But for now, join me in subtweeting the shit out of this really strange experience that we’re all being subjected to right now.
If you’re a n00b like I am, a subtweet is a subliminal tweet — a tweet that obliquely refers to a person (or a senior society at Yale) without mentioning his name or tagging him in the tweet itself. It’s a way to very conspicuously talk shit about people, to have the sweet pleasure of hoping they read it, but to never actually get in trouble. It takes swag (the kind of swag I like) to subtweet. Hottiez, let’s subtweet togeth.
In light of Tap Week and Senior Societies (how odd it is that these archaic institutions exist, how peculiarly it structures this university’s social life, how strange of a spectacle Tap Night is, how accepted the transgressive nature of it all is — i.e., it’s probably illegal for someone to be “watching you”), I wanna take back Tap Week. I want to take back my voice in this process. I want to hear you take back your voice. I want to read not only some subliminal tweeting, but some subversive tweeting. I want to see you get raucous on your Twitters about Tap Week and Tap Night. (And I also just want to hear what your Tap Night is like, so pls tweet about it.)
Basically, this is a call to arms. Here’s some examples of the sort of tweets I’d like to see:
“Ugh so many body shots happening”
“Blindfold blues — get this shit off my face”
“am i in the trunk of a moving vehicle rite now?”
“I’m supposed to do WHAT on the woman’s table???!?”
“1st time in tomb tonight, declining my tap bc it’s fuckin ugly in here”
Please subtweet! Let’s do this big!