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{{Oldfag}}{{CIA}}{{Soot}}{{Quoting|Woah! And there it is! The hilarious greentext [[CIA]] soyjaks! That's all I get for running this site. That and spambots posting 5 times a minute and the [['p|CP]] bots.|[[Sootbait|Soot]]}}
{{Caca}}{{Savedtheparty|The Party would literally '''{{gemsavingtext|not exist without Soot!}}'''}}{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Soot
| image = File:Soot.png
| office1 = [[Admin|Administrator]] of [[soyjak.party]]
| term1 = September 20, 2020 - July 14, 2022
| predecessor1 = ''Office established''
| successor1 = [[Kuz]]
| term_start2 = ''Near future''
| alongside2 = [[Quote]], [[Limeade]], [[Soysneed]]
| party = [[Sootist]]
| nationality = [[Amerimutt|American]]
| known_for = Founding the Sharty
| tripcode = <b style=color:#f00>Chud ## Admin</b>
| IAS? = Yes
|wiki_account=[[User:Bruh21]]}}
[[File:soot cryboy.png|thumb|During his administration, many users accused Soot of datamining and being a federal agent]]

[[File:The Birth Of SQQT.png|thumb|Xhe was a beautiful baby]]

'''Soot''' (also known as '''[[User:Bruh21|bruh21]]''', '''Soy Moot''' and '''nigger-admin''') is the Founding Father of the [[soyjak.party]], and served as its first [[admin]]istrator from September 20, 2020 to July 14, 2022. He also founded the [[Soyjak Wiki|Soyjak Wiki]] on March 29, 2021. WHOIS Data from Soot's personal website suggests that Soot is from North Carolina.<ref>https://archive.today/Jv8jC</ref>

Soot is perhaps the most important person in [[Soysphere]] history. He founded soyjak.party on September 20, 2020, as a separate website dedicated to the Soyjak posters of [[4chan|4chan's]] [[Qa/ (4chan)|/qa/]] board. After /qa/ was [[The Great Soyset|permanently locked]] on November 3, 2021, soyjak.party received hoards of [[soyteen]] immigrants, and became the new home of 'jakkin. Soot presided over the formative years of Soyjak.party's culture, and the site mostly remained an obscure [[4chan]] splinter site under his rule. A pedophile known as [[kuz]] began making his first attempts to purchase soyjak.party off from Soot in January 2022. In February 2022, the [[Soyvil War 2|Second Soyvil War]] sparked between [[Sootism|Soot Loyalists]] and [[Kuzism|kuz Loyalists]]. The war would end on July 16, 2022, when Soot finally sold the site to kuz. A faction of Soot Loyalists became so mad at Soot's departure and kuz's arrival that they formed a splinter site to Soyjak.party: [[Jakparty.soy]]. Soot later condemned [[Jakparty.soy]], [[though]]ever.

Soot is often described as the Moses of the [[soyteen]]s. He was generally beloved by the current population of the Party because of memories, in spite of his alleged [[datamining]], which was the highlight of his career as the administrator. He was the founder of [[sootism]], a conservative political ideology that campaigns for "secret club" anti-expansionism as well as anti-[[namefag]]gery. However, support would see a dip when the [[List of Soot-era PMs|Soot Files]] were declassified, showing that he allowed loli/shota content.{{Note|This was obvious to any [[oldfag]], seeing that Soot and /qa/teens came from 4cuck, but [[nusoi|nusois]] had glamourized Soot's image to the point that this came to them as a surprise.}}

Soot is American, and was attending university during his ownership of the site.{{CitationNeeded}} On January 24, 2022, Soot contracted the [[Covid-19|Coronavirus]] (deltacron) and became violently ill, but survived. Soot has been mostly radio silent since his departure in 2022, and is mostly out of loop with post-kuz [[Soyjak.party|Sharty]] politics. Alas, he has done a few [[Soot/02-21-QA|Q&As]]. In 2025, [[Quote]]'s administration planned to bring Soot back into the sharty's onwership or at least give him some kind of [[janny]] role, but Soot abandoned all contacts with them and other soyteens, recluding back into the darkness yet again.

When soot returns, it will be Armageddon.
== Timeline of Soot's involvement with the CIA ==

The Chuds on the website have kept a watchful eye on Soot's policies with regards to information security and datamining.

=== October 2020: Google AdSense===

The earliest capture of Soyjak.party's """privacy policy""" page, dated October 17, 2020 contained several questionable references to Google advertisement cookies, and explicitly stated that third-party services were able to track users.<ref>(((Soot))). ''Privacy Policy for soyjak.party''. October 17, 2020. https://archive.today/2JeHY</ref>

It contained some bone-chilling sentences, such as:

<blockquote>''Google is one of a third-party vendor on our site. It also uses cookies, known as DART cookies, to serve ads to our site visitors based upon their visit to us and other sites on the internet.''</blockquote>

and:

<blockquote>''Third-party ad servers or ad networks uses technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on Soyjak.party, which are sent directly to users' browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that [[you]] see on websites that you visit.''</blockquote>

The last capture that features this wording was on November 29, 2020.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20201129105214/https://soyjak.party/privacy.html</ref> Sometime between then and December 7, 2020,<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20201207005644/https://soyjak.party/privacy.html</ref> references to third parties were removed, and were replaced with the following notice:

<blockquote>''Soyjak.party no longer shares information with any third parties, including advertising agencies and any other groups. Google adsense was removed a long time ago.''</blockquote>

=== Malicious ads ===

Soot once implemented ads with malware on the site. It was promptly removed, but this prompted questions about his retarded and sketchy behavior as a web admin.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20200926200423/https://blog.soyjak.party/?p=40</ref>

=== March 2021: TrustAsia TLS ===

[[File:TrustAsia TLS.png|thumb|All of your shitpost have been siphoned to a Chinese datacenter, so that Based Lord Xi can read them at his leisure.]]

