About Breaking News Maker

The breaking-news meme has been around as long as image macros — a red lower third, an absurd headline, your friend's face where the correspondent should be. But every tool for making one produced a static PNG, and a static PNG is only half the format. Real breaking news moves: the headline types itself out, the ticker crawls, the LIVE badge pulses, the sting hits. The motion is the urgency, and the urgency is the joke.

Breaking News Maker started with a simple observation: animated parody news deserved better than screenshots. So it animates the whole broadcast — typewriter headline reveal, scrolling ticker, pulsing LIVE badge, ticking clock, five original station styles and a synthesized intro sting — and exports it as a real 60fps MP4.

The second decision matters just as much: everything renders in your browser. Your photo, your clip and your headline never touch a server — there is no upload step in the product at all. That makes exports private by architecture and finished in seconds, because there's no queue to wait in. It also keeps Pro at $4.99 instead of $15: you're paying for features, not our render farm, because there isn't one.

One deliberate absence: no real network branding. The five station styles are original archetypes, and the custom builder is for inventing your own station, not recreating someone else's. A fake real-network chyron isn't parody — and this tool is for parody, full stop.

Breaking News Maker is made by the solo maker of Chatimator, the fake text-message video maker built on the same philosophy: render in the browser, keep user content off the server, and make the free tier actually useful.