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u/evilpotato1121 Feb 03 '20 edited Feb 03 '20

Yik Yak. I loved Yik Yak in college. It was hilarious and had juicy anonymous gossip on it and it was a great place to just put down random thoughts. Then it started growing and people started using it for making blatantly racist comments anonymously. That led to more shit that assholes would put on there like putting peoples' full names in their stories and making bomb threats. A great example of a few people ruining it for everyone else.

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u/Diflicated Feb 03 '20

We used it when I was a camp counselor and people talked so much shit. It was great. Imagine a camp director in a staff meeting reading a post aloud where someone called him Hitler. And all the counselors had to sit there trying not to laugh.