Big Soyther
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The Big Soyther is a theory of the latent symbolic order of soyjak.party, acting as an omnipresent force structuring belief, hierarchy, identity, and irony within the community. Though it is not an explicit user, page, or ideology, the Big Soyther is arguably the most powerful actor in the entire Soysphere. According to some theorists, like Slavoj Žižek, the force of a Big Soyther (or more minimally, the Soyther) is the entirety of ideology. The study of unconscious actions that include a codified law like the Big Soyther would be under Soychoanalysis, a branch of Soychology.
Definition[edit | edit source]
The term "Soyther" is a portmanteau of "Soyjak" and "Big Other," referencing the psychoanalytic figure by Jacques Lacan, which symbolizes the unconscious regulatory structure of language and social behavior. The Big Soyther operates similarly: not as a central figure, but as the implicit rulebook that governs interaction, canon, and belief within the Party. It emerges from:
- Semantic ritualism
- Namefag privilege
- Page traditions and deletions
- The memetic gatekeeping of what is "IAS"
- While users speak in memes, post in irony, and insist it’s "just jokes," the Big Soyther functions as the real law, or intention, behind those jokes. Users may deny belief, but the very layout of the 'ki proves them wrong. Structure is proof of sincerity.
Collapse of irony[edit | edit source]
The Big Soyther enforces a special type of belief: delayed sincerity. This is when something begins as a joke but, through repetition, becomes a rule. Pages that begin with anti-narrative irony eventually develop into a highly structured canon. Key examples:
- Soyspeak: Once a meme dialect, now a fully formalized linguistic prison.
- Gem/Coal: Once metaphors, now power symbols with real social effects.
- Rulescuck vs Norulescuck: A dichotomy that claims to be ironic but plays out with real consequences for editing style and user policing.
- This irony-to-law pipeline is the central mode of operation for the Big Soyther.
The function of a theory involving a collapse in irony would suggest an eternal return, another psychological theory under a more Nietzshean psychology.
Femininity and exclusion[edit | edit source]
>YWNBAW The Party’s conception of gender, particularly in pages like Tranny and Woman, follows the Soyther’s logic of symbolic enforcement. Femininity (as well as androgyny and masculinity, even as it seems to be concrete, although it's paradoxical and illogical separation has long since been noticed), separated from gender, is not allowed to exist as an intention or process; it must either be rejected (in favor of objective or scientific humanism), fetishized, or labeled heresy.
This symbolic structure mimics traditional anti-woman hierarchies, but further on in post-modernist tendencies: it wraps this essentialism in layers of irony, thus concealing its enforcement. Even if a user contributes meaningfully, they may be dismissed as "a YWNBAW troon", a label which presupposes an inability to act outside of symbolic law.
Under the Big Soyther, usually, there is a sexual connection that would follow the logic of biological gender expression, but under more post-structuralist and post-war critiques (even seen as Lacan starts to stray farther away from the Oedipus as he keeps closer contact to Deleuze), the logical definitions of femininity and womanhood are harder to describe by more concrete definitions as it is exposed that the symbolization of the phallus is only due to hierarchical dominance in social settings (a proof of the Big Soyther as a "Name-of-the-Father").
Soyspeak and semantic policing[edit | edit source]
The constructed language of Soyspeak, which could also be called the Soymbolic Order (if we want to parody Lacan further), is one of the strongest mechanisms by which the Big Soyther controls belief. Ostensibly an ironic break from traditional English, it has become a strict grammar with:
- Defined vocabulary
- Codified acronyms (IAS, YWNBAW, TND, etc.)
- Prescribed formatting
- Strict tone policing
- This language does not enable new expression, it filters meaning through the Soyther. Any deviation is policed as "NAS," which is essentially heresy.
The importance of a recognition of a Soymbolic Order is that it reveals whether speech, soyciety, and culture are being filtered or not as immanently pure as what it could be. Soyspeak, if it has the ability to become an innate mode of speech, should be thus under expansion in more individualistic, interpretation-based (anti-hierarchical, or more accurately, anti-unjustly-hierarchical), to fulfill more of the diverse changes and variations in natural human communication.
Soylitics as false choice[edit | edit source]
The Big Soyther also operates by giving mock-political categories that appear diverse but enforce the same symbolic core. Pages like Kuzism, Sootism, and Frootism pretend to offer choice. But in each case, hierarchy is maintained.
- The Admin is always coded as divine law.
- The Gems are unassailable.
- The outsider is always Coal.
- Every -ism functions as ritual obedience to the Soyther. There is no true outside.
Ideologies in mainstream politics like Post-Anarchism have found very close matches to more immanent forms of community that don't stray from natural (immanent, not a totalization of biology) hierarchy or authority.
Identity rewritten[edit | edit source]
The Big Soyther denies intention. You cannot simply be. You must play the role you are given:
- You are a Gem, or you are not.
- You are IAS, or you are not.
- You are chud, or soy.
- Attempts to express sincere identity, including non-ironic gender or social critique, will be auto-formatted as parody. This is not a community of expression. It is a community of reflection: a mirror hall of expectations, endlessly bouncing until belief becomes indistinguishable from the joke.
An extension of this theory (of pure dichotomies), could be identities expanded under multiplicity, which extends and dismantles a Platonic form of thought.
Conclusion[edit | edit source]
To understand the Big Soyther is to understand that irony, left unexamined, solidifies into law. When form ossifies around contradiction, it no longer needs belief to function. the Party is governed not by its users, nor by ideology, but by inertia, an unconscious loyalty to its performative past.
This is not about condemning structure, nor about proposing a true alternative. Rather, the task is to trace how structure emerges from repetition and how parody becomes authority. The Big Soyther is not an enemy, nor a tyrant, it is a condition. It is what happens when ironic form becomes more real than intention, and when the symbolic order can no longer be distinguished from the shitpost that summoned it.
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