soyjak.party (also known as Soyjak Party,[1] the Sharty[2] or the 'party[3]) is an anonymous English-language imageboard website primarily dedicated to the creating and posting of soyjaks. Launched by the pseudonymous4chan user "Soot" on September 20, 2020, the site hosts boards dedicated to a wide variety of topics, including video games, television, anime, sports, technology, politics and art among others. The site also hosts bigoted content, and users often participate in doxing and trolling.[4]
soyjak.party was created as an offshoot of the Question and Answers (/qa/) board on 4chan, and was initially "intended to be a joke", according to the founder, Soot.[5] The website noticeably grew in popularity in late 2021, after 4chan closed its /qa/ board, and served as the de facto home of the 4chan soyjak community.[6]
The site was launched as soyjak.party on September 20, 2020, by pseudonymous 4chan user, Soot.[4]
The site was an offshoot of the /qa/ board on 4chan, initially launching with seven boards. The site's popularity greatly increased near the end of 2021 as a result of the closure of the /qa/ board on 4chan.[6] The closure of /qa/ was due to a raid organized by users of the board and soyjak.party on the /lgbt/ board, which was nicknamed "Operation Clean Stable."[4]
In 2022, soyjak.party was shut down due to raiders from a rival site with a similiar name posting child sexual abuse material. It was brought back at a later date.[4]
On July 16, 2022, the site was purchased by an individual named "Kuz". Kuz claimed to be a Russian businessman named "Yuri Kuznetsov", but users suggest that this is untrue, saying he is actually an American named Carter. Kuz was considered controversial among users, and ownership of the site was transferred to another administrator named "Doll" in May of 2023.[4]
During Doll's time as administrator, the site would once again be shut down, this time due to high hosting costs. The outage, which lasted for 8 days, would come to be referred to by users as the Soypocalypse, and culminated in the site being sold once more, this time, to an administrator named "Froot", in August of 2023.[4]
Website culture
There is a set of informal linguistic and social guidelines for soyjak.party users, of which they refer to as Soyspeak. It consists of its own slang terms, including terms like "Marge" to express confusion; "gem" and "gemerald" to describe posts/content considered good, and "coal" and "brimstone" to describe posts/content considered bad.[4]
Controversies
Throughout the site's history, soyjak.party has been the subject of numerous controversies including general internet raids, alleged links to mass-shooters, and website hacking incidents.
Raiding campaigns
Users of soyjak.party have been accused of being involved in the raiding of various online communities, including 4chan adjacent forums and general communities on Reddit.[8]
In the aftermath of the 2025 Antioch High School shooting, investigators uncovered a virtual diary written by the assailant, Solomon Henderson. Included in this diary were many references to soyjak.party, with Henderson admitting himself to be a "frequent user of the site". He had ties to other online groups, (such as terrorgram, 764, and the wider Com network). These communities are seen as hostile by the site and its users, leading to them stating it to be a false flag operation done by Henderson.[9] No evidence to this end has been provided.[10]
According to the ADL, soyjak.party users had claimed that he had been radicalised into the committing the attack through interactions with users on Com affiliated websites and groups.[1] When asked to comment on the incident, the site's administrator at the time, Froot, reportedly responded, "I don’t care, Americans are disposable." [10]
On April 14, 2025, 4chan was hacked by an anonymous user with the hack being announced on soyjak.party.[11] Source code and user logins of those who registered with emails were acquired by the user and leaked online, as well as the deprecated /qa/ board being restored.[8] Among the information leaked about users included the full identity of site staff members and moderators. On soyjak.party's /soy/ board, the hacker created a thread in which he documented the attack, alleging, among other things, that he had "admin" level access, the site hadn't been updated since 2016, and that he had obtained the identities of numerous admins.[12][13] This caused an outage lasting 11 days.[4] A user of soyjak.party claimed that the hacker had access to 4chan's systems for over a year.[2]
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