Before and After Dorm Pictures

About

Before and After Dorm Pictures refers to tweets parodying college students who take pictures of their dormitory before and after decorating them. After several posts showing college students extravagantly decorating their dorm rooms went viral in August of 2018, Twitter users began parodying the trend by showing mock "before" and "after" photos of their dorm rooms where the after photos were clearly very fancy bedrooms and not redecorated dorms.

Origin

In August of 2018, several posts grew popular showing teens redecorating their dormitories in extravagant ways. On Twitter, one of the most popular examples was posted by user @Madisyn_Blaine on August 19th, gaining over 7,200 retweets and 48,000 likes (shown below). Teen Vogue published three separate blog posts documenting similar extravagant dorm makeovers.^[2][3][4]

Spread

On August 25th, parodies began appearing on Twitter. Some popular examples include tweets by @tyesheriidan that gained over 100 retweets and 720 likes (shown below, left). User @darkslideee posted a joke as well that day, gaining over 50 retweets and 290 likes (shown below, right).

The spread of the parodies was covered by Twitter Moments^[5] and Mashable.^[6] Other popular examples include a tweet by @lanipastrami that gained over 190 retweets and 1,100 likes (shown below, left). User @tatertotz posted a Club Penguin parody that gained over 250 retweets and 900 likes (shown below, right).

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