[[File:TrustAsia TLS Huawei Cloud.png|thumb|"What? Huawei has ties with the Chinese government, and has been accused of technology theft? What are you talking about? Take your meds, schizo!"<ref>https://www.npr.org/2019/06/08/730898429/huawei-accused-of-technology-theft?t=1623276723388 ([https://archive.today/VE7Ln%7Carchived])</ref>]]

TrustAsia is a Chinese provider of TLS certificates. I'm not even going to post a reference, look it up at your own risk.

Why would (((Soot))) not switch to Let's Encrypt?<ref>https://letsencrypt.org/</ref> He has no excuses:

* He is no longer using shared hosting, but a VPS,<ref>Soot. ''Recent Downtime''. November 28, 2020.  https://web.archive.org/web/20210408185627/https://blog.soyjak.party/?p=57</ref> so he can install any software he wants.
* Lets Encrypt [[Janny|do it for free]] (wholesome!).
* It's dead-simple to set it up with nginx,<ref>https://certbot.eff.org/</ref> even someone who copy-pasted some shit code to create a random image array in JS<ref>I'm not joking: https://archive.today/KBwSp</ref> could do it.
* The sunk-cost fallacy of having to use a (((botnet certificate))) he paid for until it expires is a meme, especially if he keeps reassuring us that this site is not a "datamining scheme".<ref>Soot. ''Financials'' April 29, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210609223259/https://blog.soyjak.party/?p=84</ref>

It really gets your noggin' joggin'.

=== April 2021: Matomo.js ===

[[File:Matomo-analytics-dashboard.png|thumb|What (((Soot))) could see while using Matomo.]]

Soot figured that maybe people would react less negatively to datamining software if it was ''open-source'', instead of some proprietary tracking system by a giant corporation.

Soot thus included the open-source datamining software [[Matomo]] on his site. The schizos took notice, and started filling the boards with [[CIA]] soyjaks, exposing Soot's datamining scheme.

Soot, caught red-handed, was issued a standard apology by CIA's PR shills, which he published on April 19, 2021. It read:

<blockquote>
''apologies for any concern it may have caused, i was just trying to get some general time zone and user agent information, but i understand why everyone was concerned, since the software can collect way more. as i have said before, none of the information that i collected has ever been shared with a third party, and any data that i collected with matomo has already been deleted. hope this clears things up.''<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20210514210357/https://soyjak.party/#12</ref>
</blockquote>

However, '''in complete contradiction''' of his reassuring words, a file named ''analytics.js'' was present on the server as early as April 13, until May 16.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://soyjak.party/js/analytics.js</ref> In fairness, it may have been accidentally left over after Soot removed the analytics.

=== May 2021: Removal of the Islamic Culture Thread ===

[[File:Yikes,_this_is_problematic.png|thumb|right|Soot declaring that a certain thread was unwelcome on his site.]]

On May 9, 2021, many people were shocked by the fact that the [[Islam]]ic Culture thread on the [[webm/|/webm/]] board had been removed. A [[Gigachad]] decided to recreate the thread, but Soot declared that such a thread was too problematic for his site. He defended his actions, claiming a zero-tolerance policy was necessary so that falseflaggers couldn't get the site B& and V&.

<blockquote>
anyone can post this and then go to the hosting provider and submit an abuse report to try and have my shit taken down. it doesnt have to be the host itself monitoring.<ref>/webm/, post no. 604. https://archive.today/viviR</ref>
</blockquote>

<s>One schizo</s> several defenders of the constitutional right to free speech insisted that the [[CIA]] and [[JIDF]] had taken over the site, and booted Soot from its admin position.<ref>/webm/, thread no. 586. https://archive.today/viviR</ref>

=== Captchas ===
[[File:ReCAPTCHA on soyjak.party.png|thumb|right|reCAPTCHA as it appeared on soyjak.party on 27 June 2021.]]
Less than a week later after the previous incident, built-in [[Recaptcha|captchas]] were implemented on Soyjak.party, meaning that you won't be able to post without solving them, due to the fact these captcha were built-in, they weren't used for [[datamining]].

