Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg returned to Harvard today, nearly a decade-and-a-half after dropping out, to deliver the commencement address to the class of 2017.
And since you’ve probably never seen a Harvard commencement address, it’s OK if you assumed the seats are always filled with upper crust, John D. Rockefeller and John Jacob Astor types. You know, the oil magnates and railroad tycoons who helped the university reach a billion-dollar endowment.
Which, LOL, fun, guys, but it’s just another college. It’s not anything like that.
Just pop into the livestream of the speech and see—
We now go live to Mark Zuckerberg addressing the passengers of the titanic pic.twitter.com/yRkZDuiW6K
— Rich 🤌 (@heyricharnold) May 25, 2017
Oh.
https://twitter.com/ira/status/867834613401399296
Oh, yea.
https://twitter.com/kmcdonovgh/status/867833692797796352
That’s worse than I expected.
why he giving a speech in front of literal robber barons pic.twitter.com/JwuE50zZWg
— Brandy Jensen (@BrandyLJensen) May 25, 2017
https://twitter.com/NolaLegalmvp/status/867836285083410434
Is this really what Harvard looks like?
— granola expert (@vulgarkeynesian) May 25, 2017
Holy crap, Harvard really is nothing more than the 19th-century billionaires who pillaged this country for their own gain. (And animals in top hats. No, really, those are everywhere.)
I question the optics of who Zuckerberg surrounded himself with at that speech pic.twitter.com/YMbN3eL7SP
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) May 25, 2017
And while the internet wasn’t busy mocking the people who have it much, much, so much better than us, they took solace in the fact that the rinky-dinky invention of Zuckerberg’s barely even worked.
rousing pic.twitter.com/ILVAa4NkYP
— melanie ehrenkranz (@MelanieHannah) May 25, 2017
Take that, you sixth-richest man in the world.