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[https://soyjak.party '''Soyjak.party'''], also known as '''The Party''', the 'Party, the 'arty, soy spinoff, soyfag.sharty, soyshart.farty, the 'sharty, and countless other names is an [[imageboard]] primarily dedicated to <s>[[soyjak]] posting</s> [[datamining]]. The party was founded by [[Soot]], announced on [[Qa/|/qa/]] as "made a shitty imageboard" "basedjaks <small>[sic]</small> must be in every thread".<ref>[https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/3484141/ "made a shitty imageboard"]</ref> Despite the uncerimonious debut, the date was chosen in order to commemorate the 44th anniversary of the crash of Turkish Airlines Flight 452, of course.
  
==Explanation==
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The party has 7 boards, but the majority of its activity is on the soyjak board /soy/, which can get hundreds of posts every hour.<ref>"Posts per day" figure in [[:File:Soyjak.party_plot.png]]</ref> A VPN or can be used for privacy or ban evasion since public IPs are not banned from posting, [[though]] you will still be tracked thanks to {{Echoes|SOOT}} formerly being a world leader in datamining technology.
{{incomplete|Created by a GIGANTIC WHINING BABY - Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}
 
  
When people are ill, they will often complain about the symptoms that they're suffering from. A common sterotype is that men will revert to infantile behavior when miserably sick. This can be annoying to the people around them, but they typically tolerate such behavior out of compassion. The joke in this comic is that [[Hairy]] spoke via a {{w|telemedicine}} appointment to [[Ponytail]], a medical professional who explicitly advised him to act out, since his condition has no effective medical treatment. He takes her advice to, "act like you're the first person ever to have a cold," literally, stating it specifically when his companion asks about it.
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Following the [[The Great Purchase|Great Purchase]], the reluctant webmaster Soot finally handed over Soyjak.party to [[Kuz]].
  
This comic was published during a "tripledemic" in the U.S., involving {{w|COVID-19}}, {{w|influenza}}, and {{w|respiratory syncytial virus}} (RSV, a frequent cause of common colds) infections, the latter of which have no cure other than to wait them out with plenty of rest and fluids. It expounds on the finding that, "talking about troublesome events, including events with which one is dissatisfied, may ... result in improved physiological health." (Kowalski, R.M. (2002) [http://people.uncw.edu/hakanr/documents/whining.pdf "Whining, griping, and complaining: positivity in the negativity."] ''Journal of clinical psychology,'' '''58'''(9):1023-35.)
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== Background ==
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[[File:Onions.party Announcement2.png|thumb|350px|Where it all started]]
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According to soot, he created the imageboard "as a simple joke", and did not expect it to go far.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20210615092701/https://blog.soyjak.party/?p=17</ref>
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[[File:New soyjak party front page.png|thumb|400px|Front page of Soyjak.party, taken in July 28 2022]]
  
The title text describes a similar study, but where the {{w|institutional review board}} (IRB) halted the study because the participants were too annoying. This is ironic since they would be expected to whine annoyingly. IRBs are expected to review the ethics of a research project. Whining is not usually considered dangerous,{{citation needed}} but in this case it was presumably so intolerable that they had to put a stop to it.
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==== Issues with CSAM ====
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The party has long struggled with Child Sexual Abuse Material being uploaded, and has even on several occassions caused the Soyjak.party to go down. <ref>On January 9th and January 13, the party was shut down for CP.</ref> In turn, soot has done what he can to combat its spread. The primary uploaders of CSAM to the 'party are primarily unknown, but they commonly use [[kuz]] as a scapegoat to cover their tracks.<ref>The myth that kuz is behind the CP attacks has been widely discredited by jakking organizations such as the dailyjak, soot, and the KolymaNET Soyjak League</ref>
  
==Transcript==
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Some potential suggestions are: The Cirno spammer, p#blm, and the raging [[Sweden|swede]]. In reality though, it is obviously [[Bant/|/bant/]]tranny.
{{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}
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-niggers (like p#blm) unleashing these attacks, /bant/ also has a problem with CP spam much like the sharty.  
  
