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10 Surreal Memes To Expand Our Reality

Left: an ankle with a watch on it.
Right: a responsible wok, dark but accessing the planetarium.
Left: an ankle with a watch on it.
Right: a responsible wok, dark but accessing the planetarium.

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Published 2 years ago

Published 2 years ago

"Surreal memes were always a part of the memescape, representing one of the extreme tendencies of contemporary meme manufacture: the nihilistically-tinged dive towards an increasingly illogical, referentless and abstract memeticism. Visually characterized by aggressive deep frying, bold color palettes and strange typography, surreal memes found a constituency in many places, including Reddit's /r/surrealmemes. Linguistically, surreal memes take part in a campaign to shatter language, often omitting grammatically important sentence components or creating utterances which fail to scan. Often, surreal memes attribute this inscrutability to an abstract and arbitrary authority, which orders the poster and viewer around -- perhaps an oblique commentary on the increasingly surreal and opaque actions of 21st-century political institutions such as the nation-state and social media platform."

-Dr. W.F. Snodemeyer, Memes in the Pre-Morb Period (2065)

Nooooooooooo

(Source: Reddit)

That's The Meme

(Source: Reddit)

You red that right.

A Tragedy

(Source: Reddit)

They Already Know

The abstract authority of surreal memes: "They."

Watch Out!

(Source: Reddit)

Uh… looks like it's about a quarter past.

Look Closer

(Source: Reddit)

Mmmmm Yum Yum

(Source: Reddit)

In the early 21st century, microplastics were considered a delicacy.

A Simple Request

(Source: Reddit)

Ponnish

(Source: Reddit)

If you or someone you know feels ponnish, steer clear.

Economic Problem

(Source: Reddit)

This reference to a Kim Kardashian remark justifying capitalism seems to accuse it of absurdity.

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