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Went to a Fancy Dinner in SF and Everybody Went to Harvard (or Stanford) refers to a viral tweet shared by Twitter / X user @edchucation in late July 2025, showing a photo of young, mostly Asian professionals sitting at a large restaurant dinner table in San Francisco, California. The user claimed that all of the people pictured were either Harvard or Stanford alumni. The tweet amassed viral quote-tweets from users who criticized the post. Many believe that the tweet was elitist or cringe, as expressed in viral memes, jokes and discourse. Some Asian and Asian-American users pushed back against some of the viral reactions, which they believed were racially charged against Asian people.

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On July 30th, 2025, X^[1] user @edchucation tweeted, "Went to a fancy dinner in SF and everybody went to Harvard (or Stanford)," captioning a photo of young people in formal attire sitting at a large dinner table at a restaurant. Over two days, the tweet received over 16.3 million views and 3,100 likes (shown below).

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On July 31st, 2025, X^[2] user @Mid30sManhattan quote-tweeted the post, calling the photo a "nightmare dinner table" and further saying, "Give me my PAC12, BIG12, BIG10 grads at a dive bar over this any day." In a day, the post received roughly 31,000 likes (shown below).

Also on July 31st, X^[3] user @coldhealing quote-tweeted the post, writing, "120,000 hours of combined violin experience." In a day, the tweet received over 8,300 likes (shown below).

Later on July 31st, X^[4] user @chadson_ quoted the post, writing, "IDK who needs to hear this but realistically too many photos like this shred the reputation of Harvard and Stanford," gaining over 10,000 likes in a day (shown below).

On July 31st, 2025, X^[5] user @MedGold_ quote-tweeted the post with Asian caricatures in Chudjak and Soyjak forms, including a caption in an exaggerated Asian accent, reading, "'I rent to fancy dinnah and everybody rent 2 Havah (or Stanfah).'" In a day, the tweet received roughly 8,000 likes (shown below).

On that same day, Redditor The_Rational_Gooner posted to the /r/asianamerican^[6] subreddit, including a screenshot of the abovementioned quote-tweet and other quote-tweets of the post concerning the Asian people pictured. The Redditor wrote, "Take a look at this thread. There is a key takeaway from this — Asians will never be seen as American, no matter how unproblematic and high-achieving they are." The post gained over 200 upvotes in a day (shown below).

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