Cardinal Creeper’s identity unveiled

Taylor Walding Variety Editor This year’s senior class may recall in the fall of 2015 — their freshman year — a mysterious entity widely known as the Cardinal Creeper. It was a person cloaked in a red blanket and skull makeup who stalked various areas around campus and received a semi-obsessive following on Yik Yak, an anonymous messaging app for college students. While many speculated about its identity, Ivey Vinson, a senior fine arts major from Clanton, managed to keep it secret. That is, until now. “It was an accident,”…

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Yik Yak is no longer anonymous

Madina Seytmuradova Variety Editor Yik Yak, the app famous for its anonymous local postings, has made another step away from preserving the anonymity of its users. Many users, including Trojans,  voiced their dislike of the change on the app itself. “Now I can’t post about my problems because of the stupid handle not being optional anymore,” a user with the handle Troyyladyy posted on Aug. 23.      The change has brought the app’s rating in the Apple Store to one star out of five. Since  its  launch  in 2013,…

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