A head-and-shoulders illustrated portrait of Kayode. He is smiling with his mouth closed, has medium dark skin, and short curly hair. He's wearing a light blue collared shirt.

MIT Bloggers Sniped Wrapped by Kayode D. '27

in which people take a LOT of photos of me around campus

At MIT, a lot of groups use Slack to stay connected. It’s like a big series of group chats for work stuff or class materials. What’s really cool is that you can make separate tabs for different topics. It’s kind of like discord for your dad.

Most groups have a general announcements tab, some for different subgroups, one for random or fun things that happen, and [often among student groups] a stalking channel. This is where you put photos of other people in the group whenever you see them in the wild. A bit of jolly fun, right? [💀💀💀💀💀FORESHADOWING 💀💀💀💀💀]

I’m in three different stalking channels. One for Cru, one for Orientation Captains, and one for the MIT Admissions Bloggers team. So I thought it would be fun to do a blogger wrapped of the stalked photos we took!

Since the beginning of the channel on December 7th, 2024, there have been 91 snipes submitted to the channel. AND I WAS 30 OF THEM.

 

A Pie chart showing the percentages of "Most Sniped" for all bloggers. Kayode is at 32.6%, Andi is at 12%, and everyone else is sub-7%, mainly around 1%.

As you can see, I was in the channel an alarming amount.

And who was taking all of these photos, I hear you asking?

Janet is 23.9% of snipes, Ellie is 14.1 Snipes, and everyone else is around 5% or less.

Hm. As I thought.

So there you have it! Janet and Ellie are the best lurkers/snipers on the MIT Blogs. Sometime I spot them ducking behind bushes or into trash cans like Nat Geo Wild photographers. Of course, I can’t slander the good name of Janet without giving her a chance to explain herself [in the form of a 200 character apology tweet]:

 “tbh i think it’s a skill issue kayode let’s be fr. anyway, plz treat this as the reason for why i haven’t written anything in the past 3 months ! i swear i’m cooking. my next blog is gonna be about t”

Ok, here’s photos stalkers took of me this year:

 

Snipe of Kayode outside Stata
The Beginning of an Era.
Kayode out in a field by andi.
Midwest Emo Cover ahh snipe.
kayode with bad posture. callout by ella.
Diabolical Ella 😭
dining hall snipe from aiden
Kayode in Dunkin
Kayode gets [invalidly] sniped crossing the street and argues with Jebby that it does not count because he saw Jebby first.
A Travesty of Today. 😔
"i also saw kayode today. what a visible guy."
Kayode being sniped and then sending a picture of a guy sobbing on teh ground. It's crudely drawn in ms paint. every picture for the rest of the blog has a little crying guy like this.
This is a start of a saga where I send crash out reaction pics. There are a lot of them.
Kayode Outside Stud.
Double up from Petey :[
Kayode in Stud.
Kayode in Outfinite
Kayode outside stud at night
Kayode outside w11 with PAUL MY BEST FREND
People say they should call this channel
Kayode Outside Simmons.
Kayode responds with a cheery picture finally and jebby comments
😎👍
Andi asks to use these sobbing guy pics in his final presentation. I tell him I stole them from twitter.
Has the bit consumed me? I wonder...
Kayode outside W11 [religious building]
Kayode outside Stud
"double homicide." 💀💀
Kayode outside Simmons.
It became kind of annoying, actually. haha. Every time I looked at my phone, someone had sent a picture of me. Such is life on planet hex bug.
The message that started it all.
Kayode in Library

 

But ultimately, I still had the arguable best snipe of all:

Vindication.

 

So when the blogger applications open later this summer, think carefully. You may just end up with a group chat full of stalkers [who are all lovely people, but nevertheless stalkers].