In layman’s terms, Yik Yak is a Reddit-esque platform for college students. With anonymous posting and school-specific content, the app is addictive and widely used on college campuses.

Those words propelled Yik Yak, the anonymous messaging app, into the national spotlight after racist threats were posted about the recent protests at the University of Missouri.

Yik Yak Data Not as Anonymous as You Think The app’s fine print reveals the startup can turn over your IP address and GPS coordinates to the police.

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 Yak is back. The anonymous social media app, Yik Yak, announced in August 2021 that the app would be available for download following its four-year hiatus. This announcement called for celebration ...

Yik Yak works by allowing users, mostly college students, to create anonymous posts—known as “yaks”—for other users within a five-mile radius.

Yik Yak is still in its early stages of rebirth, but its current purpose seems to remain being a gossip spot for University students. While we do not have exact statistics about how many Yik Yak users ...

Yik Yak is a place for speaking your mind — evidently, the minds of U-M students are fraught with dysfunctional group projects and toilet jokes.

According to a document obtained by the Observer, Corey Cleek, the co-founder, and chief executive officer of college marketplace Uloop is the primary registered agent for Yik Yak LLC.

And you thought you’d yikked your last yak. After a four-year pause, the social media app Yik Yak is back. Is it here to stay? Particularly popular on school campuses, Yik Yak lets users create ...

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 ...

The social-media app Yik Yak, where users can post anonymous messages visible to anyone within a five-mile radius, returned on Monday after a four-year hiatus. And for some colleges, it was not ...