How Your Social Media Can Cause You Serious Problems During Rush
38 min
•Apr 25, 2026about 1 month agoSummary
This episode of Dirty Rush explores how sorority social media guidelines and monitoring practices impact recruitment and member conduct. Through interviews with college students from various universities, the hosts discuss the unwritten rules around posting alcohol, bikini photos, and other content, as well as the enforcement mechanisms sororities use to maintain their public image.
Insights
- Sorority social media enforcement varies significantly by house and leadership, with some exec members using moderation as a power tool rather than genuine policy enforcement
- Pre-rush social media curation is a widespread practice among prospective members, driven by rumors and peer pressure rather than official guidelines
- The evolution of social media platforms (Instagram Stories, TikTok, Snapchat) has exponentially increased the difficulty of controlling sorority image and member behavior
- Enforcement mechanisms like 'purple heart' emoji warnings and DMs create informal accountability systems that lack transparency and consistency
- Sorority social media policies often focus on appearance management over member safety, leading to absurd enforcement scenarios (e.g., profanity in background music)
Trends
Increasing sophistication of sorority social media management with dedicated roles and recruitment-focused content strategiesGrowing tension between member privacy/autonomy and institutional image control in Greek life organizationsSocial media literacy becoming a prerequisite for college recruitment, with platforms like TikTok and Instagram Stories creating new compliance challengesShift from formal written policies to informal enforcement through exec member discretion and subjective judgmentRecruitment videos and sorority Instagram followings becoming primary decision factors for prospective members choosing housesPrivate Facebook groups emerging as workaround communication channels to avoid institutional monitoringGenerational differences in social media attitudes, with younger members less concerned about alcohol/bikini photos than older exec membersProfessionalization of sorority social media management creating new career-like roles within Greek organizations
Topics
Sorority social media policies and enforcement mechanismsPre-rush social media curation and reputation managementRecruitment process and social media influence on house selectionAlcohol and underage drinking documentation on social mediaBikini photos and body image standards in Greek lifeInstagram Stories and Snapchat compliance challengesExecutive board power dynamics and selective enforcementPrivate Facebook groups for covert communicationRecruitment videos and TikTok content strategyStandards committees and disciplinary processesFormal events and music content moderationInfluencer culture within sororitiesCross-sorority social media stalking during recruitmentPhoto tagging and indirect accountabilityHouse mom policies and generational differences
Companies
Instagram
Primary platform discussed for sorority social media monitoring, posting guidelines, and enforcement of content policies
Snapchat
Used by members for sharing content with less permanence; mentioned as platform where violations occur and get reported
TikTok
Emerging platform creating new compliance challenges for sororities; members post recruitment content and day-in-life...
Facebook
Used for private group communication to coordinate sorority events while avoiding institutional monitoring and detection
People
Daisy Kent
Host of the episode who attended SDSU and was in Alpha Phi; guides discussions with callers about sorority social media
Kendall
University of Arizona student who cleaned up social media before rush and was sent to standards multiple times for vi...
Savannah
Texas college student who removed photos with sorority members before rush; experienced strict enforcement of Styrofo...
Emma
Colorado college student who was unaware of social media cleanup expectations; experienced accidental crotch photo in...
Greta
Emma's friend who managed sorority Instagram and accidentally posted inappropriate bikini photo of Emma and friend du...
Zoey
Los Angeles college student who participated in secret crush date party pregame that was shut down after friend poste...
McKenna
Sorority member who later became social media manager; received NOP (not our pillars) DM for wine tasting photo as fr...
Lauren
Sorority member whose friend posted formal day-in-life TikTok; all 20 girls called to standards for background music ...
