The Great Vichan Crisis

2026-08-07T17:49:42Z

~2026-7:

[[File:Screenshotsdadasd.PNG|thumb|470x470px|The hacker explaining how they did it.]]
The '''Great Vichan Crisis''' is a currently ongoing event taking place within the [[Soysphere]]; more specifically, splinters without frequent attention to [[Vichan]]. The crisis began with leaked screenshots posted on [[Soygem.party|The Shemmy]] by a (currently unknown) hacker detailing his ability to shut down splinters that use Vichan, planning on shutting down the Shemmy first. The hacker notably called out [[Swedishwin.com|The Swinny]] and [[Chud.win|The Chinny]] as targets for another attack; however, they stated they had no plans at that moment for when he would start. Before the first threats were created, subsequently spread, and made aware of, the hacker would go through with his threats by killing all moderation on the Shemmy by deleting all janny accounts and spamming DNB, '''forcing a total shutdown of the website'''. This would throw the various splinters still using Vichan into a panic, resulting in down time for many.

== Sequence of Events ==

=== Shemmy Leaks ===

On the day of July 6th, 2026, close to 10 am UTC, an unidentifiable hacker leaked screenshots of The Shemmy's admin interface.
The Shemmycucks had believed that this was just some rogue janny, but they would be disproven soon enough.<ref>https://archive.is/xfJar</ref> Due to a practice that many splinterbros apply called {{Gemeraldtext|using multiple splinters}}, information about this would quickly be spread to many splinters, primarily ones mentioned by the hacker<sup>(pretty much only the Swinny, Chinny users did not pay as much mind)</sup>. Here is a collection of the screenshots the hacker leaked below.<gallery>
File:1783330815848.png|Admin Feedback list
File:Ip censored.png|Admin's Cloak and censored IP address
File:1783328979483.png|The first image posted by the hacker; user manage page.
File:1783328928554.png|List of all janny notes written.
File:1783329595579.png|Shemmy Admin post on /j/
</gallery>
[[File:Wow shemmy.PNG|thumb|Shemmygoombas speculating over the hacker]]
At first, users were skeptical that this hacker would do anything to actually shut down the Shemmy, seeing as he hadn't already done it despite his immense control, and he refused to leak anyone's IP. Speculation around the hacker would form soon enough. Posters on the Shemmy and Swinny would bring up if it was a [[Soyjak.party|Sharty]] user, an obsessed [[SoyBooru]] cuckhold, or someone in [[Quote]]'s cabal. As of today, no clear answer has been given outside of using [[You|(You)]]<nowiki/>r common sense.

However, current evidence DOES point to someone in Quote's cabal being the most likely answer, for they have had a history of targeting splinters no matter how brimmy or gemmy they might be<sup>(except ones under Quotecord control/influence like the [[Soyzellig.party|Zarty]] [[Schizophrenia|and the Chaddy]])</sup>, have worked with their own version of Vichan for years now, and desire more traffic both to the imageboard and 'ru while using soyop techniques like banning mentions of splinters on the Sharty. Albeit, it could very well be some embittered soyposter who doesn't have allegiance to any website and hacks for an unknown purpose. More information on this history can be found here: [[Sharty Gigaleak]]

=== Shemmy's Temporary Shutdown & Reactions ===
[[File:Shemmyshutdownpage.png|thumb|200x200px|Shemmy's webpage after the shutdown]]
Hours after the threats were made and spread, the hacker would go through with his promises. He began by deleting Shemmy Janny accounts to prevent anyone from deleting anything and began to exhaust the website with incredible amounts of spam. The hacker was joined by a 3rd-party DNB spammer while all of this was happening, quickening the shutdown. One even spammed repeating text saying "STOP POSTING DNB NIGGER" in response to the DNB spam.<ref>https://archive.is/OuefV</ref> After some time of constant spamming, the website was forced to shut down completely until it switched to a new imageboard engine that wasn't compromised by exploits. This event was noticed by a Manager on the Swinny, who had been monitoring the situation occurring on the Shemmy, and he contacted the rest of the Swinny staff to warn of the "dire situation" that befell the Swinny. Users were informed in an unrelated thread of the shutdown, and soon enough, a /q/ thread would be created for active users to read up on the event.
[[File:Chinnyreaction.png|thumb|Chinny's reaction to the Shemmy being shutdown]]
Chinny users would notice the Shemmy shutdown sometime later, comprising mixed reactions about how they either couldn't enjoy their [[Tama|Shemmy niggerstone]] or were laughing at the shithole's shutdown.

