Once again, there’s a new trending social media on the rise, and this time it’s Yik Yak.

Yik Yak is a new app that lets you anonymously post “Yaks” as they call it and send them out to the 500 closet people with the app.  Yaks can then be up voted or down voted and even replied to by other users. The only identifier for someone is a map that shows the area of users that received the message, meaning the sender can either be in the center of the map or far off in one of the corners.

This anonymity, of course, causes much controversy due to the bullying and potentially no repercussions for what users post. Several schools have already banned the app, and arrested several children for threats of terrorism.  Officials have contacted the app makers and were notified off the location of each person threatening.

Fellow Yik Yak user, Alan Gremillion, has been both yakked and been yakked about. “Some of the stuff that gets posted is usually funny, just funny jokes like Sponge Bob references,” he says, “but most of it is people taking shots at each other with degrading insults and back lash”.

While the app was made for seemingly good purposes, it has become a digital form of the “Burn Book” from the popular movie Mean Girls. Everyone constantly talks trash; whether true or not, about each other with out giving away their identity.

 The app is still currently available on the Appstore and GooglePlay store to anybody that wants it, but may soon disappear due to the abuse of it. According to the official Yik Yak website, the team that made the app are based in Tibet and ran solely by wild yaks.