Quotes
"if you posted something that like violated the guidelines, they would call it a purple heart, anyone on exec would, and then you would have to just take it down"
Daisy Kent•Early in episode
"I made sure I deleted all the alcohol photos I have. And I remember even though it was University of Arizona, I took off like bikini photos, I archived them"
Kendall•Mid-episode
"the number one rule was always that you can't post anything on social media. Yeah, because then we could seriously get busted and then it would all go away"
Zoey•Mid-episode
"she was on some sort of power trip. But anyways, one of my friends like would make tech talks all the time and she did this video that was like a day in my life for sorority formal"
Lauren•Late episode
"it's because the background music in the video, like the music that they were playing at formal in the background in the video had profanity. And we were like, that's it. You played that music at your own formal"
Lauren•Late episode
Full Transcript
Welcome to Dirty Rush, the truth about sorority life. With your hosts, me, GiaJudice, Daisy Kent, and Jennifer Fessler. Welcome back to another episode of Dirty Rush. I'm your host, Daisy Kent. Today I'm here by myself, but we're gonna have callers calling in and we're gonna unveil the secret rules of sorority girls' social media. We are talking to our guests about what got them in trouble on their social media and how they knew let's get into it. So I actually went to SDSU as if you listened in before, you probably know that, but I never got in trouble for posting anything I don't think, but I remember when I was in Alpha Phi at San Diego State, if you posted something that like violated the guidelines, they would call it a purple heart, anyone on exec would, and then you would have to just take it down. So a lot of times it was like alcohol, or if it was like a scandalous bikini pic, but usually it wasn't anything bad. I don't think anything like super bad happened when I was in my sorority. I know though, during recruitment before, we would always go and look at the girls that were coming in and see who was coming in and like kind of stalk them, honestly, and figure out how much we could know about them. So it's definitely, I can't imagine, I mean, I was a freshman and that's crazy, in 2017, so like nine years ago, so I can't imagine now how much people probably look at your social media and stuff, because it was so present when I was even a freshman, but now like TikTok wasn't a thing then. So there's TikTok and that is, you can see so much about a person on that. So let's get into it and we'll get some guests on and see their experience. So our first guest we have on is Kendall. Hey, Kendall. Hi, Daisy, how are you? I'm doing great, how are you doing? Good, thanks for coming on today. Yes, I'm excited to talk about this because I did a lot of prep going into college, all my social media. You did, for like getting into sorority? Yeah, I went to the University of Arizona. Okay, that one's pretty intense, I've heard. Yeah, did you rush before you went into syllabus week, like before freshman year started? No, ours was like, I think like two weeks into it. I think it was like halfway through September, we rushed and then we got our bids end of September, I believe. Oh wow, okay, ours was kind of similar. It was before we started classes. So I was told that I really had to like, everyone was supposed to kind of clean up their social media before rush because in the summertime, like girls will start to look at future prospects, Instagrams. Yeah. And so I made sure I deleted all the alcohol photos I have. And I remember even though it was University of Arizona, I took off like bikini photos, I archived them. And I even made like a bio and I just really wanted my feed to look good and I was posting more because I wanted to make sure I was like being active and I was kind of a little overboard on it, but then I was told on the other side of Rush once I was in a sorority that you're actually supposed to look at girls' Instagrams and stalk them. Did you do that when you were on the other side of recruitment? Yeah, we definitely would and like see who was coming in even if it wasn't. I remember me and my friends, like especially the first day after Rush, I remember going and like looking up everybody I talked to and just trying to like catch their vibe too. Cause you only get to talk to them for like what? Like 10 minutes maybe? Right. But I remember doing that. And then before I remember when we got some of the list we like looked at which like, I know you're not supposed to do that, but it definitely is like a thing. It is a thing. And I also feel like maybe because I wasn't like Panhellenic or president or something, but I never judged if someone had a red solo cup or a bikini photo, but you're- Oh no, for sure. For me, I would be like, oh, like they like to have fun. Exactly. They can have fun other ways, but like, I don't know. But I think a lot of it has to do with the sorority, like keeping like a good image. I have no idea. That's true. Did you ever post anything in college that you had to take down? Yeah. I mean, I would, we would always like be extra and Photoshop if there was like a wine bottle on the table behind us. Yeah. But there were a lot of times where it was an