Yik Yak, the app that creates anonymous message boards for users within a five mile radius, returns to the US iOS App Store after its 2017 shutdown
Find Your Herd — iPhone Screenshots — YIK YAK IS BACK! Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge : Local and anonymous social media app Yik Yak is back José Adorno / 9to5Mac : Yik Yak for iOS is back after a four-year hiatus Francis Agustin / Insider : The controversial app Yik Yak is officially back, 4 years after shutting down Ivan Mehta / TNW : A brief history of YikYak — the anon platform making its return Charlesarthur / The Overspill : Start Up No.1616: the American failure, GOP scrubs Trump's Afghan deal, Yik Yak returns, Sonos beats Google, ‘Nestflix’, and more Fiza Ali / Neowin : Yik Yak, the anonymous messaging app, returns to iOS after four years Oliver Haslam / iMore : Anonymous chat app Yik Yak is back after four years in the wilderness Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch : Yik Yak returns from the dead Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today : YikYak Makes a Comeback, Four Years After Being Shuttered Andi Ortiz / The Wrap : Yik Yak Is Back and Millennials Are Stoked - But Terrified for the Internet Shelby Brown / CNET : Yik Yak, the controversial anonymous social media app, is back Gavin Evans / Complex : Anonymous Chat App ‘Yik Yak’ Relaunches More Than 4 Years After Shutting Down Carlie Porterfield / Forbes : Yik Yak, The Anonymous Local Social Media App, Is Back Emma Roth / MUO : Yik Yak Is Back, With the Anonymous Messaging App Returning to iOS Kris Holt / Engadget : Anonymous chat app Yik Yak is back from the dead Shoshana Wodinsky / Gizmodo : The ‘Anonymous’ Chat App Yik Yak is Back Brett Molina / USA Today : Yik Yak, anonymous messaging app shut down four years ago, is back Tweets: Yik Yak / @yikyakapp : 📣 ICYMI: After a 4 year hiatus, Yik Yak is available in the App Store again! 💭 Anonymity, location-based, the hot feed & more — everything you used to love about Yik Yak 👋 Now available on iPhone in the US — more countries and devices coming soon! https://yikyak.com/... https://twitter.com/... Beef Wazowski / @wittlett : yikyak is like facebook if it stayed a out harassing women https://twitter.com/... Ron Iver / @ronnui_ : The number 1 college app for knowing where there is free food or committing heinous acts of bigotry https://twitter.com/... David Celis / @davidcelis : doesn't matter if you have “rules” espousing kindness to your local community; unless you have a robust system of moderation, @YikYakApp is gonna be a lot more racist, homophobic NIMBY shit just like the last time https://twitter.com/... Codyyyy / @codyfreshhh : @YikYakApp Great start so far https://twitter.com/... Kalen Allen / @thekalenallen : I remember this app being awfully racist in college...no thanks! https://twitter.com/... @katiefliesaway : thank god yikyak's back, now I can finally stop checking my town's residents' facebook group for important local news https://twitter.com/... @imani_barbarin : Ah, to be young and be racially abused through an app that uses your location to tell you the ugliest thoughts of people around you again. https://twitter.com/... Broti Gupta / @brotigupta : one time I accidentally sent an email I meant to send my dorm to the whole school to ask if anyone had a fork and it's the worst thing that's ever happened to 146 people. welcome back yik yak https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/... Clarkisha Kent / @iwriteallday_ : The way this app had a hold on all the frats at UChicago. They managed to come up with such *creative* slurs for everyone 🥴 https://twitter.com/... Bmic / @brookemiccio : Literally no one asked for this https://twitter.com/... Stephen / @stepheniscowboy : A cow once got on our campus and the whole of yikyak was just pictures of, thoughts about, or memes about, the cow https://twitter.com/... @mashable : Yes, @YikYakApp is really back. https://mashable.com/... Emma Jerome / @emmajerome : I do not see this going well. https://twitter.com/... Edward Ongweso Jr / @bigblackjacobin : The new normal is here https://twitter.com/... Stephen Schoch / @bigdonkey47 : Fuck yea time to go Shit on my local community https://twitter.com/... Mike Masnick / @mmasnick : Did anyone actually “love” YikYak? https://twitter.com/... Casey Newton / @caseynewton : You know how sometimes a group of occult priests will work for years in secret to reawaken an ancient evil? Anyway YikYak is back Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz : 2021 is trying hard to outdo 2020 https://twitter.com/...