Yik Yak

Yik Yak is an anonymous, location-based social app launched in 2013 that was popular on US college campuses. Users post short messages seen by people nearby and vote them up or down; it closed in 2017 and relaunched in 2021. Wikipedia ↗

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YikYak & Reddit Engagement Dataset Analyzed

A YikYak / Reddit dataset of 26,304 posts with engagement and controversy labels, collected by Riana Doctor via YikYak API and Reddit scraping (2025). Each record contains post text, vote total, comment count, controversy flag, timestamp, user alias, group ID. Dataset combining YikYak-style anonymous posts and Reddit content with explicit engagement and controversy annotations, enabling comparative analysis of controversial content across platforms. Suitable for controversy detection, engagement prediction, content moderation, sentiment analysis, social media dynamics.

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