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Surreal Memes
Surreal memes are a type of memes which became pretty famous recently. One of the reasons for the popularity of these memes is the absurd style. Many times these just contain some weird surreal characters giving weird expressions.

About
Surreal Memes are a subgenre of Ironic Memes that are artistically bizarre in appearance. Humour derives from the absurdness in the style of making those memes. Though the difference between Surreal Memes and Deep Fried Memes and Dank Memes is subtle. Some of the characters such as Meme Man are frequently found in those memes. The surreal memes are also famous for the minimalist style of the images.

Surreal memes often share the text-over-image format of the memes populating BuzzFeed listicles. Their subject matter, though, is entirely different. They can be about anything, really, but they’re always void of context and characterized by alarmingly nonsensical imagery, like a boy masquerading as a squid in space. They’re artistically discordant, like 2D static mixed with 3D renderings of random vectors and objects. They obliquely point to some commonality or absurdity of modern life, like failures of communication or the depersonalizing daily work grind. They make you question reality. They might feature the recurring character Meme Man, whose glossy Voldemortian head is balder than bald, or Mr Orange, a digital illustration of orange with reptilian limbs and a thousand-yard stare.

Origin
Before "Surreal Memes" became an umbrella term for the style, several memes and characters had been employed in surreal ways, later becoming staples of the genre. The Origin for Meme Man was October 24th, 2015. It refers to a poorly made 3D head which functions as the mascot of the Facebook page "Special meme fresh." He was later used in one of the most widely-known examples of a surreal meme. Mr Orange, also known as Orang Min, is a digital illustration of an anthropomorphic orange. After being used in certain dank meme videos and contexts, the character began appearing in more surreal contexts.

Surreal memes are based on a concept called "layers of irony," which, according to Know Your Meme, stemmed from a four-panel comic on a Facebook page called Special meme fresh. (The page is still active.) The idea deals with a common plight among meme enthusiasts: Marred by brands and diluted by ubiquity, meme culture has become so stupid that there's no way to enjoy it in its mainstream state. If you want to make a meme that is truly enjoyable for its own sake, you must imbue it with an ironic detachment so advanced that it actually reads as nonsense. It must operate on a plane functionally separate from reality.

Spread
As we all are aware of how those increase in social media usage of the general population helps to spread a lot of things today. The internet had played a vital role in the spread of these weird memes as well. The subreddit created for sharing surreal memes had gained 3000 followers on February 7th, 2017 and as of April 25th,2017 it had 19,000 followers.

Examples
The subreddit for the surreal memes has a lot of examples for the same. Another source to find those is Imgur. The links contain few examples of them but there are a lot of pages on social media like facebook, twitter where one can easily find those memes.