Surreal memes are "memes from a future unreality". They're weird, uncanny, and... well, just odd in general. Originally, these memes were spawned in the form of comics, but ever since, they've been expanded to videos and, sometimes, still images. Most memes usually follow the exploits of an interdimensional traveler known as Meme Man, as he does actions that are associated with the genre (getting "ANGERY", "SUCCing", and more). Videos sometimes follow the same format, even adapting some comics and images into animations, as well as his interactions with his other inhabitants of the void, with characters like Orang, Pillars, and whoever else. In some cases, the author of the video might add some extra things to extend the video runtime.
A subgenre, "Facts", was popularized by Timotainment, in which an unknown narrator rattles off "facts" about various objects in the universe.
Find the Surreal Memes subreddit here
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Riddle Of The Rocks Saga has its own page.
do not mix the tropes:
- Always Chaotic Evil: The Vegetals appear to be this.
- An Ice Person: In "icced", a giant blue Picardia Face face named "Dr. COOL Jasper" appears soon after Meme Man wishes for some ice in his Bepis and freezes him.Get icced, DUMMY.
- Berserk Button:
- Don't have Meme Man eat a vegetal. He'll get quite ANGERY.
- Do not mix the goops. The anthropoid of working-class will scream at you.
- Do not touch SPAGOOT. If you do, you'll pay for it.
- Bittersweet Ending: At the end of BagelBoy's Surreal Memes saga in "Coda of the Cosmos," order is permanently restored to the entire universe, but at the cost of Meme Man's life. With nothing left to do, the world's authority disbands and Orang begins Walking the Earth.
- Bland-Name Product: Many, including Bepis and Conke.
- Brown Note: Apparently, brogles go through a unique process known as the "brogling" which allows them to metamorphose into a form that gives them their familiar shapes and characteristics. However, it also fries any electronics in the area, which is why nobody's managed to record it yet.
- Catchphrase: Meme Man has "haha yes" and "cool and good".
- Cloudcuckooland: Due to the strange rules of both life and reality, the void can come off as this.
- Dangerous Forbidden Technique: Enlightened beings have the ability to unscronch individuals even within the void's influence, but at the cost of their life. Meme Man decides to meet his ultimate fate this way to save the universe and steer fate towards a more peaceful course.
- De-power: Meme Man brings himself and Orang to equal footing by removing the latter's Transcendence, having used the power of "Succ" learned from the Octahedron of Knowledge to inflict this trope on Orang.
- Digital Piracy Is Evil: As shown in "Existence", Meme Man runs out of his free trial of existence. He downloads a cracked version via Bittorrent, and all seems well...but then reality crashes again.
- Disproportionate Retribution: In "Satellite", a salesman (Money Face) tries to hawk some satellite dishes to Meme Man repeatedly. When Meme Man gets fed up, he turns the salesman into cosmic dust.
- The salesman returns at the end of Riddle of the Rocks 2, selling satellites to the Omniscronchulon and getting caught on the wrong end of interdimensional power again when the latter ends up accidentally scronching him in the void.
- Does Not Like Spam: Meme Man gets very ANGERY when he tastes a vegetal.
- Eldritch Location: Combined with Reality Warper, there exists an enormous yam floating in the void named the All-Powerful Yam. The Council in the Riddle of the Rocks saga uses a particularly brutal form of Reassigned to Antarctica using it called "yamnation," which results in the victim effectively becoming corrupted data.
- Epic Fail: In one meme, Meme Man tries to fix a slight tear in the fabric of reality in his home; it ends up crashing reality instead.
- Eskimos Aren't Real: According to Bean Facts, Wyoming doesn't exist. The narrator is also unaware of how Jack-o-Lanterns are creatived.
- Everyone Hates Fruit Cakes: Referenced in the "Egg Facts (vol. 2)" video:Narrator: Eggs are used to make consumables such as muffin, ?, and fruitcake.Text: [in front of the fruitcake] (Who even eats this?)
- Exact Words: In "Reveal All", Meme Man clicks "hide all" on his computer. It does hide everything...by sucking it up, including him, Orang, the Octahedron, and the entire multiverse.
- Hero Insurance: Averted, then mixed with Arson, Murder, and Lifesaving in Riddle of the Rocks 2. Meme Man and Orang's battle managed to bend reality into all sorts of funny shapes in different places across the universe. However, the Council decides that they'll pardon Meme Man for sealing away an interdimensional horror in the process.
