High school students plus anonymity usually ends up in a viciousness unimaginable by any other group of people. In the last few weeks at Dyer County High School, the app, Yik Yak, has created just this perfect storm. Yik Yak is intended for people in a community to share ideas on politics or how things could be better without being judged or targeted. You can send out a message anonymously to everyone within a five-mile radius of you, and they in turn can vote on this post or comment anonymously. It’s an app often used by college students to talk about things happening on campus, but it rarely gets personal because there are usually thousands of students. However, when this kind of app becomes popular at a small high school in a small town where everybody knows everybody, things can get messy; and they did. Students began to post hateful things about their peers, inappropriate comments on teachers, and rumors that often proved to be untrue. People were getting their feelings hurt, trying to figure out who said what, and crying at school over things said about them on the app. Many students speculate that the reason the wi-fi was turned off at school is because administration was aware of the problem. Either way, the good news is that Yik Yak seems to be nothing more than a phase. Students have already become bored with the platform, several of them deleting the app entirely. Nothing hateful or impactful has been posted in weeks. This of course doesn’t mean that its popularity could surge again, or that another app similar to this one won’t take its place.