#when in yik yak

[watmalik]

Frat boy Carlos is this you?

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Update: I’m now helping not Carlos. Wish us luck 🫡

[queer-flesh-simulacrum]

yik yak saved my night god why haven’t i done this sooner???

[bocceclub]

I graduated before tiktok really exploded in popularity and now that I'm considering going back to school I'm like but how am I going to deal with being surrounded by gen z tiktok users. oh my god I feel old

[lenasai]

actually here’s some advice for people graduating from college soon (or really anyone looking for a job):

if a company hires lots and lots of people straight out of college, that’s a red flag. they do it because they know those people don’t have much experience and are therefore easier to exploit

if they have a high turnover rate, that’s an additional red flag

epic (game company) 🤝 epic (software company)

do not work for them, they are fucking evil

[mycatsaidwhat]

things i’ve heard college students say pt. 28

-i wonder if they’ll make a musical for cocaine bear 

-no disrespect to the Amish community but it would be a lot cooler if they were pirates 

-if I saw a minion in person I’d put it in a microwave 

-y’all be hating on meter maids and then say you want to fuck the rabbit from Zootopia  

-the Godfather is so good, I wish Italians were real

-everyone wants a goth girlfriend until she squeezes her used tampons onto you and says she likes blood play 

-submissive women in STEM, call her biodegradable 

-this edible is beating my ass cause now there’s bugs in my skin and i need a man 

- “do not announce on Yik Yak when you are going to masterbate” we’re literally living in 1984

-i wish on your birthday CVS would you a free Plan B like Dutch Bros gives you a free drink

-the tornado missed us cause someone told us it had to pay a cover for each bar it destroyed 

-its an American Cultures class, Zach, occasionally we’re gonna discuss RuPaul

-we all joke about the tour groups looking at us like we’re zoo animals but can it be a petting zoo instead? Hand feed me bitch I’m starving 

-(damn girl I’d suck the eggs outta your ovary like boba) 

Nice job Paul, you found the line! 

-if you skip class but go to office hours it cancels out, its PEMDAS 

-don’t mind me just gnawing on a hunk of parmesan like a dog 

-i love answering the phone hello love, i wish British people were real 

-we’re a drinking school with a liberal arts problem

-frat boys be like damn, I got Title IX violations due tomorrow 

-girls will have an STD and still call themselves a snack, like okay food poisoning 

-do you really take an 8am if you don’t tell everyone around you that you’re taking an 8am

-hey girl, since that tornado didn’t blow your back out, can I?

-how you gonna be a communication major and not text me back 

-sure Europe has less school shootings, but how many lifted dodge pick ups do y’all got over there?

-I need a nap. I need vodka. I need a 159% on the final to get an A in the class 

-no offense but some of y’all’s rose tattoos look like cabbage 

-eggs be so expensive, I be hiding them in my hoochie at the store and then laying them myself when I get home 

[benzehime]

Imagine: It's Duel Academy, but in the modern day. Freshman year has just begun. There's a social media like Yik Yak where you can choose to be anonymous, and only people in your immediate area can see what you post. Almost everyone is on it at DA. Jaden and Chazz start anonymously talking with eachother, and form a close bond / fall for eachother over a few weeks without knowing who the other person is. Chazz opens up to this other anonymous stranger about the pressure his family puts on him, and vents about how he feels inferior after being defeated in a duel for the first time. (Perhaps he doesn't mention it was by Jaden. That could give away his identity, he reasons.) Jaden talks him through it, and tells him that his skills as a duelist will grow the most by facing tough challenges, even if it's at times painful and defeating along the way. He tells him that he, and his found family of friends, will be there for him unconditionally. Even when his actual family is threatening to turn a cold shoulder to him.

What would happen if they decided to finally meet eachother? What happens when they find out that this person they'd been talking to is actually their rival? Chazz blames Jaden for his misfortune in their first school year.

What if one finds out before the other?

