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A 22-year-old's guide to Yik Yak, the super-hot anonymous gossip app that schools are banning

Maya KosoffMar 12, 2015, 19:50 IST

You may have heard of Yik Yak, the anonymous gossip app that lets you post anything you want without revealing who you are.

It's been around for about a year, and since then the Atlanta-based startup has raised $73.5 million in venture capital funding from investors including Kevin Colleran, Tim Draper, and Sequoia Capital.

(Here's how it became a ~ $400 million startup in 365 days)

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We've put together a guide to show you how to use Yik Yak, which has already wreaked havoc on high schools and colleges. It was live my last spring at Syracuse when I was a senior there. Now it has spread to 1,600 colleges across the nation.