UW-Madison students are experiencing a new distraction from homework, lecture and boredom after a Facebook page dedicated to university -related "memes" launched Tuesday, recieving more than 7,000 "likes" within the first 24 hours of its creation.

The campus-wide phenomenon, which displays user-generated witty phrases over a corresponding background image, includes UW-Madison inside jokes such as freshmen drinking too much or people taking the 80 bus route to avoid hiking up Bascom Hill.

"We're really amazed at how fast it took off," said one of the page's creators who preferred to remain anonymous. "There's no way we could have even imagined that within less than 24 hours we'd have six or seven thousand people liking the page."

The co-creator said they made the page after his roommate saw similar pages among other universities and thought, "we could do something like this."

While the co-creator said the memes are intended purely for enjoyment, he said he along with the other creators have had to delete a number of "completely despicable" posts, ranging from racist references to memes that can cause viewers' computer operating systems to crash.