Purity Spiral

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Purity Spiral is darker than coal...

Purity Spiral
The coal that will kill the sharty?
Mass sociogenic illness
Date	Indeterminate - Present

The Purity Spiral is a social psychological phenomenon persistent on Soyjak.party that is born out of the established userbase's desire to maintain the board's post quality and prevent the erase or hijacking of soy culture by third parties.

It occurs when an uptick of bait, falseflagging, spam, and other malicious social engineering leads to increased distrust amongst soyteens. Over time, gemmy threads become substituted with threads complaining about or ridiculing the coally state of the 'log, threads soyquoting the bait threads, and threads demanding rules against the media or bait in question.

Real or perceived threats (such as discord, twitter users, splinters, or namefags) and soyteens themselves perpetuate the harmful effects of the spiral in a vicious cycle where bait is posted or media is forced and teens take the obvious bait, propagating it and eventually leading to the creation of separate threads discussing or complaining about whatever is currently being forced. This leakage causes more bait to be posted until eventually the 'log is dominated by vantablack brimstone.

The spiral manifests as hatred towards newGODS and accusations of being a pedo 'cord furry troon coaler, sometimes warranted and sometimes directed towards innocent soyteens who do or say anything considered even slightly out of line (and sometimes even when posting something completely and utterly unrelated to the bait), as well as a general dissatisfaction with new OC, new raids, the site's management, and more.

The spiral is not a phenomenon that is unique to the sharty, and has been observed in many other communities such as 4cuck, where it lead to oldfaggotry and was arguably a main reason for both the rise and fall of /qa/. This could possibly mean that the spiral will continue until the physical or spiritual death of the sharty.

The spiral is expected to intensify as the sharty continues to grow in popularity and attract the interest of nefarious actors who would seek to utilize it for their own goals^{[It just is, ok?]}.

Symptoms

• Coal
• Schizophrenia
• Namefag Drama
• IF THIS THREAD GETS X THEN Y IS REMOVED threads
• 'Jakking Fatigue
• Poopson
• Turning into a frog
• Splintering
• Soyvil Wars

Treatment

During severe exacerbations of the spiral, teens often demand bans or new rules to protect the quality of the site, but these can be controversial since some regard them as rulescucking and a restriction on the freedom of teens to post (one of the most attractive qualities of the site).

In reality, if teens simply learned to ignore obvious bait, most social engineering would fail and this would most likely be enough to end the spiral once and for all, but this is highly unlikely to ever happen considering the average chronological and mental age of sharty users.

For now, the jannies have set up filters to contain threads posted with certain terms, such as the names of media or namefags, in an effort to limit NAS bait and slow the progression of the spiral.

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  A coally 'log suffering from the effects of the spiral.

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  Threads such as this are both a symptom and a cause of the spiral.

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  Spiral-induced schizophrenia causes one to see enemies where there are none