Soyjak.party

About

Soyjak.party, also referred to simply as The Party and Sharty, is an English-speaking imageboard centered around creating, posting and sharing Soyjaks. Formed in September 2020 largely by users from 4chan's banned /qa/ board, the imageboard has been the major producer of Soyjak images online since its creation, also spawning and popularizing other memes.

History

On September 19th, 2020, 4chan^[1] user Soot launched soyjak.party (also redirected to from basedjak.party), a joke imageboard that invited users to post Soyjak images in every thread. On September 2020, Soot announced the launch in /qa/, originally a "questions and answers" 4chan board at that time hijacked and centered around posting Soyjaks (announcement post shown below).

On September 21st, Soot wrote in a blog post^[2] that he launched the board "as a meme."

I registered the domain on a whim, and installed vichan just as quick. It was just a simple joke. I was not expecting to get this many users, ever. I don’t even have an alias to go by.
No, this is not some honeypot or whatever, it was just originally made as a meme where you can spam soyjaks to your heart’s content.

On March 29th, 2021, Soot launched Soyjak Wiki,^[3][4] a community-driven encyclopedia dedicated to Soyjaks and the so-called "soy community."

On August 23rd, 2021, SoyBooru^[5][6] (formerly OnionsBooru) was launched with the purpose of hosting a user-submitted archive of Soyjak images.

In July 2022, the website was purchased from Soot by Yuri "Kuz" Kuznetsov, the current (as of February 2023) admin of the site.^[7]

Since the moment of its creation, soyjak.party has repeatedly been a target of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) attacks.

As of February 2023, over 2.6 million posts had been made on Soyjak.party.

Features

As of February 2023, Soyjak.party has 11 boards, including the main /soy/ (Soyjak) board, /q/ (The 'party), /int (International), /incel/ (Internet Celebrities) and other boards. The website is an imageboard, meaning that users are able to create threads and reply to them, accompanying their posts with images and videos.

Highlights

Operation Wikisneedia

Operation Wikisneedia was a community effort on the /raid/ board of soyjak.party to raid Wikipedia Commons with Creative Commons licensed soyjaks, and later to alter Wikipedia articles with subtle references to Sneed's Feed and Seed.

Traffic

As of February 2023, over 2.6 million posts had been made on Soyjak.party. On Soyjak Wiki, over 510 entries had been submitted. On SoyBooru, over 24,700 images tagged "soyjak" had been uploaded.

Related Memes

Gem / Coal

Gem and Coal, along with a multitude of less popular mining-related terms, are expressions of approval and disapproval commonly used on Soyjak.party. Gem conveys approval of a post, with coal conveying disapproval.

Impjak

Impish Soyak Ears, also known as Impjak and The Swede, is a Soyjak version of the Guinness World Record Soyjak. The Impjak has been used to convey impish behavior and to portray Swedes.

Impjak Adventure

Impjak Adventure was a "choose your own adventure"-inspired webcomic created by several users on the /soy/ board of soyjak.wiki. The story, centered around Impish Soyjak, ran from April 2021 through June 2021.

Chudjak

Chudjak, also known as Poljak, is a version of Soyjak popularized on soyjak.party. The parent meme, which originated on 4chan, is meant to depict the cliché appearance of the average 4chan /pol/ user, incels, far-right public shooters and other similar characters. It was modeled to resemble Patrick Crusius, the shooter from the 2019 El Paso Shooting.

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