On June 27, 2021, Soot temporarily added notorious datamining software [[Recaptcha|reCAPTCHA]] to Soyjak.party.<ref>https://archive.is/BcPO5#selection-619.1-625.6 ([https://web.archive.org/web/https://soyjak.party/soy//res/121271.html#121276 Old Dead Link])</ref> According to him it was added to combat spam while he was at work and because the built-in captcha didn't work properly.<ref>https://archive.is/BcPO5#selection-707.1-713.6 ([https://web.archive.org/web/https://soyjak.party/soy//res/121271.html#121279 Old Dead Link])</ref>

After a few hours the captcha was removed, but many users were datamined during that period.

ReCAPTCHA was also briefly used on the [[Soyjak Wiki]], but has since been replaced with a simple, built-in math captcha.

=== Cloudflare ===
[[File:Cloudflare screaming soyjak.png|thumb|A MITM attack by any other name...]]
{{Main|Cloudflare}}

At some point, Soot activated Cloudflare because ''>muh DDoS protection'' or something along those lines.

What is Cloudflare? It is a literal MITM attack, the "hackers that will steal your passwords" that all VPN advertisements talk about. (Not that you should trust a VPN either, see below why).

<blockquote>
''Note for a site to use cloudflare, the owner has to point their DNS records to cloudflare's servers, at which point they effectively handed cloudflare full control of their website (as long as the DNS records point to cloudflare's servers). They can prove control of a domain to certificate authorities who will issue certificates for your domain to cloudflare.''

''Now cloudflare has control to eavesdrop and log any user interactions with your website or silently tamper content if they please.''

''However, this is not a Man-in-the-Middle attack, because the website owner gave cloudflare permission to do all of this. So it's not an attack, it's a secure connection to cloudflare (who the website owner gave permission to serve content at their domain name).''

''[...]''

''In the end, that's all you have. You have to trust that the organization running the website at the other end is trustworthy with whatever data you give them by browsing there. When visiting websites on the cloudflare CDN part of the trust is in cloudflare.''

''(This is in contrast to real MitM attacks, where some attacking middleman who does not have authorized access eavesdrops and/or tampers with the network traffic).''<ref>https://security.stackexchange.com/a/177301</ref>
</blockquote>

''To do: has anyone archived any thread about this, and the sticky note thing?; Talk about 100 MB upload limit disrupting the wholesome Tom and Jerry poster on /webm/:'' https://archive.today/O340l

=== June 2021: Soot is a boomer, admins can see IPs ===

The [[Captain Coal]] fiasco of June 2021 taught us two things:

* The "hack" happened because Soot had forgotten to disable the default admin account. Soot needs to learn the basics of OPSEC, NOW.
* Soot confirmed that Vichan admins can see the IP of both posters and lurkers, which means you should be using Tor.

Don't fall for the (((VPN))) meme, they're only good for bypassing geographical restrictions or hiding your IP address, but they DO NOT give you anonymity: the VPN provider can datamine the shit out of you, knows everything you're looking at, and on top of that, has your credit card details.

=== Tor nodes being blocked ===

Anyone using Tor will have experienced that many nodes are permabanned. This is because a lot of <s>people</s> coalposters proxyhop with Tor, and Soot found that the easiest way to deal with this is to just permaban Tor exit nodes one by one. He said that he will unban them if you ask in the appeal box.

=== June 2021: Downward spiral ===

At some point, Soot's mental state began to deteriorate. He began to act in a similar fashion to [[Barneyfag (Lee Goldson)|Lee Goldson]], becoming quick to enrage and insult Soyjak.party's userbase. Soot increasingly became agitated and lost his composure when confronted with conflicting opinions.<ref>{{CitePost|board=soy|no=105919|caption=You're saying that as if the scat posters were somehow any better than the spammers. I was just checking the recent posts for a bit on my phone, so forgive me if I can't sit here all day and patrol the catalog for you|date=June 11, 2021|url=https://archive.today/3LOBS}}</ref> Soot bombarded his own userbase with [[Faggot|homophobic slurs]],<ref>{{CitePost|board=soy|no=105927|caption=I have banned that faggot multiple times in the past|date=June 11, 2021|url=https://archive.today/3LOBS}}</ref>
and frequently put himself on a pedestal saying he "didn't have time" to moderate his own website because he had "better" things to do.<ref>{{CitePost|board=soy|no=105955|caption=I don't have time right now, I'll look into it later. I'm on my phone right now, and I have something to do besides moderating this website|date=June 11, 2021|url=https://archive.today/3LOBS}}</ref>

During [[List of Soyjak Wiki edit wars#Colorfuljaks|a wiki edit war]] on the [[Colorfuljaks]] article, Soot appointed a wiki moderator called called [[User:Syjck|Syjck]], creator of the SoyBooru. Soot ignored all criticism of this moderator; he did not respond to any of the multiple threads requesting that he investigate the moderator's conduct, and in a thread in which he was highly active, instead choosing to have a long-winded, repetitive, and unproductive argument with a few [[Schizophrenia|schizos]].<ref>{{CitePost|board=suggest|no=4920|date=June 12, 2021|url=https://archive.today/7g71T}}</ref>

=== July 2021 ===

==== Captchas are back ====

[[File:Javascript captcha.png|thumb|<span style="color:#789922">>Noooo, not the h*ckin' JewScripterino!</span>]]

In an attempt to <s>curb spam</s> rile up the resident schizos, Soot re-introduced captchas on the site at the beginning of July. Instead of generating distorted images on the server, this new captcha generates them in the browser, and thus requires JavaScript to be enabled in order to be able to post.