Instagram story and we would get tagged and things and obviously want to repost it. So like not much you can do. I think I got sent to standards maybe like three times. Right? Were you scared the first time? No, because I'm like, this is so dumb. And it's- Yeah. You know, I was studying abroad when this happened. And I'm not even like in the house and I'm- OK, if you're studying abroad, there should be like an exception. Right? Yeah. Because you can like drink in most places when you're like 18, right? Yeah. I know. That's so crazy. I know. It's so crazy. But I know nowadays social media is a lot, you know, more involved in people's lives than it was when I was in college. But yeah, that was my experience. Did you know like who you wanted, like what house you wanted to be in before you did it? Yeah. I don't know if that's like a good thing or bad thing, but there was definitely like three houses. I mean, I feel like everyone's this way. Three houses that I was like, I have to be in. I want to be in so bad. Yeah. And it worked out, but I got lucky. When you got sent to Sanders, was there like any punishment or anything you got? They claimed I couldn't go to like the next date dash, but I think they forgot because I did go to the next date dash. That's good. That seems like a drastic punishment. I know. But also, I don't know about you, but our date dashes weren't actually that fun. Oh, ours were so fun. I'm jealous. Mine was not. And then I remember sometimes if people got sent to standards, they would make them be like sober sisters so like they couldn't drink at it. What? Yeah. When did they actually follow through with that? I think most people did for like the date dash because I think they were kind of like so scared about what would happen if they didn't. But then after that, everyone will go out to like the parties and stuff. And I feel like before date dashes is when people usually got in trouble for social media because they were like posting the pre games and there was alcohol involved and that was a no no. Yeah, for sure. What a time. I'm back in college. What a time. I would do anything to be back. Right. Well, thank you so much for coming on. Of course. Thanks, Daisy. OK, guys, I have Savannah on now. Hey, Savannah. Hi. So where did you go to school? I went to school in Texas, which was really fun. I loved Texas. It was a big like change of scene for me being from California. I feel like they definitely do things differently in Texas. But really fun for your experience. Yeah. Did you have a going into like recruitment? Did you have like, did you go through social media and like take anything off? Or did you know a lot about rush? I mean, I feel like you always hear like some people are super stressed about it and they're telling you to do like a million things. And then you hear like the people that are like, wait, you don't need to like touch your social media. Yeah, I feel like my social media was always very clean just because I like cared about like farther from like recruitment. Just like, yeah, good reputation. But I remember I had a photo with one of my friends who was a year older and was in the sorority I wanted to go. And my mom was like, you have to remove that or the other sororities are going to drop you. And she probably was right because. Oh, that is smart. Yeah, like if I was like another sorority, I'd be like, well, obviously she's going to go this one because she has photos with a girl who's literally like on the recruitment team. So I remember I had to take that one down. That was like the only kind of like cleaning up I did. I know there's like a lot of discuss between like going private or public though on your social media. There is. I feel like I haven't heard that. What have you heard about that? I just feel like some people were like, it's better to be private because then if they request you, that means like they're like interested. Oh, they like want you. Yeah. But then I also heard that like if you're public, then it like gives them like the optional like stalk you. But then like some people are like, that's why you should stay private. I feel like that was like an interesting thing I thought about. Yeah, it's like, do you want to say like mysterious or not? Yeah, I don't know. Like I still don't know the right answer. And then how about when you were in your sorority? Was there any guidelines to what you could post and not post? For us, it was just like, obviously, if you're under 21, no alcohol, like period. And then if you were like of the age of 21, they just wanted you to be like posting like classy, like nothing like unclassy, but you could like post technically. What would they do if like you had to take it down like mine? They would comment a purple heart emoji like someone on exec would. That's so interesting. How about you? Like, was there anything? They just would DM you and like be like take it down. And like, I feel like some girls like you always like the exact picking was like sometimes it would be like such like chill girls who were like your friends and like they don't really care. And then sometimes I just feel like girls on exec. It was like some of them, not everyone, like kind of a power trip. So they would like use it to like. Yeah. And they just want to like boss people. Yeah, boss you around. And