#when in yik yak

[watmalik]

Frat boy Carlos is this you?

…

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

[eightballspecial]

:)

[despite-everything]

so i lost my keys today for the first time in my life and im totally fucked.

[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

[southislandwren]

uhh so basically i love my club i love my friends. the darkness has been staved off for another day

[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?

[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

[s-mackattack]

Sticking this on here in the hope that someone might somehow see it and be able to answer. I’m trying to find a kind of fantasy film I saw a bit of when I was a kid in the 90’s. I tried sticking this on Reddit’s Tip Of My Tongue, but everyone’s is just suggesting the most obvious fantasy movies ever.

This was sparked by Tumblr’s suggestion showing me a clip of The Perils of Gwendolyn in the Land of the Yik-Yak.

It was lateish on a week night, UK Channel 4. I think I was getting ready for bed. This film has, I believe, just started. The feel of it is something like Terry Gilliam’s Baron Munchausen. Every time I try and search for this film, I end up pointed at Terry Jones’ Erik the Viking. So, what I’m getting at, is it’s tonally odd. Like, a little tongue in cheek.

The vague memories I have are of an elaborate court. Maybe carved out of a cave. The main character is possibly blonde, and maybe wearing something like a tunic, giving him a kind of Greco-Roman mythology feel. He has a sidekick. Part of me wants to say they are a little person, part of me thinks I’m completely off to say that.

The main dude is mooning over a woman who is some kind of Queen/Empresses/Princess figure. She is clearly not very nice, but he comes across naive and is over romanticising her qualities. She is wearing something like the typical fantasy bikini affair that Ming’s brides might wear in the Flash Gordon movie. It’s got a lot of trailing beads. It’s like she’s draped in a beaded curtain made of pearls.

Something happens which displeases her, and she works on the blonde guy to get him to go on some kind of perilous affair for her. He’s obviously aware he is in deep shit, but his infatuation has him conflicted.

The kicker is that as she’s asking him, he’s lying on some stairs, basically at her feet. She is rhythmically sashaying her hips, causing the front curtain of beads to trail. He seems almost hypnotically fixated on her crotch. This has obviously stayed with me for a couple of decades and I still have no idea what it is.

I possibly haven’t given as good a description as I have here, so Reddit is currently suggesting every fantasy movie ever that features some kind of ridiculous chain mail bikini curtain outfit. I feel I want to emphasise, it’s obviously not Conan the Destroyer, Excalibur, anything by Harryhausen or the future bit of Blackadder’s Christmas Carol.

So, throwing this out here in the hopes that someone might have an idea what I saw, while Reddit suggests every blummin’ movie I’ve ever seen already.

Reblogs appreciated.

[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" 😭