SyracuseSnap: Here’s what you missed from the now-banned campus story
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‘Cuse is still at the top of its game.
Even after falling several notches on the party school charts this year.
It didn’t take long for ‘SyracuseSnap’ to go viral on campus and beyond. The new, unofficial Snapchat story may as well have been the X-Rated version of the one we’re used to checking multiple times a day: videos of Otto scootering across the quad were replaced with pictures of topless girls and endless amounts of drugs.
‘SyracuseSnap’ could make Jordan Belfort’s antics seem like elementary school shenanigans.
Notoriety for the story circulated faster than a Gossip Girl post — and soon it wasn’t just Syracuse students jumping on the bandwagon.
Snaps from schools like Pitt, Cornell, and NYU were added to the story, “‘Cuse is lit!” and “wish we went to ‘Cuse!” were among some of the captions featured.
However, even the app once notoriously known for sharing nudes has its standards: by Sunday, Snapchat had the account removed, presumably for failing to comply to their “Community Guidelines,” which prohibit the depiction of illegal substances and pornography.
This forced ‘SyracuseSnaps’ to take flight to Yeti, Snapchat’s more enabling alternative.
In case you missed out, here’s what little your friends at The Tab were able to salvage from the original story…
Even Cornell kids wanted in
The tragic news
What some fellow Yik Yakkers had to say about ‘SyracuseSnaps’
Self-branded as the app for Campus Stories, Yeti undoubtably proves that one app’s trash is another app’s treasure.
It allows users to post whatever they want, regardless of the material. On Yeti, cat fights via video responses are fair game, weeknights are lit, and censorship is anything but existent.
An example of what one might find while tapping through Yeti
What is this, The Bling Ring?
“The SyracuseSnaps story was the epitome of ‘fun at college,'” says Chris, a freshman, in response to the Snaps, “it illustrated the usage of drugs, glorified pornography, and sexual exploits, as well as…the ‘party hard’ attitude.”
Others are (reasonably) concerned that the proliferation of ‘SyracuseSnaps’ and Yeti are making our school seem more like a rap video come to life rather than an accredited institution.
“I understand how like, in college culture drugs, sex, and alcohol are socially acceptable and I’m not gonna pretend that I don’t indulge in the culture, but the stuff on [Snapchat] was really extreme and just made me embarrassed that [this] is what the public is seeing as a representation of us,” says Emma, a student at Newhouse.
As of now, it’s unclear whether this new Campus Story will gain steam as quickly as its Snapchat predecessor. If one thing’s for sure, however, it’s that abominable snowmen leave a hell of a footprint.