I remember when I was on recruitment team, they like literally were making the I remember I posted a photo and it was like a Styrofoam cup and it had like the cutest little like logo on it. It was like pink and purple. Like it could have been water. It probably wasn't water, but it could have been water. And they're like just needs to come down right now. Like super upset about it. And I'm like, it's a white Styrofoam cup. Like it's not even clear. And so sometimes I just felt like it was like a lot, but yeah, I get it. I get it being on like the other side. Yeah. Oh, that's for sure. Do you think like looking at social media when you went into college, did you look at the different sororities at your school once you knew what school you were going to? Yeah, I think I followed them all. Even like the ones I didn't have interest in because like, I think I just heard that you were supposed to because you didn't want to like not follow the ones you were interested in. I feel like that's just a bad look across the board. Did you end up going in the one that your friend was in? Yeah, I did. But it's still good. I took down the photo. It makes sense. Oh, yeah. No, but I was open. I was open, but it was like good to like have it removed so that there was like no issues with it. Yeah. Did you ever get in trouble or sent to the standards or anything? Never got sent to standards. Thank goodness. But yeah, we got in trouble for like weird stuff. I remember like when I lived in the house, there was like a study room and we got all these like Dispo photos from someone's camera and she like had a bunch printed. So we're like, let's hang them in the study room. Like they were all like at the ball games, like very mellow. And we literally all got like a talking to because there was again Styrofoam cups, which I was like, it was just like. So Styrofoam cups. And it was like clear cups. Like, of course, if it's like from the style. Yes, literally. And I'm like, of course, if like there's a logo on a can, like we would not put that up in the house. But like it was like clear cups that were probably water. Like we were like, but no, we were in a lot of trouble for that. And like, I'm trying to think of the other time I got in trouble. Oh, we like we were at a birthday dinner and it was like one of those dinners. We have to like hit a minimum. Yeah. They like got a bottle because they had to hit like two grand at this dinner. And we like walked into the house with it. And we were like eating cake. Like no one was drinking. The bottle was sealed shut. And like we all like people, I think got AVs. Like we are like kind of like RA person walked in and like was like, you guys are drinking and the bottle was not open. But we actually haven't opened it. It's just so calm and just eating cake. But thank you for ruining that. I know it is. I can't even imagine like now how much like they dig into people's social media. Is it just getting bigger and bigger? Yeah, even with like followers and stuff too. Like I feel like the scale of like people having followers now to like when I was in like starting college is like way like bigger. You know what I mean? Yeah. And I feel like when I was going through recruitment, like every sort of had a social media, but it was very like mellow. But now like 40s at my school, like is that a like influencers and like they have this huge following. And I'm like, I wonder if that like switches people's perspective on wanting to go that sorority based on like the social media following of the Instagram, which is so interesting. It is like all the recruitment videos are such a big thing now. Yeah, like watching them and all the dances and everything. Yes. I'm like, I would be the one in the back like holding the poster. Exactly. Exactly. Just waving the arms back and forth. Yeah. Yeah. Well, thank you so much for coming on today. Of course. Thanks for having me. Have a great rest of your day. Thank you. All right. Our next caller we have is Emma. Hey, Emma. Hi, Daisy. How are you? I am doing great. How are you doing? Good. I'm so happy to be here. I have some funny stories from social media because I felt like it was very relaxed in my sorority. Oh, I love that. Also going into my sorority, I didn't even know that like cleaning up your social media was a thing. I already I had like a very clean feed anyways, but like I was definitely a bikini girl. I was like the same way. I also like I had no idea really what a sorority was. I'm like maybe because I'm from like the middle of nowhere, Minnesota, but I had no idea my roommate made me sign up. And then I remember going into the first house and everyone was dancing and saying I was like, what? Yeah, I didn't know that like I like looked at the sororities, Instagrams. And I was like, oh, this is so intimidating. But I didn't do it. I didn't follow any of them. I didn't know what any of them meant. I knew that I like wanted to go a certain direction because I knew someone in the sorority. Yeah. But I definitely didn't clean mine up. And I think that girls are now posts. I think bikini pictures are completely fine. I mean, I loved a good bikini picture because I was from California. Where did you go to school? I went to school in Colorado. Oh, cool. And weirdly enough, you know, there's no beaches there, but everyone