Bama Rush

I'm not going to lie.

Please tell me, you know, Bama rush.

Okay.

So I am unfortunately notoriously online as well.

And I feel like if we're going to get this type of cultural reformatting, that's where it's going to start.

And then I think it extends to Greek life and some of these other things.

And it'll be interesting because you just don't see that at Big Ten schools, like imagining Bama Rush at ohio state like just i can't it does not compute no but it does feel like indiana as one of the southernmost schools in the big 10 might have a shot at developing it a little bit especially since you're going to be drawing off a lot of football hungry populations from a student perspective and it looks like a fun place to go to school and it is

It is.

Are you ready for some chaotic questions? I'm ready.

So, what was the most ridiculous thing someone said to you during Bama Rush season?

Oh my gosh.

I think I was asking a girl a question like in the house and I was asking her like, do you have any questions for us? And she said, yes.

right now? Yeah, but I did because I did like

her.

Did being called the Queen of Bama Rush ever feel overwhelming? I loved it.

I loved it.

It was pretty amazing.

And just the hype around Bama Rush and Rush TikTok and sorority life.

It really blew up overnight, I feel.

And to now see it, but also at the same time going to Alabama.

Bama it was it probably all was just a a whole load of emotions.

Yeah, I feel like I'm, like, leaving a piece of me behind.

I loved being the sorority girl that was so involved with Bama Rush.

I've got a very dorky theater side to me, so then being able to bring that out and do all the costumes and do all the, like, the preparations with the videos and the themes and stuff like that, me and my mother loved, like...

Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, I, I know a lot of people, especially from Bama Rush, know Kylan Darnell, and she's awesome.

Her and, she just recently graduated the University of Bama, but her sister's still a student there.

What? Wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Oh

... because that's gotten crazy.

So Bama Rush, right? So we have different girls in these videos.

There are, I'm seeing Hermès sandals for $900.

All I could do was watch TikTok.

I became obsessed with Bama Rush.

And so I'm like, "Huh, I need to kinda figure out how I could be on TikTok." So in September, we posted.

By December 24th of 2022, we had a whopping 68 followers.

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Oreo also is in the comment section of like every video.

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Okay, so there are so many reasons for this.

And if you guys have come across this content, I am sure you clocked it.

And at Penn, you rush in the spring, which means that you – I like it because it means that you, like, have a chance to kind of get to know people and get to know if you want to be Greek and if you want to be in a sorority, and if so, like, where you kind of vibe or whatever.

And but – I say this also as Bama Rush is in full swing as is other

rushes too, but like Bama Rush is all over my TikTok.

But like I in my mind was like, okay, I'm going to college.

I'm resetting who I am.

prove their worth.

This is like Bama Rush talk.

Okay.

Okay.