Yale Riffs On Harvard By Mocking Facebook

A t-shirt commemorating this year's annual Yale-Harvard game invokes "The Social Network" to crack a joke about Harvard, calling the school "the antisocial network."

Presumably you’ve seen The Social Network and know that Mark Zuckerberg started Facebook while a sophomore at Harvard. Without knowing that you’d never get the punchline of a t-shirt created by Yale’s current freshman class to commemorate the upcoming annual game between the two Ivy League universities.

The t-shirts use Facebook’s color scheme and fonts, albeit mostly in lower case, to jest that Harvard ought to be called the antisocial network. What appears to be the reverse side of the t-shirt says, “because you don’t get to harvard without being a(n) ___.

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