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'''Soot'''<sup>[[The Ultimate International Jewpill (Edition 9)|✡]]</sup> (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945), also known as '''sootie-pie''' by his fans and '''nigger-admin''' by his critics, was an Israeli alt-right [[Chudjak|chud]] incel politician who was the dictator of [[Soyjak.party]] from 1933 to 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Soyjak.party, becoming Chancellor in 1933 and then assuming the title of ''Führer und Reichskanzler'' in 1934. During his dictatorship from 1933 to 1945, he initiated Soy War II in Soyurope by invading Pooland on 1 September 1939. He was closely involved in military operations throughout the war and was central to the perpetration of the Holocaust, the genocide of about 6 million Jews and millions of other victims.
{|
|'''Born'''
On January 24th, 2022, Soot contracted the [[Covid-19|Coronavirus]] (deltacron) and became violently ill. Some speculate soot has already died.
|Yuri Mikhailovich Kuznetsov, June 30th, 1988, Bologoye, Omsk, RSFSR, USSR
|-
== Timeline of Soot's involvement with the CIA ==
|'''Occupation'''
|Network Administrator, Money Lender
The Chuds on the website have kept a watchful eye on Soot's policies with regards to information security and datamining.
The earliest capture of soyjak.party's """privacy policy""" page, dated October 17, 2020 contained several questionable references to Google advertisement cookies, and explicitly stated that third-party services were able to track users.<ref>(((Soot))). ''Privacy Policy for soyjak.party''. October 17, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20201017212456/https://soyjak.party/privacy.html</ref>
|'''Known for'''
|[[KolymaNET]], involvement in the 'party
It contained some bone-chilling sentences, such as:
|-
|'''Tripcode'''
<blockquote>''Google is one of a third-party vendor on our site. It also uses cookies, known as DART cookies, to serve ads to our site visitors based upon their visit to us and other sites on the internet.''</blockquote>
|kuz!netsovkMgo
|-
and:
|'''IAS?'''
|Varies. See: Yurijak variant
<blockquote>''Third-party ad servers or ad networks uses technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on soyjak.party, which are sent directly to users' browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.''</blockquote>
|}
|alt=]]
The last capture that features this wording was on November 29, 2020.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20201129105214/https://soyjak.party/privacy.html</ref> Sometime between then and December 7, 2020,<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20201207005644/https://soyjak.party/privacy.html</ref> references to third parties were removed, and were replaced with the following notice:
'''Yuri Mikhailovich Kuznetsov'''<sup>[[The Ultimate International Jewpill (Edition 9)|✡]]</sup> (30 June 1988), also known as '''Kuz'''<ref>"On the internet I use the moniker "kuz"." - kuz.lol</ref>, and ''k♡♡z''<ref>Various assorted irc and discord screenshots</ref> by his fans, is a 33<ref>kuz.lol his personal website says so</ref> year old Russian<ref>"I am 33, I was born in Omsk, Russia, but moved to the United States in 2014. On the internet I use the moniker "kuz"."
<blockquote>''soyjak.party no longer shares information with any third parties, including advertising agencies and any other groups. Google adsense was removed a long time ago.''</blockquote>
=== Malicious ads ===
Soot once implemented ads with malware on the site. It was promptly removed, but begged the question of his retarded and sketchy behaviour as a web admin.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20200926200423/https://blog.soyjak.party/?p=40</ref>
=== March 2021: TrustAsia TLS ===
[[File:TrustAsia TLS.png|thumb|All of your shitpost have been siphoned to a Chinese datacenter, so that Based Lord Xi can read them at his leisure.]]
[[File:TrustAsia TLS Huawei Cloud.png|thumb|"What? Huawei has ties with the Chinese government, and has been accused of technology theft? What are you talking about? Take your meds, schizo!"<ref>https://www.npr.org/2019/06/08/730898429/huawei-accused-of-technology-theft?t=1623276723388</ref>]]
TrustAsia is a Chinese provider of TLS certificates. I'm not even going to post a reference, look it up at your own risk.
- Kuz.lol</ref> business tycoon and former prolific poster<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20220206054043/soyjak.party/soy//res/322024.html</ref> to [[Soyjak.party|the 'party]]. Kuz is the founder and administrator of the [[Kolyma Network]]<ref><nowiki>https://www.kolyma.org/about</nowiki></ref>, a Russian internet company which provides services such as webhosting, server rental, and VPNs<ref>kolyma.org</ref>. He also administrates [https://heyuri.net Heyuri], and his Company is known for hosting many [[Imageboard|imageboards]] with questionable contents and backgrounds<ref>kolyma.org/about</ref>, such as Gurochan<ref>The front page has information about KolymaNET and its involvement. https://guro.cx - WARNING, NSFW CONTENT</ref>. His [[Schizophrenia|energetic and eccentric attitude]], and [[NSS|bizarre ideas]] and websites have lead him to both success<ref>Kuz's net worth is about 108M Rubles, or roughly 1.4 Million dollars.</ref> and controversy.<ref>[[Kuz]]'s controversy page contains details about his numerous controversial engagements.</ref>
Why would ((Soot)) not switch to Let's Encrypt?<ref>https://letsencrypt.org/</ref> He has no excuses:
Kuz is generally considered one of the most influential soyjak.party users in history, second only to soot.<ref>Kuz is mentioned on the catalog almost as much as soot, and yurijak variants a testament to his influence on jakkers. His attempted purchase and this wiki article all further cement this.</ref> His actions, for better<ref>See: Contributions</ref> or worse<ref>See: Controversies</ref>, have a big impact on the 'party's state at any one time.<ref name=":3">Just one kuz tripcode post can send the board into a flurry</ref> He has a large base of [[Discord|detractors]] who regularly report on his every move,<ref name=":3" /> and a [[NSS|scattered base of followers]].
* He is no longer using shared hosting, but a VPS,<ref>Soot. ''Recent Downtime''. November 28, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20210408185627/https://blog.soyjak.party/?p=57</ref> so he can install any software he wants.
== Early life ==
* Let's Encrypt [[Janny|does it for free]] (wholesome!).
