Portal:Soysphere/Subportals

Introduction

Introduction

The soysphere, also known as the soyball, is a group of websites and parts of websites related to 'jakking. It started emerging up on /qa/ prior to 2021, though nowadays the center of the 'sphere is the sharty.

There is no one definition for what makes up a soysphere site, but they generally feature soyjaks in some fashion and are either descended from or associated with soyjak.party or one of its many splinter sites. Soysphere sites can become so disconnected with mainstream Sharty culture that they themselves reject the label, and non-soysphere sites can experience significant userbase overlap with a soyjak imageboard that leads to them becoming de-facto soysphere sites. An example for the former and latter would be Anthro.foo and the Shiwi, respectively.

The original idea of the "soysphere" as it is was created by Histrion. It comprises various colonies, boards, bunkers, chatrooms, forums, archives, wikis, accounts, and imageboards.

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soyjak.party

Introduction

Soyjak.party, also known as the Party ('arty), the Sharty, Snarky.snappy, the o algo community, the shitty, very rarely as the Streety, and as the main site on other Soysphere sites, is an anonymous English-language imageboard website primarily dedicated to the creation and posting of soyjak memes, as well as datamining its users. The website and its affiliated websites have served as the de facto home of soyjak culture ever since the locking of 4chan's /qa/ board in 2021. It may be the most influential imageboard in modern times.

The imageboard is considered a Soyjak-themed spinoff of 4chan, with the website's UI being very similar to 4chan's. It runs on a heavily modified version of an open-source PHP-language imageboard software known as Vichan (a fork of Tinyboard), its former owner, Quote, was planning to move it to an in-house software called Nusoi, written in Go, but that never ended up happening.

The Sharty has switched ownership multiple times throughout its existence. Six separate people have been confirmed to have owned the website: Soot, Kuz, Doll, Froot, Quote, and the current owner, Salt. There have been more administrators alongside the owners, but an exact number cannot be calculated due to several administrators being theorized to be alter egos of other administrators.

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Featured articles

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  Gapejak, formerly Guinness World Record Soyjak, is a primary Soyjak variant. He is one of the several Soyjaks that are visually based off of Bernd Schmidt, the 2016 Guinness world record holder for the world's largest mouth gape. He was first posted on 4chan's /mu/ board in January 2020, and has since spawned a large amount of subvariants and heavily inspired many separate Soyjak variants. (Full article...)
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  The A24 Slow-Burn Soyjak (often shortened to just A24) is a slow-burn, cheap-jumpscare-free, bone-chilling kino primary soyjak variant. He is best known for being one of the oldest variants, having been released just under four months after the original. He is also the first slow-burn, cheap-jumpscare-free, bone-chilling kino soyjak to be traced from a real-life soyboy instead of being a Wojak derivative, as well as the lowest-resolution classic variant. (Full article...)
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  Smugjak (sometimes referred to as Titanjak, Haljak, etc) is a soyjak variant based on Hal from the animated movie Megamind. The reason he's earned the name "Smugjak" is due to his smug expression and him characteristically being portrayed as making smug comments against chuds online. (Full article...)
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  Vlodson is an amalgamation variant (otherwise known as splicejaks) that was forced by an avatarfag and the first notable variant to be made during the Quote era. The variant was samefagged to the point where 5 "subvariants" were made in less than a week. The samefag forcing this variant has since had xis name permanently set to "Vlodson" by QVQTE nevermind they removed xis name. There is a splinter dedicated to it.^{[There just is ok?]}
  Vlodson is an amalgam of many variants at once: NAS (likely Wojak) edit of Nojak was taken as a basis, when much smaller ears and nose from Impjak were attached to it. Both eyes were taken from Cobson's right eye. Finally, the mouth was taken from a baby edit of Amerimutt.
  
  This variant was made more relevant when some jannies (and an admin) decided to persecute it on /soy/ and SoyBooru, which caused it to become a sort of new Lennonjak. Every now and then, the Vlodsonfag would force this soyjak for around half an hour. Eventually, criticism of Vlodson escalated even further, causing him to become a very notably controversial variant and even the source of both the SoyBooru and Vlodson crisises, with the latter escalating further and leading up to the Brownocaust. (Full article...)
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  Markiplier Soyjak, also known as Plierjak or 'Plier, is one of the most ubiquitous soyjak variants. It is based off of the popular youtuber Markiplier, specifically an old photo he posted on Twitter back in June 2014. The most common variant is probably the bald version depicted on this page, although the original is also quite common. There also exists a newer version that is much less popular. Markiplier Soyjak is a member of the Soyjak Trio.
  
  It appears the mouth of this 'jak is simply the original soyjak's mouth stretched out. You will NOT investigate this further. In fact, a lot of Plier's assets seems to be taken from Soyjak; the eyes are identical from the bottom, and the nose is quite similar. It seems quite strange. (Full article...)
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  Soyak, often called Soyjak or Soijak, is a high quality, untraced, well drawn edit of the Wojak meme depicted as a soyboy. He is THE Soyjak, and is best known for his glasses, scraggly beard, and usually wide open mouth. The wide-mouthed expression he often has is known as the "Soylent Grin", and usually indicates that he is happy. He's also the gem that started it all.
  
  He loves Soylent and Goytendo so much that he makes it his whole personality. (Full article...)

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