Thread:S A N T A C L A W S/@comment-29360781-20200112020646/@comment-32833634-20200112031406

If I'm being completely honest, I'd say that the surreal memes "canon" is actually quite loosely defined. There really aren't any wiki boundaries set to determine what's in the surreal memes canon. Sure, we can consider something canon as soon as it's in a surreal meme, but then again, it creates an easy way for normies to just shoehorn in their own stuff and call it surreal just because they put it in a surreal meme. Ex. Putting something like Minecraft Steve in the middle of a surreal meme and not doing anything surreal with it at all, is not surreal, and is just lazy, so it seems weird that the Minecraft Steve is automatically canon just because of inclusion in one surreal meme.

Then you have surreal storyline, like the timelines and stuff. We once held a poll to determine which timelines can be recognized as legitimate, canon timelines which are part of the surreal storyline, and as far as I remember, the timelines which did end up being recognized were the BagelBoy/Timotainment one, mine, MoistCheese's and (possibly) ViruCide's The Rebellion. (I'll also mention that technically mine and MoistCheese's are mostly intertwined.) Needless to say, random surreal memes aren't part of any sort of surreal storyline. I feel like if something is to be added to a specific timeline, and it's made by someone else, the person with control of the timeline has to accept it, or make it themselves. For example - if a user proposed an alternate branced off timeline from my own series, and I accepted their idea, and if it was actually implemented, it would be canonically part of my portion of the surreal storyline. But if a user proposed an idea and I turned it down, it would not be canonized as part of my timeline.

My point is - we need to actually define what being canon or surreal means. It's way too vague, and people are taking advantage of it. They have been for months and months on end.