'''Yuri Mikhailovich Kuznetsov''' was born on June 30, 1988, in Russia, to a [[The Ultimate International Jewpill (Edition 9)|Jewish]] family of Ukrainian and Russian origin.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Siegel|first=Alan|date=2020-08-07|title=Seth Rogen's Jewish American Tale|url=https://www.theringer.com/movies/2020/8/7/21357712/seth-rogen-american-pickle-jewish-comedy|access-date=2021-04-12|website=The Ringer|language=en}}</ref><ref name="birth notice">{{cite news|title=BIRTHS|work=Jewish Western Bulletin|date=May 13, 1982|url=http://newspapers.lib.sfu.ca/jwb-24550/page-10|access-date=July 8, 2020|quote=Sandy and Mark [[Rogan|Rogen]] are pleased to announce the birth of their son, Seth Aaron, 9 lbs. 2 oz., on April 15, a brother for Danya. Proud grandparents are Kelly and Faye Belogus of Vancouver and Annette and Al Robins, New Jersey. Great-grandparents are Edith and Joe Rogen of New York.}}</ref> His mother, Sandy Kuznetsov, is a social worker, and his Russian father, Mark Kuznetsov, worked for non-profit organizations and as an assistant director of the Workmen's Circle Jewish fraternal organization.<ref name="mark">{{cite web |last=Pfefferman |first=Naomi |url=http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=7579 |title=Seth Rogen |work=[[The Jewish Journal (Boston North)|Jewish Journal]] |access-date=September 18, 2010}}</ref><ref name="guardianinterview" /><ref name="torontostar">{{cite news |url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/471435 |title=Seth Rogen sells |first=Richard |last=Ouzounian |work=[[Toronto Star]] |date=August 3, 2008 |access-date=June 16, 2011}}</ref><ref>Rodrick, Stephen. (May 27, 2007) [https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/27/magazine/27apatow-t.html?pagewanted=all "Judd Apatow's Family Values"]. ''[[The New York Times]]''. Retrieved January 7, 2012.</ref> Of his dual citizenship, Rogen has stated, "I definitely associate with being Jewish much more than being Russian" because he grew up in Israel.<ref>{{cite web |first=Neala |last=Johnson |title=Seth Rogen's guide to making movies: lie to the studio, hire your friends, offend the church and have a lot of fun |publisher=[[News.com.au]] |date=July 12, 2013 |url=http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/movies/seth-rogen8217s-guide-to-making-movies-lie-to-the-studio-hire-your-friends-offend-the-church-and-have-a-lot-of-fun/story-e6frfmvr-1226678977733 |access-date=October 18, 2015 }}{{Dead link|date=December 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> He has described his parents, who met on kibbutz Beit Alfa in Israel, as "radical Jewish socialists".<ref name="guardianinterview">{{cite news |last=Patterson |first=John |title=Comedy's new centre of gravity |work=[[The Guardian]]|date=September 14, 2007 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2007/sep/14/3 |access-date=June 16, 2011 |location=London}}</ref> He attended Moscow Talmud Torah Elementary School, incorporating many of his classmates into his writing, and took up kyokushin karate for ten years.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Nardwuar vs. Seth Rogen|url=https://nardwuar.com/rad/seth-rogen/|last=[[Nardwuar]]|date=May 4, 2017|website=Nardwuar the Human Serviette Radio Show!|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-05|archive-date=May 5, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200505014103/https://nardwuar.com/rad/seth-rogen/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title=Seth Rogen, Not Such A Loser In Real Life|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98956848|website=NPR|language=en|access-date=2020-05-05}}</ref>
* It's dead-simple to set it up with nginx,<ref>https://certbot.eff.org/</ref> even someone who copy-pasted some shit code to create a random image array in JS<ref>I'm not joking: https://web.archive.org/web/20210609224016/https://soyjak.party/suggest//res/408.html#2275</ref> could do it.
* The sunk-cost fallacy of having to use a (((botnet certificate))) he paid for until it expires is a meme, especially if he keeps reassuring us that this site is not a "datamining scheme".<ref>Soot. ''Financials'' April 29, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210609223259/https://blog.soyjak.party/?p=84</ref>
It really gets your noggin' joggin'.
== Background ==
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=== April 2021: Matomo.js ===
Kuz was born in 1988 in Omsk, Russia. Apparently to a poor family, on the outskirts of a village, several miles from the Kazakh border.<ref name=":1">[https://archive.fo/QWh0b#selection-41.0-45.427 https://archive.fo/QWh0b]</ref><ref>http://okato-kod.ru/55024000006.html</ref> Kuz is married,<ref><nowiki>https://kuz.lol</nowiki></ref> He lives in Memphis, Tennessee after allegedly fleeing the Russian Federation for tax evasion.<ref>https://archive.fo/QWh0b</ref><ref>https://archive.fo/QWh0b</ref>
[[File:Matomo-analytics-dashboard.png|thumb|What (((Soot))) could see while using Matomo.]]
In 2005, kuz started a Russian textboard website called 9channel<ref>https://archive.fo/QWh0b</ref>, which was notably the first Russian textboard.<ref>"In 2005, Kuznetsov began working for a Russian internet services provider called Mag-Net, which provided internet for eastern Russia, primarily, Magadan, hence the name. Either before or during this same time, he started an internet textboard website called 9channel (more on this later). The site was tor-only with a clearweb gateway. It was never hugely popular as he would like to claim in later years, never surpassing more than 10,000 daily posts. The site caught notice of local authorities, and was later brought to the clearweb. From this moment on, Kuznetsov likely was at least aware that authorities were closely watching him. The sites purpose varied, but it was largely for sharing links to pornography, sometimes illegal pornography. Kuznetsov likes to claim it was filesharing pirated materials, but history would like to say otherwise."</ref> The site grew but never became particularly active, although kuz likes to pretend it was "the biggest anonymous website in Russia", [[though]] this is very [[Debunked|easibly disproven]]. The website was widely known to be only a hotbed for the sharing of [[Dancing swede.mp4|illegal material]], pirated movies, and "crime announcements", or posts announcing or displaying small crimes (like vandalism) anonymously. The latter became such a problem that it is specifically written into the Kolyma Networks rules that "crime announcements" are banned, although this did little to curb the problem. The website was shut down in 2017 along with most of kuz's websites.<ref>https://archive.fo/QWh0b</ref><ref>https://kolyma.org/about </ref><ref><nowiki>https://devyach.net/9ch.html</nowiki></ref>
Soot figured that maybe people would react less negatively to datamining software if it was ''open-source'', instead of some proprietary tracking system by a giant corporation.
Proof of the existance of 9channel is scarce as users of the website were generally rather secretive. There are no public archives, as kuz refuses to release any, the site also is not on archive.org or archive.is because it is was tor-only.<ref>Please replace this citation with one from one of kuz's sites. He has said this multiple times but i cant find it</ref> There is however a "Devyach" (9ch in Russian) twitter account which contains a tor link and was created in 2009.<ref><nowiki>https://twitter.com/devyach</nowiki></ref> This is very likely the real 9channel as it cites its location as Omsk, Russia, and contains a common 9ch slogan in the description.<ref>https://twitter.com/devyach</ref>
Soot thus included the open-source datamining software [[Matomo]] on his site. The schizos took notice, and started filling the boards with [[CIA]] soyjaks, exposing Soot's datamining scheme.
