Purity spiral

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Purity spirals are the coals that are killing the Party!

Purity spiral
The coal that will kill the sharty?
Mass sociogenic illness

A purity spiral is a sociopsychological phenomenon that persists on soyjak.party. It can be described as a social group rewarding itself for holding increasingly extreme views, and punishing those who question them [the views]. Soyjak.party's purity spiral is born out of the established userbase's desire to maintain the board's post quality and prevent the hijacking of soy culture by third parties.

To put it simply, the purity spiral on soyjak.party is a heightened state of paranoia against offsiters that leads to a continuously growing intolerance against anything considered "heretical" to soy culture, even if only ironic. Websites that have been totally consumed by purity spirals become echo chambers; saying something even slightly chuddy on Reddit, even if in an ironic fashion, is liable to get you 'nished.

In the Soy Community

The spiral manifests as hatred towards newGODS and a habit of accusing people of being a pedo 'cord furry troon coaler, sometimes warranted and sometimes directed towards innocent soyteens who do or say anything considered even slightly out of line (and sometimes even when posting something completely and utterly unrelated to the bait), as well as a general dissatisfaction with new OC, new raids, the site's management, and more.

Real or perceived threats (such as Discord, twitter users, splinters, or namefags) and soyteens themselves perpetuate the harmful effects of the spiral in a vicious cycle where bait is posted or media is forced and teens take the obvious bait, propagating it and eventually leading to the creation of separate threads discussing or complaining about whatever is currently being forced. During this, they will often blame one another for the drop in quality of the site, often factionalizing along lines of seniority (nusois vs oldfags), ideology (moral vs immoralfags), and site loyalty (sharty purists vs splinter users), when in reality, neither or both parties may be truly to blame.

The purity spiral is also responsible for any new variant at all being immediately denounced as a 'cord psyop with little to no proof. In other words, the purity spiral is the total inability of soyteens to trust anything or interact with something without suspecting it as being a trap by some boogeyman.

A purity spiral is associated with an uptick of bait, falseflagging, spam, and other malicious social engineering that leads to increased distrust amongst soyteens. Over time, gemmy threads are replaced by threads complaining about or ridiculing the coaly state of the 'log, threads soyquoting the bait threads, and threads demanding rules against the media or bait in question.

The spiral is not a phenomenon that is unique to the sharty, and has been observed in many other communities such as 4cuck, where it lead to oldfaggotry and was arguably a main reason for both the rise and fall of /qa/. This could possibly mean that the spiral will continue until the physical death of the sharty.

The spiral is expected to intensify as the sharty continues to grow in popularity and attract the interest of nefarious actors who would seek to utilize it for their own goals.^{[It just is, ok?]}

In real life

The term "purity spiral" was coined in the 2018 book The Rise of Victimhood Culture: Microaggressions, Safe Spaces, and the New Culture Wars.

The concept can be observed in various political movements and social revolutions throughout history. Some examples of settings, groups, and eras where purity spirals have occurred:

• The Khmer Rouge
• The Cultural Revolution, Mao's Red Guard and mass denunciations
• The French revolution
• Instagram knitting circles ^[Marge...]
• Stalin's Show Trials - demonstration of increasingly extreme loyalty tests are required to maintain normalcy.
• Madkhalism
• McCarthyism

Symptoms

• Coal
• Schizophrenia
• Namefag Drama
• IF THIS THREAD GETS X THEN Y IS REMOVED threads
• 'Jakking Fatigue
• Poopson
• Turning into a frog
• Splintering
• Soyvil Wars

Treatment

During severe exacerbations of the spiral, teens often demand bans or new rules to protect the quality of the site, but these can be controversial since some regard them as rulescucking and a restriction on the freedom of teens to post (one of the most attractive qualities of the site).

In reality, if teens simply learned to ignore obvious bait,^{(this is literally impossible though, since newGODs don't know what's bait and what isn't)} most social engineering would fail and this would most likely be enough to end the spiral once and for all, but this is highly unlikely to ever happen considering the average chronological and mental age of sharty users.

For now, the jannies have set up filters to contain threads posted with certain terms, such as the names of media or namefags, in an effort to limit NAS bait and slow the progression of the spiral.

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  A coaly 'log suffering from the effects of the spiral.
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  Threads such as this are both a symptom and a cause of the spiral.
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  Spiral-induced schizophrenia causes one to see enemies where there are none.