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What made “Sapiens” so appealing to the smart set was its ability to serve up big ideas - about evolutions and revolutions in human cognition and civilization - into a series of digestible courses, not unlike the playwright David Ives’s condensation of David Mamet’s oeuvre into seven minutes in “ Speed the Play.” (The second act of “Oleanna”: “You molested me.” “Didn’t.” “Did.”) The most tantalizing part? “Sapiens” ended with a cliffhanger. Bill Gates told The New York Times it would be one of the 10 books he’d bring to a desert island - and why ever not? If you’re going to be Tom Hanks, your volleyball might as well be a breezy history of your missing fellow humans. Barack Obama recommended it on television. Mark Zuckerberg made it a selection for his online book club. (Your book doesn’t become the toast of the ruling class if you don’t put in your time on the international yak-yak circuit.) Within a year, the country’s most influential people were reading it. It earned Harari an invitation to speak at TEDGlobal in 2015. Yuval Noah Harari’s “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind,” which came out in the United States two years ago, was clearly one of them. In retrospect, some books seem tailor-made for the thought-leader industrial complex. “The Zoomers aren’t ready for the return of the Yak,” another user wrote.HOMO DEUS A Brief History of Tomorrow By Yuval Noah Harari Illustrated. “Is this app now 100% 25-30 year olds?” one post reads. A smattering of popular posts warns that Gen Z-ers too young to have used Yik Yak during its heyday won’t know what hit them. If you’re in a rural area or otherwise quiet zone devoid of yaks, you can amuse yourself with the confessions that show up on a chart of popular national posts.įor now, many high-ranking posts are excited chatter about the app’s return from former Yik Yak devotees - mostly younger millennials who’ve since graduated from college. The new Yik Yak is built around location-based sharing and users can share messages, called “yaks,” to anyone within a five-mile radius. The company says that yaks with a negative ranking from five or more downvotes will be automatically removed from the app’s feed, though we’ve asked the company for more details about its content moderation plans, including if a team at Yik Yak is dedicated to the task. Within the new app, a sidebar points users toward “stay safe” resources address and array of issues that could arise on the app, like ridesharing, bullying, sexual consent and COVID-19, though the app doesn’t yet include explicit misinformation policies.Īnother section in the sidebar offers a list of mental health resources and encourages users to downvote and report any bullying on the app so it can be reviewed by the Yik Yak team. Yik Yak is anonymous, but it’s also an app focused on what’s happening IRL nearby within a tight radius, two factors that could combine to pose even more of a moderation challenge. “We’re committed to combating bullying and hate speech on the Yik Yak platform by any means necessary,” the new Yik Yak team, which acquired the rights to develop the app in February, wrote on a relaunched website.īeing aware of what issues will inevitably arise on a social network and being prepared to moderate those issues at scale are two very different propositions. After providing a phone number to sign up, a short onboarding sequence warns users of a zero tolerance “one strike and you’re out” policy for bullying and threats. Though we’re still not sure who re-launched it, the new version of Yik Yak is well aware of the original app’s pitfalls. TechCrunch contacted the company for information about its new ownership, which is apparently based in Nashville, but has yet to receive a response. The company had raised $73 million and was valued around $400 million in 2014, during its peak. Yik Yak shuts down after Square paid $1 million for its engineersĪs co-founders Tyler Droll and Brooks Buffington wound down the app in 2017, Square paid $1 million for several Yik Yak engineers and rights to some of the company’s intellectual property.
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