Soyjak.party

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Soyjak.party is an English-language 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,[citation needed] also spawning and popularizing other memes. A far right forum similar to 4chan, it has been known to raid this wiki.

History

On September 19th, 2020, 4chan 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 the "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 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 No, this is not some honeypot or whatever, it was just originally made as a meme where you can spam soyjaks to your heart’s content.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, a community-driven encyclopedia dedicated to Soyjaks and the so-called "soy community."

On August 23rd, 2021, SoyBooru (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.[citation needed]

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.