YikYak: Bullying Back in Style

November 22, 2025

How do you feel about the food at the Caf? Your Wednesday morning professor? This sports team or that one? A stranger you passed in the hallways? Lately, students at Centenary have been posting many of their thoughts on YikYak, an anonymous social media app that allows college students to post within their college communities. As with any anonymous platform, users rarely post their kinder opinions. Instead, Centenary’s YikYak feed is filled with aggression, hatred, and bullying. 

I downloaded YikYak a few months ago, right around when it was beginning to gain traction on campus. I’m nosy; I wanted to know what was going on. I ended up deleting the app three days later after a racist post about the Woman’s Basketball team gained popularity. This was after I’d seen multiple posts calling women by half a dozen pejoratives and another handful of posts filled with homophobia. I’d already had to look up the word “foid:” a slang combination of female and android, used as a way to either dehumanize women or queer people, depending on the user.