in 2015, tionna haynes was a student at colby college in maine, when she was sent hateful and racist kyak. tionna: before i became a student at colby, there was an incident where black and brown students were actually physically assaulted by security. and we commemorate to say, this cannot happen anymore. so i thought, let's try something new by bringing to light some of the injustices that are happening right now in the country. we did a silent protest. we did active protests during the school day in academic buildings, which people didn't like, and that actually started the yikyak posts that happened. bridgette: on yikyak, users could post anything from mundane jokes and random comments to racist, sexist rants. it first appeared in 2013 but was taken down due to diminishing popularity and increased cyberbullying. the app relaunched in 2021 and has recently been acquired by sidechat, another anonymous posting platform. what was your impression of yikyak before everything escalated? tionna: so i didn't really know yikyak like that until the incident. i think my friends, they started s