Freshman Frats Memes

Title: Freshman Frats Memes

General Information about Item:

  • Material and Verbal: Joke
  • English
  • USA

Informant Data:

  • Sam Fox
    • From Edinburgh, Scotland
    • Started making memes because was one of first members
    • Sophomore at Dartmouth

Contextual Data:

  • Social Context:
    • This meme and its information were collected during a one on one interview in a study room in Baker Berry Library at Dartmouth College. Sa, described how he made the meme on his computer as well as how this meme has since been spread around Dartmouth’s student population by way of the meme page, text messages, and email. This meme is meant to be enjoyed by Dartmouth students because of the vast amounts of fraternity parties that freshman all want to go to.
  • Cultural Context
    • Our informant told us the cultural context of this meme is that Dartmouth freshman are only worried about partying in the frats and have little interest in learning about the alternative social spaces. He is a UGA so the administration always tasks him with activities that promote the alternative social spaces but he said the freshman rarely engage. He said that in his UGA meetings, other UGAs have the same problem and are always just asked questions about the frats. The frats dominate the social scene so this meme hints at the fact that it will be very challenging for the administration to change that since even the freshman are already hooked.

Item:

Informant’s Comments:

  • Sam said he posted this because all the freshman he is a UGA for asked about frats and are not very interested in learning about the alternative social spaces.

Collector’s Comments: 

  • I find this meme to be very relatable since it was all I was concerned about when I was a freshman. This meme was sent to me by a friend when it was posted since we both related to it.

Collector’s Name: Arthur Kaslow

Tags/Keywords: Dartmouth. Frats. Freshman. Alternative Social Spaces. UGA.

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