[marvelous-goose]

so, my friend lorenzo and i did a joint independent study this semester. we are both theater students & directors. his independent study was for directing--basically he read a bunch of theories on directing & used them to direct a short performance, which was last night. mine was for dramaturgy, to replace the new intro to dramaturgy class that the department is SAYING they're requiring us to take for graduation now, but they aren't OFFERING it this semester...and this is my last semester...anyway, the professor running my independent study was like "you get along with lorenzo, right? what if you were the production dramaturg for his thing?" (she had to ask if we got along because just a year or so ago we lowkey hated each other. how times change!)

anyway we ended up choosing this play called bodas de sangre (blood wedding), by federico garcia lorca. it's phenomenal. it's wonderful. it's got this scene in act 3 where the moon and the lady of death get into an argument. lorenzo loves weird shit, so he sent me the script and i was like "oh hell yeah man, this is IT"

we work on the project. we end up deciding to to that scene in the original spanish, and then a second time using langson hughes's english translation. lorenzo casts the show, prioritizing native spanish speakers. this is a PWI so it's not easy but he does it. (he casts his colombian girlfriend as the moon and she slays.) then, people start dropping. he and i both end up having to read for minor characters. it's fine. i don't speak spanish but my ex-partner is venezuelan and i've lived in florida my whole life, i can sound very good when i say things in spanish. he is a white boy from jersey... he does not. it's fine.

he decided that he wanted to perform on what is essentially the quad. it actually has a name but i don't want to doxx myself so i'll just call it the lawn. it's an expanse of grass in the middle of campus with outdoor chairs strewn about for people to hang out. sometimes there's a volleyball net. sometimes there's activities. this is the lawn.

on monday, we had our first full rehearsal. we were shouting on the lawn about "la sangre!" there are yik yaks about us, asking why there's a weird cult yelling in spanish about blood. on tuesday, this poor girl was on the phone with someone while we were rehearsing, and as she walked away, i heard her apologize and say "this cult..."

anyway, last night was the performance, and somehow there was NO ONE hanging around except the people who came on purpose. i posted a very miffed yik yak about how "no one came to our final cult meeting :(" and explained that it was actually a theater project, not a cult, i swear to god. and i have bug bites on my ankles now because i made the mistake of wearing ankle socks.

[codeswift27]

Psycho-Pass was on my list of anime recommendations to watch eventually, but I never actually watched until this module. From the very first episode of the show surveillance is already very present. We learned that law officials, such as Akane Tsunemori, possess Psycho-Pass scanners. These devices can determine how likely an individual is to commit a crime by reading their brain and calculating a “Crime Coefficient”. However, flaws with the system immediately become evident. When Chika Shimazu gets kidnapped, her Crime Coefficient rises to unacceptably high levels because of her distress, and as a result the officials try to execute her. Thus while this system of surveillance is able to predict crimes before they happen, they also punish people for crimes that they have not yet committed. Additionally, I think this also dehumanizes people and treats them as ticking time bombs instead of people who feel things and aren’t always happy.

Personally, this reminds of my experience being Baker Acted not too long ago. It was one of the most dehumanizing experiences I have had to experience, and during that time people in charge would constantly watch and log what patients were doing. It felt like I didn’t have any privacy and I was allowed to be upset or show my emotions otherwise it would logged negatively and I wouldn’t be allowed to leave.

On one hand, I think that the idea that we we are being “watched” and that anything we do or say can be get us into trouble does help us discipline ourselves and behave in ways that are socially acceptable. And I think the rise of social media especially shows the impact of surveillance, which can be seen in how behave differently online where they may believe that they are not being watched (even though are!). And this is even more evident in anonymous apps like Yik Yak, where people behave concerningly deviant from socially acceptable behaviors because they believe they are not being watched.

However, on the other hand, I think that too much surveillance can be a privacy issue because we are constantly being watched. Not only that but it can make authoritarian control and discrimination easier if governments or other groups can choose to punish people for things such as personal beliefs or information. This reminds me of the Apple and FBI conflict, in which the FBI claimed that they should be given a back door to access criminals’ iPhones to prevent future crimes, while Apple argued that creating a back door that allowed the FBI to access iPhone data would take away the privacy of all iPhone users.

I have probably gone on a tangent, but essentially I think that balancing surveillance to prevent crimes and privacy is still an important issue that we struggle with today.

