9/26/2023 0 Comments Mounty meme![]() “I think I just want more people to know what historically women’s colleges offer,” she said. One of Estrera’s goals for historicallywomens.c0m became connecting the students of these schools, both current and prospective, starting with the Seven Sisters. “I feel like if I had a place where you could talk to current students or alums or even other prospies, and everyone’s really candid, … that probably would have really helped my decision-making at the time,” she added.Īcross the United States, there are currently 33 colleges open specifically to women. It made me so scared just to go to college in general,” she said. “The only thing I had at the time … was College Confidential which - I don’t know if you guys have ever been on that crazy website - but it’s really cutthroat on there. The page has since branched out into a community support system for current and prospective HWC students. While applying to colleges in 2015, Estrera wished she had more friendly online spaces to turn to. “So I just made everyone think I was still a student. That’d be so embarrassing, if my memes were like, really stale,” she said, laughing. “I don’t want to be a graduate and then have people, like, call me a boomer. “That’s also part of why I didn’t ever release my identity,” she added. She kept the page operational without divulging her personal information, and one year later, Estrera graduated from Mount Holyoke. That’s why Smith gets all the good stuff.’” “People would be like, ‘Oh, she obviously goes to Wellesley,’ or like, ‘She obviously goes to Smith. “Part of the reason why I was anonymous in the first place was because I was making all the memes,” Estrera explained. The page’s follower base was small, which meant that there wasn’t a lot of pressure to keep up with messages or submissions from fans. At first, she made all of the page’s content by hand and posted without a set schedule. So I was like, ‘Let me make this Instagram account.’”Įstrera launched the account in 2017 during her junior year at Mount Holyoke. Or maybe it’s not going to be dispersed, even if someone is making it. But when you go to school with like 1,000 people, maybe you’re not going to. “If you go to a school in Texas with like 50,000 people, then yeah, someone’s gonna be pumping out content, and it’s gonna be funny. ![]() “I feel like there’s like Seven Sisters content there as well, but people weren’t really making memes of it,” she said. She saw online memes about the bigger universities that her friends attended, but no one from her home understood or discussed historically women’s colleges. “Where I come from in Texas, there’s a lot of football culture and school rivalry,” Estrera said. Three years later, she launched historicallywomens.c0m on Instagram to share memes she made about her student experience. “I really wished that I had a space where I could learn about the different schools and their different cultures,” she explained. ![]() Mary Estrera ’19 first thought that historically women’s colleges needed a better social media presence while applying to colleges her senior year of high school. She continued, “There’s something exciting about posting anonymously.”īut as the academic year comes to a close and her younger sister prepares to graduate from Smith, the Mount Holyoke alum behind the viral online meme page is ready to open up about the community she created and her role behind it. Though everyone knows I came from only one institution, the mystery surrounding ‘which one?’ sort of validates my content.” In a Smith Sophian article about the infamous “Little Women” meme from May 2020, the creator said, “While I try to stay neutral, I do have this wealth of knowledge about my own institution and mostly run off of hearsay for other schools. She reaffirmed that she was a student at a Seven Sisters college, but refused to say which. The creator pledged to remain anonymous so that followers wouldn’t think the content was biased. The account went from 1,000 to over 10,000 followers in a matter of days, and suddenly it was home to a new, younger community of current students at historically women’s colleges throughout the country. What ensued was thousands of comments and reposts, a weekslong feud between college students about whether or not Barnard was truly Amy and an explosion of popularity for the Instagram page. ![]() The page’s acclaim began after the 2019 premiere of Greta Gerwig’s “Little Women,” when historicallywomens.c0m posted a package of memes tagging each of the Seven Sisters as its characters. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF & MANAGING EDITOR OF CONTENTįor years, anyone who asked who was behind the historicallywomens.c0m Instagram page got the same answer: “One singular girl from a Seven Sisters college who likes memes.” It came up a lot, so much so that it’s still the first question listed on the FAQ of the self-described “premiere women’s college meme page.”
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