The 'Layers of Irony' meme is a cornerstone of surreal and 'meta' internet culture, first appearing around 2015 on Tumblr and Reddit. It typically features a multi-panel comic where one character questions another's depth of irony, leading to a visual and linguistic transcendence into post-irony. The most famous version features a stick figure and a distorted face uttering the word 'SUCC.' It is widely used to mock people who think they are clever for being cynical, eventually evolving into a template for abstract humor where the logic of the joke breaks down entirely into the 'weird' side of the web.