/soy/ - Soyjaks

The Story of Soyjak.party

Imageboards run on anonymity. The personality is secondary. What matters is the content itself. The thread is funny? Bump. The thread is dogshit? Supersage.

A healthy dose of a select few less anonymous personalities is fine. They may be genuine effort posters, village idiots or just have interesting quirks. However, too much causes genuine problems. They can coordinate behind closed doors to force a trend of posting, coordinate attacks or if truly evil, post illegal material like child pornography and animal abuse. The last category shares the same oxygen with the rest of us on this forsaken planet.

Soyjak websites are no exception. In fact, they are the prime examples which can be glanced even by reading the Happenings page on the Soyjak Wiki. Even pre-Sharty /qa/ already had covert Discord group chats forcing unfunny shit. Soot was simply too naive to see this.

Under the last days of Kuz Era, there was so much child pornography and baby monkey torture videos posted that it probably made you wish to destroy your computer with a sledgehammer.



Doll managed to stop the worst illegal material but he banned doxxing which led to division and also the website was already getting normiefied by waves of offsite immigrants in 2023. Not all of them were bad or disruptive but this did scare a couple of oldfags away.

Froot Era was even worse. Many nuvariants were posted for the sake of being posted and it started even feeling more like that the website was overran with literal 12 year olds or manchildren with arrested development as shown by one underage posted getting outed (i664k) in late 2023. Most people forgot about the original purpose of soyjaks which was satire, thankfully at least a bit of absurdism remained. Many threads were about consooming media made by people who the site would have made fun of even in 2022. It also was when namefags were even more of a problem as they started gaining more fame and became more histrionic. Another really big problem was people forcing garbage made for kids or edgy teenagers and the admins effectively treating /soy/, a board for soyjaks as the central shitting ground, leaving other boards to rot except /qa/ which was for posts bad even by /soy/ standards.

SoyBooru should also be mentioned. It was never exclusively anonymous but it was just meant to be an archive for Sharty images and videos. Then namefags started gaining more infamy and presence. Originally, it was good fun but started ruining the website as satire making fun of anything in the outside world decreased and meta namefag slop increased. This opened doors for terminally online Indonesian 12 years old who didn't know any better and came to the website not because they actually knew how to satirize and be funny, but because they wanted dopamine hits from throwing shit at each other. Like a wave of schoolchildren or illegal immigrants. The culture became incestuous, inbred and rendered largely meaningless.

Quote Era was truly bleak and abysmal. Soyjaks weren't even comedic anymore, they became "soysonas", self-inserts that had no difference from OCs made by 14 year olds. The SoyBooru was raped to death by Quote so it now has an entire forum where namefags can discuss shit nobody cares about. It's effectively a social media website that has even more immigrants and is boring to use. Managers and even janitors were encouraged to have names and personalities, turning people who don't actually contribute anything to the world or even give me belly laughs into celebrities. By the end of Quote Era, the website had double digit posts per hour.

Salt Era was seemingly a glimmer of hope as he started removing Quote influence from the website and even seeked to wage a war on namefags. But suspicions started rising when he unbanned gore and even glorifying school shooters as well nihilist criminal imagery (like 764 symbols). I used to be a Saltist. At first, I thought the gore was just to fend off offsiters and the website was 18+ anyways. Gore was also simply a part of reality, so the Sharty couldn't become merely mundane escapism. Most Salt Era 'logs were becoming pretty bad but hey, some days have utter gems. But then the jannies started approving porn. Then more and more brimstone. A dating board. I already realized that posting or even watching gore was fucking weird by then.

Final words: Please log off and get a life. This website wastes your time and makes you more depressed and lazy. You'll feel like shit using it. Even if you're an autistic weirdo, even then trying to socialize is miles better than talking to people here. You can also find greener pastures like decent splinters and such but it's recommended to just turn off the computer.

(There's a lot of things I didn't mention but I don't care.)