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My reading is this is a mean prank, with all the overturned furniture and the near-purity of Bud Light content, i.e. somebody (a frat?) saved up their cans over the course of a year and then deposited them with someone else.
If this were the way someone lived there would have to be more food containers and other trash.
I'm a landlord so I know what a trashed apartment looks like. One tenant just left a mess (and a big one), the other tenant deliberately collected junk from his friends and threw it around the place.