Last Sunday’s winter storm  marked a chilly start to the spring semester. Since the snow stopped falling, Wesleyan students have been weathering the aftermath as best as they can, trudging through large piles of snow and ice on their way to class. As one would expect, the snowstorm was heavily discussed on Fizz, where a quick scroll will reveal the good, the bad and the ugly bits of the past few weeks. In the days leading up to the snow, anticipation was building. Certain com

If Fizz ever shuts down, this series could be a valuable historical document as to what the app (and Wesleyan’s online culture) was like—unless our servers get wiped again , of course. So I’d like to use this space to present something of a Fizz Hall of Fame, featuring some of the app’s most popular posts by various metrics. (All of this is from my own record-keeping, so any errors are on me.) 10 Most Upvoted:  I was gonna put this in for completeness’s sake, but the top 10 h

TL;DR: It’s Yik Yak. If that explanation didn’t help, I guess I should start by explaining Yik Yak. Yik Yak was an anonymous social media app that originally operated from 2013 to 2017. Posts were only visible to users within a 5-mile radius, so it was mainly marketed to college students, who would be able to see all the posts made at their college. It was shut down in 2017 due to cyberbulling scandals, but in 2021, the financial services company Square bought the app and rel