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Lost media soyjaks
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Lost media soyjaks, also known as the lost 'jaks, are a group of soyjaks which once existed but no longer do. A soyjak is considered lost media if it does not have a presence on the 'ru and cannot be found on archival sites like archive.org. Research involving carbon-dating suggests that 90% of all soyjaks ever created have been lost to history.[it just is, ok?]
Partially Lost Soyjaks[edit | edit source]
"Partially Lost Soyjaks" refer to one of two things.
Lost 'Jaks of the first type are found in threads that exist on archive sites such as Archive.org or archive.ph. These sites only save the Thumbnails, not the full images, revealing only a low-res glimpse of the beauty of the original.
The other type are 'Jaks in which edits of the 'Jak are extant, despite the original being missing (Example: Rupturejak). If enough different edits of a missing 'Jak exist, a reconstruction can sometimes be made using them, but reconstructions should not be confused with the original.
Lost Threads[edit | edit source]
Threads that do not exist on any archive website. The only chance of survival for these are Screenshots made by Soyteens or being manually archived by them but very few of these ever turn up.
In January 2023, The Afterparty went down with no warning, and very few noticed. Most 'teens had fallen out of their archival habits due to the Afterparty's existence, and this lapse lead to nearly all of January becoming lost.
In June 2023, the logwarehouse shut down, causing the massive loss of archives from late November 2022 to early June 2023.
In December 2023, the wayback machine excluded ALL archives of the sharty, causing possibly the single most damaging loss in the history of the sharty, many important threads and posts, especially the older ones, were only archived on it and nowhere else, doomed to be lost forever.
Recovery & Prevention[edit | edit source]
Once it is realized that a jak is lost, the best chance at recovery is to petition soyjakkers to check their files for the lost jak. The first 24 hours are the most important. It is best to ask calmly but to get straight to the point: "Has anyone seen the jak who (description)? I can't find it."
If a Partially Lost 'jak is discovered on an archive site, the first thing one should do is look up either the filename or UNIX timestamp on any 4chan archive website (intersite posting was extremely common before The Great Soyset).
In order to reduce the rate at which soyjak-related media becomes lost, it is necessary to archive everything, as sharty archives have historically proven to be fickle things that can easily go down. The best way to do so (unless you switch and/or break computers every thrembosecond for some reason) is to archive it on your own hard drive, as while you don't have much control over whether popular archiving websites like archive.ph and Ghostarchive will continue to exist tomorrow, you do have control over your own saved webpages. If you don't want to waste space on your hard drive, then you can use the aforementioned archiving websites (archive the archives of another archiving website for extra security). Don't use web.archive.org, as it has compromised by (((certain people))) in order to censor websites with too much dissident right-wing content like Kiwifarms and the sharty. Also keep in mind that videos don't play in archive.ph, so use GhostArchive for archiving videos instead.
Examples[edit | edit source]
To be researched: any other examples?. Can (You) help us?
- The Wheels of TND
- The "Social Contract" Feraljak edit (The first missing 'Jak to be reconstructed) (found as of April 4, 2024)
- "Samefag Soyjak" (Real name unknown)[1]
- Countless Jaks made by The Swede (Most likely exist on 4chan archives, but no attempt to gather them has yet been made.)
- Various Adventure threads
- Doctor Soyberg's Death Thread (Post no. 4553)
- Various early GETS (1000, 5000, 10000, 11111, 800000 among others)
- according to the stonetoss page in this very wiki, someone pretending to be him once did a AMA with drawings in /soy/, real or not this thread is long lost
- All of the "twitter tranny artstyle" 'jaks that were posted in a specific thread in the now deleted /art/
- Several promotion 'jaks for FNAC (They were pinned threads, showing soyjaks hiding creepily in the darkness)
- Sharty Hyakugojyuuichi or Jakugojyuuichi was once briefly lost because the newgrounds page it was on got deleted. It is also one of the more unpopular ones.
