“They were like, ‘Oh, you have to send a meme to the original group to prove that you could get into the new one,’” Luca said. Luca said the founders of the “dark” group chat demanded that students post provocative memes in the larger messaging group before allowing them to join the splinter group. But some members soon suggested forming “a more R-rated” meme chat, according to Cassandra Luca ’21, who joined the first meme group but not the second, and who also said her offer was not revoked.
Messages shared in the original group were mostly “lighthearted,” wrote Zhang, who said she did not post in the splitoff meme group and that her admission offer was not rescinded. “Someone posted about starting a chat for people who liked memes.” “A lot of students were excited about forming group chats with people who shared similar interests,” Jessica Zhang ’21, an incoming freshman who joined both chats, wrote in an email. Admitted students found and contacted each other using the official Harvard College Class of 2021 Facebook group. The chat grew out of a roughly 100-member messaging group that members of the Class of 2021 set up in early December to share memes about popular culture.
University officials have previously said that Harvard’s decision to rescind a student’s offer is final.Ĭollege spokesperson Rachael Dane wrote in an emailed statement Saturday that “we do not comment publicly on the admissions status of individual applicants.” One called the hypothetical hanging of a Mexican child “piñata time.”Īfter discovering the existence and contents of the chat, Harvard administrators revoked admissions offers to at least ten participants in mid-April, according to several members of the group. Some of the messages joked that abusing children was sexually arousing, while others had punchlines directed at specific ethnic or racial groups. In the group, students sent each other memes and other images mocking sexual assault, the Holocaust, and the deaths of children, according to screenshots of the chat obtained by The Crimson. "When I get messages like 'wow I just went through this' or 'thank you for making us laugh!', it makes my day." At times, the account has also served as a means to help followers get connected with one another for job opportunities.Harvard College rescinded admissions offers to at least ten prospective members of the Class of 2021 after the students traded sexually explicit memes and messages that sometimes targeted minority groups in a private Facebook group chat.Ī handful of admitted students formed the messaging group-titled, at one point, “Harvard memes for horny bourgeois teens”-on Facebook in late December, according to two incoming freshmen. I’ve set up polls to learn more about their experiences," they said and added that it’s always nice to hear from them. "I try to build relationships with my followers. Initially, they believed it’d be just friends and family who might find them funny "but more and more people found it relatable! I’m still amazed that the following grew to 20K+." They revealed that some devoted fans send DMs with their own ideas or personal experiences and then the founder creates jokes based on them. I always thought humor and sarcasm was a good way to relieve some of the stress, so I started making my first memes," they said. "I was starting to get burnt out and needed a way to vent. The founder told Bored Panda they started this account at the beginning of the pandemic. We managed to get in touch with the creator of Corporate Humor who was kind to have a little chat with us.
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