SoyBooru guide

Welcome to the SoyBooru guide; this guide explains how to post, tag, and behave on SoyBooru. Read carefully before uploading, and have fun!

General Rules

(YOU) WILL follow the rules. Please note that SoyBooru's rules are different from those of soyjak.party or any other website.

1. Do not post, upload, or discuss illegal content.
2. Advocacy for, promotion for, and the posting of pedophilic content is forbidden.
3. Participation in hostile off-site communities is prohibited.
4. Advertising third-party services, discord servers, cryptocurrency projects, and other unaffiliated groups is prohibited.
5. Do not blank post tags, sources, or other things.
6. By registering an account, you affirm you are 16 years old or older. Underaged use of the site is not permitted.

Post Rules

Following these rules will prevent your post from getting rejected:

• All posts must contain a soyjak. Posts that contain templates for more 'jaks are permitted. Images of real-life soyboys are allowed. Photos that parody soy culture are also allowed (although more narrowly)
  • When determining if something is a soyjak, think the following: Would a reasonable person (possibly one that might be considered a normie) say the image you are planning on uploading is a soyjak?
  • NAS posts are also selectively allowed:
    • Gigachads
    • Pepes
    • Merchants
    • Tyrones
    • Classic amerimutts
    • Leeposts such as Lee and leebait
    • Baneposts
    • Sharty raid videos (and pictures)
• Posts that are not properly tagged by the uploader may be deleted. 5 tags and a variant tag must be present.
• Low effort soyjak comics may be rejected at the approver's discretion.
• Duplicates are not allowed, unless you have a higher quality version of an already existing soyjak.
• Social media soyjak screenshots are not allowed. If you see a soyjak on social media, then download it directly.
• Certain types of posts may be banned. This may either be due to the nuance of the content, or by valid request of the creator. These kinds of bans are rare.
• Posts containing gore are not allowed.

Tagging Guidelines

1. Tag what you see.

• Tag only what is visible in the image.
• Use one tag per characteristic whenever possible.
• Parent category tags (like fruit + food) are exceptions and should be paired.

2. Avoid bad tags.

• Avoid tags for subjective concepts like nas, gem, coal unless they are present in the image.
• Use tagme if unsure; it is better to have too many tags than too few.

3. Use existing tags first.

• Search for synonyms before creating a new tag.
• We autocorrect common mistakes but want to avoid unnecessary aliases.

4. Always add a variant.

• Every image must have one variant tag (or variant:unknown).
• Drawn or traced jaks get the soyjak tag (except variant:wojak).

5. Count the soyjaks.

• Use 2soyjaks, 3soyjaks, 4soyjaks. Use multiple_soyjaks if your post includes 5 or more soyjaks.

6. Tag real-life elements.

• Use irl or irl_background for photos or mixed-media posts.

7. Use correct descriptive tags.

• white_skin refers to skin color, not the color white.
• Prefer general color tags (red, green) only when no specific color tag exists.
• Prefer stubble over beard unless full facial hair is shown.
• open_mouth = mouth visibly open; closed_mouth = fully shut. Skip *_mouth if the inside of the mouth is hidden by closed teeth or an object.
• Use smile, frown, etc. whenever they apply.
• Non-head body parts are optional. Common ones are arm, hand, leg, foot. Use full_body for a completely visible body; omit other body part tags unless important.

8. Follow tag formatting rules.

• Allowed characters: A–Z, a–z, 0–9, underscores, parentheses, forward slashes.
• Replace spaces, dashes, apostrophes with underscores.
• Use singular nouns (ears → ear).
• Prefer American English spelling (sceptre → scepter).
• Use parentheses for disambiguation (nas_(rapper)).
• Use full character or franchise names.
• Due to software limitations, board names must be tagged as board_(site) without slashes
  • Example: /pol/ → pol_(4chan)

Need inspiration?

• Use the Tag Map to find common tags.

Guides

How to upload a post

1. Cliick "Upload" in the navigation bar.
2. Choose a file. You can choose up to 4 files at a time.
3. Add at least 5 tags, including an variant.
4. Add a source if known (archived thread, artist link). You can put OC if you created it.
5. Submit. Your post will go into the pending queue until approved. This can take a while so don't be afraid if nothing shows for a while.

You can use the MD5 search feature to automatically check for duplicates.

How to edit tags

1. Open the post.
2. Click Edit.
3. Add, remove, or correct tags.
4. Save changes. You don’t need to be staff, anyone can improve tags.

How to comment

1. Open the post.
2. Put whatever you like in the bottom textarea.
3. Click "Post Comment"

Searching

Searching is largely based on tags, with a number of special keywords available that allow searching based on properties of the posts. The booru already has an help page to help you with this, which can be found here.

Some examples include:

• variant:classic open_mouth → Classic soyjaks with open mouths.
• -glasses → Exclude posts with glasses.
• user:username → Posts by a specific user.
• order:latest → Newest posts first.

Setting a Profile Picture

Use an e-mail for your SoyBooru account ("Change Email"), then go to https://gravatar.com, login, and set a profile picture for your email address. After a while it should update and you should have a profile picture on The SoyBooru.

Blacklisting

Only Users with accounts can blacklist

Blacklisting tags will prevent you from seeing any posts with a certain tag, except if you came to a post with a tag you blacklisted from a link or comment.

• Go to "Account"
• Go to "User Options"
• In the Tag Blacklist box, insert any tag you do not want to see
• Click Save Settings

Text Formatting

BBCode	Info	Example
[b]text[/b]	Makes text bold	Bold
[i]text[/i]	Makes text italic	Italic
[s]text[/s]	Create a strikethrough on text	Strikethrough
[u]text[/u]	Underlines text	Underline
[greentext]text[/greentext] OR >text	Makes your text green alongside a meme arrow	>geentext
[redtext]text[/redtext] OR ==text==	Makes your text red	Redtext
[orangetext]text[/orangetext] OR <text	Makes your text orange alongside a meme arrow	<Orangetext
[spoiler]text[/spoiler]	Creates a spoiler section containing text	Spoiler
[blur]text[/blur]	Blurs your text	Spoiler
[url]https://example.com/[/url]	Makes a clickable link to url	https://example.com/
[url=https://example.com/]text[/url]	Makes a clickable link to url with custom text	Example text
[code]text[/code]	Intended for rendering code snippets	Code
[h1]text[/h1]	Creates a heading, supports h1, h2, h3, and h4	Heading
[thumb]103029[/thumb]	Inserts a clickable thumbnail of the given post ID into the page
meds[inline][code]text[/code][/inline]	Displays everything between the tags as inline, so that it flows with the text of the page
text[sub]sub[/sub]	Inserts a subscript into text	Sub
text[sup]sup[/sup]	Inserts a supscript into text	Sup
[bluetext]text[/bluetext] OR --text--	Makes your text blue	Bluetext
[glowtext]text[/glowtext] OR %%glowtext%%	Makes your text glow	glow

You can also combine multiple text formats . For example, doing %%==Example==%% would turn your text red with an glow. Like this: Example

Emoticons

Check the full list of emoticons here.

Staff

Soysneed (Current Administrator, DM if you have issues about moderation or rule policies.)

Jubille (Developer, shoot me a DM if you have an issue or feature suggestion!)

Quote (Administrator)

Warrior-Z (Moderator)

Magnus (Moderator)

Broot (Moderator)

kkk (Janitor)

GemersonLakeAndPalmer (Janitor)

Sectionalism (Janitor)