was always in a bikini on their Instagram. Yeah. I feel like in college, everyone's in a bikini, like no matter where you are. Yeah. Our formals. You see in a bikini. You wear bikinis. Yeah. Where would you go for formals? We would go to Aspen. Oh, fun. And so like our sorority Instagram was like, yay, our sisters are had formals. And it's like us in bikinis. So I always thought the bikini thing was just silly. Oh my gosh. Who ran our socials, which was actually my really good friend Greta. Okay. She was the one posting. She was the one commenting on people's pictures, selecting like the sorority spotlight. And so she was in full control of the Instagram. For our spring break, we went to Jamaica and took lots of bikini pictures. That's like a random spot. I feel like to go on college spring break. I know, but it was so much fun. Okay. That's great. I mean, I'm sure it would be a time. It was, it was the best. It was kind of like staying in Mexico, but it was like completely different vibe. Not a lot of people there. So it was like our group of 20 went there. That's so cool. Rented a boat, lots of bikini pictures. And so fast forward. She, my friend Greta is browsing. She always makes people like send in pictures. I didn't send in any picture to be featured on the Instagram, but I was at home and Greta posted a picture of me and my good friend. And our entire crotch was out in our bikini. Missing our sisters. Hope everyone's having a good spring. And I chatted lit up and they're like, Oh my God, Greta, what the fuck is wrong with you? Why don't you just post their crotches on Instagram? And she was the sweetest girl ever. She's like, Oh my God, I didn't even notice. Like I kid you not. Like, Oh my God, were you like so upset? It was hilarious. I mean, we're like, Greta, can you take it down? I mean, it's just like all girls that follow the Instagram. So it's fine. But I are sorority truly. I don't think really cared about social media. It was just like more chill that way. Yeah. I don't I don't think I was ever no one ever commented on my Instagram. Our code word was bibs. Bring it back, sis. Bibs. Wait, that's kind of cute. Yeah. I didn't have any friend like no one cared at all. That's why I didn't know that like cleaning up your social media was a thing. And now I'm seeing all these things were like young rushies. Yeah, I never had anything like bad on my social media. They're like, I know alcohol either because my mom was always like telling me not to post that stuff. But it was interesting like getting into college because I feel right when I got into college, it was like the era where like social media like really started like having a really big presence. And people were like using it for like jobs and like their life. Yeah, like like actually making money off of social media. Yeah, it's like crazy to even where we're at now. Like people making social media on it like to see in like the next 10 years how much it evolves. Well, like what if you're one of those really cool people that don't have social media? Right. Only a cool person, but they like only keep track of people with social media. I guess then they would be way too cool for the sorority. But like, yeah, it's interesting how it's kind of it's kind of like having a like 10. Yeah, yeah, for sure. Well, thank you so much for coming on. Yeah, of course. Hi, Daisy. Hi, thank you for coming on, Zo. Hi, I'm Zoey. And I went to school in a big school in Los Angeles. And our sorority, we had a really young house mom. And so sometimes she let things fly that maybe wouldn't fly in other houses. And I love that. How old was she about? She was 25. Like she had graduated college and then was our was our house mom. So like had to have been like 50, 50, that wish. Oh my gosh. OK, so that was normal. And that was like every other house on the row. But so she would let something slide in the house like certain pre games before events. And whatever. But the number one rule was always that you can't post anything on social media. Yeah, because then we could seriously get busted and then it would all go away. Yeah. And I remember that we had a tradition of every year before our we called it crush or crush date party. It like went around Valentine's Day. And it was basically where each girl would invite their crush. They had put down on a list like a range of like three different crushes and their phone numbers and then our social chair would then reach out to them. And so and they would go to the venue separately from the girls. And so all the girls would choke together and then all the crushes would show up at the venue together. Oh, that's fun. And so girls would really want to get get some liquid courage in themselves before showing up to the venue. And so every year we would they know who it was going to be before they showed up. No, you didn't know. What if like we wanted the same guy, though? And then like I showed up with him, but then they actually paired me with a different guy. Ever happen? Yes, that would happen. And it would be like if Daisy, you were older than me, you would be like higher up on the list. And then I think it would be like an alphabetical thing. So two girls wouldn't be inviting the same guy. Each girl got their own or date. Each girl got their own crush to go. So you didn't know