Halloween 2.0: Social Media Edition

Youtube / Facebook in costume format

Continuing in the tradition of computer-science-students-do-awesome-Halloween-costumes (see: Halloween TF2), my friends Lori and Ian:

Apparently the most common reaction was “OMG Facebook, I use that website!” — just more proof that the key to a successful Halloween costumes is to keep it simple enough so that even the drunkest idiot can understand it.

No details were overlooked. We all know how horrifically bad Youtube comments are:

Who is this chick? Halloween rox omggg

Or the Related Videos:

Or the meta Facebook wall comments. It gets even more meta:

All photos courtesy of Lori Lee.

Halloween Team Fortress 2

Last year, my friends from computer science decided to do something geeky for Halloween:

What could be geekier than going to Halloween as video game characters from TF2? (If you don’t know what TF2 is and have a winter break to waste, click here.)

Close enough?

This certainly wasn’t the first time it’s been done. Heck, it’s even been done in Lego.

But none of these other guys had a backdrop quite as video-game-like as the Bahen Centre (computer science HQ) at UofT.

And here are some individual shots of the characters:

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Literally every single variation of the “Sexy [Occupation]” halloween costume in one flier

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