:[Hairy sitting on a chair in front of a computer screen. There is an image of Ponytail on the screen speaking.]
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==Temporal Death==
:Ponytail: Well, it's not COVID or flu. Probably one of the other viruses.
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On 9 January, 2022, the sharty was shut down to huge CP spam waves. On 10 January, it was revived. Just a few days later, on January 13th, the site was once again shut down, this time permanently, and with no hope of coming back. Soot said "its over". When our reporters asked "Is it really over?", all soot had to say was: "it's unequivocally, completely, and utterly over".
:Hairy: Ughh
 
 
 
:[A zoomed out version of the image, Ponytail cannot be seen]
 
:Ponytail: There's not much you can do to speed up recovery other than rest, hydrate, and whine and complain and be a gigantic baby about it.
 
 
 
:[Same as previous panel]
 
:Hairy: Whine and complain?
 
:Ponytail: Yeah. You need to act like you're the first person ever to have a cold.
 
 
 
:[Hairy lying on a couch wrapped in a blanket, with a lot of paper tissues around]
 
:Off-screen voice: Are you '''''sure''''' that's what she said?
 
:Hairy: Unbelievable. Here I am, the only person ever to feel bad, and you're '''''doubting''''' me? 
 
 
 
{{comic discussion}}
 
[[Category:Comics featuring Hairy]]
 
[[Category:Doctor Ponytail]]
 
[[Category:Medicine]]
 
[[Category:COVID-19]]
 

Revision as of 04:02, 22 December 2022

Cold Complaints
Our investigation into whining-based remedies became the first study to be halted by the IRB on the grounds that the treatment group was 'too annoying.'
Title text: Our investigation into whining-based remedies became the first study to be halted by the IRB on the grounds that the treatment group was 'too annoying.'

Soyjak.party, also known as The Party, the 'Party, the 'arty, soy spinoff, soyfag.sharty, soyshart.farty, the 'sharty, and countless other names is an imageboard primarily dedicated to soyjak posting datamining. The party was founded by Soot, announced on /qa/ as "made a shitty imageboard" "basedjaks [sic] must be in every thread".[1] Despite the uncerimonious debut, the date was chosen in order to commemorate the 44th anniversary of the crash of Turkish Airlines Flight 452, of course.

The party has 7 boards, but the majority of its activity is on the soyjak board /soy/, which can get hundreds of posts every hour.[2] A VPN or can be used for privacy or ban evasion since public IPs are not banned from posting, though you will still be tracked thanks to Template:Echoes formerly being a world leader in datamining technology.

Following the Great Purchase, the reluctant webmaster Soot finally handed over Soyjak.party to Kuz.

Background

According to soot, he created the imageboard "as a simple joke", and did not expect it to go far.[3]

File:New soyjak party front page.png
Front page of Soyjak.party, taken in July 28 2022

Issues with CSAM

The party has long struggled with Child Sexual Abuse Material being uploaded, and has even on several occassions caused the Soyjak.party to go down. [4] In turn, soot has done what he can to combat its spread. The primary uploaders of CSAM to the 'party are primarily unknown, but they commonly use kuz as a scapegoat to cover their tracks.[5]

Some potential suggestions are: The Cirno spammer, p#blm, and the raging swede. In reality though, it is obviously /bant/tranny. -niggers (like p#blm) unleashing these attacks, /bant/ also has a problem with CP spam much like the sharty.

Temporal Death

On 9 January, 2022, the sharty was shut down to huge CP spam waves. On 10 January, it was revived. Just a few days later, on January 13th, the site was once again shut down, this time permanently, and with no hope of coming back. Soot said "its over". When our reporters asked "Is it really over?", all soot had to say was: "it's unequivocally, completely, and utterly over".
  1. "made a shitty imageboard"
  2. "Posts per day" figure in File:Soyjak.party_plot.png
  3. https://web.archive.org/web/20210615092701/https://blog.soyjak.party/?p=17
  4. On January 9th and January 13, the party was shut down for CP.
  5. The myth that kuz is behind the CP attacks has been widely discredited by jakking organizations such as the dailyjak, soot, and the KolymaNET Soyjak League