exactly unless they had told you. You didn't know if it was you that invited them or not. And everything was like a secret. It wasn't a public sheet. So all to stay, we would do a pregame at our sorority house prior to the date party. OK. And the number one rule was that we all nobody could post or take a single video at this pregame or else it would all go away. And we would girls would get very drunk. And they we would make like this jungle juice at the house. Jungle juice. So fun for everyone to do. But there was the way that we would coordinate this because we also didn't like want a paper trail as we had this private Facebook group and like no uses Facebook anymore, I feel like. And we would have this private Facebook group where everybody would like discuss the details of the pregame that was happening because it couldn't be on like our sorority chat. Yeah. And then I remember I was a junior and we had had like three years of this going on where no one had found out girls and other sororities didn't find out because if they saw something on social media that this was going down, they would report it to their house moms or whatever and be like, why can't we do this? Yeah. So and it was also only girls in the sorority were allowed. Like even if even if your date going to the day party was a girl, she could not be allowed to come. And I remember one year, one of my best friends got really drunk and ended up posting something to not just like her Snapchat private story, but her Instagram story. And it was a video of the pregame going on and she was like, I love these ladies. They're my sisters, like something like that. And that probably got sent around so fast. Oh my gosh. So fast. Especially it's on your public Instagram story. And it was flagged pretty instantly by our exec because there are members of exec that like weren't allowed to go to the party because they had to make sure like everyone's going to stay safe and get on the buses. Okay. And whatever. And she not only was like in so much trouble internally with the sorority, but it was also just like so much shame because this was like a sacred pregame that nobody could know about. And it was like one of my good friends and she like it ended up the next year we like were able to do it because it was just too risky. And it was honestly too risky regardless. But yeah, she'll forever go down as the one who the one who crushed the crush pregame. Oh, that's such a bummer. It's like fun to doing something like that. Yeah. I mean, it was the memories were those of us that had memories of the night. Yeah. So much fun. But it was something we just knew was bound to with social media. It's yeah. It's like well, it lasted. Yeah. It was fun. Well, it lasted. But no, we weren't able to do it senior year because yeah, she kind of ruined it for the rest of us, but it was kind of bound to happen. Did you before you went into school, did you like clean up your social media at all or anything or was it just like you didn't even like think about it kind of or didn't have anything to clean up? I definitely remember like really like, well, I guess I don't really have that much alcohol in my senior year of high school. But if I had a red solo cup and something or whatever, I would make sure that I that I took that out. I remember trying to post more just like good photos of myself and make myself look fun and bubbly and pretty and like, like I have a lot of friends and whatever. Because I think yeah. And you think of the way you're like, does this really matter? Okay, I'll just do it just just to be safe. And then you do kind of realize when you're on the other end of it and rush that people do look at that. Yeah. But you can't if you're private, maybe I did go public before rush because if you're private, then no one could see anything that you have on there. I feel like I shaped up my Instagram to more like for other girls who were going to be in my, you know, just like going into college. You wanted, you know, that's like someone's first impression of you a little bit before you meet them at school. Yeah. So and I felt like everyone was following each other once you knew that you got in and you're posted on like the like a minute sure accounts or whatever. I remember even like posting in like a Facebook like yeah, when I was like trying to find my roommate and I knew you'd like post like a few pictures of you or you like looking for a roommate. Yeah, I remember that so well. Think about thinking as I ended up with my roommate and she's like right now my best friend like forever. Did you find her on Facebook? Yeah, we found each other on Facebook. Okay, me too. I found and we're best friends still, but that's I do think there's something to the Facebook groups. Like, right? You find like usually that doesn't happen. Like usually I think I'm the only one out of like my whole entire friend group who ended up being like best friends with their roommate. We're like a friend group, but we were still using stuff too. But yeah, I do feel like that's pretty rare, but it's so special. Is she going to be, is she going to be in your wedding? Yeah, she's made of honors. I have four made of honors, but she's one of them. Oh my gosh, you have four? Yeah, I was like, that's awesome. It's my wedding. I want to do whatever I want to do. I