soyjak.party
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Type of site | Imageboard |
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| Available in | English |
| Predecessor | /qa/ on 4chan |
| Created by | Soot |
| Registration | None (except for staff) |
| Launched | September 20, 2020 |
| Current status | Active |
soyjak.party (also known as Soyjak Party,[1] the Sharty,[2] or The Party[3]) is an anonymous English-language imageboard website primarily dedicated to the creating and posting of soyjaks. It was launched by the pseudonymous 4chan user "Soot" on September 20, 2020. Users also often participate in doxing and trolling.[4][better source needed] The website noticeably grew in popularity in late 2021, after 4chan closed its /qa/ board, and served as the de facto home of the 4chan soyjak community.[5]
soyjak.party has often been the subject of controversy, including being linked to the 2025 Antioch High School shooting, and the 2025 4chan hack.[6] Due to the explicit and bigoted nature of the content posted on it, the site has been described as a "far-right reactionary imageboard filled with crude racist and antisemitic humor" by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).[1]
History
The site was launched as soyjak.party on September 20, 2020, by pseudonymous 4chan user, Soot.[4][better source needed]
The site was an offshoot of the /qa/ board on 4chan, initially launching with seven boards. The site's popularity greatly increased near the end of 2021 as a result of the closure of the /qa/ board on 4chan.[5] The closure of /qa/ was due to a raid organized by users of the board and soyjak.party on the /lgbt/ board, which was nicknamed "Operation Clean Stable."[4][better source needed] In 2022, soyjak.party was shut down due to raiders from a rival site with a similar name posting child sexual abuse material. It was brought back at a later date.[4][better source needed]
On July 16, 2022, the site was purchased by an individual named "Kuz". Kuz claimed to be a Russian businessman named "Yuri Kuznetsov", Kuz was considered controversial among users, and ownership of the site was transferred to another administrator named "Doll" in May of 2023.[4][better source needed] During Doll's time as administrator, the site would once again be shut down, this time due to high hosting costs. The outage, which lasted for eight days, would come to be referred to by users as the Soypocalypse, and culminated in the site being sold once more, this time, to an administrator named "Froot", in August of 2023.[4][better source needed]
Website culture
Soyjak.party users have a set of informal linguistic practices which they refer to as Soyspeak. It consists of slang, including terms like "gem" and "gemerald" to describe posts/content considered good, and "coal" and "brimstone" to describe posts/content considered bad. In Soyspeak, it is conventional to occasionally apostrophize words at their beginning and to remove their first letter (e.g. "coal" may be expressed as "'oal").[4][better source needed]
Controversies
Throughout the site's history, soyjak.party has been the subject of numerous controversies including general internet raids, alleged links to mass-shooters, and website hacking incidents.
Raiding campaigns
Users of soyjak.party have been accused of being involved in the raiding of various online communities, including 4chan adjacent forums and general communities on Reddit.[7]
2025 Antioch High School shooting
In the aftermath of the 2025 Antioch High School shooting, investigators uncovered a virtual diary written by the assailant, Solomon Henderson. Included in this diary were many references to soyjak.party,[4][better source needed] When asked to comment on the incident, the site's administrator at the time, Froot, reportedly responded, "I don’t care, Americans are disposable."[4][better source needed]
2025 4chan hack
On April 14, 2025, 4chan was hacked by an anonymous user with the hack being announced on soyjak.party.[8] Source code and user logins of those who registered with emails were acquired by the user and leaked online, as well as the deprecated /qa/ board being restored.[7] Among the information leaked about users included the full identity of site staff members and moderators. The hacker created a thread in which he documented the attack, alleging, among other things, that he had "admin" level access, the site hadn't been updated since 2016, and that he had obtained the identities of numerous admins.[9][10] This caused an outage lasting 11 days.[4] A user of soyjak.party claimed that the hacker had access to 4chan's systems for over a year.[2]
See also
References
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Antioch, Tenn., Shooter Inspired by Broad Extremist Beliefs and Previous Mass Killers". Anti-Defamation League. Center on Extremism. January 23, 2025. Retrieved December 10, 2025.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "4chan Breach Exposes Internal Chaos, Data in Major Hack by Rival Soyjak Party". Cryptonews. April 15, 2025. Retrieved November 24, 2025.
- ^ Gatlan, Sergiu (April 15, 2025). "Infamous message board 4chan taken down following major hack". BleepingComputer. Retrieved November 24, 2025.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j Rango, G. B. (May 21, 2025). "The Soyjakkers Who Hacked 4chan". Pirate Wires. Archived from the original on July 18, 2025. Retrieved December 6, 2025.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Weedston, Lindsey (July 12, 2025). "The Sad Origins And Redemption Of The Soyjack Meme". The Daily Dot. Retrieved November 2, 2025.
- ^ Croft, Daniel (April 16, 2025). "4chan 'hack' claimed by rival imageboard Soyjak Party". Cyberdaily. Retrieved November 2, 2025.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Dellinger, A. J. (April 15, 2025). "Internet Cesspool 4chan Is Down After Alleged Hack, Rival Forum Users Claim Credit". Gizmodo. Retrieved November 2, 2025.
- ^ Cunningham, Andrew (April 15, 2025). "4chan has been down since Monday night after "pretty comprehensive own"". Ars Technica. Retrieved November 2, 2025.
- ^ "4chan down, major hack suspected". Cybernews. April 16, 2025 [April 15, 2025]. Retrieved December 10, 2025.
- ^ Burgess, Matt (April 15, 2025). "Suspected 4chan Hack Could Expose Longtime Anonymous Admins". Wired. ISSN 1078-3148. Retrieved December 10, 2025.
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