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The controversial app Yik Yak is officially back, 4 years after shutting down

The anonymous messaging app shut down in 2017 after a decrease in user engagement and criticism of …

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The Yik Yak app is officially dead

Founded in 2013, Yik Yak at first grew rapidly as high schoolers and college students latched onto …

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Controversial app Yik Yak is becoming less anonymous

On Tuesday, Yik Yak rolled out unique handles for its users. These handles are similar to those on …

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Anonymous app Yik Yak may have met its destroyer: the indifference of college students

But since then, Yik Yak has seen its fair share of troubles. Some colleges tried to ban it, allegin…

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A new messaging app hopes to learn lessons from Yik-Yak and become the next big thing on college campuses

Islands permits users to chat anonymously. But it's hoping to prevent the type of harassment that h…

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Anonymous app Yik Yak, once valued at $400 million, reportedly sold its engineers to Square for $3 million

Founded in 2013, Yik Yak at first grew rapidly as high schoolers and college students latched onto …

Biz Carson   


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Google has dropped Yik Yak from its app store charts

There's no confirmation as to why Google as to why Yik Yak has been dropped from the Android app ch…

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Teens Are Using A 'Yik Yak' App To Slander And Threaten Their Classmates

"While we know we cannot eliminate all of these apps and social networks that offer anonymity to ou…

Caroline Moss   


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We talked to a bunch of college students, and it's official - they're totally over Yik Yak

It's not too surprising. As Tech Insider's Alex Heath points out, Google searches for Yik Yak have …

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Capitol Hill's Yik Yak-like app has thousands of politicos gossiping and sharing secrets

Additionally, scintillating conversations have begun. One user, using the alias "biparticurious," w…

Cale Guthrie Weissman   


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There's a war about #BlackLivesMatter on Yik Yak after something disturbing happened on a college campus

As social media remained a hotbed for opinions, University of Delaware president Nancy Targett atte…

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Why a girl who was viciously bullied on Yik Yak now believes in the anonymous app's future

The situation at Woodward Academy was becoming more familiar to Yik Yak and its founders, Tyler Dro…

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Students at Ted Cruz's presidential campaign announcement trashed him on anonymous gossip app Yik Yak

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) announced his campaign for president at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Vi…

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Anonymous gossip app Yik Yak will now let you post photos - but selfies aren't allowed

But now both Yik Yak's forces of good and evil will have another toy at their disposal: pictures. I…

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A 22-year-old's guide to Yik Yak, the super-hot anonymous gossip app that schools are banning

We've put together a guide to show you how to use Yik Yak, which has already wreaked havoc on high …

Maya Kosoff   


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Here's What A Bunch Of College Students Really Think About Yik Yak, An Anonymous Gossip App

It's definitely growing to be a perfect way to round people up for events & inform people... so…

Caroline Moss   


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Yik Yak just settled a lawsuit with a man who claimed he was cheated out of one-third of the startup by his frat brothers

Plaintiff, Buffington, and Droll partnered up to work and pool money together to develop and market…

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A college banned a junior for six months over a Yik Yak post that said black women 'aren't hot'

"I have considered your request carefully, and I see no grounds for appeal. In your own words, you …

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How 2 Georgia fraternity brothers created Yik Yak, a controversial app that became a ~$400 million business in 365 days

Goetz ended up leading a $62 million Series B round in Yik Yak at a valuation that approaches $400 …

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Yik Yak's Co-founders Are Being Sued By A Fellow Frat Brother Who Says He Was Screwed Out Of One-Third Of The Company

Wastler was a fraternity brother of Buffington and Droll who says he was given one-third of the com…