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I’m sorry for this but I meant to type “tropical” cream. It is made of sweat, feral chicken, and carnauba wax. I hope this typo has not caused you any inconvenience.
This is a classic mistake that cost Italy dearly. You need to scromble your egg shells before you throw them away. I don't know what it does, but I always do it and I've never been to Albania.
There's more "bad fit" content than "rule-breaking content." Anyway, even if they don't, at least we can start more efficiently tagging removed posts with "see posting guide"
I hate power mods, but the truth is that, without moderation, every subreddit becomes a space for general memes. I think the best is a compromise whereby the mods are people with an eye for what generally fits who otherwise give users freedom to upvote and downvote as they wish.
little girl, who died tragically in a fire set by mass arsonist who has struck a million times, is celebrated as the city names a local manhole cover after her
family with crippling medical debt because their insurance wouldn’t pay for the young father’s cancer treatment, raise miraculous $10,000 on gofundme and are now in slightly less debt
Surrealism as an art form is intended to make the viewer consider or reconsider parts of daily reality they take for granted by depriving them of those parts of reality in the art and forcing derealization.
Surrealism exists in the uncanny valley between mundane reality and unreal absurdity.
/r/DeepFriedSurrealMemes exists fwiw, maybe an updated version of this chart could point people there? (Then it'd be more active --> no more deepfry posts here)
I feel like y’all are gonna have to explain exactly what your definition of surrealism is at some point instead of this long list attempting to define it by what it isn’t…this is just lazy c’mon
we want to nurture a place for creativity to thrive and for users to participate in defining the community rather than mods making a laundry list of authoritarian requirements for what exact type of content there must be. this chart should be supplemented by looking at the top posts, spending more time in the sub, and maybe even trying something that fails and learning from it. that's how collaborative culture works
Its the coolest thing to hate on these days. Won't deny there are some low effort "look what this AI made" posts but also a lot of people that hate any AI thing ever because they turned it into an us vs them issue.
I’ve asked AI to make memes before and they always come out looking like they’re from a different world. It’s kind of a shame they’re being banned from here since, so long as they fit, I don’t see why they wouldn’t belong.
Needs more floating eyeballs, frogs, Z̵̘̳̐̄̏̔̀̄͝a̵̡̪̹̠͚̝̻̔̑̎͊̈̕ͅļ̶̧̡̖̯̠̫̦̤̘̬̥̣̽͗̂͜g̸̛̘̩̹̤͙̜̥͙̣̜͕̭̣͋̍͋͗̈́͊̌̀̑̍͊̓̀ͅǫ̷͙̺̟̱̦̟͔̜͕͋̒͛̋̓͛̈́͋́̒̌̕̕͘ ̴̢̡̦̫͓̹̰̦̝͈̼̰͛̅͐̆̇̍̋̽͑̚ͅţ̷̛̛̣̤̲̭̙̿̃̊̇̾̏͛͆̋e̸̙̜͚͊̃́̈͆̇̊̕͘x̷̜͑͗̄̊̇̀͊̍̕͜͝ẗ̶̨͚̠̟͎̺̫͔̻̰͖͙́̆̈́͋̇͐͐̓́̇͊̔̚͠ and "People".
Just for clarification, what is meant by political? I’ve seen a lot of surreal memes here with transgender theming- even though we’re inherently politicized I don’t think that should be banned
Everything is political in a way, including attempts to be "apolitical," – we just don't want people fighting about government candidates or that sort of thing here. It's just not what the sub is for. But as long as it's a surreal meme that fits with the sub's character then it should be okay. Trans rights btw
honestly this is an old rule that predates me, and I have mixed feelings about it. I can say that real companies have taken notice of the surreal meme format and tried to capitalize on it for marketing, as they do elsewhere on reddit, which is depressing and absolutely something we want to avoid. I also hate "brand culture" and want to limit its presence in my life and in the world as much as possible. but I think it's worth discussing how if/how real brands can be used in memes in a way that's truly surreal and also not an advertisement. if you have strong feelings for why they should be allowed, and why this effect wouldn't be more funnier/more interesting (or at least equally impactful) with a fake brand, feel free to share your thoughts.
Just have to disrespect the logo enough really, or use it in such a way that no company would reasonably want their brand associated with it. Say, by implying that Coca Cola is made with 100% feral geometry semen, or that McDonalds are the only burgers approved for insertion in the cosmic space monkey’s butt.
Granted, surreal memes are usually a fairly SFW concept which makes it harder todo. But there is something to be said for the idea of traveling to the point where human perception literally breaks down, and still being served adds for Pizza Hut. But that mat verge into existential horror.
EDIT: We are considering adding new mods. See this post for more details.