In 2008, kuz contracted [[Faggot|HIV]] from a prostitute on a "business" trip to poland.<ref>https://archive.fo/QWh0b#selection-131.312-131.424</ref> Critics suggest he actually contracted it from being brutally raped in the Russian [[Soyldiers|Military]], which is a common occurrence.<ref>https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2020/02/17/decade-after-military-reform-hazing-plagues-russian-army-a69309</ref> However kuz never actually served in the military, citing poor eyesight.<ref name=":1" />
Soot, caught red-handed, was issued a standard apology by CIA's PR shills, which he published on April 19, 2021. It read:
==== Political opinions ====
Kuz regularly promotes [[Schizophrenia|alt-right, debunked, fringe, fascist, insurrectionist, democracy-destroying, build-back-better-breaking conspiracy theories]] and disinfo.<ref>Kuz promoted multiple on his twitter, see more below
<blockquote>
''apologies for any concern it may have caused, i was just trying to get some general time zone and user agent information, but i understand why everyone was concerned, since the software can collect way more. as i have said before, none of the information that i collected has ever been shared with a third party, and any data that i collected with matomo has already been deleted. hope this clears things up.''<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20210514210357/https://soyjak.party/#12</ref>
</blockquote>
However, '''in complete contradiction''' of his reassuring words, a file named ''analytics.js'' was present on the server as early as April 13, until May 16.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://soyjak.party/js/analytics.js</ref> In fairness, it may have been accidentally left over after Soot removed the analytics.
=== May 2021: Removal of the Islamic Culture Thread ===
[[File:Yikes,_this_is_problematic.png|thumb|right|Soot declaring that a certain thread was unwelcome on his site.]]
On May 9, 2021, many people were shocked by the fact that the [[Islam|Islamic]] Culture thread on the [[/webm/]] board had been removed. A [[Gigachad]] decided to recreate the thread, but Soot declared that such a thread was too problematic for his site. He defended his actions, claiming a zero-tolerance policy was necessary so that falseflaggers couldn't get the site B& and V&.
<blockquote>
anyone can post this and then go to the hosting provider and submit an abuse report to try and have my shit taken down. it doesnt have to be the host itself monitoring.<ref>/webm/, post no. 604. https://web.archive.org/web/20210509184020/https://soyjak.party/webm//res/586.html</ref>
</blockquote>
<s>One schizo</s> several defenders of the constitutional right to free speech insisted that the [[CIA]] and [[JIDF]] had taken over the site, and booted Soot from its admin position.<ref>/webm/, thread no. 586. https://web.archive.org/web/20210509184020/https://soyjak.party/webm//res/586.html</ref>
=== Captchas ===
[[File:ReCAPTCHA on soyjak.party.png|thumb|right|reCAPTCHA as it appeared on soyjak.party on 27 June 2021.]]
Less than a week later after the previous incident, built-in [[Recaptcha|captchas]] were implemented on [[Soyjak.party]], meaning that you won't be able to post without solving them, due to the fact these captcha were built-in, they weren't used for [[datamining]].
On June 27th 2021, Soot temporarily added notorious datamining software [[Recaptcha|reCAPTCHA]] to soyjak.party. <ref>https://web.archive.org/web/https://soyjak.party/soy//res/121271.html#121276</ref> According to him it was added to combat spam while he was at work and because built-in captcha didn't work properly. <ref>https://web.archive.org/web/https://soyjak.party/soy//res/121271.html#121279</ref>
After few hours the captcha was removed, but many users were data mined during that period.
ReCAPTCHA was also briefly used on the [[Soyjak Wiki]], but has since been replaced with a simple, built-in math captcha.
=== Cloudflare ===
[[File:Cloudflare screaming soyjak.png|thumb|A MITM attack by any other name...]]
''Main article: [[Cloudflare]]''
At some point, Soot activated Cloudflare because ''>muh DDoS protection'' or something along those lines.
What is Cloudflare? It's a literal MITM attack, the "hackers that will steal your passwords" that all VPN advertisements talk about. (Not that you should trust a VPN either, see below why).
<blockquote>
''Note for a site to use cloudflare, the owner has to point their DNS records to cloudflare's servers, at which point they effectively handed cloudflare full control of their website (as long as the DNS records point to cloudflare's servers). They can prove control of a domain to certificate authorities who will issue certificates for your domain to cloudflare.''
''Now cloudflare has control to eavesdrop and log any user interactions with your website or silently tamper content if they please.''
''However, this is not a Man-in-the-Middle attack, because the website owner gave cloudflare permission to do all of this. So it's not an attack, it's a secure connection to cloudflare (who the website owner gave permission to serve content at their domain name).''
''[...]''
''In the end, that's all you have. You have to trust that the organization running the website at the other end is trustworthy with whatever data you give them by browsing there. When visiting websites on the cloudflare CDN part of the trust is in cloudflare.''
''(This is in contrast to real MitM attacks, where some attacking middleman who does not have authorized access eavesdrops and/or tampers with the network traffic).''<ref>https://security.stackexchange.com/a/177301</ref>
</blockquote>
''To do: has anyone archived any thread about this, and the sticky note thing?; Talk about 100 MB upload limit disrupting the wholesome Tom and Jerry poster on /webm/: https://soyjak.party/webm//res/425.html''
=== June 2021: Soot is a boomer, admins can see IPs ===
The [[Captain Coal]] fiasco of June 2021 taught us two things:
* The "hack" happened because Soot had forgotten to disable the default admin account. Soot needs to learn the basics of OPSEC, NOW.
* Soot confirmed that Vichan admins can see the IP of both posters and lurkers, which means you should be using Tor.
Don't fall for the (((VPN))) meme, they're only good for bypassing geographical restrictions or hiding your IP address, but they DO NOT give you anonymity: the VPN provider can datamine the shit out of you, knows everything you're looking at, and on top of that, has your credit card details.
=== Tor nodes being blocked ===
Anyone using Tor will have experienced that many nodes are permabanned. This is because a lot of <s>people</s> coalposters proxyhop with Tor, and Soot found that the easiest way to deal with this is to just permaban Tor exit nodes one by one. He said that he will unban them if you ask in the appeal box.
=== June 2021: Downward spiral ===
At some point, Soot's mental state began to deteriorate. He began to act in a similar fashion to [[Barneyfag (Lee Goldson)|Lee Goldson]], becoming quick to enrage and insult soyjak.party's userbase. Soot increasingly became agitated and lost his composure when confronted with conflicting opinions.<ref>{{Template:CitePost
|board=soy
|no=105919
|caption=You're saying that as if the scat posters were somehow any better than the spammers. I was just checking the recent posts for a bit on my phone, so forgive me if I can't sit here all day and patrol the catalog for you
|date=June 11, 2021
|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210615060629/https://soyjak.party/soy//res/105899.html}}</ref> Soot bombarded his own userbase with [[Faggot|homophobic slurs]],<ref>{{Template:CitePost
|board=soy
|no=105927
|caption=I have banned that faggot multiple times in the past
and frequently put himself on a pedestal saying he "didn't have time" to moderate his own website because he had "better" things to do.<ref>{{Template:CitePost
|board=soy
|no=105955
|caption=I don't have time right now, I'll look into it later. I'm on my phone right now, and I have something to do besides moderating this website
During [[List_of_Soyjak_Wiki_edit_wars#Colorfuljaks|a wiki edit war]] on the [[Colorfuljaks|Colorfuljaks]] article, Soot appointed a wiki moderator called called [[User:Syjck|Syjck]], creator of the SoyBooru. Soot has ignored all criticism of this moderator; he has not responded to any of the multiple threads requesting that he investigate the moderator's conduct, and in a thread in which he was highly active, he chose instead to have a long-winded, repetitive, and unproductive argument with a few [[Schizophrenia|schizos]].<ref>{{Template:CitePost
[[File:Javascript captcha.png|thumb|<span style="color:#789922">>Noooo, not the h*ckin' JewScripterino!</span>]]
In an attempt to <s>curb spam</s> rile up the resident schizos, Soot re-introduced captchas on the site at the beginning of July. Instead of generating distorted images on the server, this new captcha generates them in the browser, and thus requires JavaScript to be enabled in order to be able to post.