- Is It Something You Eat?: Foods such as bread and cheese were originally used as building materials, and it wasn't discovered that they were edible until much later.
- The Jinx: Meme Man is one in the animated Surreal Memes videos, which is part of why he chooses to engage in a Heroic Sacrifice to save the universe in "Coda of the Cosmos."
- MacGuffin: The Octahedron of Transcendence is an incredibly powerful artifact that is said to allow its holder to attain the power of a god. Meme Man and Orang reach it together, but then Orang backstabs him and prepares to take over the universe.
- Madness Mantra: After getting too close to the All-Powerful Yam, the narrator just spouts "yam" over and over for the next "fact".
- Matryoshka Object: Corn can be used to store many things, including...more corn.
- Meaningful Echo: Despite backstabbing Meme Man in the past, Meme Man still rubbed off on Orang, a fact he seemingly doesn't realize until after the former's death in "Coda of the Cosmos":Oculus: what are your perceptions of this intimation?Orang: hm. cool and good...
- Me's a Crowd:
- During "Coda of the Cosmos," Meme Man encounters a horde of clones made in his likeness (possibly the ones created in "Pront") that assault him while mimicking various related memes like "panik" and "stonks." However, they only manage to headbutt Meme Man several times and impale a single Orang with the "stonks" arrow before he orders the Oculus to floor it on the Cosmogon.
- In "Beans," Orang is revealed to be the prime counterpart of an entire species of identical anthropomorphic oranges, who end up assigning him to purchase the titular kidney beans after initially being defeated in the Riddle of the Rocks saga.
- Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Meme Man accidentally leaves Fusion (an Orang with Meme Man's face) in the void when he flies off in the Cosmogon, giving Fusion the impetus to absorb the Omniscronchulon after the void and baseline reality are merged.
- Never Say "Die": Even though Meme Man is dead by the end of "Coda of the Cosmos," both he and the Alion only refer to his death as meeting his "fate," and the Oculus implicitly wonders if, given the nature of the universe, he is simply in another time and land now.
- "No. Just… No" Reaction: The narrator's reaction to an incredibly long pumpkin in the "Pumpkin Facts (vol. 2)" video:Narrator: No.This is wrong.Stop this immediately.
- Once per Episode: At the end of each episode of "Facts", "[excuse about losing the rest of the "facts" that's related to the current subject]. Join us next week as we take a look at [item]!" is said.
- A "Facts" video usually shows 3 variations of the subject at some point.
- Power Parasite: This is what the power of Scronch can do to someone. However, it can be reversed and nullified by the power of Succ.
- Running Gag:
- In Timotainment's videos, the watermark sometimes changes or is involved in the meme in some way.
- A bit of text appearing for a hot second in the "Facts" series lampshading the absurdity of a fact. For example:Narrator: Eating one bowl of sand is equivalent to running 32 degrees.Text: (Wait a minute, that's not how running works.)
- A given fact being Shaped Like Itself (for example, the eggness of eggs being determined by their eggness percentage.)
- Meme Man saying "orang, no" whenever he sees Orang up to something bad.
- An object in a Facts video pushed as being related to the subject when it obviously isn't. Such as:Narrator: (shows an almond being pushed under a scanner) This is a good almond.Narrator: (shows a dodecahedron being pushed under said scanner) This is also a good almond.
- Part of a fact is stated, only for the narrator to declare the object the fact is about to be fake.
- Stealth Pun: Garlic is banned in some places for its use of obscene language; in other words, it's very foul-mouthed.
- Stylistic Suck: Meme Man himself is a poorly rendered 3D model of a head, and the rest of the cast usually isn't much better, being similarly designed or just weird-looking images like Orang.
- Synthetic Voice Actor: Almost everyone.
- Unstoppable Rage: When Meme Man (or anyone for that matter) is ANGERY.
- Visual Pun: Grapes are purported to be able to survive extreme weather conditions, one of which includes statc; in other words, snow.
- Weird World, Weird Food:
- A certain planet considers trapezoids with hummus a delicacy. No, not trapezoidal chips, just trapezoids.
- Settlers in a certain part of the void apparently ate glass at one point, but their stocks ran out and so they invented yams.
- There exists a variety of corn on the cob that grows teeth as opposed to corn kernels.
- Whole-Plot Reference: The "Onion Facts" video seems to be a reference to SCP Foundation, what with its habit of spamming [REDACTED]s everywhere.
- Worthless Yellow Rocks: Apparently, a boiled egg itself is not of value, but rather its shell, which is then eaten as chips would be.
