Elise Hendricks ‘28

Are you someone looking to overshare about your life-changing bowel movements following a meal at Barb? Maybe you need to tell nearly 500 people about your first time trying poppers in the bathroom of a Slo party. Or perhaps you peaked in the first semester and you’re chasing that rush of hooking up with an SLC “fashion boy” just to be brutally ghosted the next day.

If this sounds like you, please seek professional help. But also, I’ve got just the thing for you. And spoiler alert: it’s even better than therapy.

I present to you: Fizz.

On January 23rd, 2025, an app by the full name of “Fizz: What’s Fizzin” graced the Sarah Lawrence community. Fizz is a campus-focused social media service allowing verified students to upload anonymous material instantly in the form of text, images, videos, and for some reason, listings of things that students are looking to sell. Such as these $25 clear shoes:

*A real listing on the Fizz SLC Marketplace. Mint condition. $25. Not too shabby…*

“Founded for Students, By Students” the official Fizz website claims. The app has blessed the communities of schools including Yale, Princeton, Northwestern, and many more.

I’ve been Fizzin’ since its birth here at Sadie Lou. But I wanted to get inside the minds of other “fizzers” like me to d their true thoughts on the anonymous social media platform (turned FaceBook marketplace).

Sophomore Molly Sannoo, who runs another SLC-based Instagram account as well as being a “fizzer” herself, knows a thing or two about this self-proclaimed news source.

“I use Fizz a lot. I think of Fizz as the ‘SLC newspaper.’ I wake up to funny memes, questions, and confessions,” said Sannoo. “I feel that when reading posts, I knew that I was able to connect with people because we all felt the same way on campus.”

Regardless of the atrocities that are posted on this platform daily, there is always that one post that manages to keep me going and makes me laugh maniacally to myself in a lecture later that day.

*Fizz post, circa last week. Yes, I upvoted it. This has happened to me. I’ve lived it!*

The students of Sarah Lawrence have utilized Fizz as a creative outlet to express themselves, even if it can be a little too much. First-year student Elise Sica compares Fizz to the anonymous outlets that were used prior to Fizz such as @slcanonymous and @slcanonbetter.

“I like it. it’s a good way to make jokes about the things happening on campus,” said Sica. “And it doesn’t have to be approved to be posted on the SLCanon Instagram.”

First-year student Addisyn Tackney was interviewed for a position to run the @fizzslc Instagram account. She applied after seeing a pop-up advertisement that they were hiring. The company got back to her within a day, asking to set up a Google Meet. The interviewer asked about any ideas she’d like to contribute to the Instagram as well as her favorite things about Sarah Lawrnece. What was shaping up to be a standard interview quickly turned awry.

Tackney was notified that this would be an unpaid internship rather than a paid position.

“I use Fizz and I think that it’s honestly surprising that people haven’t posted meaner things. It’s all really funny and my first thought with the anonymity was that people were gonna be evil, but I feel like everyone is having fun for the most part,” said Tackney. “I think it’s good, though, because there is more of a community on there. Someone who ‘Sarah Lawrences’ you in the daytime might be upvoting your Fizz at night.”

I, too, was expecting people to post more deranged things. And although some pretty freaky things have been posted, the students of Sarah Lawrence have actually kept it quite tame; for once. And for those who haven’t been as tame, you reap what you sow.

To wrap up this complicated love-hate letter to Fizz, Fizz has been my first choice in campus news for the past few months. Is that the best source of information? Probably not. Definitely not. Nonetheless, it’s a way for students around campus to take a twitter style approach and voice their opinions for all to hear. It’s a love-hate relationship between Fizz and I.

Keep on Fizzin’ Gryphons!

A Love-Hate Letter to Fizz