Keystone Baptism Meme

Title: Keystone Baptism Meme

General Information about item:

  • Material and Verbal: Joke
  • English
  • USA

Informant Data:

  • Daniela Armas was born on July 1st, 1998.  She is a religion major in the Dartmouth class of 2020.  She is 19 years and she is from Miami Florida.  Daniela is of Cuban descent, and her background is strongly influenced by Latino Culture.  She is Catholic, and her family is strongly religious.  Daniela writes for the Jack-O-Lantern and enjoys the outdoors during the summer.

Contextual Data:

  • Social Context:
    • The data was collected during a one on one interview in the hop while over lunch.  Daniela explained that in the Catholic faith children are baptized at a very young age.  This sort of initiation rite represents the child being inducted into the faith.  Daniela explained that she made the meme on her computer and how she formulated the meme using a popular meme format specific to Dartmouth (the whomst beginning).  Daniela then communicated that this meme was meant to be timely to the arriving of the freshman to Dartmouth college, and to make them feel welcome while entertaining the upper classmen.
  • Cultural Context:
    • At Dartmouth College many of the students drink almost exclusively a beer called Keystone Light.  This beer is known to be cheap and tasteless, and commonly not consumed by other parts of the nation.  When new students arrive at Dartmouth many are introduced to the beer by upperclassmen, and in doing so they become “baptized” into the Dartmouth Community.

Item:

whomst ready to baptize the ’21s tomorrow? 😩

Informant’s Comments:

  • Daniela was quick to note that everything associated in the process is completely voluntary and she herself had no part in it, she was merely communicating a cultural tradition at Dartmouth.

Collector’s Comments:

  • I personally greatly appreciate the depth in this meme, as it is essentially a piece of folklore comparing itself to a piece of customary religious folklore.  I also appreciate the imagery associated with the meme, as the freshman are the “babies” of the school, while the upperclassmen are already established.  Finally, the meme captures the caring spirit of the upperclassmen towards the freshman.  Just as the parent cares for the child in the meme, so too does the upperclassmen of Dartmouth guide and help the new classes.

Collector’s Name: Noah Sofio

Tags/Keywords: Dartmouth. Jokes. Verbal Lore.

 

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