This led users to believe that they're going to be datamined, tracked,<ref>See https://schemeflood.com/, which works even on Tor browser.</ref> or that a crypto-miner will be installed in the background.

The return of captchas was prophesized about three weeks prior, during the [[Colorfuljaks]] civil war, in the context of "Operation Bleached Bowl" (abbreviated to OBB), a conspiracy theory that posited that Jannies wanted to gaslight the userbase:

<blockquote>The wiki will turn pozzed due to the new mods (its already happening, OBB page will get fact checked shortly), then the imageboard will follow, get ready to fill out datamining captchas (Which soot has already trialed). be required to enable (((Javascript))), be unable to post with Tor/VPN/Proxies and be banned at the drop of a hat<ref>{{CitePost|board=suggest|no=4803|caption=/obb/ Operation Bleached Bowl General|date=June 12, 2021|url=https://archive.today/7g71T}}</ref></blockquote>

These fears may be true, after all. Soot stated that he fixed Vichan's built-in captcha with the help of an unnamed third party. '''Until these changes aren't made public, assume that the captcha IS datamining you.'''<ref>{{CitePost|board=soy|no=128806|caption=soot, did you seriously implement a captcha that some random stranger "mailed you"?|date=July 4, 2021|url=https://archive.today/9SgFA}}</ref>

Remember, if someone says something along the lines of:

{{Quote|>B-but I don't see any strange requests in the network tab of the developer tools...}}

Or

{{Quote|>B-but I even checked with Wireshark and I can't see any personal data being sent anywhere...}}

They are shills, and you should just reply "MEDS". Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. They're just using technical jargon in an attempt to sound trustworthy, like those sites that claim to have "military-grade encryption". Don't fall for their dirty tricks.

==== Talks of migration to NPFChan ====

With the only other alternatives being Vichan's built-in captcha, which is hopelessly broken, and Google's Captcha, which barely functions on Tor, Soot is looking into migrating the 'Party to another imageboard engine with better captcha support, namely NPFChan.<ref>{{CitePost
|board=suggest
|no=5796
|caption=bring back the number captcha instead of this jewgle shit
|date=July 1, 2021
|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210702091539/https://soyjak.party/suggest//res/5796.html}}</ref><ref>{{CitePost
|board=suggest
|no=5809
|caption=SOOT HOLD A VOTE ON MIGRATING TO A NEW IMAGEBOARD
|date=July 1, 2021
|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210702091521/https://soyjak.party/suggest//res/5809.html}}</ref>

==== Possible M&A by KolymaNET ====

{{CIAContentWarning}}
===== Background =====

On July 3, a thread was created in /b/, by a schizo who <s>forgot to take his meds</s> started dropping redpills about the state of Soyjak.party.<ref>{{CitePost|board=b|no=16294|caption=Kolyma, a so-called network from Russia that buys imageboards (soyjak.party/suggest//res/5328.html is an example) and provides free hosting and technical support (pic1)|date=July 3, 2021|url=https://archive.today/1hw1L}}</ref><ref>Alternative archive: https://archive.is/hySa8</ref>

[[File:Kolyma conspiracy theory - Kolyma Twitter.png|thumb|We may be under new management!]]

OP summarized his case as such:

<blockquote>Let's sum it up. Kolyma-network is a datamining project, not shy to overtake chans and blatantly force admins to sell their projects. Free hosting and technical support is a lure to gather under their control as many chans as possible. For what purpose? At the very least to gather information, the rest is food for thought. These people don't hesitate to lie about their "years" of age by creating pages about themselves on the wiki. Their lies have been proven above and preserved in webarchive, and their sites are nothing more than a cover that they change almost every week. Anon, spread the word, don't let some dataminers from Russia take over your favorite chans!<ref>https://archive.today/1hw1L#16296</ref></blockquote>

Some users pointed out that the captcha<ref>
https://archive.today/1hw1L#q16306: ''Soot was so inactive the last week and now all this with the captcha...''
</ref>
and CP spam<ref>
https://archive.today/1hw1L#q16308: ''Could kuz be the same tranime spammer who later spammed CP on soyjak.party?''
</ref>
may have the new owner's doing, and that datamining and spamming illegal material to force admins to surrender their chans wasn't outside of his wheelhouse.<ref>
https://archive.today/1hw1L#q16309: ''After that, Maki had to delete his chan because, according to him, Kuz threatened him with ddos, spam, and abuse reports.''</ref>

Soot replied, with the kindness and manners befitting an admin:

<blockquote>I never even got a fucking offer, fuck off with your garbage fake schizo spam<ref>https://archive.today/1hw1L#q16329</ref></blockquote>

===== The IP change =====

The schizo went on to point out a suspicious coincidence: the IP address that the soyjak.party domain points to changed on the same day that post was made.