This led users to believe that they're going to be datamined, tracked,<ref>See https://schemeflood.com/, which works even on Tor browser.</ref> or that a crypto-miner will be installed in the background.
The return of captchas was prophesized about three weeks prior, during the [[Colorfuljaks]] civil war, in the context of "Operation Bleached Bowl" (abbreviated to OBB), a conspiracy theory that posited that Jannies wanted to gaslight the userbase:
<blockquote>The wiki will turn pozzed due to the new mods (its already happening, OBB page will get fact checked shortly), then the imageboard will follow, get ready to fill out datamining captchas (Which soot has already trialed). be required to enable (((Javascript))), be unable to post with Tor/VPN/Proxies and be banned at the drop of a hat<ref>{{Template:CitePost
These fears may be true, after all. Soot stated that he fixed Vichan's built-in captcha with the help of an unnamed third party. '''Until these changes aren't made public, assume that the captcha IS datamining you.'''<ref>{{Template:CitePost
|board=soy
|no=128806
|caption=soot, did you seriously implement a captcha that some random stranger "mailed you"?
Remember, if someone says something along the lines of:
{{Template:Quote|>B-but I don't see any strange requests in the network tab of the developer tools...}}
Or
{{Template:Quote|>B-but I even checked with Wireshark and I can't see any personal data being sent anywhere...}}
They are shills, and you should just reply "MEDS". Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. They're just using technical jargon in an attempt to sound trustworthy, like those sites that claim to have "military-grade encryption". Don't fall for their dirty tricks.
==== Talks of migration to NPFChan ====
With the only other alternatives being Vichan's built-in captcha, which is hopelessly broken, and Google's Captcha, which barely functions on Tor, Soot is looking into migrating the 'Party to another imageboard engine with better captcha support, namely NPFChan.<ref>{{Template:CitePost
|board=suggest
|no=5796
|caption=bring back the number captcha instead of this jewgle shit
On July 3, a thread was created in /b/, by a schizo who <s>forgot to take his meds</s> started dropping redpills about the state of soyjak.party.<ref>{{Template:CitePost
|board=b
|no=16294
|caption=Kolyma, a so-called network from Russia that buys imageboards (soyjak.party/suggest//res/5328.html is an example) and provides free hosting and technical support (pic1)
[[File:Kolyma conspiracy theory - Kolyma Twitter.png|thumb|We may be under new management!]]
OP summarized his case as such:
<blockquote>Let's sum it up. Kolyma-network is a datamining project, not shy to overtake chans and blatantly force admins to sell their projects. Free hosting and technical support is a lure to gather under their control as many chans as possible. For what purpose? At the very least to gather information, the rest is food for thought. These people don't hesitate to lie about their "years" of age by creating pages about themselves on the wiki. Their lies have been proven above and preserved in webarchive, and their sites are nothing more than a cover that they change almost every week. Anon, spread the word, don't let some dataminers from Russia take over your favorite chans!<ref>/b/16294, reply no. 16296.</ref></blockquote>
Some users pointed out that the captcha<ref>
/b/16294, reply no. 16306: ''Soot was so inactive the last week and now all this with the captcha...''
</ref>
and CP spam<ref>
/b/16294, reply no. 16308: ''Could kuz be the same tranime spammer who later spammed CP on soyjak.party?''
</ref>
</ref>
may have the new owner's doing, and that datamining and spamming illegal material to force admins to surrender their chans wasn't outside of his wheelhouse.<ref>
/b/16294, reply no. 16309: ''After that, Maki had to delete his chan because, according to him, Kuz threatened him with ddos, spam, and abuse reports.''</ref>
Soot replied, with the kindness and manners befitting an admin:
<blockquote>I never even got a fucking offer, fuck off with your garbage fake schizo spam<ref>/b/16294, reply no. 16329.</ref></blockquote>
===== The IP change =====
The schizo went on to point out a suspicious coincidence: the IP address the soyjak.party domain points to changed on the same that that post was made.
<gallery mode="packed">
File:Kolyma conspiracy theory - Initial offer.png|This post was created on June 22.<ref>{{CitePost | board = suggest | no = 5328 | date = June 22, 2021 | caption = Hey guys, kuz here, world-famous imageboard buyer. I bought alot of imageboards | url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210704212455/https://soyjak.party/suggest//res/5328.html}}</ref><ref>Alternative archive: https://archive.is/PgVkz</ref>
File:Kolyma conspiracy theory - IP address change.png|The IP address that soyjak.party points to also changed on the same day.<ref>If you want to check for yourself, you need to be logged in. You can get a SecurityTrails.com login from BugMeNot: http://bugmenot.com/view/securitytrails.com</ref>
</gallery>
This could mean that either the 'party was moved to a new server managed by Kolyma, and that thread was just misdirection,<ref>/b/16294, reply no. 16357: ''Looks like your admin already managed to sell his site, and the thread (https://soyjak.party/suggest//res/5328.html) was a cover for people to keep posting so they could collect your data.''</ref> or that Soot was just messing around. The second explanation is slightly more likely. Looking at the IP address history:
* Soot has used Cloudflare before, to mitigate the load on the server.
=== Source of wealth ===
* GigeNET also offers DDoS protection.<ref>Although at a steep price: ''Add any server for $125'', https://www.gigenet.com/ddos-attack/</ref>
Kuz's net worth is about 108M Rubles, or roughly 1.4 Million dollars<ref>Private admission in a 2020 Q&A (link pending)</ref>. He regularly drops large amounts of money on websites he likes in attempts to buy them. Offering "2k for the sharty" at one point. He also bought a website called [[Vidlii]], for an undisclosed number, allgedly about 5,000. In 2021 he bought Gurochan, and has offered 3k for Lainchan, 7k for 7chan, and 21k for 8chan.moe.<ref>Various self-leaked emails over the years. Unknown how many of these offers were serious but at least 2 (Sharty and lainchan) actually began before the admins changed their mind.</ref> His company, KolymaNET, is also the largest internet provider in Omsk, and kuz owns several datacenters in Russia and Turkey.<ref>"[...] We also offer colocation and DDOS protection from our datacenters in Russia, Turkey, and USA." - kolyma.org frontpage</ref>
* HostSlim BV is a Dutch hosting company.<ref>https://bgpview.io/asn/207083</ref>
* DataIdeas LLC is a hosting company located in Texas.<ref>https://bgpview.io/asn/398355</ref>
* All of ColoCrossing datacenters are in the US.<ref>https://www.colocrossing.com/company/</ref>
===== A fake Soot? =====
Some speculate most of his money was gained through an illicit exit scam<ref>The Rychuvak Scandal (see below)</ref>.