- Oreo Is Here; It's Queer; I'm Used To It! (aka the video Nojak originates from)
On the 'ki[edit | edit source]
After the 'ki went down from 3 days between May 27th, 2024 and May 30th, 2024 and went back up, some images have been missing from some articles. It remains to be seen whether these images can be recovered. Also, tranny jannies may delete a useful page from time to time. Now you might think that pages that get deleted deserve it for being forced Discord coal or whatever, and usually you'd be correct. However, you never know whenever a gemmy page that you like gets wiped or deleted by a pissbaby chudcel with a leaking clitty, so it is best to archive your favorite pages on archive.ph.
Reasons for Loss[edit | edit source]
It is unknown why some jaks end up as lost media and others don't; the vast majority of lost media soyjaks are never recovered for analysis. However, there are well-evidenced theories supported by known creation events on how lost media soyjaks come to be.
Lack of party archives[edit | edit source]
Every board on 4chan including the late /qa/ is serviced by third-party archival sites such as desuarchive--this makes it easy to track soyical trends and mine for hidden gems. For a long time there was no such corresponding service for soyjak.party despite overwhelming demand from the community - without an archive, when an image is pushed off the catalogue, it's gone for good.
There is currently renewed interest in a party archive following the Great Purchase and the site's takeover by Kuz, who had supposedly promised such a service, and eventually did create an official archive - the "Afterparty" - on sp.logwarehouse.net, which archives posts that are more than an hour old in order to minimize the archiving of cheese. In June 21st, 2023 the afterparty when down, and was down for nearly a month, any thread that wasn't manually archived by 'teens was lost forever. It came back in late july but shut down again in August. Angeleno has access to all of the posts, but over 80% of files in the archive don't work anymore
All of the archived threads on sp.logwarehouse were moved to archive.marge.moe, although the images have been lost.
As of 8 December 2024, archive.soyjak.st is the current 'arty archive.
Retarded Booru Jannies not approving Gems[edit | edit source]
if a Post is denied by Booru jannies, it becomes inaccessible to the average jakker. It is unknown why any given post could be denied, but its theorized that there may just be no reason at all, seeing all the lazy flag edits that regularly get approved en masse.
Also related are Jaks deleted in Booru Purges. Although most Purge victims were coal that deserved it, countless gems have been caught up amongst the coal and forever destroyed.
Deletion of SoyBooru[edit | edit source]
On August 25, 2021, SoyBooru was deleted by a booru.org admin. This event wiped out a year of archival work from 'jak history and possibly created thousands of lost media soyjaks as the soy community was forced to port an incomplete backup to OnionsBooru. The onionsbooru was archived in its entirety before being deleted as well, however it's shared among a few extremely bitter oldteens who refuse to share it with anyone, although I remember one of the nicer ones giving it to me on /r/, although MY FUCKING COMPUTER BROKE AND I CAN'T GET MY FILES BACK SO I LOST IT WDERFWDWADEFRGTHJYMYNRBGVF AAAAAAAHHHHH FUCKNIGGERS IF YOU HAVE IT AND KNOW WHO YOU ARE SEND IT TO ME ON EMAIL ON MY PROFILE.
On August 14, 2023, the SoyBooru was taken down along with Soyjak.Party in the wake of Doll selling the site. The site's future remains uncertain, but as it stands, it is possible many gems will become lost media due to this event. it's back online albeit lost around ~8000 jaks As of 8 December 2024, the Soybooru is up with the vast majority of the 'jaks that have been posted on there.
Splinters[edit | edit source]
During the Soypocalypse many, MANY splinters were made and most went down either because the mods couldn't handle the cp spam, cp traps made by GIH or foodists that were deleted by the site's host, or were shut down because of the sharty's return, any content posted in them is likely completely lost.
Very little information about the cp splinters is left, with the only archives being deleted due them containing cp.
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