Summer 2026 Crisis
The Summer 2026 Crisis is the collective name for a series of overlapping crises that began affecting the Sharty and the wider Soysphere during the summer of 2026, especially towards the end of July 2026. These crises include the Homocaust fail raid, Sixth Soysurgency, North's retirement and initial furcord leaks, Admincaust, Senatecaust, 2026 Soysphere outage, Soyvil War 5, 2026 soyjak.party hack, Vichan crisis, massive IP leaks from the Great Leakage, and the 2026 Soyjak Wiki hack. These crises together would ultimately culminate in the toppling of the Quotist administration, though some would still continue after the Second Great Handover.
Timeline
[edit | edit source]Limeade leaks
[edit | edit source]On May 30, Limeade leaked several documents on the internal workings of the Sharty and its administration. While many of the claims alleged in the leaks were either exaggerated, unproven, or false, they did not help improve the rapidly deteriorating image of the administration.
Homocaust
[edit | edit source]An attempted follow-up to Operation NNN targeting faggots during Pride Month ended in a massive failure, becoming the worst raid of the year and one of the most embarrassing failraids in all of soystory, second only to Operation Soyclipse.
Sixth Soysurgency
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A "Soysurgency" began on June 8 after Cobblestone approved a Mexiaryan soyjak featuring a MAP flag. It ended the following day after it was decided that MAP flags could appear only on soyjaks depicted negatively.
North's retirement
[edit | edit source]After it was revealed that North was a huge faggot, he decided to leave the Soysphere. The initial Furcord leaks were released on the same day, although they were only a preview of the more extensive leaks that would follow.
Admincaust
[edit | edit source]On June 27, Mustard demoted every admin except for himself, becoming the sole admin of SoyBooru. Speculation about Quote retiring emerged, which was later confirmed during the Second Great Handover.
Furcord leaks
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On July 28, it was revealed that a large number of SoyBooru jannies and namefags, including Mustard, were members of a private furfag groupchat. This is considered the beginning of Soyvil War 5. On this 'ki, MarketPliers would resign after the controversy.
Seventh Soysurgency and Soyvil War 5
[edit | edit source]On July 30, Rule 2 was changed to allow pedophilic jokes, creating immense backlash.
Hack and outage
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On August 5, the Soysphere would be compromised, causing it to go down for about 3 days. The official cause given for the downtime was a disk failure during the Second Great Handover, but this is disputed. Either way, Salt was given ownership of the Soysphere, except for SoyBooru, which was given to Mustard.
Mist leaks
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On August 10, Mist would leak several Discord servers used by admins and jannies after being demoted and banned.
Sharty-Booru split
[edit | edit source]After the Second Great Handover, disagreements between Salt and Mustard caused war to break out between the main site and the 'ru. The split ended when Salt took over SoyBooru on August 21, 2026.[14]
Great Leakage
[edit | edit source]The IP addresses of several /soy/ users were leaked, revealing that several posts came from glowies[it just is, ok?].
Wiki hack and the Week of Four Admins
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On August 13, one day into Cobblestone's second administration, the 'ki was hacked by a furtroon named Trinitite. After resolving it, Salt temporarily became the admin of the 'ki.
Controversy during Salt's Rule
[edit | edit source]The unbanning of gore during the first weeks of Salt's rule caused controversy among soyteens, some considering it newfag repellant while others consider it a failtroll attractor. However this controversy diminished when Salt took a stricter stance against goonslop being posted on the party, giving gore posters no reason to post on the Sharty.
Aftermath
[edit | edit source]The Second Great Handover, the final outcome of the Summer 2026 crisis, ended Quote's ownership of the Soysphere. Control was initially divided between Salt and Mustard: Salt received the Sharty and assumed control of the Wiki shortly after, while Mustard retained SoyBooru until August 21. Salt's takeover of the Booru placed all three sites under his control and united the Soysphere under him. With Quote disgraced and Dequoteification underway, many 'teens expect radical change.
Salt pardoned bans issued during the Quote era and reversed several policies, including the restrictions on gore, splinter and their documentation, and more. Some former staff members continue to serve under Salt, however, many resigned or were removed from their positions. Salt also recruited 64 new janitors for the Sharty, substantially changing the staff roster[15] after gutting Quote's team, with only 4-5 people from the original roster remaining.[16] During the crisis, several prominent 'teens were banned or withdrew from the Soysphere. Among the most prominent departures were MarketPliers, Limeade, Mist, and North.
The crisis left the Wiki scarred by data loss, and it was hacked. Leaked information, administrative instability, and intermittent downtime has greatly disrupted the Soysphere. Although the crisis ended by August 21, server maintenance, change, transfers, and other technical difficulties caused intermittent outages afterward.
Gallery
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IP list from the Great Leakage. Stop noticing goy.
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Cobblestone confirming Mustard is the sole admin during the Admincaust.
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A mapped explanation of the Sharty-Booru conflict
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See also
[edit | edit source]Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 After August 13 and the hack, Salt took over the Wiki as the only bureaucrat. However, since then, the Wiki is effectively neutral.
- ↑ Until the Second Great Handover. Quote's role since is not certain.
- ↑ Until he leaked staff discord servers.
- ↑ Although xe was a furfag and part of 'cords, xe fell out of favor for leaking and publicly opposing xer side.
- ↑ Was permabanned temporarily, later reverted to a one-day ban.
- ↑ The identity of this hacker is unclear.
- ↑ It is evident Salt is someone who is not new to the Soysphere.[13] What his position was before his current identity as owner, is unknown.
- ↑ Some members of staff continue to serve under Salt.
- ↑ Notable examples are the unbanning of gore on the Sharty, a change in policy against splinters and their documentation, removal of boards, and more.
Snopes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://soyjakwiki.org/2026_Soysphere_outage
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://soyjakwiki.org/Limeade_leaks
- ↑ https://soyjakwiki.org/Soyvil_War_5#Seventh_Soysurgency
- ↑ https://soyjakwiki.org/Smuglet
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 https://soyjakwiki.org/Furcord_leak
- ↑ https://soyjakwiki.org/Quote_(detractor_perspective)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 https://soyjakwiki.org/Quote#Reception
- ↑ https://kiwifarms.st/threads/soyjak-party-the-sharty.145349/post-25175921
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 https://soyjakwiki.org/2026_soyjak.party_hack
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 https://soyjakwiki.org/2026_Soyjak_Wiki_hack
- ↑ https://soyjakwiki.org/index.php?title=Baitcord_leaks
- ↑ https://soyjakwiki.org/User:Fenriris/Announcement
- ↑ https://gyo.tc/2026-0811-1953-01/https://soyjak.st:443/soy/thread/17010678.html
- ↑ https://soybooru.com/forum/gen/thread/53362#p1988783
- ↑ https://gyo.tc/2026-0820-1510-56/https://soyjak.st:443/soy/thread/17276590.html
- ↑ https://soybooru.com/forum/gen/thread/57209?page=3#p2133496
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