Have you ever wondered what it’s like to work at Yik Yak? If you’ve ever watched the TV show Silicon Valley, you’re probably familiar with startup company culture, like ping pong tables (yep), couches (on one right now), and slides from one floor to another (sigh, not quite yet), but there’s one thing that makes every startup unique: the employees!
Read MoreBeing at college rules. The independence, new friendships, 2 AM pizza runs, and freedom (within RA limits of course) to do whatever your heart desires is simply the best thing to ever happen, like ever. But then, just when you thought you’d almost mastered how to both get good grades AND go out every Wednesday night, the time came to (gasp) move home for the summer. Terror! Or is it?
Read MoreOver the past couple months, we’ve been testing photos in Yik Yak by letting a few communities add pics to their yaks. If you were one of the herds that got to play around with this exciting feature, we can’t thank you enough for your help. You provided a ton of feedback to help us learn what you like best about having photos in your yaks — and you gave us some great ideas for what future versions of this feature might look like!
Read MoreWelcome back to the Week In Review Recap! Today we’re going to take a look back at a handful of the best posts from last week’s satirical news peek: Week In Review.
We did something different this time and left the peek feed up over the weekend. We were getting a ton of top notch content submitted from you guys on Friday, so we said what the hell, and left it up for a few more days. We got even more activity on Saturday than we had on Friday. We’re going to try that again this week and hope it becomes a trend!
Now, to the news…
Read MoreLast week, we formally introduced a new recurring featured peek called “Week In Review,” and it has been a huge hit! The gist is simple: take a piece of real news and expand upon it in a comical and creative way, much like Saturday Night Live does in their “Weekend Update” sketch. Our awesome yakkers have come up with some truly hilarious material across a wide variety of subjects. It was difficult for us to pick a list of our favorites, but we whittled it down to our top ten.
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