Thread:Longtime4321/@comment-44630907-20200110193712/@comment-32833634-20200111200410

How the classic Surreal Memes died in the first place was like this: The mainstream humour community saw Surreal Memes and noticed how they were getting an audience, but didn't understand how to properly replicate the genre for themselves. Their view of the formula was overly simple, thinking that it just took the use of Meme Man, mispelled words, and dimensions to make it funny. So, the mainstream humour community began to create Surreal Memes without any of the unique ironic comedy that made them funny in the first place, which is what killed them off. Meme Man, Orang, and the rest of the characters were flanderized into oblivion by people who didn't understand them. EXAMPLE: Meme Man suddenly just became a floating head who battles Orang and hates vegetals. There was no substance to him anymore. The only main surreal YouTubers who did manage to keep using Meme Man in a viable form were Timotainment and MoistCheese. So, yes, slapping a surreal character into a weird situation is not automatically a proper Surreal Meme, neither is using a weird Roblox situation or anything.

Of course, another reason is mainstream humour injecting sense and logic into Surreal Memes. Now, Surreal Storyline, like the stuff by BagelBoy, Timotainment, and MoistCheese, was good. Very good, in fact. However, while having a coherent story, those did manage to sustain the nonsensical, bizarre aspect of the genre. A lot of times when mainstream humour tried to replicate Surreal Memes, they tried to make too much sense out of them, and eventually classic Surreal Memes weren't considered "surreal" by the surreal community, because of how mainstream humour had infused sense into them.

That's not to say that a classic style surreal meme can't be surreal anymore. I don't think that necessarily, though a lot of people in the community nowadays (especially on Timotainment's Discord server) do. You can still make a unique, bizarre and truly surreal meme featuring Meme Man. Just avoid the flanderization and the over-sensicalness.

But of course, Roblox characters saying random sutff isn't surreal. Random =/= surreal.