero Tralala, Bombardiro Crocodilo, Ballerina Cappuccina, and others) originated in the broader Italian Brainrot internet community. We claim no ownership over the meme characters themselves — only over our specific illustrated and written interpretations of them.

What You Can Do (Permitted Uses)

Personal use

You may freely view, save, screenshot, and share any content on our website for personal enjoyment. You may print our coloring pages and color them. You may save character images to your phone or computer. You may share links to our pages with friends, family, and on personal social media accounts.

Educational use

Teachers, homeschool parents, tutors, librarians, and educators are welcome to use our content in non-commercial educational contexts at no cost. This includes:

  • Printing coloring pages for classroom activities
  • Using character images in lesson materials and presentations
  • Quoting our written character lore in educational discussions
  • Including our content in classroom newsletters and parent updates
  • Using our material in library reading programs and after-school clubs
  • Hospital and waiting room activity sheets

You do not need to ask permission for educational use. Crediting Brainrot Characters is appreciated but not required.

Personal social media sharing

Sharing our content on social media for personal, non-commercial purposes is permitted under these conditions:

  • Tag or credit @brainrotcharacters or link to brainrotcharacters.net
  • Do not claim our work as your own
  • Do not remove our watermarks or branding
  • If sharing a colored version of our coloring page, the colored result is yours to share freely

Linking to our content

You may freely link to any page on brainrotcharacters.net from your own website, blog, social media, or other platforms. We encourage links and welcome the traffic. You may use our character names and a brief description in your link context.

Embedding via official tools

If you want to embed a character profile, leaderboard, or battle result on your own page, use the official embed codes provided on our site (where available). Do not screenshot and re-host our content as a substitute for embedding.

Birthday parties and small events

You may print and distribute our content for non-commercial gatherings: birthday parties, family events, school activities, church groups, community centers, and similar small-scale events. You cannot charge attendees a fee specifically for the printed content.

What You Cannot Do (Restricted Uses)

You cannot sell our content

This applies to all content types — coloring pages, character art, written lore, battle graphics, and any other original material on our site. Restricted activities include:

  • Selling printed copies on Etsy, Amazon, eBay, Redbubble, or any marketplace
  • Selling digital copies as your own product
  • Including our content in paid printable bundles, activity packs, or content libraries
  • Offering our content as paid downloads on your own website
  • Selling printed merchandise (t-shirts, mugs, posters) featuring our artwork
  • Using our content at craft fairs or commercial in-person events
  • Including our material in subscription services or memberships

You cannot republish on other websites

Do not upload our content to:

  • Other coloring page or printable websites
  • Free printable directories and aggregators
  • Pinterest as your own original content (you can pin from our website directly using the Pin button)
  • YouTube videos as downloadable resources or in description links
  • File-sharing services, torrent sites, or content lockers
  • Other meme wikis or character databases
  • AI training datasets or scraping projects

If you want to feature our content on your blog or website, link to the original page on brainrotcharacters.net rather than re-hosting our files. Use a single thumbnail with a clear link if visual context is needed.

You cannot modify and redistribute

You may color our coloring pages however you like for personal use, and you may take screenshots of your battle results to share. You cannot:

  • Remove our watermarks, branding, or attribution from any content
  • Trace, redraw, or recreate our illustrations and present them as your own work
  • Use AI tools to generate variations of our artwork and republish them
  • Edit our written content and republish it as your own
  • Create derivative works for commercial purposes without a license
  • Combine our content with other works in a way that misrepresents authorship

You cannot use our content for AI training

All content on Brainrot Characters is explicitly excluded from use in training, fine-tuning, or augmenting machine learning models, large language models, image generation models, or any other artificial intelligence systems without prior written permission. This includes commercial AI products, open-source AI models, and academic research projects.

You cannot use our content commercially without permission

The following uses require explicit written permission from Brainrot Characters:

  • Inclusion in paid products (books, magazines, apps, courses, games)
  • Use in advertising or marketing materials for any business
  • Printing on merchandise sold to customers
  • Use by businesses to attract customers (cafés, salons, dental offices, dental clinics, retail stores)
  • Inclusion in subscription services or paid content libraries
  • Use in monetized YouTube videos, podcasts, or streaming content
  • Branded events, sponsored campaigns, or promotional activities
  • NFT, blockchain, or cryptocurrency projects
  • Stock image libraries or asset marketplaces

About User-Created Characters

Our character creator tool allows users to design their own brainrot characters using AI-assisted art generation and original backstories. The rights structure for user-created content is as follows:

Rights you retain

  • You own the creative concept and original backstory you write
  • You may share screenshots and images of your character on social media
  • You may use your character in non-commercial personal contexts (avatar, profile picture, fan art)
  • You may request deletion of your character at any time by contacting us

