Various systems and methods for implementing automatic image metatagging are described herein. A system for metatagging media content comprises a camera system; a user input module to receive user input from a user to capture media content via the camera system; a camera control module to: activate the camera system to capture a scene, and obtain an image with at least a portion of a face of the user; a user identification module to identify the user based on the image; and a metatagging module to tag the scene with the user as an author of the scene.