Variant of the Year 2022

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The Soyjak.party PEOPLES CHOICE VOTY (Variant of the Year) awards 2022 was a strawpoll to determine Soyjak.party's Variant of the Year.[1] The winning variant would be "immortalized as the peoples choice gem and receive the official sharty seal." Voting began on December 2, 2022, and was supposed to end on December 14, 2022 but ended much later than that with a Nojak victory.[2]

Candidates[edit | edit source]

Electoral integrity[edit | edit source]

The stickied post announcing the election stated that it is "virtually impossible" to eliminate fraud on an anonymous internet-based vote, but added that fans will group together to increase their favourite jak's votecount, thereby counteracting the fraudulence—"the Jak with the most fans and devoted followers will win".

The site hosting the vote, strawpoll.com, only permits one vote per IP-Address; however, this can be circumnavigated with e.g. Tuxler.

Voting timeline[edit | edit source]

A Cobson supporter (theorised to be Kuz[3]) got the FPBP in the thread,[4] and Cobson subsequently took an early lead.[5] Feraljak cemented himself as the runner-up, with Feraljak supporters urging fans of other variants to avoid splitting the anti-Cobist vote by lending their vote to Feraljak.[6][7]

5 hours into the poll, Nojak went from third place[8] to first place[9] in the span of 20 minutes, gaining over a hundred votes. This was allegedly due to some nojak pedo getting the thai workers at his sweatshop to mass vote.[10] This development is widely regarded as a political upset, with most election commentators previously forecasting a campaign dominated by Cobson vs Feraljak.[11]

Fraud Allegations[edit | edit source]

There is an alleged video of Nojak manually changing Cobson and Feraljak votes to Nojak.[12] Claims of this have been debunked by Snopes.[13]

Citations

  1. ↑ https://archive.ph/8JkMD
  2. ↑ https://strawpoll.com/polls/w4nWDa0oxgA
  3. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20221202151327/https://soyjak.party/soy/res/1610475.html#1612162
  4. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20221202151327/https://soyjak.party/soy/res/1610475.html#q1610487
  5. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20221202151327/https://soyjak.party/soy/res/1610475.html#1610658
  6. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20221202151327/https://soyjak.party/soy/res/1610475.html#1610555
  7. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20221202151327/https://soyjak.party/soy/res/1610475.html#1610870
  8. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20221202151327/https://soyjak.party/soy/res/1610475.html#1611937
  9. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20221202151327/https://soyjak.party/soy/res/1610475.html#1612018
  10. ↑ https://soyjak.party/soy/res/1610475.html#1612050
  11. ↑ https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/variantoftheyear
  12. ↑ https://thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/bombshell-nojak-vote-changing-proven-on-record-will-be-investigated
  13. ↑ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/voter-fraud-variant-of-the-year
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