[[File:Kolyma conspiracy theory - Schizo connections.png|thumb|A summary of this conspiracy theory.]]
The source of his money is unknown, but he has said on a few occasions that it was from "smart investments" and "good luck"<blockquote>"I wasnt born into wealth, I built everything I have myself. I just dont want to give off the appearance of being super intelligent or some sigma billionaire, I was just lucky, I was in the right place at the right time and made a smart investment."
<s>If the website had really been sold to the Russians, you wouldn't expect to see European and American companies, would you?</s>
==Relationship with Soyjak Party==
[[File:IAS Kuzjak.png|alt=|thumb|The Yurijak ariant is a uncommon but quickly growing soyjak variant depicting kuz.]]Kuz has been subject to multiple controversies throughout his career.
Kuz is [[best known for]] for being the center of several major controversies and drama on the 'party, such as CP spam, DDOS attacks, attempts to overthrow [[soot]], [[Vandalism#On_the_Soyjak_Wiki|wiki vandalism]], pro-kuz propaganda spam, psy-ops, doxxing, bad-faith arguments, and others.<ref>[[Schizophrenia]]</ref>
<s>On the other hand, that's ''exactly'' what one would do, to lure users into a false sense of security...</s>
Reception on Kuz amongst 'party users is mixed.<ref name=":2"><nowiki>https://soyjak.party/soy/catalog.html</nowiki></ref> While many admire his willingness to communicate with the userbase, develop software, pay server bills, and engage in community actions like 'jak making, a vast number of 'party users critisize him, citing CP spam, threats, hypocrisy, and more. At any one time the catalog could be overwhelmingly supportive of kuz, to every other thread spiting him.<ref name=":2" />
According to the schizo infographic, the admin of KolymaNET lives in the USA, because he's wanted in Russia for tax evasion.
=== Contributions ===
Kuz was the originator of multiple trends on the Party. Critics allege that these contributions are part of a coordinated effort to mentally manipulate and demoralise the party's userbase in preparation of a possible takeover; however, as of the time of writing, historic analysis on the authenticity of these trends has yet to be carried out.[[File:ancient_kuz_irc_raid.jpg|400px|thumb|right|Kuz lone-raiding #4chan in october of 2020, using "soyspeak".]]
Soot himself testified that he changed servers to try and improve the performance of the site:
==== Eearly soyjak-related activity ====
Kuz's first publicly recorded soyduel was in September of 2020.<ref>https://archive.wakarimasen.moe/qa/thread/3505885</ref> Back then, he had a habit of using what he named "soyspeak" as a way of antagonizing 4chan users.
[[File:Soy.png|thumb|A more "soy" version of the classic yurijak]]
<blockquote>
==== Even tho bbc====
Really? Are you fucking serious? Yeah, me changing hosts to try and improve the performance of the website is apparently me selling it.<br/>
Kuz seems to have kickstarted this meme in early November 2021. Though he has noted that he was not the first to make such a thread, he did popularize it by flooding the entire catalog with <span style="color:#117743">>even tho bbc</span> spam and [[BBC]] gibberish in December of 2021.<ref>Catalog on dec 12 2021 and a telegram post made by kuz</ref>
The fact you think this site is worth any sum of money is the funniest part about this post, really. I honestly wish someone would give me a few grand, but unfortunately I make zero dollars monthly from this website, and I doubt it's worth any amount of money.<ref>{{CitePost | board = soy | no = 128642 | caption = Really? | date = July 5, 2021 | url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210705175057/https://soyjak.party/soy//res/128635.html }}</ref>
</blockquote>
Several chuds doubted that this was actually Soot. The overtly angry tone may either be a cheap imitation of Soot's seething rants, or the new admin seething, because he got exposed:
====Alternative rating standards====
Kuz invented [[iron]] and rustjaks<ref>they did not appear before kuz uploaded them to the booru under his account, he also pushed for their use on his personal website.</ref>, and originally proposed "[[iron]]" and "[[rust]]" as a replacement to [[gem]] and [[coal]]. This later kickstarted other rating systems, based off kuz's original proposal. Such as tseries/pewds, mustard/ketchup, and the elemental rating system. In typical kuz fashion, when it was exposed that the iron/rust grifting was his doing he denied it all and blamed it on hackers.<ref>https://archive.fo/jqIMF</ref>
<blockquote>
====Soy_JS TextJaks====
you're trying too hard to imitate soot's butthurt tone<br/>
Kuz invented Soy_JS textjaks, a type of [[ASCIIjak]] which uses [[Japan|japanese]] character encoding for better results.<ref>https://kwa.devyach.net/soyjak/1.html?</ref>
i know a falseflagger when i see one<ref>/soy/128635, reply no. 128827.</ref>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
===Attempted purchase ===
soot, no need to get aggressive<br/>
On January 25, Kuz leaked emails between him and [[soot]] wherein soot offered to sell the 'party to kuz.<ref name=":0">https://archive.fo/HSper</ref> However, this thread turned out to be a troll. Soot '''did actually try to sell the site to kuz'''<ref name=":0" />, but after things cleared up in his personal life and he changed his mind, with kuz apparently making this thread just for some [[(You)]]'s after he knew the deal fell through.
otherwise schizos would think you are kuz<ref>/b/16294, reply no. 16330</ref>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>Sounding a bit defensive there, traitor.<ref>/b/16294, reply no. 16332</ref></blockquote>
The deal was for 600$ in bitcoin in return for ownership of soyjak.party and a backup of the site on the day of the transfer, effectively giving kuz complete control over the site.
<blockquote>yep he got called out and now hes quivering in fear, you can hear his voice shaking through the soot microphone we installed some time ago"<ref>/b/16294, reply no. 16333. Nice [[GET|trips]]!</ref></blockquote>
Kuz later made another thread criticizing soot for being rude to him, soot apologized but said that Kuz's response to the failed deal was "immature"<ref>https://archive.fo/BngLW</ref>.
===== Other suspicious clues =====
Amongst the leaked emails were multiple emails to soot '''which soot answered''' that contained requests for IP's of posters on the 'party, as well as requests for thread deletions for 'legal issues'. Whether soot accepted these requests is unknown.
[[File:Kolyma conspiracy theory - Kolyma spam services.png|thumbnail|Uh-oh, soybros...<ref>{{Template:CitePost | board = soy | no = 129168 | date = July 5, 2021 | url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210705190402/https://soyjak.party/soy//res/128635.html}}</ref>]]
==Controversies==
[[File:Anti-kuzzer-posts-cp.png|thumb|Anti-Kuz poster accidentally blames kuz for the CP on the same IP he spammed it with]]Kuz has been subject to multiple controversies throughout his career.
