Good information, fellow millennials. Yik Yak—the nameless messaging app as soon as well-liked with faculty college students throughout the nation—is again. Roughly 4 years after the corporate’s co-founders announced the app’s shutdown, the corporate’s Twitter account sprang again to life on Monday to announce the app was again for a brand new technology of Yakkers.

There are so many questions now we have concerning the relaunch—specifically, why? Why trouble rebooting an app whose reputation was already on a steady decline when it was first shut down in 2017? Why recruit the man who performed Kevin on The Office to make the announcement? Why put him in a bucket hat??????????

At least proper now, these questions are going unanswered. The solely element the corporate provided within the official announcement thread is that whereas the app is at present solely out there for iPhone customers within the US, it’ll be coming to extra nations and units “as soon as possible.”

For those who missed the Yik Yak mania the primary time round, the platform is basically an open, nameless message board for anybody inside a five-mile radius. After booting up the app by myself telephone, I discovered pages and pages of Yakkers from my very own New York City neighborhood posting about, properly, every part: Cuomo, COVID-19, Ray Ramano, halal meals, and the character of Yik Yak itself.

For probably the most half, this was the kind of fare that populated the majority of the app when it was at its peak within the mid-2010’s. But as you may count on with an nameless chatting app, it additionally noticed its justifiable share of violent threats and hate speech, culminating in no less than 4 college students being arrested for threats that they made on the app. Obviously, these arrests demonstrated that the app was not, the truth is, nameless.

This time round, Yik Yak appears higher ready to cope with these points. In a prolonged checklist of group “guardrails” printed on the corporate’s website, Yik Yak reminded customers that harassment was one thing that had no place on the platform. “Remember that a person being bullied can feel alone, depressed, or friendless,” the corporate wrote. “Whether on Yik Yak or elsewhere, be an advocate for anyone being bullied. Reject hate!”