Lately we've been removing a lot of posts which are a better fit for a different sub. I've created this handy guide to help you.
This more in-depth post remains a good guide also.
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I keep following the arrows and winding up in Albania. What am I doing wrong?
Sistemi funksionon siç është menduar.
I was afraid you were going to say that.
head nine quaint existence lavish silky ripe gaping political jar
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But what if he might say it again?
We are developing a topical cream for just this sort of event.
Oh good. I hate it when my cream goes off topic.
I’m sorry for this but I meant to type “tropical” cream. It is made of sweat, feral chicken, and carnauba wax. I hope this typo has not caused you any inconvenience.
What flavors will it be available in?
Limon Tangorange
Are there plans to open up surrealmemes to more users?
It has been open for anyone to post for awhile now
This is a classic mistake that cost Italy dearly. You need to scromble your egg shells before you throw them away. I don't know what it does, but I always do it and I've never been to Albania.
Do you have a passport?
Of course, that is how I crossed into the vegetal dimension earlier this year
Dimension absorbed crossing Passport invalid Remain terminal
Yes, I have it here.
I wasn't talking to you.
You must turn 90 degrees vertical at the orange.
I need to practice my vertical running.
You should’ve taken a left at Albequerque.
I always make that mistake.
Sounds like you should have taken your updoc.
How do you do, physician?
You need to make sure you make the correct turn at Albuquerque. Common mistake!
shouldn't have taken that turn at albuquerque
I ended up in Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
I will consume this flow chart with pleasure.
[This is a good flow chart]
I printed it out, dunked it in my Camembert.
This Is not surreal remove it
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sorry, I'll post it in /r/comedyheaven
Recursive irony
Heh… ironic
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What have we done..? ó_ò
IronySpiral! ..its a Blackhumorhole!
Everybody is asking why is it surreal but nobody is asking how is it surreal
ḣ̷͖̘̭̇̀o̴̡̹̞̻̳͆͛͜w̵̧̖̹̰͖͙͂̀́̅ ̷͉͓͓͔͙̘̾̽͌ị̸͊̇̽s̷̱̟̠̞̰̈́̐̀̄̕ͅ ̶̧̻̇͂ị̷̇ţ̷̞̟̮̰͉͋̐ ̷̞̝̎͋́̚s̵̜͎͗̋u̸͇͖̫͈̗͐̄͜r̸̰̺̅́̀͠r̵̛̳̳̪͔͚̈́̋͛̚ē̵͇̯̗̈́̆á̵͇̟̠̚l̷̻̙̏̒͝
Now this is a good meme
Mmm very succulent
Very excited to not see stonks guy here anymore
Stonks guy fits the vibe, but it has to be under the right conditions.
4 bull markets and π.5 bears.
Sometimes attainable in just -3i futures options.
Hey, stonks guy was appropriated from us in the first place. They just took meme man and put him in a suit.
...he was already pretty played out even back then, though.
You'll never saw this coming!
I'm not!
Do you think the people breaking the rules are going to consult a flowchart before posting?
There's more "bad fit" content than "rule-breaking content." Anyway, even if they don't, at least we can start more efficiently tagging removed posts with "see posting guide"
Let’s get rid of all the laws
Good job mod team. I wish all subs cared this much about making sure the posted content fits the sub… looking at you /r/WholesomeMemes
r/oddlyspecific is probably the worst one, 90% of the posts there are just r/meirl or r/whitepeopletwitter
r/oddlyterrifying is mostly just regular terrifying
The whole r/antimemes / r/bonehurtingjuice thing is just a mess
I hate power mods, but the truth is that, without moderation, every subreddit becomes a space for general memes. I think the best is a compromise whereby the mods are people with an eye for what generally fits who otherwise give users freedom to upvote and downvote as they wish.
Also r/cursedcomments is for any comment now
r/oddlyterrifying isn't even "regular terrifying" anymore. Posts there are mostly r/mildlyinteresting or r/nextfuckinglevel. I haven't seen a oddly or even a terrifying post there for months now.
r/boneachingjuice is BHJ but without the garbage mods
I agree with all of these. Meme economy is hot mess right now, too, and I wish they’d post something like this.
But this post isn't surreal so also bad mods
Instructions unclear, but look, thats what the AI made when I typed in surreal, aint that whacky?
Surrealism as an art form is intended to make the viewer consider or reconsider parts of daily reality they take for granted by depriving them of those parts of reality in the art and forcing derealization.
Surrealism exists in the uncanny valley between mundane reality and unreal absurdity.
Well said. So this sub is "do it with memes." That's what I wanted to communicate with the flowchart.