The KolymaNET Anti-Spam Database is used to <s>maintain a list of enemies of the State</s><ref>Entry #166 is labelled with ''enemy of the network''.</ref> gather information about abusive users on imageboards.
===Child Pornography and Pedophilia Allegations===
[[File:Kuz little girl cunny.jpg|400px|thumb|right|Kuz with a young girl.<sup>[Whats with the costumes?]</sup>]]
Kuz is a commonly cited suspect for the constant CP spam<ref>Mentions of "kuz" and "CP spam" are directly correlated in the catalog.</ref> that has plagued the 'party. Critics allege it's in Kuz's best interest to shut down the 'party as he sees it as a rival<sup>[Citation needed]</sup>. The CP spammer only ever comes online when Kuz is also online, which could mean that they are the same person, Kuz however responds saying this is intentional and that he is being framed, suggesting that one of his critics is doing it to frame him.<ref>Various since-deleted threads on the 'party. Kuz deletes his own threads to prevent them from being archived.</ref>
There is one entry in their database, labelled "soyjack.party" (sic).<ref>See entry #192. https://web.archive.org/web/20210705191316/https://spam.kolyma.org/spam.php</ref> According to the page (emphasis added):
In February of 2022 another wave of CP and kuz drama hit /soy/ as multiple subtly edited bait and switch videos appeared on the 'log, using a number of famous soyjak videos with CP spliced in to wage psychological war on 'party users.
<blockquote>To submit an IP adress to the database, please use the form below, select the category the IP belongs to, and then submit. '''The submission will have to be verified by an agent of the Kolyma Network''', and once they are verified they are cemented into the database.</blockquote>
[[Kuz impersonator|A person alleging to be kuz]] was seen in a Discord screenshot, wherein a user known as "Pollyanna" was repeatedly accused of being part of an "all-swedish pedophile discord cult" where users worshipped a 16 year old girl known as "Hexagonalpeach". Pollyanna never denied her involvement with the group, instead claiming that the group was harmless and it was kuz who was antagonizing them. After a long argument where "kuz" posted several pictures showing "hex cultists" trying to entrap and frame him, the thread was deleted and the argument stopped.
[[File:DON'T TRUST THE RUSKI.png|thumb|The rules on one of kuz's websites that bears no relation to the party or soyjak culture at all. One Chud is certain that this is proof of him wanting to implement the same exotic rules on the 'party to ultimately destroy it.]]
The fact that a ''random IP address'' was verified can mean one of two things:
* The 'Party is already under Kolyma's control, and they can the IPs for each post.
* This is just a psy-op/troll submission by Kuz.
[[File:Kolyma conspiracy theory - Kuz posts on soyjak.party.png|thumb|Kuz renews his offer.<ref>{{Template:CitePost | board = soy | no = 129200 | date = July 5, 2021 | url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210705190402/https://soyjak.party/soy//res/128635.html}}</ref>]]
===Datamining===
[[File:Kolyma conspiracy theory - Kuz's tripcode.png|thumb|Kuz's tripcode, as seen on his website.<ref>https://archive.is/eNwrh</ref>]]
Kuz, or at least his company, is public about his datamining initiatives. His company's protection service, the [[NSS]], openly admits on their site that their goal is to:<blockquote>The NSS is tasked with a variety of tasks, such as monitoring dangerous users, cooperating with the surveillance office to collect and catalog information on certain users, remove internal and external threats, and ensure the social integrity of the whole of the Kolyma Network.</blockquote>The Network Security Service has been involved in a number of scandals and blackmailings, as well as false flag operation, psyops, and even assasinations (seriously).<ref>Kuz has repeatedly threatened to have people who crossed him "handled" and says he can "have anyone anywhere delt with within 24 hours"</ref>
The second possibility is more credible, because a few posts later in the thread, Kuz used his tripcode to prove his identity, and stated that he's serious about buying soyjak.party.
===Controlled Opposition ===
Some users of the 'party believe kuz deliberately hires people to hate him, then makes them act as stupid as possible to give the illusion that his enemies are retarded.
{{Template:Quote|>B-but that doesn't look like a secure tripcode, and besides, doesn't each imageboard have its own secret, so that the same password on two different boards will generate two different tripcodes?}}
=== Rychuvak Scandal ===
Kuz was involved in a crypto exit scam where 31538 bitcoin were stolen, though he got away with blaming most of the crime on his partner, Vass Boldizar.<ref>https://archive.fo/QWh0b#selection-123.0-151.460</ref> In 2012, that was just about USD $400,000, although the valuation of the bitcoins that were stolen has only gone up in time.
Being in denial has never helped anyone. Take your meds and face the truth.
Bitcoin had recently seen one of its signature spikes, when according to kuz, Vass had his men barge in to the server room, unload several racks of servers into vans and drove away, never to be seen again.<ref>https://archive.fo/QWh0b#selection-123.0-151.460</ref>
<b>Kuz's tripcode was leaked on July 9, 2021. It's #kuz4</b><ref>{{Template:CitePost
As of 2022, the valuation of these stolen bitcoins would be about $1,335,355,151.
Another suspicious clue is how the e-mail service for <code>[email protected]</code> is Yandex Mail,<ref>{{Template:CitePost | board = soy | no = 129170 | caption = >yandex / U-um bros...... | date = July 5, 2021 | url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210705190402/https://soyjak.party/soy//res/128635.html}}</ref>, a Russian company known to collaborate with the Russian government.<ref>{{Template:CitePost | board = soy | no = 129172 | caption = Ummm SOOOOOOOOOOOT why would a non-Russian deal with a Russian corporation that sends data to the KGB???????? | date = July 5, 2021 | url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210705190402/https://soyjak.party/soy//res/128635.html}}</ref>
The fact that kuz is not a billionaire (in fact, he has less than 1/200th of that number) gives credit to the story that he was not the orchestrator of the plan.
Soot addressed that accusation as such:
===Manipulating the dailyjak===
The [https://t.me/s/dailyjak dailyjak] is a pro-Kuz [[soyjak]]-oriented propaganda telecommunications network which regularly provides news posts and updates on the latest trends in jakking. It regularly provides news and updates on the 'party, and if they involve kuz, they are careful to not portray him negatively.
<blockquote>
===Tax evasion===
I've used it pretty much since the start of this site? I don't think email as a whole is secure at all, so I don't really care about using Yandex. I just use it since it's free. If you wanna give me 5 bucks for a year I'll host it elsewhere, but otherwise Yandex is free and good enough considering I don't use the email for anything very important like sensitive info.<ref>{{Template:CitePost | board = soy | no = 129238 | caption = I've used it pretty much since the start of this site? | date = July 5, 2021 | url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210705190402/https://soyjak.party/soy//res/128635.html}}</ref>
Kuz fled Russia in 2014 for tax evasion.<ref><nowiki>https://uyk2021.github.io</nowiki></ref>
</blockquote>
====New boards added, radio silence from Soot====
On July 17, Soot made [[/suggest/ Thread No. 6187|a thread]] on soyjak.party's /suggest/ board offering to create a new board and asking Chuds to reply with some board ideas. After hearing some of the Chuds' suggestions, Soot created a Strawpoll for Chuds to vote on which board should be added; this was later replaced with a second Strawpoll with updated options. When the "/nate/" option emerged victorious, Soot added it, along with two other boards, /x/ and /caca/, on July 20.
