Flagging

>Though maybe you were looking for Vexillology or perhaps Falseflagging?

This topic is related to SoyBooru Here be countrywars, namefags, slopjaks, and obsessed brimstone.

Flagging is darker than coal...

>Flagging is when I report an unwholesome anti-American post made by a yuropoor or something

Catjak flagging spam

Flagging, othewise known as flagspam is a type of 'booru vandalism/spamming by a method of mass production where someone makes a bunch of low effort posts of a variant by photoshopping country flags into the 'jak.

The 100,000th SoyBooru get was some flagspam by GemersonLakeAndPalmer.

On July 3, 2025, it was banned off the 'ru flagspam is allowed, but it has to be tagged accordingly.

Why it's Hated ^{[>holy moly this is like my reception wikis!!!!11]}

Its main purpose is to inflate the variant's post count, which pisses off many users trying to find gems, while also making the 'ru more annoying to scroll through due to all the coal clogging up the 'log. If they somehow run out of countries (even doe there's only a few hundred) they also may start editing in American state flags, Russian Federal Subjects, political ideologies or pride flags. Another reason it sucks is because most of the jaks created out of this are gonna be made from flags of irrelevant small countries which have no presence on the Sharty or its culture, making the jaks completely useless and never reposted. They also just lack any sort of originality and are extremely easy to make, which means that jaks created for this lack any sort of artistic merit or meme value besides just being annoying and clogging up space.

People who use this tactic are called Flaggots, both as a pun and because it's a portmaneau of "Flaming faggot" which is what they are. Its possible, though hard to prove, that Slopjaks started as both a parody of this practice and as a satire of Countrywars in general.

Python scripts Mental Illness, all done by CoalersonFakeAndPalmer

Origin

The roots of flagging can be traced back to the Cobson-Feraljak War, where both sides spammed country flag edits in order to overtake the other side in post counts. The first example of flagging in action though was the Cobson Gangnam Style dance spam.