Editing SurrealMemes (section)

=== Newcomer Flood ===
The growth of the subreddit began surging in the beginning of 2017. On January 5th, 2017 the subreddit would reach 1 thousand subscribers. In around a year the subreddit would reach over 30,000 subscribers, thus something had to be done by the mods for the subreddit not to go fully into shit. 

On February 8th, 2017 the mod u/typicallydankmemes would post an announcement to help newcomers make good, fitting memes after a recent wave in popularity of the subreddit. (He would state that the subreddit reached around 34,000 subscribers as of writing the announcement) he would state that the levels of posts which fit the subreddit, aswell as their quality had gone down, thus something akin to a guide had to be made, what made a surreal post, and what didn't.
Within the announcement there would be five main questions that the mod wished to ask newcomers that were about to post a meme they made or found.

# ''Does your meme make you and possibly others question reality?''
# ''Does your meme make memes on r/me_irl and r/dankmemes look like they were made by normies?''
# ''Does your meme have some sort of hidden meaning behind it?''
# ''Is your meme relatable in some far off, specific way?''
# ''Does your meme have more content than just random stuff with Meme Man, Orang, Pillar, or other characters?'' (Meme Man, Orang, aswell as Pillar are very iconic characters within the subreddit, during the early days they were constantly used in surreal-like memes.) Especially on youtube, where many youtubers would make videos and series with these characters, making them play out strange stories and different act

If a person answered YES to all of these questions, then their meme fit what a surreal meme was.
{{Quote|Surreal memes are NOT just normal images that have been severely messed up in photoshop. Those should go here: r/deepfriedmemes. They are also NOT just Meme Man, Orang, Pillar, and other characters scattered around with random stuff. Surreal memes are also not "memes" you'd find on r/funny, as they are almost always not even past irony level one. To get a feel for what a surreal meme is if you still are questioning yourself, scroll down to the bottom of this subreddit and look at those memes. Those are some of the most surreal memes I've ever laid eyes on.

Thanks to all those new subs, I came here when we were at just a few hundred and now we are almost at 35,000! I don't mean to offend anybody or be mean, I just want to make sure that this subreddit stays as surreal as possible as more and more people continue to join.|u/typicallydankmemes}}