From Pokémon Go to catching the bus: Duke's top Yik Yak posts

Since its launch in 2013, Yik Yak has become a popular, anonymous outlet for college students to share their thoughts on school, popular culture and current events. Especially at Duke, this social media outlet provides a glimpse into what students are talking about. The Chronicle compiled this week's top ten posts on Duke's Yik Yak. 

  • Watching Brandon Ingram play in the summer league like:


  • When you order an omelet at your work cafeteria and it takes 20 minutes because no one does omelet efficiency like Wallace. 
  • I’m legitimately upset there are some pokéstops I can’t get to because of Duke construction.
  • When your parents ask if the Fall 2015 grades have come out yet… Nah
  • Shoutout to the class of 1948 for being forever immortalized in Pokémon Go (and for giving me pokéballs):


  • On the plus side, Pokémon Go will finally end childhood obesity.


  • Hoards of first years rush to change their housing assignment to receive the prime privilege of living at a pokestop:

 


  • When your mom won’t let you go to the mall unless you take your little sister:


  • Trying to catch the bus in the summer got me feeling like Spongebob when he couldn’t catch a bus out of Rock Bottom: 


  • Spotted at the duck pond:

 

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