Yik Yak was once valued at $400 million and raised $73.5 million in venture funding. Then, it was plagued by cyberbullying on its platform and a dropoff in interest among the college and high school students who used it.
Maybe if they didn't remove every piece of cyberbullying functionality from the app they'd still be in business.
"Square — yup, the Jack Dorsey-led payments company — acquired some of the Yik Yak engineering team for $1 million. Unsurprisingly, Square didn't want the app."
Who? What? Am I supposed to know who Jack Dorsey is and care about how it relates to this article?
"Then, it was plagued by cyberbullying on its platform and a dropoff in interest among the college and high school students who used it. "
For example? Expand? Is cyberbullying related to its popularity dropoff?
Emma Hinchliffe is an awful journalist. I took absolutely nothing away from her piece of work. She should be embarrassed.
Jack Dorsey is the Twitter guy, you'd know this if you weren't a cheeto stained neckbeard who violently jerks off to anime porn in your mom's basement every night then cry as you contemplate suicide but hold off on using the rope you bought last year because you still have that tiny hope that maybe tomorrow will be better even though you know, deep down inside you heart, that it won't.
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n/a SnapshillBot 2017-04-29
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n/a subpoutine 2017-04-29
Maybe if they didn't remove every piece of cyberbullying functionality from the app they'd still be in business.
n/a mystupidaccount22 2017-04-29
If anonymous cyberbullying is your USP, and then you remove that feature, what do you expect will happen?
n/a subpoutine 2017-04-29
/r/subredditdrama
n/a ComedicSans 2017-04-29
/u/takeittorcirclejerk, comments, thoughts?
n/a TAKEitTOrCIRCLEJERK 2017-04-29
bring back bullying
n/a ComedicSans 2017-04-29
YASSSSSSSSSSSS
n/a ReddCrowe 2017-04-29
Nice 👍🏻
n/a NecessaryPiglet 2017-04-29
Get👏 out👏 whitey👏
n/a ReddCrowe 2017-04-29
:(
n/a neutralvoter 2017-04-29
"Square — yup, the Jack Dorsey-led payments company — acquired some of the Yik Yak engineering team for $1 million. Unsurprisingly, Square didn't want the app."
Who? What? Am I supposed to know who Jack Dorsey is and care about how it relates to this article?
"Then, it was plagued by cyberbullying on its platform and a dropoff in interest among the college and high school students who used it. "
For example? Expand? Is cyberbullying related to its popularity dropoff?
Emma Hinchliffe is an awful journalist. I took absolutely nothing away from her piece of work. She should be embarrassed.
n/a YHofSuburbia 2017-04-29
Jack Dorsey is the Twitter guy, you'd know this if you weren't a cheeto stained neckbeard who violently jerks off to anime porn in your mom's basement every night then cry as you contemplate suicide but hold off on using the rope you bought last year because you still have that tiny hope that maybe tomorrow will be better even though you know, deep down inside you heart, that it won't.
n/a extreeemweenie 2017-04-29
MAXIMUM EFFORT
n/a justcool393 2017-04-29
this but ironically
n/a iceberglettuce1 2017-04-29
Fucking hell
n/a wumbo17412 2017-04-29
All of this applies to me but I already knew who Jack Dorsey was.
What does that say about me?
n/a i_lick_fedoras 2017-04-29
Find the rope?
n/a boozehelps 2017-04-29
Wait, do you think people who know more about Twitter are less likely to live in their mom's basement?
n/a uniqueguy263 2017-04-29
Holy projection, Batman
n/a YHofSuburbia 2017-04-29
Is that not what this sub is for?
n/a extreeemweenie 2017-04-29
you could've been great. that was some of the most fun i've had in high school
n/a xKillerDreag 2017-04-29
Yik yak was the dumbest fucking thing ever and everyone who used it should be send to Fyre Festival (topical reference please upboat)
n/a throwaway03022017 2017-04-29
Yik Yak died when they removed the complete and total anonymity
n/a whoatethekidsthen 2017-04-29
What's the point if you can't tell people to kill themselves
n/a Senator_Chickpea 2017-04-29
So which African village is going to wind up with 11,000 pallets of socks?
n/a MG87 2017-04-29
...what the fuck is YikYak?
n/a VatiasMellerman 2017-04-29
Shut up and drink your pepto bismol grandad.
n/a Cephaliarch 2017-04-29
http://i.imgur.com/gcG1TPz.jpg
n/a nomad1c 2017-04-29
how do you cyberbully people when everyone is (was) anonymous