Rights you grant to us

By submitting a character to our platform, you grant Brainrot Characters a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to:

  • Display your character on our website and in our battle arena
  • Include your character in leaderboards, statistics, and showcases
  • Feature your character in promotional content for our website
  • Use your character in compilation graphics and “best of” content
  • Modify the visual presentation for technical reasons (resizing, formatting, optimizing)

Important limitations

  • You must not submit characters that infringe on existing copyrights, trademarks, or third-party intellectual property
  • You must not submit characters that violate our community standards (hate speech, sexual content, harassment)
  • The AI-generated artwork itself is subject to the terms of the underlying AI image generation service
  • If you submit a character, you confirm you have the right to do so

Italian Brainrot Meme Characters — Public Meme Status

The original Italian Brainrot characters (Tralalero Tralala, Bombardiro Crocodilo, Ballerina Cappuccina, Brr Brr Patapim, Cappuccino Assassino, Tung Tung Tung Sahur, and others) originated as viral memes within the broader Italian Brainrot internet community starting in early 2024. These characters exist in the public meme culture and are not exclusively owned by any single party.

What we own is our specific illustrated interpretations of these meme characters, our written character lore and backstories, our decorative borders and themed frames, and our original character creations that are not part of the original meme set. The meme characters themselves are free for anyone to reference and create their own art for. This license governs only our specific artwork and written content, not the broader meme phenomenon.

Attribution Format (Recommended)

If you choose to credit us when using our content under permitted use cases, here are the recommended formats:

For visual content (coloring pages, character images)

Artwork by Brainrot Characters — brainrotcharacters.net

For written content (character lore, articles)

Source: Brainrot Characters (https://brainrotcharacters.net)

For social media posts

Tag @brainrotcharacters or include #brainrotcharacters with a link in your bio or comment.

For digital use, please include a clickable link to https://brainrotcharacters.net when possible.

Commercial Licensing

We offer commercial licenses for businesses, publishers, content creators, and brands who want to use our content in paid products or services. Available license tiers include:

  • Single-asset license: permission to use one specific image or piece of content in one defined commercial context
  • Project license: permission to use multiple assets within a defined project (e.g., a printable activity book, a single advertising campaign)
  • Brand license: ongoing usage rights for businesses that want to integrate our content into their products or services
  • Editorial license: reduced-rate licensing for journalists, news outlets, and editorial publications covering the Italian Brainrot phenomenon
  • Exclusive license: by negotiation, for partners requiring exclusive rights in a specific market or product category

To inquire about commercial licensing, please email [email protected] with the following information:

  • Your name and business or organization name
  • The specific content you would like to license (links to specific pages help)
  • How you intend to use it (be as specific as possible)
  • Estimated reach (print run, audience size, geographic distribution, campaign duration)
  • Project timeline and budget range

We aim to respond to commercial licensing requests within 5 business days. Editorial use requests are typically processed faster.

Copyright Infringement

If you discover any website, social media account, marketplace listing, app, or product that uses our content without permission in violation of this license, please report it to us at [email protected]. Include:

  • A link or screenshot of the infringing content
  • The original Brainrot Characters page or asset that was copied
  • Any other relevant context (account names, dates noticed)

We pursue copyright infringement through:

  • DMCA takedown notices to hosting providers and platforms
  • Platform-specific reporting tools (Etsy, Amazon, Pinterest, YouTube, Instagram)
  • Direct contact with infringing parties
  • Legal action where significant commercial harm has occurred

Third-Party Content on Our Website

Some content on our website may include third-party material under separate license terms:

  • User-created characters: see “About User-Created Characters” section above
  • User comments and submissions: users grant us a license to display their submissions, but retain ownership of their words
  • Fonts and icons: licensed from their respective providers under their own terms
  • Advertising creative: remains the property of advertisers, governed by advertiser agreements

Changes to This License

We may update this license from time to time as our content, audience, or business needs evolve. The “Last updated” date at the top of this page reflects the most recent revision. Major changes will be announced on our homepage and via our newsletter. Continued use of our content after a license update constitutes acceptance of the updated terms.

Previous versions of this license are available on request for parties who licensed content under earlier terms.

Jurisdiction and Governing Law

This license is governed by applicable copyright and intellectual property laws. Disputes will be addressed through good-faith communication first; legal disputes will be resolved in the appropriate jurisdiction based on the location of the parties involved and the nature of the infringement.

Questions?

If you are unsure whether your intended use is permitted under this license, please ask before using. We are friendly and respond quickly. Email us at [email protected] with a clear description of how you want to use our content, and we will let you know whether it falls under personal use, educational use, or requires a commercial license.