=== Swinny's Temporary Shutdown ===
[[File:Swinnymaintenance.png|thumb|236x236px|Swinny's maintenance page during the event.]]
As promised, the Swinny shut down on the evening of July 6th (UTC). The decision was approved by [[Carl XVI Gustaf]] and most jannies, recognizing the website was likely the next big target on the hacker's list. All activity held on the Swinny was transferred to a bunker thread on the Swinny's pseudo-sister website, [[Thatsnuts.online|The Nutty]], where developers and staff kept up communications with Swedes on updates.<ref>https://megalodon.jp/2026-0708-0041-39/https://thatsnuts.online:443/squirrel/thread/206.html</ref> While the Swinny was shut down, the developer team was forced into actual activity such as converting all of the Vichan code to [[Jschan|JSchan]] for added security, working on converting old posts to the new engine, and bringing the website back up very quickly to prevent the death of the website.<ref>https://megalodon.jp/2026-0708-0043-29/https://thatsnuts.online:443/squirrel/thread/1021.html</ref> The conversion to JSChan will be used to safely continue development on the Swinny's own imageboard engine: "SwedeChan". An announcement was posted to Swinny's Official [[Telegram]], if (You) cared.

Swedes would coin this event as "The Swedepocalypse" even though it really wasn't as catastrophic as they may believe. In the words of the manager: {{Gemeraldtext|>Better safe than sorry}}.<gallery>
File:Mannymessage.png|Swinny Manager's update to Swedes
File:Devmessage.png|Developer update on JSChan conversion
File:Swinnyjschandemo.png|JSChan Swinny before the website is brought back
</gallery>

=== Wider Soysphere Reaction ===
Whether it was taken seriously at all is up for a HEAVY DEBATE, but the only core-Soysphere website that seemingly cared was the SoyBooru. As brought up in the first entry of this article, the Sharty cracks down on any mentioning of splinters outside of their control, so the {{Jewtext|(((Soyim)))}} do not know and do not care. SoyBooruniggers primarily used this event as fodder for shitflinging against the Swinny<ref>https://megalodon.jp/2026-0708-0102-00/https://soybooru.com:443/forum/gen/thread/32051</ref>, and in some amount, the Shemmy. Wider Soysphere reactions have been small as of now.

=== Vichan reaching its end of life ===
As part of the hack aftermath, [[Angeleno]] decided to archive the Vichan repository<ref>https://github.com/vichan-devel/vichan/commit/ec2784c94893d6a3ff4a6d7766041affffdd365a</ref>, including a warning that people still using Vichan do so at their own risk.
[[File:Vichan-eol.png|thumb|300x200px|Angeleno's statement about Vichan's EOL]]

== The Aftermath ==

* The Shemmy shuts down on July 6th immediately after the hack. The next day there is an announcement on Telegram about plans to switch to a different imageboard engine. As of July 25th, this still hasn't happened; instead, shemmycucks use the /bint/ board on the Chinny as their bunker. The Shemmy returns to its default state of being a DNB.
* The Swinny preventively shuts down soon after the Shemmy gets hacked, returns on a buggy JSchan fork on July 14th after using the nutty as their bunker for over a week.
* The Zarty finally migrates to [[soruum]] as the Vichan replacement. They have already used it for months on their forum but for whatever reason not on the main website.
* The Hunky becomes available on Tor only while ''still'' running Vichan. It's not sure what their reasoning was.
* The Chinny does nothing.

== Who Dunnit? ==
No credible information has been released. If any has that hasn't already been brought up within this article, be sure to update this section with it.

For now, absolutely do NOT use any Vichan imageboard without a VPN. Just because the hacker hasn't leaked IPs of anyone yet doesn't mean he won't. Stay safe, soyposters.
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