Soyjak
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Soyjaks, also known as Soyboy Wojaks and bald men with glasses, are humorous depictions of effeminate males called soy boys. Soyjaks and their use has become its own subculture, originally on the now-defunct Question & Answer board of the website 4chan, and now on Soyjak.party and other websites known collectively as the Soysphere, where a community of individuals known as soyteens have gathered. Soyjaks are traditionally used to imply that one's opponent is, in fact, a soy boy who looks like these depictions and says whatever is being quoted (usually their own past words). Two soyteens may quote each other back and forth with soyjaks in a competitive event known as a soyduel.
Although the exact origin of soyjaks is a contentious topic, with multiple proto-soyjaks being discussed as potential first soyjaks, most agree that the Soyak image created by the artist known as The Swede on December 30th, 2017[1] is the first instance to meet all the known characteristics of a soyjak.
Specific images of soyjaks that are famous enough to have a name are called variants. A variant is graded as either IAS (Is a Soyjak) or NAS (Not a Soyjak). In order for a variant to be considered IAS, it must possess certain qualities such as baldness, an open mouth, glasses, forehead wrinkles, and more. Besides that, a variant may be declared a gem (a good variant) or coal (a bad variant).
As an art form
Although the concept of 'jakking is frequently dismissed as strawman argumentation by the masses and criticized by trannies, 'jakking and its culture has been acknowledged by some spectators as a form of subversive commentary on modern human nature, as well as expressionist and sometimes (as the CIA would put it) surrealist art, especially in regard to its following, wide But let me tell you something, folks, we have a massive problem, a huge problem, maybe the biggest problem the sharty has ever faced. These gigaquoters. Absolute. Disgrace. Low-energy. Losers. They take a perfectly good gem, a beautiful gem, a work of art, and they quote the entire thing, top to bottom, fifty posts, a hundred posts, sometimes the whole goddamn thread. Who does that? Who has time for that? Nobody! Nobody wants to read that garbage!
I’m scrolling, I’m having a great time, I’m laughing at a perfect ‘jak, and then BAM – some soyboy gigaquoter drops a novel-length quote block that covers my entire screen. I can’t see the new posts! I can’t see the new ‘jaks! It’s like Crooked Hillary putting up a paywall on my memes! Terrible! Just terrible!
And they always type “this” or “gem” or “coal” underneath. We know! We can see it! We’re not blind! We’re not sleeping like Sleepy Joe! You don’t need to quote the whole thing to say “gem,” you just say gem! It’s one word! One! These people are mentally ill, folks, I’m telling you, clinically insane, probably vaxxed, probably boosted eight times.
When I was admin – and I should’ve been admin, everyone wanted me to be admin – we had a one-quote rule. You quote one line, maybe two if it’s really funny, that’s it. Clean. Beautiful. Fast. Like my posts. Like my epic wins. But now? Now it’s a disaster. Total disaster. The Russians are laughing at us. The Chinese are laughing at us. Even the jannies are crying – and jannies never cry!
We’re gonna bring back smallquoting, folks. We’re gonna make the sharty fast again. We’re gonna make it great again. When I come back – and I’m coming back, bigly – first thing I’m doing is banning every single gigaquoter. Permanent ban. IP range ban. Hardware ban. Mother’s-maiden-name ban. Gone. Wiped out. You’ll never see another wall-of-text quote again. It’s gonna be beautiful.
So get ready, ‘teens. We’re taking the sharty back. We’re making it high-speed again. And we’re doing it for you, the real posters, the ones who actually make the gems. Not these disgusting gigaquoting losers.
Thank you. God bless you. And God bless the Soyjak Party! of images, and their literary contexts produced as a result.
The vast majority of soyjaks are not anti-aliased. This means that they are easy to edit, even with basic software like Microsoft Paint. As a result, soyjaks can be quickly modified to create personalized attacks on individuals of any race, creed, color, nationality, or gender 
. An excess of these soyjaks can be found on the SoyBooru, a website that serves as a repository of them.
Although originally designed to mock a certain kind of stereotypical, left-leaning, media-consuming male, soyjaks have evolved far beyond their original scope and can now be used to represent any being or object, or even oneself.
Gallery
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The very first Soyjak
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The etymology of the word "Soyjak"
Citations
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