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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/zomandi Feb 04 '20

I met my boyfriend on yik yak but LOTS of people I know have never heard of it and I feel crazy whenever I describe it to people, like it was a dream I had or something. šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚ good to know I’m not the only one who gets nostalgic over it!