love it. Oh my gosh, that's so great. Well, thank you so much for coming on. Thank you. Thank you so much for having me, Daisy. Okay guys, we have our next caller in. This is McKenna. Hey McKenna, thanks for coming on. How are you? I'm doing so good. How are you? I'm good. Okay, so today we're talking about like social media guidelines for sororities. Let's start off with, did you ever go like before you went into a sorority? Did you look at their Instagram and did you like clean yours up or anything? Oh my gosh, I stalked all of the Instagrams of sororities before and I made sure to follow all of them because I heard all of this stuff beforehand about they'll see in your following if you don't follow the ones and then that'll give you a bad look. And so I made sure to follow like everyone and I was always liking all of the posts before. That's like such a true thing. Like when I was going and like talking to a girl, always thought that if I liked it, they're going to notice that I liked it and then they're going to know. That's so funny, but like so real. And then did you get once you got in a sorority, did you ever get in trouble for posting anything? Okay, so I didn't get in trouble with what my friends did. It was freshman year and it was one of my friends. We were all in the same sorority and we went my friend's birthdays and we went wine tasting and it was freshman year. So we were not 21 yet, but it was right around when we thought that like wine glasses were so aesthetic and cute. Also, that's like so fun. Honestly, there's something about being like right about to turn 21 and just like holding the wine glass. And it's like even in any of the pictures, it's like the tiniest pour ever because it's a tasting obviously. But I remember we all like I posted something and I didn't tag where we were at, but then a few of my friends like tagged like blank winery and then they got a DM from the Instagram saying N O P in all caps like not, which I didn't like know any of, I think that there was some sort of like training I was supposed to do to know what that acronym. Not meant. I had no idea what it meant. I thought that they were like spelling nope wrong. And so I was just like, they don't even know it. It's like nope. Take it down. Maybe it could have been that. Was it always your sorority that would DM you or would it ever be that girls on exec that would like comment or DM you about it? So it was the, I always thought I ended up being the manager of our social media later on, which is like funny, but I always thought that it was the VP of marketing and PR that said it through the account. Actually, it was for us. It was the VP of standards. And so that member of it would go in and then basically anything that had anything they deemed like not our pillars, it would be like, so now. That's funny. And then when you, because you said you knew a lot about sororities and stuff before you went through recruitment and we're like looking at all their Instagrams, did the Instagrams and social media influence what house you wanted to be in? I had a really like set mindset going in because one of my like best friends from home was a year above me was in a certain one. And so it makes sense. Really open mind, but I always sort of knew I was going to go there, but definitely looking around the Instagrams and honestly, like seeing all the comments, like that really piqued my interest to like see which ones had people actually interested. Like the members actually commenting and like seeming like they had a lot of fun and like a big community. So that made me want to join one of over another just to make it seem like they really had like a tight knit group that actually hung out and liked each other and stuff like that. I will tell you, there is nothing like I remember when I got to college and I joined my sorority and like the first pick I threw up like that's probably the most comments on an Instagram post I had ever got in my life. It was like crazy. Like my ad to be skyrocketing. The first time I got posted on the like social media, the sorority social media, I was like, star struck. I was like, no way. They put this account. It's so funny. It's such a fun thing though, honestly, but it's crazy to think about now. Like we have like social media and it like impact so much and like even back to when like our parents were in school, like it didn't play an aspect of it. So that's so interesting to think about. You know, I met my roommate on social media before she DM'd me and now we've been roommates. Yeah. Do you think your sorority was like more strict than other sororities or like the same? No, I feel like it was less strict. For me, at least, I mean, maybe I played a role into that because when I was on that, like when I was in charge of it, I didn't really care. I didn't want to relax. People would post to a photo circle type thing to get posted on the Instagram. And if it was honestly crazy, like some of the freshmen would post pictures from like frat parties on it with drinks in their hand and expect that to get posted on like our official account. And I was, I would see that and I'd be like, what are you like, what are you thinking? I can't post this. You're 18, you know, I would never say anything to them. Yeah. Well, thank you so much for coming on McKenna. Yeah, thank