Before shutting down in 2017, Yik Yak was used in hate speech and cyberbullying across college campuses and local schools. The app's new owners vow to take a strong stance against abuses.

After a four-year hiatus, Yik Yak has returned, and no one was ready for that plot twist. But just because they weren’t ready doesn’t mean they aren’t living for it. A quick refresher: Yik ...

Yik Yak’s first iteration, popular with college students from 2013 to 2017, was fertile ground for cyberbullying, harassment, and even threats of bomb and gun violence.

Yik Yak users are enraged over the changes being made to the anonymous social app after its quiet acquisition by the similarly focused campus chat app, Sidechat.

The original version of Yik Yak was around for only a few years — 2013 through 2017 — but it made a major impact, for better or worse.The first iteration of Yik Yak was focused on college kids ...

Remember Yik Yak? The controversial anonymous messaging app is back. On Monday, a tweet from the verified Twitter account for Yik Yak confirmed its return to the iPhone in the U.S., with ...

Yik Yak, a local, anonymous app that was most popular on college campuses during the early 2010’s, returned to Apple’s App Store Monday for U.S. users, four years after the platform shut down ...

Yik Yak, a controversial social media app focused on anonymous, local posts, announced its comeback on Aug.16. But the app, which faded into obscurity four years ago amid connections to everything ...

Yik Yak did in fact take efforts to rectify these problems by implementing georeferencing, a way of blocking access to the app in certain locations. This allowed them to block students from using the ...

While hate speech on college campuses shared through Yik Yak is detrimental to the students it affects, it also sheds light on clear, though often not discussed racism, homophobia, sexism ...

The startup Yik Yak sought to fill a marketplace need for anonymous messaging, but a host of unintended issues led to the ultimate demise of the app.

In reality, Yik Yak was a staple of the college experience for a good chunk of millennials. 📣 ICYMI: After a 4 year hiatus, Yik Yak is available in the App Store again!