Official Contest Rules
Last updated: November 3, 2026
1. Sponsor
The contest is sponsored and administered solely by Funny Money (the developer of this app). Questions about these rules, or requests for a copy of them or for the name of a month's winner, can be sent to willwalton73@gmail.com. These rules work together with our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.
2. Who can enter
You must be at least 18 years old and legally able to enter a binding contract. The contest is intended for participants in the United States and is void where prohibited by law. A paid subscription is required to be eligible for the monthly prize (see Section 4) — there is no free way to be eligible to win it.
3. Contest period
The contest runs in monthly rounds. Each round covers one calendar month, from the first moment of the first day through the last moment of the last day of that month, Central Time. The winner of a round is determined shortly after that month ends.
4. How to enter
- Subscribe to Funny Money ($4.99 per month, purchased on our website and billed through Stripe).
- Write a caption, up to 300 characters, for a Short in the Top Feed. You may write one caption per Short per month, and you may caption as many different Shorts as you like.
- Your caption is prize-eligible if you had an active (or trial) subscription at the moment you submitted it. That status is recorded when the caption is submitted and is not re-checked afterward.
Free accounts can write captions and vote, but their captions cannot win the monthly prize.
5. Voting
Members vote on captions with a "laugh" reaction. Each member gets one vote per caption and cannot vote on their own caption. We may remove votes, captions, or accounts that we reasonably believe were obtained through fraud, bots, purchased or traded votes, voting rings, or other manipulation.
6. How the winner is chosen
The winner of each round is the author of the prize-eligible caption with the most votes from that month. If captions tie, the one submitted first wins. The winner is determined by member votes, not by a random drawing and not by Funny Money's own judgment of which caption is funniest. Your chance of winning depends on how many eligible captions are entered and how many votes each receives.
Captions we have removed, and entries from disqualified accounts, are not eligible. If no prize-eligible caption was submitted in a month, no prize is awarded for that month and it does not roll over into a later month.
7. The prize
One prize is awarded per round: a cash prize equal to 50% of that month's net subscription revenue (gross subscription revenue minus payment-processing fees), capped at $25,000. Because it depends on how many people are subscribed, the amount varies from month to month and may be small while the community is small. No substitutions are offered, and the prize cannot be transferred.
8. Notification and payment
We will contact the winner at the email address on their account. Prizes are paid by us manually, by a payment method we agree on with the winner, after we verify the win. Before paying, we may ask for payment details and, once a person's total payouts in a calendar year reach $600, tax information such as a Form W-9. We may disqualify a winner who cannot be reached or verified, or who has violated these rules.
9. Other awards
- Voter Interaction Points. Each vote a subscriber casts for another member's caption while subscribed earns one point. After each calendar year ends, the subscriber with the most points receives a free year of Funny Money, applied as a credit to their subscription. Ties go to whoever reached that total first. It is decided by vote counts, not by a drawing.
- Creator bonus. Separately from the contest above, the registered creator whose Short ranks first in a month's Top Feed (by our automated scoring of public comment engagement) earns a flat bonus. Creators do not enter, and no caption is required.
10. Conduct and disqualification
Do not create multiple accounts to improve your chances, misrepresent your identity, manipulate votes, or submit captions that are illegal, harassing, hateful, sexually explicit, threatening, or that infringe someone else's rights. We may disqualify entries, withhold prizes, and close accounts for violations.
11. Taxes and liability
Winners are responsible for any taxes on prizes they receive. To the extent permitted by law, Funny Money is not responsible for technical failures, lost or late entries, or errors in vote counts, and the limits in our Terms of Service apply.
12. Changes
We may update these rules for future rounds. Changes are posted on this page with a new "Last updated" date and do not affect a round already under way.