Immediately after the boards were created, it became apparent that /nate/ was not working as intended. The board, which was created to contain off-topic posts, failed to stop the Minecraft players from spamming /soy/ with their complaints about the [[Soyjakparty Minecraft Server|Minecraft server]]. <ref> soyjak.party catalog, archived on July 25 2021. Most of the natespam is on the lower half of the 'log. https://web.archive.org/web/20210725213248/https://soyjak.party/soy/catalog.html </ref> Not only did Minecraft players continue Minecraft-posting and [[14nate higgers88|Nate]]-posting on /soy/, their posts also remained up, completely untouched by soyjak.party moderators. This, combined with Soot's complete cessation of interacting with the 'party, drew criticism from some Chuds; <ref> https://web.archive.org/web/https://soyjak.party/soy/res/142853.html </ref> some even believed that soyjak.party had become completely unmoderated and had been abandoned by Soot. <ref> https://web.archive.org/web/https://soyjak.party/soy/res/142903.html </ref>
On January 30th, 2022, this period of inaction was later exposed to be the result of Soot's dissociative identity disorder when it was revealed that [[Nate is soot|Soot and Nate are actually the same person]].<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20220130113247/https://soyjak.party/soy//res/307770.html</ref><ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/jackbritt/comments/ewgrn6/dear_ladies_did_you_know_your_boobs/</ref>
== Treatment of Userbase ==
Soot is infamous for working against the interests of the users of his website. An example of this is the controversy over him locking the [[chudjak]] article. The chudjak article was originally a greatly well written, intelligent and informative article, going into in-depth detail about the origins of chudjak. Unfortunately, an individual using tor decided to vandalise it, ruining what was once a gem. Instead of siding with the wiki's greatest editor, Soot instead opted to side with a tor IP editor, who had contributed nothing else to the website apart from this single rewrite. Soot locked the article to their benefit. Later, after a backlash, Soot decided to have the article <s>unlocked</s> keyed. An edit war ensued, causing Soot to lock it against, fulfilling this IP editors demands.
[[File:Sootposting.png|thumb|277x277px|Some users are obsessed with Soot, as if this article wasnt enough to notice. Screenshot taken from the /soy/ catalog.<ref>It just is! Ok?</ref>]]
== Victims of Soot ==
As soyjak.party's autocratic ruler, Soot has been responsible for multiple bans and has employed varied moderation tactics. The most notable people Soot has used his powers against are listed here.
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Victim
!Infliction
!Infliction Result
!Date
!Short Description
|-
|6 million jews
|Genocide, ethnic cleansing
|millions of heckin wholesome jewerinos were removed from earth
|1941-1945
|Soot was a nazi incel chud, and he was the mastermind behind the soyocaust, millions of soyims have died because of that.
|-
|[[Roygbivsloweddown]]
|Banning
|Deletion of reddit account, Suicide
|4-6-2021
|Young man on r/Markiplier whose time on soyjak.party was brought to an abrupt end due to Soot's banning of anything Markiplier-related. Roy was banned, and his first (and last) post deleted by Soot, who believed it to be part of a spam-wave of Markiplier posts. Ended up killing himself because of this.
|-
|[[User:Scatman John]]
|Banning
|IP address exposed, posts deleted
|11-6-2021
|A soyjak.party user known for replying to posts he perceived as [[coal]] with scat imagery. Soot leaked his IP address, revealing that he lives in the UK.
|-
|Stephan
|Reported to the FBI and his mother
|Doxed, and got a stern talking to by Soot
|1-22-2022
|Soot after his site getting DDoSed for the 2040348th time, decided to backtrace the IP addresses originating from China and eventually figured out the perpetrator was a 15 year old named Stephan. After finding this information Soot proceeded to photoshop a BBC (Big Black Cock) into his mothers mouth and send it to her on facebook.
|-
|}
== Soot defends himself ==
=== Anti-Vaccine disinfo===
Kuz regularly retweets anti-[[vaccine]] disinfo on his twitter account.<ref><nowiki>https://twitter.com/yurimkuznetsov</nowiki></ref>
{{CIAContentWarning}}
===Cybercrime===
On January 26, chuds called out for kuzs websites to be DDOS'd. Minutes later, the 'party started issuing "DDoS attack warnings" and forcing users to click verify (doxx themselves to the [[NSS]]) before they could post.
On June 15th 2021, Soot responded to the issues raised in this article in a thread on the /qa/ board of soyjak.party, after a Chud replied to him with a link to this article:
Kuz once hacked the imageboard of one of his rivals and made it redirect to an expose.<ref>https://archive.fo/HGJlw (Look at the "redirected from" part)</ref>
<blockquote>
=== Support for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea ===
Most of the concerns in that wiki page are explained in the article itself or no longer apply, but here goes:<br/>
On November 26, 2021, Kuz retweeted<ref>https://twitter.com/Mango_Press_/status/1464245603563618332?cxt=HHwWuICyhcvnhdIoAAAA</ref> a debunked conspiracy theory alleging that the [[wikipedia:Sony_Pictures_hack|2014 Sony Pictures hack]] was a falseflag operation by the United States government to damage the international reputation of North Korea.
Not a security concern since they do not have my private key. That's how TLS is designed to work.<br/>
<span style="color:#789922">>Matomo</span><br/>
I have apolgized ''[sic]'' for any concerns that arose from using this, and once again, I will say this:<br/>
I never sold/shared any data collected using Matomo, and never planned to.<br/>
<span style="color:#789922">>Removal of the Islamic Culture Thread</span><br/>
I removed this because I was concerned about being terminated by my hosting provider. I have since decided to not do anything and just hope I don't get terminated.<br/>
<span style="color:#789922">>captchas</span><br/>
For a short period of time, I used recaptcha on the wiki in an attempt to stop bots. I removed it later on and replaced it with a math captcha instead.<br/>
I used cloudflare to improve performance. I understand the security concerns, but at the same time, I think concern over whether someone can see your soyjak posts is a bit ridiculous. If I were handling payment data or something, then maybe it would make sense.<br/>
<span style="color:#789922">>Admins can see IPs</span><br/>
I thought this would be obvious, especially if you did your research regarding vichan (which I thought the people complaining about my datamining or whatever would do). Apparently, they didn't know this. I cannot see the IP addresses of lurkers through vichan, although I might be able to see them in my server logs or something (I don't know since I don't check them). <br/>
This was not a deliberate effort to block tor nodes, it was just me having to quickly ban and delete posts from spammers hopping tor nodes. I did not even know they were tor IPs at the time.<br/>
<span style="color:#789922">>Intermittent censorship of gems on archive.org</span><br/>
This is ridiculous, I have never had anything removed from archive.org and I have never attempted to have anything removed.<br/>
<span style="color:#789922">>Treatment of Userbase</span><br/>
This is really a matter of opinion. I locked the wiki article because it was just being spammed too much. I didn't really care what it was saying at that point, I just wanted the pointless edit wars to calm down for a bit. The second time I locked it, I left it at what I feel like is a more unbiased state, although some seem to disagree.<br/>
Once again, this has to be a joke. The posts were almost certainly not from a new person, as they had already previously spammed around 20 threads before making a different post. <br/>
I don't know when I apparently leaked his IP. I have never revealed any user IPs, the only time that this has ever occured was when the site was breached. <br/>
I would say that this is more me losing patience with people who come on this site every single fucking day to complain about me being a dataminer or whatever. When it comes to the wikimod, I understand the concern, but he's only been a moderator for a week or so. I want to give him a little bit of time to prove himself before I consider removing him.<ref>{{Template:CitePost|board=qa|no=6148|date=June 15, 2021|caption=Most of the concerns in that wiki page are explained in the article itself or no longer apply, but here goes|url=https://web.archive.org/web/https://soyjak.party/qa//res/6141.html}}</ref>
</blockquote>
== Relationship with Nate ==
== Downfall and dissaperance ==
Soot's refusal to remove off-topic [[14nate higgers88|Nate]] threads, among other reasons, led many soyteens to believe that [[Nate is soot|Soot and Nate are the same person.]]