[iliveinprocrasti-nationn]

one of the top 10 experiences of all time that i will think about forever was when i was on my college’s yik yak having an argument with someone about omega rights (bc multiple people just decided to post like we were in the omegaverse) and a person responded to me saying “go back to your nest”

[anxietybard]

i love when people post shit on yik yak that would do numbers on tumblr

[dykeomania]

Mia please I need advice on how to build a roster or even start going on dates w other women in the first place like I swear I’m not a loser I just don’t know where to start. For context I’m a femme lesbian who likes butches/mascs ….any advice will be appreciated thank u kindly ……

okay i am so bad at answering asks but i'm gonna try to give you a rundown and tell you some stuff based off of my experience

so i'm like pretty feminine presenting i guess (i dress "comfortably," tomboyish, idk), would not say i lean strictly masculine in terms of how i present myself. i keep my options pretty open. uhhh, i'm american, so i use like. dating apps in america. i'm 20. waves my hands. yktv ok just some context.

dating apps are fun. get into dating apps. i like hinge because you can set your location to wherever you want and it's free and that been be super useful if you happen to live in a small town or any place that doesn't have a big lesbo community. pro is that you can set your location wherever you want (set it to mass or anywhere in the upper northeast, bitches are gay as fuck up here -- by like uvm, mount holyoke, downtown boston, or new york, pennsylvania too surprisingly). con is that you can set it to anywhere you want, and that might put you in a long-medium distance situation so be ready for that/mindful of that or just have a car.

i would say that hinge is also good because it learns your taste after a while. so if you only swipe on masculine presenting women, then it'll pick up on that after a while and begin to only show you women who are masculine presenting. pretty cool

going on dates, and flirting with women. im not gonna say too much here bc you said you're not a loser so i think you got it but generally speaking like, when it comes time and you've got a girl in your dms and let's say you're somewhat close, don't hold back. if you catch a vibe, you can be like heyyyy im gonna be in your cityyyy dadadada we should go for coffee. let's link, let's do something. or let them know, and be like we should do something, and let them make the plans. keep them held to that. and by this point like, definitely make sure that 1) you know this person is real obvi 2) you've exchanged #s /socials with them, or at least after you've agreed to go on a date -- this is a me thing, it makes things feel a little more set in stone for me personally. and do not just settle for casual hookups. some women will hit you up on some like, oh let's just link or makeout or come to my dorm, and if that's your jam, i would say go for it but i would also caution you. however, if you want more than that there are a hundred percent women who are more than willing to like, take you ice skating, take you on a picnic, go for a walk somewhere, etc. don't settle. be patient, but don't settle

and when it comes to dating generally speaking, define your boundaries. say what it is that you want, and honor that, and honor what the other person wants as well. things may change, but it's important to make sure that everyone is on a good playing field before you really delve into things past like, a first date. things can be casual still obviously after the second date, third date, what may have you, however, but again, good comunication is important so just make sure that y'all are on the same page even if it's just casual and you're feeling things out. like, are you exclusive? do you wanna be? if you're gonna kiss at the end of your dates, make sure you both know what that means, if anything at all? etc.

and i guess the last and perhaps the most unhelpful thing is like, just keep your options very broad in terms of where you're looking but i'd also encourage you to be careful. i met some girls on my roster through like, a social media app meant for college students that i downloaded bc of my school (yik yak, dead ass). people pop up from anywhere.

i hope this was helpful. i kinda wanna say more but im trying to find things to say and it is hard because i am so sleepy

[barcodeboyz]

bro replied "tuff" when i said i had a lot going on and then got upset when he was promptly unadded

bro messaged me on yik yak asking whats up 💀💀

[toournextadventure]

I think the istagram is still alive but is not as active as it was before. Genuinely had to google what's yik yak just to figure out it never got to my country (And was recently reactivated so I guess kids nowadays will use it)

I would think youngsters nowadays have different ways to figure it out. Although you scared me when you initially said you had to google what it was, I was like "no way I'm that old, it was poppin my freshman year of uni" 😭

[strawberry-lemonade-kisses]

so imma share the reason i’ve been on hiatus beccause its a fucking whirlwind of a story and i need to fucking vent

Background - for those who doon’t know I worked for michael mouse in florida on the pastry team for one of the parks. the kitchen i worked in was shared with culinary and pastry.