<gallery mode="packed">
File:Kolyma conspiracy theory - Initial offer.png|This post was created on June 22.<ref>{{CitePost | board = suggest | no = 5328 | date = June 22, 2021 | caption = Hey guys, kuz here, world-famous imageboard buyer. I bought alot of imageboards | url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210704212455/https://soyjak.party/suggest//res/5328.html}}</ref><ref>Alternative archive: https://archive.is/PgVkz</ref>
File:Kolyma conspiracy theory - IP address change.png|The IP address that soyjak.party points to also changed on the same day.<ref>If you want to check for yourself, you need to be logged in. You can get a SecurityTrails.com login from BugMeNot: http://bugmenot.com/view/securitytrails.com</ref>
</gallery>

This could mean that either the Party was moved to a new server managed by Kolyma, and that thread was just misdirection,<ref>/b/16294, reply no. 16357: ''Looks like your admin already managed to sell his site, and the thread (''https://archive.today/PgVkz'') was a cover for people to keep posting so they could collect your data.''</ref> or that Soot was just messing around. The second explanation is slightly more likely. Looking at the IP address history:

* Soot has used Cloudflare before, to mitigate the load on the server.
* GigeNET also offers DDoS protection.<ref>Although at a steep price: ''Add any server for $125'', https://www.gigenet.com/ddos-attack/</ref>
* HostSlim BV is a Dutch hosting company.<ref>https://bgpview.io/asn/207083</ref>
* DataIdeas LLC is a hosting company located in Texas.<ref>https://bgpview.io/asn/398355</ref>
* All of ColoCrossing datacenters are in the US.<ref>https://www.colocrossing.com/company/</ref>

===== A fake Soot? =====

[[File:Kolyma conspiracy theory - Schizo connections.png|thumb|A summary of this conspiracy theory.]]

<s>If the website had really been sold to the Russians, you wouldn't expect to see European and American companies, would you?</s>

<s>On the other hand, that's ''exactly'' what one would do, to lure users into a false sense of security...</s>

According to the schizo infographic, the admin of KolymaNET lives in the USA, because he's wanted in Russia for tax evasion.

Soot himself testified that he changed servers to try and improve the performance of the site:

<blockquote>
Really? Are you fucking serious? Yeah, me changing hosts to try and improve the performance of the website is apparently me selling it.<br/>
The fact you think this site is worth any sum of money is the funniest part about this post, really. I honestly wish someone would give me a few grand, but unfortunately I make zero dollars monthly from this website, and I doubt it's worth any amount of money.<ref>{{CitePost|board=soy|no=128642|caption=Really?|date=July 5, 2021|url=https://archive.today/9SgFA}}</ref>
</blockquote>

Several chuds doubted that this was actually Soot. The overtly angry tone may either be a cheap imitation of Soot's seething rants, or the new admin seething, because he got exposed:

<blockquote>
you're trying too hard to imitate soot's butthurt tone<br/>
i know a falseflagger when i see one<ref>https://archive.today/9SgFA#q128827</ref>
</blockquote>

<blockquote>
soot, no need to get aggressive<br/>
otherwise schizos would think you are kuz<ref>https://archive.today/1hw1L#q16330</ref>
</blockquote>

<blockquote>Sounding a bit defensive there, traitor.<ref>https://archive.today/1hw1L#q16332</ref></blockquote>

<blockquote>yep he got called out and now hes quivering in fear, you can hear his voice shaking through the soot microphone we installed some time ago"<ref>https://archive.today/1hw1L#q16333. Nice [[GET|trips]]!</ref></blockquote>

===== Other suspicious clues =====

[[File:Kolyma conspiracy theory - Kolyma spam services.png|thumbnail|Uh-oh, soybros...<ref>{{CitePost|board=soy|no=129168|date=July 5, 2021|url=https://archive.today/9SgFA}}</ref>]]

The KolymaNET Anti-Spam Database is used to <s>maintain a list of enemies of the State</s><ref>Entry #166 is labelled with ''enemy of the network''.</ref> gather information about abusive users on imageboards.

There is one entry in their database, labelled "soyjack.party" (sic).<ref>See entry #192. https://web.archive.org/web/20210705191316/https://spam.kolyma.org/spam.php</ref> According to the page (emphasis added):

<blockquote>To submit an IP adress to the database, please use the form below, select the category the IP belongs to, and then submit. '''The submission will have to be verified by an agent of the Kolyma Network''', and once they are verified they are cemented into the database.</blockquote>

The fact that a ''random IP address'' was verified can mean one of two things:

* The 'Party is already under Kolyma's control, and they can the IPs for each post.
* This is just a psy-op/troll submission by Kuz.

[[File:Kolyma conspiracy theory - Kuz posts on soyjak.party.png|thumb|Kuz renews his offer.<ref>{{CitePost|board=soy|no=129200|date=July 5, 2021|url=https://archive.today/9SgFA}}</ref>]]

[[File:Kolyma conspiracy theory - Kuz's tripcode.png|thumb|Kuz's tripcode, as seen on his website.<ref>https://archive.is/eNwrh</ref>]]

The second possibility is more credible, because a few posts later in the thread, Kuz used his tripcode to prove his identity, and stated that he's serious about buying Soyjak.party.

{{Quote|>B-but that doesn't look like a secure tripcode, and besides, doesn't each imageboard have its own secret, so that the same password on two different boards will generate two different tripcodes?}}

Being in denial has never helped anyone. Take your meds and face the truth.

