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The before and after dorm meme makes fun of over-the-top makeovers

Dorm before and after posts are every summer's most annoying trend.

Morgan Sung

on August 27, 2018

Seeing excessive dorm room makeovers fills me with a rage I can't quite describe. Thankfully, there's a meme that pokes fun at super extra before and after posts.

Everyone knows that college dorm rooms are sad, barren spaces for nightly existential crises, not glamorous Instagram-friendly #goals photo ops. After all, you'll stay in a room for less than a year. Do you really plan on taking all of these decorations down, put them in storage, and then do the whole thing over again next August?

The wildly extravagant decor doesn't even account for RA inspections! Most college residence halls don't even allow coffee makers, much less fire hazards like curtains and upholstered furniture. It's a housing code violation waiting to happen.

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Texas Tech student @madisyn_blayne posted pictures of her admittedly gorgeous dorm room, which caused a flurry of reactions. She's one of many college students who posted pictures of a revamped room in the past few weeks, so Twitter users started poking fun at the trend.

@lanipastrami, one of the first people to post the meme, compared her room's "makeover" an iconic Vincent Van Gogh painting.

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