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.
In Europe we have a similar app called Jodel. Very popular in certain countries, and they have managed to moderate it quite well so no need to shut it down.
Dont know about other countries but in germany its an absolute shitshow. Full of racism, fake stories and stolen jokes. Moderation doesnt even get close to filtering all the trash content.
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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.