Thank you. I was about to unsubscribe from this sub because of the sheer volume of posts lately that don’t even remotely fit
Trying to find r/deepfriedmemes is like trying to find your gate at Kafka International Airport
I didn't realize it was private. I really miss seeing essentially the same joke from 2015 posted again and again.
Not all of us can be as funny or original 😔
r/moldymemes maybe?
nice, didn't know about this one
/r/DeepFriedSurrealMemes exists fwiw, maybe an updated version of this chart could point people there? (Then it'd be more active --> no more deepfry posts here)
W mod post <3
omg fuckin thank you
this is a max difficulty sub
No floating head meme man or orang, not surreal enough.
The elephont of shapes must also transcend this dimension
I am pleased to follow
Literally says "is it surreal?", Like i think the problem is people dont know what that means and this does nothing to remedy it
that's why it's followed by nearly a dozen things which people mistakenly believe are surreal...
Ok, but eliminating wrong answers only goes so far
then you might just have to use a little intelligence, imagination, and patience
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who says we didn't?
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you're right, your graphs are cool art, but not memes. this other stickied post has a good discussion of the ethos with examples
If you did, it was only la petite mort…
42
Correct
Oh this place has mods? Interesting
Yeah i just turned on god mode and infinite ammo the mods are insane
Hmmmm, this post doesn't fit its own guidelines. Delete
Now I wouldn’t say that this is a meme so why would you post it?
I don’t get this meme
Needs more Reginald.
IDGAF about posting rules as long as I see my favorite MF every alternating Tuesday
Oh look other surreal subreddits
I honestly thought it was gonna say "does it violate the rules of nature?"
this is encouraged
Finally, a guide
Much needed post. I joined back then when this sub used to be heavily moderated, but quality sank day for day
So stuff stolen from Obvious Plant and Arcane Bullshit etc is still ok to post, right?
Thank you for pointing out it can't just be surreal, but it also needs to be a meme.
This inplies you can define surreal.
If we can't trust our leaders to lead us how can we be trusted to be lead?
Lead from your heart, not your stomach.
Nice.
Glad to see the sub finally improving!
tumblr humor, unsubbing
I feel like some weird books should be allowed. Unacceptable lobster is a classic
Yeah, and does it always need to be a character saying something?
you're right and so is /u/allozzieadventures – just play it by ear. tbh I'm just tired of removing endless reposts of this
I followed the guidelines, but I ended up summoning the çřüŕï:en of the 47th reality.
What did I do wrong?
you didn't have a hot snack ready for him when he came. be considerate. it's a long journey
All seriousness I appreciate what your doing for the sub
Thank you!
You took a left turn at Streeet
That’s a dreamlike flow of a chart… <3
I had given up on this sub and for awhile anyway I was one of the people with the highest all-time karma on this subreddit.
Why is it surreal? It’s surreal, that’s why.
This is a terrible brownie recipe--nobody is even throwing water at cats.
The surrealmemes that can be flowcharted by moderators is not the true surrealmemes.
I'm leaving.
excuse me sir. Why are you using squares for questions? If else statements are in a diamond D:<
Really? I've never made a flowchart before
thats what they taught me in programming, yeah.. probably like a 100000 ways to do it though.
surreal meme is when meme man spells words wrong and orang says a nonsensical sentence‼️‼️🤣🤣
Vote for Sarah Palin, Drink Pepsi Cola, Mods Gay
submit post
mods hate this one weird trick!
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But haven't you heard? Scientists are losing control of AI! When someone gets junk output from a junk-fed GPT-3 algorithm it's literally the Matrix
I feel like y’all are gonna have to explain exactly what your definition of surrealism is at some point instead of this long list attempting to define it by what it isn’t…this is just lazy c’mon
we want to nurture a place for creativity to thrive and for users to participate in defining the community rather than mods making a laundry list of authoritarian requirements for what exact type of content there must be. this chart should be supplemented by looking at the top posts, spending more time in the sub, and maybe even trying something that fails and learning from it. that's how collaborative culture works
and just because its got a 90s/2000s pc DOES NOT mean it is surreal, it should contribute to the surrealism in some way
r/coolguides
thanks, I used this great free tool
also this
This post fits none of the criteria. BANNED
But I like ai meme :(
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I don't think it's "hate on AI", it's more "put effort into making your own content".
This. Also 99/100 times neural net content is surreal art and not a surreal meme.
Its the coolest thing to hate on these days. Won't deny there are some low effort "look what this AI made" posts but also a lot of people that hate any AI thing ever because they turned it into an us vs them issue.
I’ve asked AI to make memes before and they always come out looking like they’re from a different world. It’s kind of a shame they’re being banned from here since, so long as they fit, I don’t see why they wouldn’t belong.
shut the fuck up
Who the hell cares
what the fart
Surreal means ‘super real’ NOT unreal.
