Being known amongst your friends as the Meme Queen is an accolade worthy of inclusion on your LinkedIn profile. But with the anonymity and immediacy of the Internet, jokes have the potential to go from quirky to offensive quicker than you might think. Ten incoming Harvard freshmen learned the hard way that memes can quickly compromise your reputation.

On a 100-member Facebook group called “Harvard memes for horny bourgeois teens,” at least 10 prospective students sent one another horrifying comments, The Harvard Crimson reports. The group with private settings for 2021 graduates wasn't quite private after all — Harvard revoked the students' acceptances after it was brought to their attention that they had mocked victims of sexual assault, made light of the Holocaust, and debased members of certain ethnic groups. The Crimson obtained screenshots of the profane text and images but has not released them.

Students said the private group was born out of the need to prove that Harvard acceptances shouldn't preclude them from having fun. Mic reports that being a "memelord" on campus is synonymous with popularity. To gain access to the Harvard subgroup, members of the main Harvard College Class of 2021 Facebook group had to post a crude meme as a sort of screening process. Fellow students support the administration's decision to rescind the 10 students' acceptances, describing their remarks as "indefensible."

Whether you've just gotten your college acceptance letter or you're just about to enter the workforce, it's in your best interest to be a decent human being on and off the Web. The Internet is enough of a trash fire as it is.

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