Great purchase
The Great Purchase, also known as the July Revolution and the Great Sellout, among countless other names, refers to Kuz's purchase and acquisition of soyjak.party on July 14th, 2022 from its founder and former owner, Soot. This event marked the end of the Second Soyvil War. The deal was made public between July 16 and July 17, 2022 in a series of pinned Q&A threads. The deal also included the transfer of SoyBooru to Kuz, but Soot retained ownership over the Soyjak Wiki under a new divorced address. In a Q&A session on July 15th 2023 Kuz revealed that he paid $2000 for the Party.[1][2]
Kuz cemented the buyout an hour into his Q&A thread when he ceremoniously donned his admin capcode.[3]
Background
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Kuz's activity in the soy community has been traced to as early as 2020. He had long wished to own the Party and had entered purchase negotiations with Soot at least once before.
In 2022, Soot became preoccupied with real life commitments such as university and became notably absent from the Party. He was largely criticized for his lack of activity. In his farewell Q&A[4], he claims "I haven’t been able to invest as much time as I would have hoped, and seeing the website in this state during my absence and neglect is nothing short of disheartening".
Splinter Sites
[edit | edit source]Shortly after Kuz's purchase, some Soot-loyalists were wondering where to go. Some soyteens re-activated dead bunker boards or decided to try and turn this very wiki, which was still owned by Soot at the time, into bunker sites. A drama-ridden splinter site called Jakparty.soy was created immediately following the purchase specifically as an anti-Kuz imageboard, Jakparty quickly became more dead than Objectively better imageboards. Two other websites, Frenschan and bStall quickly positioned themselves as anti-Kuz safe havens, but both sites later supported Kuz.
Soyvil War 2
[edit | edit source]The Second Soyvil War, also known as the "Kuz Crisis" was a conflict between Soot and Kuz loyalists, taking place mostly on soyjak.party but also on the soyjak wiki,[5] /bant/, Gurochan, and several Discord servers, Telegram chats, boorus, and a multitude of other websites.
After the BBC War, February 16 Debate, Jannygate, and a handful of other crises, the Party finally snapped. The pro- and anti- Kuz factions devolved into an all-out war which lasted up until Kuz's victory in July 16 of 2022, when he took over the site. Since then, various minor rebel groups have spawned, attempting to take back Sootist control of the Sharty, even after Soot's surrender. Such movements have been named "Dark Sootists" and they often perform terror attacks on the new Kuz-controlled Sharty as a display of dominance. Amongst them are Jarty shills.
The war took place during a time of darkness when Soot was busy with university and wasn't able to properly moderate the site, leading to chaos and incidents such as Dancing swede.mp4.
