Title: Hiking Meme

General Information about Item:

• Material and Verbal
• English
• USA

Informant Data:

• Nick Motycka
  • Age: 19
  • Male
  • From Van Mert, Ohio
  • Public High School
  • Plays sports and video games
  • Started making memes in high school
  • Freshman 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. Nick 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, especially those that went on trips and are very familiar with how challenging Hiking 4 is.
• Cultural Context
  • The cultural context of this meme demonstrates the prevalence of boasting ones achievements, especially when others do not care very much. Nick, who went on Hiking 4, says that it was very challenging and those who completed it are very proud. The meme is pretty much showing how Dartmouth students are not the most humble and like to show off. In this case, those who completed a hard DOC Trip should go around telling people

Item:

Informant’s Comments:

• Nick said that he went on the Hiking 4 trip and it was something that he was very proud of completing. He thought this meme was very creative since it used a very common meme format for something that the meme page has yet to see.

Collector’s Comments: 

• In all honesty, I did not go on trips so when people bragged about which one they went one, I was never impressed. I think the meme is funny because it points out a flaw in the culture here at Dartmouth in a very comical way.

Collector’s Name: Arthur Kaslow

Tags/Keywords: Dartmouth. Trips. Meme. Hiking 4. Urinal.