A year after the anonymous messaging app Yik Yak debuted at Wake Forest University, students are giving it mixed reviews, the Old Gold & Black reports:
“Yik Yak is garbage,” said junior, Dakota Lee. “It rebuilds the walls that anti-bullying campaigns have spent years tearing down, and promotes general campus division.”
Still, some Wake students feel the app is harmless. “Yik Yak gives complete attention to the words being said without judging the person who says them,” said junior, Jack Hickman.
But according to many students, the bad outweighs the good.
“I had to delete Yik Yak,” said senior, Daniel Buchen. “I felt like for every insightful comment, I had to read through 12 personal attacks on people and organizations. And I hated thinking people I go to school with are that shallow and petty.”
The paper quotes an op-ed from The Collegian at Kenyon College, picked up by the Huffington Post, which used rape-culture language to describe Yik Yak. The author is speaking about a theft of “Take Back the Night” supplies from the campus women’s center following a “threat” on Yik Yak:
[I’m] Scared because for reasons I can’t explain, women are being targeted with a vulgarity and vigor that I can’t believe is happening on a campus that I thought was respectful, thoughtful, and safe. …
When you turn to a platform like Yik Yak, I don’t think you actually care about change. You care about making your victims feel as small and as unsafe as possible. And it’s working.
Read the Old Gold & Black article and Kenyon Collegian article.
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