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 Yak was a ...

Yik Yak anonymously connects up to 500 people who are physically close to each other. There are no accounts or usernames, which is allowing some to post thoughts that are best left unsaid. Yik Yak now ...

The news broke in mid-August, right before students were due to return to campus. Exhausted from 18 grueling months of steering their institutions through the pandemic, this was the last thing wary ...

The dean of students said it was coming, and it arrived almost immediately. On a Thursday morning in early May, during a faculty meeting at a private high school outside of Boston, the dean told ...

During the fall of 2014, Yik Yak was riding high in the App Store. Thanks to how the anonymous social network spread like wildfire across college campuses and high schools, $60 million in venture ...

Yik Yak, an anonymous location-based social media app, has gained traction as a fast rising startup. But with that success has come criticism. Yik Yak has come under fire as critics claim the ...

Yik Yak, the app that played host to a shooting threat Thursday at SUNY Canton, is an anonymous social media program that allows users to say nearly anything — as long as it isn’t a criminal threat.

The next time you look down at your smartphone, you may be surprised to see a ghost of college past: Yik Yak. The new owners announced the app’s relaunch on Monday—and it seems like the return of ...

Yik Yak accesses posts within a 10-mile radius. From where I live at the southern point of Fayette County, I am in luck. I live eight miles from the center of the University of Kentucky campus. This ...

Social media app Yik Yak made a comeback on Monday with an updated look and new rules for users. The app lets users post anonymous messages locally. The company recently updated its Facebook profile ...

The New York Times discovered the social media app that has taken college campuses by storm: Yik Yak, which allows users to post anonymous messages (“yaks”) that only appear to users within a 1.5-mile ...

Thank the kids in America for turning Yik Yak into the newest technology craze that’s a parental nightmare and an anonymous messaging juggernaut. Only a year after its launch, the app is now close to ...