'''Kuz's tripcode was leaked on July 9, 2021. It's #kuz4'''<ref>{{CitePost
|board=soy
|no=131813
|caption=btw kuz's tripcode is kuz#kuz4
|date=July 9, 2021
|url=http://web.archive.org/web/20210709210427/https://soyjak.party/soy//res/131813.html}}</ref>

Another suspicious clue is how the e-mail service for <code>admin@Soyjak.party</code> is Yandex Mail,<ref>{{CitePost|board=soy|no=129170|caption=>yandex / U-um bros......|date=July 5, 2021|url=https://archive.today/9SgFA}}</ref> a Russian company known to collaborate with the Russian government.<ref>{{CitePost|board=soy|no=129172|caption=Ummm SOOOOOOOOOOOT why would a non-Russian deal with a Russian corporation that sends data to the KGB????????|date=July 5, 2021|url=https://archive.today/9SgFA}}</ref>

Soot addressed that accusation as such:

<blockquote>
I've used it pretty much since the start of this site? I don't think email as a whole is secure at all, so I don't really care about using Yandex. I just use it since it's free. If you wanna give me 5 bucks for a year I'll host it elsewhere, but otherwise Yandex is free and good enough considering I don't use the email for anything very important like sensitive info.<ref>{{CitePost|board=soy|no=129238|caption=I've used it pretty much since the start of this site?|date=July 5, 2021|url=https://archive.today/9SgFA}}</ref>
</blockquote>

====New boards added, radio silence from Soot====

On July 17, Soot made [[Suggest/ Thread No. 6187|a thread]] on Soyjak.party's /suggest/ board offering to create a new board and asking Chuds to reply with some board ideas. After hearing some of the Chuds' suggestions, Soot created a Strawpoll for Chuds to vote on which board should be added; this was later replaced with a second Strawpoll with updated options. When the "/nate/" option emerged victorious, Soot added it, along with two other boards, /x/ and /caca/, on July 20.

Immediately after the boards were created, it became apparent that /nate/ was not working as intended. The board, which was created to contain off-topic posts, failed to stop the Minecraft players from spamming /soy/ with their complaints about the [[Soyjakparty Minecraft Server|Minecraft server]].<ref>soyjak.party catalog, archived on July 25, 2021. Most of the natespam is on the lower half of the 'log. https://web.archive.org/web/20210725213248/https://soyjak.party/soy/catalog.html</ref> Not only did Minecraft players continue Minecraft-posting and [[14nate higgers88|Nate]]-posting on /soy/, their posts also remained up, completely untouched by soyjak.party moderators. This, combined with Soot's complete cessation of interacting with the Party, drew criticism from some Chuds;<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/https://soyjak.party/soy/res/142853.html</ref> some even believed that soyjak.party had become completely unmoderated and had been abandoned by Soot.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/https://soyjak.party/soy/res/142903.html</ref>

On January 30, 2022, this period of inaction was later exposed to be the result of Soot's dissociative identity disorder when it was revealed that [[Nate is soot|Soot and Nate are actually the same person]].<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20220130113247/https://soyjak.party/soy//res/307770.html</ref><ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/jackbritt/comments/ewgrn6/dear_ladies_did_you_know_your_boobs/ ([https://archive.today/InudC archived])</ref>[[File:7 17 2022 soot retirement.jpg|thumb|Soot's retirement message]]
==== Assassination and death ====
{{tip|This is a FALSENVKE by [[Kolyma|kuz's 'cord]], Soot is alive and well despite having mostly left the Soysphere.}}
[[File:Ending_of_the_sharty.png|thumb|''Guess I got what I deserved'']]

The following tale is an account of the death of soot as told by one of his close friends
<blockquote>''On July 17, 2022, a swam or elite Russian [[NSS]] agents, surrounded soots compound in North Carolina. Soot, who had recently sold the site to kuz, knew what was coming. He knew too much, too much for his own good, and he knew he should have never taken the 30 pieces of silver. Soot dressed in his signature grey and yellow garbs and smooched lolkek goodbye. Outside the compound, Col. Yaroslavl Bakhmutov of the 67th elite infantry brigade ordered him to come out with his hands up.''

''Soot, with tears in his eyes, briefly thought of all the moments he spent with the teens, and how deeply filled with regret he was for his mistake. He should have never given up the site, but it was all too late. He swallowed hard and opened the door. Within a fraction of a second, he was dead. The brigade opened fire on him, and he stood for a few seconds, penetrated by hundreds of bullet holes, blood pouring from all over his body. A final thought dashed across his mind before his consciousness was terminated and he was plunged into eternal darkness...''

''"Im so sorry..."''</blockquote>
{{Glow|I am still alive tho.}}

=== Later life ===

==== As a Doordash delivery driver ====
[[File:Doordash.jpg|thumb|stupid cunt]]
After graduating, it is theorised that Soot was unable to be employed, with companies preferring beautiful trans kweens instead. On 5 January 2023, a [[Twitter]] thread was made, which was reposted as a meme. It showed a Doordash delivery driver named ''bruh21'', a known alias of Soot. That image is obviously photoshopped [[THOUGH]]; the font in "bruh21" doesn't match the rest of the text.