ok so story - 

so all of this started at the beginning of September. I went to a housewarming party for one of my bestfriends and her new apartment. It was me, 4 other pastry people. The friend who owned the apartment, her boyfriend, her brother, and 2 culinary guys i never met before. So the party's good were having a great fucking time, shooting shit. Then all of my friends start roasting me for the fact i drive like a cop. So i argue back, It’s not my fault yall drive slow and shitty. And were arguing and one of the culinary men pipes up and defends me and automatically i was like “SEE HE GETS IT HE UNDERSTANDS ALL OF YOU ARE Fake FRIENDS” after that the party was fine but i felt a spark with that man . After the party when I'm home in bed i text 2 of my friends like “is he single and what do you guys think?” and everyone was like omg yall would be cute there's definitely chemistry between yall. Skipping forward he sees me in the break room and talks to me quite often then he adds me on Facebook and he dms me and we start chatting. I find out he has a girlfriend.

 Time continues we talk every fufkcing day, he compliments me and then it starts turning flirty. (He still has a girlfriend still) Now i will admit. I flirted back, I said things i shouldn't have to a man in a relationship and that's my fault. I am not innocent. continuing though, me and this man talked about starring a family together and once he leaves his girlfriend he wants to court me (I have a 3 month rule i won't enter a relationship without dating for 3 months) . I fell in love with this man. I will not lie. but i was essentially an emotional side chick.

Skip forward to November early November i go to dinner with me, him, the friend who had the housewarming, her boyfriend, and the other culinary guy from the party. The whole dinner was good afterward he walked me to my car. At my car he tried to kiss me, i leaned away from him. Because i can’t kiss a man in a relationship but i can plan a family with one (stupid i know) fast forward to thanksgiving in America, the last Thursday of November. He tells me hes going to break up with his girlfriend FINALLY. So i am texting him the day after he was supposed to break up with her and turns out he didn’t and they were going to work on their relationship. That was my breaking point. I snapped, cussed him out and told him I’m not being a side chick. I’m Number 1 or im no one. Then i told him to tell her or someone else will. Then that night after work me and my friends are in the breakroom talking and my friend shows me this app called ‘yik yak’ which is an anonymous posting app to people within a certain perimeter. I knew that his girlfriend worked in the same park so i said fuck it and posted ‘hey so and so this guys cheating on you lol good luck’ she anonymously messages me and asks for proof and i tell her my name and where i worked and how long we had been talking. The next day i get a text from him saying ‘she broke up with m i hope your happy i don’t know if it was you who did it but congrats on getting what you wanted’ I replied ‘wasn't me but good for her’ i lied and continued on with my life. Proceeded to became an alcoholic for a bit to cope with the fact i fell in love with a man who had a girlf4reiend. For the rest of December im working and dealing with life and through all the people i know and talk to i hear about 2 other women he had supposedly been sleeping with at the same time he was talking to me and had a girlfriend. Then his ex girlfriend talks to one of my closest friends and spills everything about their relationship. Including the fact that she was previously 3 months pregnant with his baby. she miscarried (Side note she's 19 he’s 28) so hearing all of this I'm like wtf. Because the whole time from the time i knew him he said that they had only been together less than a month before we started talking so I'm baffled, I'm disgusted. Not only was he emotionally cheating with me, he was physically cheating with 2 other girls WHILE HIS GIRLFRIEND WAS PREGNANT!! So I'm angry I'm upset that i let myself be involved with such a person. Skip to the day after Christmas i get a merry Christmas i miss you text from him. My response was along the lines of ‘how funny it is you text me after i hear all of this shit’ he calls me that night and we get into an argument, he denies sleeping with the women but confirms her being pregnant at the time. we don't talk after that. 

January he comes back to the kitchen and i have a breakdown because that's the first time i had seen him since everything happened . He had be temporarily reassigned to another location for the slow season so mid November to January. I ended up getting drunk that night and messaging him just to say hi because he told someone he wouldn't talk to me unless i talked first to give him space. We continued to talk after that. 