Surreal means "beyond real," which is unreal in a specific sense
I thought that we couldn't post unless we were approved or something
Which law am I supposed to follow? I mean I never will post anything but what law?
Finally I will find out what this subreddit is all about!!
Thank you so much for this, pin the shit out of it
w
Wasn't /r/DeepFriedMemes banned?
the protocol
By those rules you shouldn't be uploading this as it's not surreal
This is a surreal meme.
When the meme is so surreal it breaks the law
Thank you!
But now you have to hope they still have eyes
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yeah I know, I just thought it could be a good starting place/alternative to consider
Overkill bitch
This posts both the first and second checks presented.
but does it contain vegetal
But Reginald can still come here right?
Does this post comply with the flow chart?
r/coolguides
Can’t even follow your own guide smh my head
The post is the exception that proves the rule
Yes Yes No! It’s a surreal meme No
Needs more floating eyeballs, frogs, Z̵̘̳̐̄̏̔̀̄͝a̵̡̪̹̠͚̝̻̔̑̎͊̈̕ͅļ̶̧̡̖̯̠̫̦̤̘̬̥̣̽͗̂͜g̸̛̘̩̹̤͙̜̥͙̣̜͕̭̣͋̍͋͗̈́͊̌̀̑̍͊̓̀ͅǫ̷͙̺̟̱̦̟͔̜͕͋̒͛̋̓͛̈́͋́̒̌̕̕͘ ̴̢̡̦̫͓̹̰̦̝͈̼̰͛̅͐̆̇̍̋̽͑̚ͅţ̷̛̛̣̤̲̭̙̿̃̊̇̾̏͛͆̋e̸̙̜͚͊̃́̈͆̇̊̕͘x̷̜͑͗̄̊̇̀͊̍̕͜͝ẗ̶̨͚̠̟͎̺̫͔̻̰͖͙́̆̈́͋̇͐͐̓́̇͊̔̚͠ and "People".
THIS IS THE FUNNIEST POST IVE SEEN ALL MONTH
This is neither surreal or a meme. You can’t even follow your own rules
This meme fucking sucks
THANK YOU! Also consider setting up one of those “upvote if you think…” bots
This is one of my main priorities, but it requires the ability to add this bot as a mod, which I'm in the process of trying to get.
Stop trying to explain surreal memes to people and just remove the stupid posts that don’t apply
A gift from the all fathers
I hope people read this and follow it. I’m tired of seeing depressing/creepy memes when I’m just looking for surreal shit
needs more marmalade
This is not surreal. Can you not post it please?
Just for clarification, what is meant by political? I’ve seen a lot of surreal memes here with transgender theming- even though we’re inherently politicized I don’t think that should be banned
Everything is political in a way, including attempts to be "apolitical," – we just don't want people fighting about government candidates or that sort of thing here. It's just not what the sub is for. But as long as it's a surreal meme that fits with the sub's character then it should be okay. Trans rights btw
Where do Bepis and Conk lie on the brand name aspect?
I guess it's okay theoretically, but use caution, because it's been used to much that they in themselves are not really surreal
Why no brand names?
the mods of /r/HailCorporate pay us to say that
I feel like I disagree with this. But I don’t mean to start a debate with a mod in a sub I like, though never post in.
honestly this is an old rule that predates me, and I have mixed feelings about it. I can say that real companies have taken notice of the surreal meme format and tried to capitalize on it for marketing, as they do elsewhere on reddit, which is depressing and absolutely something we want to avoid. I also hate "brand culture" and want to limit its presence in my life and in the world as much as possible. but I think it's worth discussing how if/how real brands can be used in memes in a way that's truly surreal and also not an advertisement. if you have strong feelings for why they should be allowed, and why this effect wouldn't be more funnier/more interesting (or at least equally impactful) with a fake brand, feel free to share your thoughts.
Just have to disrespect the logo enough really, or use it in such a way that no company would reasonably want their brand associated with it. Say, by implying that Coca Cola is made with 100% feral geometry semen, or that McDonalds are the only burgers approved for insertion in the cosmic space monkey’s butt.
Granted, surreal memes are usually a fairly SFW concept which makes it harder todo. But there is something to be said for the idea of traveling to the point where human perception literally breaks down, and still being served adds for Pizza Hut. But that mat verge into existential horror.
this is not a meme, why did you post?
The day when rules are applied to Memetic surreality is the day Memetic surreality is truly dead
I will remember
No.
I can finally start using Reddit again, thank you
Ithought r/WTFart was r/WetFart
Happy to be there though
holy fucking shit this should be pinned in r/surrealgraphs