However, in 2024 he stated that the driver wasn't him and that he never worked for doordash.

==== Alcoholism and niggerweed ====
In late February 2025 it would appear from emails that Soot has fallen to the bottle and [[Nigger Weed|niggerweed]], this upset some 'eens.<ref>https://kiwifarms.st/threads/soyjak-party-the-sharty.145349/post-20667685</ref>

==== Controversy ====
[[File:Soot is a pedophile.png|thumb]]
On July 27, 2025, Soot-era janny dms were declassified, {{Brimtext|revealing that Soot allowed loli/shota on the sharty}}. This heavily shifted the sharty's opinion on him. A divide formed between [[Nusoi|users who were against Soot]] and those who were with Soot, culminating in yet another [[Useless nigger war|useless nigger war]].

One can say that entire controversy’s existence is quite puzzling. If Soot openly allowed loli/shota, it would certainly have been known about sooner (eventhough the catalog at the time had little moderation so the absence of such info was covered up by the 'p spam. also the fact that [[lolkek]] is a tranny pedophile.).

=== <s>Return</s> ===
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|<span style=font-size:1.85em>'''Are [[you]] sure that it's just getting started?'''</span>
''Because my peer-reviewed studies indicate that''</span><br>
'''<div style="font-size:300%">[[Nothing ever happens|NOTHING EVER HAPPENS]]</div>'''
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<noinclude>
[[Category:Templates]][[Category:Notice templates]]
</noinclude>

On July 30, 2025, Soot would reply to a soyteen letting him know that he has replied to [[Quote]], taking up his (and Froot's) offer<ref>https://archive.ph/g2Np3#59.5%

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/e6tvn</ref> to return as an admin.<ref>https://megalodon.jp/2025-0731-0753-06/https://www.soyjak.st:443/soy/thread/12411192.html [[:File:Sootreturn.png]]</ref> Someone would also falseflag as Soot on 4cuck's /r9k/ in order to bait nusois.<ref>[[:File:sootr9klarp.jpg]]</ref>

{{Redtext|After about a month, nothing has actually happened.}}

{{Glow|[[Glownigger|^This is because this was fake and if you actually believed this then you are retarded. You will NOT investigate further.]]}}

{{Quote|>haha [[nothing ever happens]] [[or something]]}}

== Treatment of Userbase ==
[[File:Sootposting.png|thumb|277x277px|Some users are obsessed with Soot, as if this article wasnt enough to notice. Screenshot taken from the /soy/ catalog.<ref>It just is! Ok?</ref>]]

Soot is infamous for working against the interests of the users of his website. An example of this is the controversy over him locking the [[chudjak]] article. The chudjak article was originally a greatly well written, intelligent and informative article, going into in-depth detail about the origins of chudjak. Unfortunately, an individual using tor decided to vandalise it, ruining what was once a gem. Instead of siding with the wiki's greatest editor, Soot instead opted to side with a tor IP editor, who had contributed nothing else to the website apart from this single rewrite. Soot locked the article to their benefit. Later, after a backlash, Soot decided to have the article <s>unlocked</s> keyed. An edit war ensued, causing Soot to lock it against, fulfilling this IP editors demands.

- Who cares enthusiast
== Victims of Soot ==
As Soyjak.party's autocratic ruler, Soot has been responsible for multiple bans and has employed varied moderation tactics. The most notable people Soot has used his powers against are listed here.
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Victim
!Infliction
!Infliction Result
!Date
!Short Description
|-
|6 million jews
|Genocide, ethnic cleansing
|millions of heckin wholesome jewerinos were removed from earth
|1941-1945
|Soot was a nazi incel chud, and he was the mastermind behind the soyocaust, millions of soyims have died because of that.
|-
|[[Roygbivsloweddown]]
|Banning
|Deletion of reddit account, Suicide
|4-6-2021
|Young man on r/Markiplier whose time on soyjak.party was brought to an abrupt end due to Soot's banning of anything Markiplier-related. Roy was banned, and his first (and last) post deleted by Soot, who believed it to be part of a spam-wave of Markiplier posts. Ended up killing himself because of this.
|-
|[[User:Scatman John]]
|Banning
|IP address exposed, posts deleted
|11-6-2021
|A soyjak.party user known for replying to posts he perceived as [[coal]] with scat imagery. Soot leaked his IP address, revealing that he lives in the UK.
|-
|Stephan
|Reported to the FBI and his mother
|Doxed, and got a stern talking to by Soot
|1-22-2022
|Soot after his site getting DDoSed for the 2040348th time, decided to backtrace the IP addresses originating from China and eventually figured out the perpetrator was a 15 year old named Stephan.
|-
|}

== Soot defends himself ==

{{CIAContentWarning}}

On June 15, 2021, Soot responded to the issues raised in this article in a thread on the /qa/ board of Soyjak.party, after a Chud replied to him with a link to this article:

<blockquote>
Most of the concerns in that wiki page are explained in the article itself or no longer apply, but here goes:<br/>
<span style="color:#789922">>Google Adsense</span><br/>
No longer used, hasn't been for a very long time<br/>
<span style="color:#789922">>Malicious Ads</span><br/>
They were up for less than 30 minutes or so while I was testing with another ad network (I do not have ads on this site anymore)<br/>
<span style="color:#789922">>TrustAsia TLS</span><br/>
Not a security concern since they do not have my private key. That's how TLS is designed to work.<br/>
<span style="color:#789922">>Matomo</span><br/>
I have apolgized ''[sic]'' for any concerns that arose from using this, and once again, I will say this:<br/>
I never sold/shared any data collected using Matomo, and never planned to.<br/>
<span style="color:#789922">>Removal of the Islamic Culture Thread</span><br/>
I removed this because I was concerned about being terminated by my hosting provider. I have since decided to not do anything and just hope I don't get terminated.<br/>
<span style="color:#789922">>captchas</span><br/>
For a short period of time, I used recaptcha on the wiki in an attempt to stop bots. I removed it later on and replaced it with a math captcha instead.<br/>
<span style="color:#789922">>Cloudflare</span><br/>
I used cloudflare to improve performance. I understand the security concerns, but at the same time, I think concern over whether someone can see your soyjak posts is a bit ridiculous. If I were handling payment data or something, then maybe it would make sense.<br/>
<span style="color:#789922">>Admins can see IPs</span><br/>
I thought this would be obvious, especially if you did your research regarding vichan (which I thought the people complaining about my datamining or whatever would do). Apparently, they didn't know this. I cannot see the IP addresses of lurkers through vichan, although I might be able to see them in my server logs or something (I don't know since I don't check them). <br/>
<span style="color:#789922">>Tor nodes blocked</span><br/>
This was not a deliberate effort to block tor nodes, it was just me having to quickly ban and delete posts from spammers hopping tor nodes. I did not even know they were tor IPs at the time.<br/>
<span style="color:#789922">>Intermittent censorship of gems on archive.org</span><br/>
This is ridiculous, I have never had anything removed from archive.org and I have never attempted to have anything removed.<br/>
<span style="color:#789922">>Treatment of Userbase</span><br/>
This is really a matter of opinion. I locked the wiki article because it was just being spammed too much. I didn't really care what it was saying at that point, I just wanted the pointless edit wars to calm down for a bit. The second time I locked it, I left it at what I feel like is a more unbiased state, although some seem to disagree.<br/>
<span style="color:#789922">>Roygbivsloweddown</span><br/>
Once again, this has to be a joke. The posts were almost certainly not from a new person, as they had already previously spammed around 20 threads before making a different post. <br/>
<span style="color:#789922">>User:Scatman John</span><br/>
I don't know when I apparently leaked his IP. I have never revealed any user IPs, the only time that this has ever occured was when the site was breached. <br/>
<span style="color:#789922">>Downward spiral</span><br/>
I would say that this is more me losing patience with people who come on this site every single fucking day to complain about me being a dataminer or whatever. When it comes to the wikimod, I understand the concern, but he's only been a moderator for a week or so. I want to give him a little bit of time to prove himself before I consider removing him.<ref>{{CitePost|board=qa|no=6148|date=June 15, 2021|caption=Most of the concerns in that wiki page are explained in the article itself or no longer apply, but here goes|url=https://web.archive.org/web/https://soyjak.party/qa//res/6141.html}}</ref>
</blockquote>

== Depiction as a Soyjak ==
Soot is depicted as a grey-skinned soyjak with yellow patches around his eyes. This color scheme was based on [[wikipedia:Soot|soot (coal dust)]], which is grey, and cartoon/puppet bear [[wikipedia:Sooty|Sooty]], who is yellow.<ref>It just was, OK?</ref> The original Sootjak was a [[Feraljak]] and featured anthropomorphic bear ears and snout that did not catch on in later iterations.{{cn}} [[Gapejak]] is now the most popular variant to use for Sootjaks. Sootjak actually has yellow patches around his eyes and is not wearing yellow-tinted glasses. {{Glow|Do not investigate this further.}}

== Relationship with Nate ==
Soot's refusal to remove off-topic [[14nate higgers88|Nate]] threads, among other reasons, led many soyteens to believe that [[Nate is soot|Soot and Nate are the same person.]]

On January 30, 2022, this conspiracy theory was confirmed to be true.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20220130113247/https://soyjak.party/soy//res/307770.html</ref><ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/jackbritt/comments/ewgrn6/dear_ladies_did_you_know_your_boobs/ ([https://archive.today/InudC archived])</ref>

== Smooching Allegations ==
[[File:Soot kissy.png|150px|thumb|Leaked image of Soot making an unwanted advance on a Sharty mod.]]
Many [[Trannies|Soyjak.party Mods]] have come out against Soot, claiming that he has tried to give them kisses without their consent. Most [[Soy Community|Soyjak.party users]] believe these claims.{{CitationNeeded|They just do, ok?}}

== See also ==

* [[List of administrators]]
* [[List of Soot-era PMs]]
* [[Sootbaiting]]

=== Q&As ===

* [[Soot/09-24-QA]]
* [[Soot/02-17-QA]]
* [[Soot/02-21-QA]]
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