So now, we still talk. Not as often and not nearly at the level of friendship we had before. I still deep down love him but i feel as if it wasn’t him i loved but a fake person because he lied so much so i can't believe anything he says. because i hold these feelings still i cant just block him and move on. However, i no longer work for the company due to an injury and am in the process of moving back to Michigan. I received a text from him telling me he was in a new relationship. I had suspicions about who it was because he told me in December he had been talking to someone. but today i got a text from a former friend of his now a FRIEND OF mine. She confirmed it was one of the girls he was sleeping with. None of this surprises me but i also got a text from him wanting to hang out next weekend. Mind you before this he insisted we don’t hang out because he didn’t think he could control himself around me (he told me this like 4 days ago) so.....

idk why i’m sharing its just been so much and i feel so much shame and guilt. I feel dumb for falling in love with a man that has a sex addiction, is an alcoholic and has anger issues. I’m mad i got blindsided with flowery words and i’m mad i continue to entertain someone who is literally the worst. I am such a bleeding heart that i have a very hard time blocking people or cutting them out of my life. I don’t want to hurt people. But at the same time i do want to be toxic asf and destroy his life. I plan on going to therapy once my move is complete because this situation has me so fucked up. I hope i can get to a point where i don’t want him in my life and i feel as if i am clse to that. I am starting to feel contempt for him and more disgust than anything. I am dealing with an injury and am already having to restart after losing my dream job over this so i’m dealing with alot and a stinky shitty man doesn’t need to be added to the list.

[hotelhamartia]

i'm really glad you think i'm so funny | Bleak | trial 1.1

Bleak filters into this new room with the same sort of I’ve forgotten I’m not smiling its been wearing for some time now. It’s easily herded along by dear Rexy, and is almost content to find itself placed between him and Father. Its two pals! What could be better!

Well– a lot of things, given the circumstances, but Bleak sits and it listens and it thinks, all the while bearing that teeth exposed, half forgotten look. Rose speaks in anguish, and Bleak does not flinch. There’s the passing thought– sure, okay, maybe Ophelia wouldn’t but I bet the Landlady would if she wasn’t a frog, ha!, but it doesn’t voice it. It breaths in the offered evidence from others, learning and considering its betters, but no–

The look doesn’t change, nor does Bleak’s fingertips rhythmically drumming against the surface of the table stop, until Novalis has to go and mention all that bullshit about hell. A corner of Bleak’s mouth twitches, and its brows furrow tightly over leery, dark eyes.

“Oh– I don’t think whoever did this could give a flying shit about what could happen in some hypothetical after,” it drawls, not hiding the slick disdain in its tone. “They already did the deed! ‘I hope you rot. What good does hope do! Put those words into action. You want someone to rot? Make ‘em! Don’t wait for some big fake guy in the sky to do it for you!”

It leans back in its chair, one hand now propping up the side of its face. The once-absent smile has now returned; Bleak grins wide and lopsided, sharp gaze flitting about.

“Well, do one of you care to rot? Are you concerned at all? Guess you were only following orders in the end– ha!”

A snort, but its no less chipper than the rest of Bleak’s words. It casts its look left and right. Its free hand thumbs over its own knee, somewhere beneath the table.

“Don’t think being human or otherwise has much of anything to do with it, either! A life’s a life!”

Big Purple’s outburst just off to its side makes it snicker again. Well how about that? Bell-ends and wankers, and all that.

Bleak puts upon a a poor, animated British accent when it speaks again, diverting from its usual Nordic lilt.

“Let’s not forget the scene in the study, gov'nahs! Bit of a mess in there right? That chair all outta the way and propped up against a bookshelf! As what? A step? A bit of a hidey hole? Not t'ah mention– who’s been sweeping up their stash into corners they don’t belong! I for one was raised ne-vah t'make a mess! But what was it– pieces of a bust, pushed under the shelving, and a book? Oh– right! How to boss your peasants around or something like that, wasn’t it? And get them all obedient on your tick-taks, or yik-yaks! Something like that!”

[mister-kisser]

When I was still on yik yak someone made a post about how they feel they need to stop killing babies in their dreams and how its not healthy. So i says to them "those are just intrusive thougnts bro dont listen. keep killing babies in new and exciting ways. dont EVER give into the haters" and they went on to describe how the night before they would swing them up in the air and down onto a square steel trash can edge at high speeds, and they would try a drill and filing cabinet next. i wonder where they are. i wonder if theyre still killing babies. i miss yik yak.

idk what traumatized or mentally ill person needs to hear this but dreams (especially the really disturbing ones you dont want to talk about to anybody) arent some deep peek into your psyche or a sign of your True Desires or whatever theyre quite literally your brain making fruit salad with whatever it can find on the shelf. just putting all that shit in a blender and hitting obliterate. its fine, youre fine, youre not a weirdo for it