you. Have a good rest of your day. Hey, you too. Bye. We now have Lauren on. Hey, Lauren. Hi, Daisy. How are you? I'm doing great. How are you doing? Good. I have a story about social media. Oh, I can't wait to hear what you're talking all about social media today. So all of you, I'm going to go ahead and say, hey, how are you doing? I'm doing great. I'm doing great. I'm doing great. I'm doing great. Great. Great. Great. Great. Great. Great. Great. Great. Great. Great. Great. Great. Great. Great. Great. Great. Great. Great. Great. Great. Great. Great. Great. Great. Great. stuff, if you posted something, they'd leave like a purple heart and they'd just be like, that's how you knew to delete it, or they'd swipe up on an Instagram story. And girls were always trying to test the limits and like put an emoji over a red solo cup or Photoshop it out and sometimes they'd catch it, sometimes they wouldn't. Like it felt like it was pretty standard. But one year when we went through our elections and like got all the new people on exec and got a new social media manager, there was just one girl that came in and it sucks because she ran the Instagram really well, it looked stunning, but she was so strict about getting people in trouble and it's like she wanted to get people in trouble. It was just strange, she was on some sort of power trip. But anyways, one of my friends like would make tech talks all the time and she did this video that was like a day in my life for sorority formal. So she like took you throughout her whole entire day and then there was a bunch of clips of a group of us at formal and because we were at our sororities formal, there were like 20 girls from my sorority in this video. And she was really careful not to put alcohol on or anything because she was like really trying to be an influencer. Like she took these videos really seriously so she didn't want to take it down and she had a lot of followers. And so anyways, she throws up the video. The next day we're at chapter and the social media manager gives us her update and the meeting and starts going on this tangent about how she keeps busting all of these girls who are posting alcohol and like just being really aggro about it and quite frankly just rude to everybody and everybody's kind of like what's going on. But then the next or that afternoon, I guess like right before chapter, she had commented a purple heart on the video that my friend threw up that I like put up there that I was talking about. And we watched it over and over just being like, why would she put this on there? She knew alcohol. We couldn't figure out what was wrong with it. And so she just decided to ignore it. She was like this must have been a mistake. Then all 20 of us girls or however many it was got called into standards and nobody knew why we're so confused. We get there and they're like it's because or before they were like it's because of this video and we're like what is wrong with this video? We still couldn't figure it out. I feel like that's a thing like standard does like sometimes you don't know why you're getting called in, but you get called in. It's so drama. Like they just want to scare you. So anyways, we get in there and they told us that it was because the background music in the video, like the music that they were playing at formal in the background in the video had profanity. And we were like, that's it. You played that music at your own formal. Yeah, like you guys were in charge of playing the music. It was so stupid and they tried to argue it, but since we had so many people, we were kind of able to argue our case back and just be like you guys were the ones playing the music. And there was this whole drama and all these calls and texts to figure out who had ox at the party and who was playing the profanity. As absurd. And then we got profanity banned from our formals. So we couldn't post it on social media like we had. So all of the songs had to be the clean version. It's like so ridiculous. That's so funny. Like I was in college. So literally last night me and Thor were looking through like DJs and bands that are wedding planners at us. And we really, really loved one of the bands. But they wouldn't swear anytime they would say something else or just like pause and like keep going. You know how they like do on the radio. Yeah. I was like, I like love them. I think they're great or whatever in Thor goes. I do. But can we make sure they like actually swear? I was like, no, so true. It's just crazy that it was such a big deal because like I don't think swearing is a big deal. We're big kids. Yeah. So then did you guys end up? Did you end up getting like a punishment or no? Thank God we didn't. But I guess the punishment was like taking away profanity from our music that we would play at Formals, which is like kind of lame, but it's not an actual punishment. It just the whole thing was very drawn out and dramatic for I think zero reason. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. Well, thank you so much for coming on. Of course. Thanks for having me. Okay. Thanks for tuning in to Dirty Rush. We hope you enjoyed this episode. The next episode we will be talking more about social media presence online and more all about Rush. So tune back in. This is an I Heart podcast. Guaranteed human.