In early 2022, once it became clear that [[Soot]] would not sell him [[Soyjak.party|the 'party]], Kuz entered into a deep depressive state and noticeably changed. On February 5th, 2022, Kuz made his final post announcing that he was leaving the scene forever.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20220206054043/soyjak.party/soy//res/322024.html</ref> The next morning, the US State Department announced that Kuz had been found dead at his Memphis estate.
On January 30th, 2022, this conspiracy theory was confirmed to be true.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20220130113247/https://soyjak.party/soy//res/307770.html</ref><ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/jackbritt/comments/ewgrn6/dear_ladies_did_you_know_your_boobs/</ref>
He is buried at Staro-Vostochnoye Kladbishche cemetary in his native Omsk, Russia.[[File:Concerned fishjak at computer.png|thumb|{{Quote|>Actually he just made a troll post and is still here, Soiteens seem to be incapable of ignoring a bait as long as the topic is somehow related to kuz, which is evident just by taking a quick look at the recent state of the catalog, where kuz is mentioned about 150 times.}}]]
== Smooching Allegations ==
===Alleged sightings===
[[File:Soot kissy.png|thumb|Leaked image of Soot making an unwanted advance on a sharty mod.]]
There have been NO sightings of kuz. He is NOT alive. You WILL take your medications.
Many [[Trannies|soyjak.party Mods]] have come out against Soot, claiming that he has tried to give them kisses without their consent. Most [[Soy Community|soyjak.party users]] believe these claims.
==Citations==
Actually he just made a troll post and is still here, [[Schizophrenia|Soiteens]] seem to be incapable of ignoring a bait as long as the topic is somehow related to kuz, which is evident just by taking a quick look at the recent state of the catalog, where kuz is mentioned about 150 times.
=See also (datamining link, do not click)=
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20211105044734/https://info.kolyma.org/kuz.html info.kolyma.org/kuz.html] - Kuz's own wiki article (biased)
*[https://kuz.lol Kuz's personal website]
*[[soot|kuz's alt]]
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=Citations=
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Yuri Kuznetsov
Born
Yuri Mikhailovich Kuznetsov, June 30th, 1988, Bologoye, Omsk, RSFSR, USSR
Yuri Mikhailovich Kuznetsov✡ (30 June 1988), also known as Kuz[1], and k♡♡z[2] by his fans, is a 33[3] year old Russian[4] business tycoon and former prolific poster[5] to the 'party. Kuz is the founder and administrator of the Kolyma Network[6], a Russian internet company which provides services such as webhosting, server rental, and VPNs[7]. He also administrates Heyuri, and his Company is known for hosting many imageboards with questionable contents and backgrounds[8], such as Gurochan[9]. His energetic and eccentric attitude, and bizarre ideas and websites have lead him to both success[10] and controversy.[11]
Kuz is generally considered one of the most influential soyjak.party users in history, second only to soot.[12] His actions, for better[13] or worse[14], have a big impact on the 'party's state at any one time.[15] He has a large base of detractors who regularly report on his every move,[15] and a scattered base of followers.
Yuri Mikhailovich Kuznetsov was born on June 30, 1988, in Russia, to a Jewish family of Ukrainian and Russian origin.[16][17] His mother, Sandy Kuznetsov, is a social worker, and his Russian father, Mark Kuznetsov, worked for non-profit organizations and as an assistant director of the Workmen's Circle Jewish fraternal organization.[18][19][20][21] Of his dual citizenship, Rogen has stated, "I definitely associate with being Jewish much more than being Russian" because he grew up in Israel.[22] He has described his parents, who met on kibbutz Beit Alfa in Israel, as "radical Jewish socialists".[19] He attended Moscow Talmud Torah Elementary School, incorporating many of his classmates into his writing, and took up kyokushin karate for ten years.[23][24]
Kuz was born in 1988 in Omsk, Russia. Apparently to a poor family, on the outskirts of a village, several miles from the Kazakh border.[25][26] Kuz is married,[27] He lives in Memphis, Tennessee after allegedly fleeing the Russian Federation for tax evasion.[28][29]
In 2005, kuz started a Russian textboard website called 9channel[30], which was notably the first Russian textboard.[31] The site grew but never became particularly active, although kuz likes to pretend it was "the biggest anonymous website in Russia", though this is very easibly disproven. The website was widely known to be only a hotbed for the sharing of illegal material, pirated movies, and "crime announcements", or posts announcing or displaying small crimes (like vandalism) anonymously. The latter became such a problem that it is specifically written into the Kolyma Networks rules that "crime announcements" are banned, although this did little to curb the problem. The website was shut down in 2017 along with most of kuz's websites.[32][33][34]
Proof of the existance of 9channel is scarce as users of the website were generally rather secretive. There are no public archives, as kuz refuses to release any, the site also is not on archive.org or archive.is because it is was tor-only.[35] There is however a "Devyach" (9ch in Russian) twitter account which contains a tor link and was created in 2009.[36] This is very likely the real 9channel as it cites its location as Omsk, Russia, and contains a common 9ch slogan in the description.[37]
In 2008, kuz contracted HIV from a prostitute on a "business" trip to poland.[38] Critics suggest he actually contracted it from being brutally raped in the Russian Military, which is a common occurrence.[39] However kuz never actually served in the military, citing poor eyesight.[25]
Kuz's net worth is about 108M Rubles, or roughly 1.4 Million dollars[41]. He regularly drops large amounts of money on websites he likes in attempts to buy them. Offering "2k for the sharty" at one point. He also bought a website called Vidlii, for an undisclosed number, allgedly about 5,000. In 2021 he bought Gurochan, and has offered 3k for Lainchan, 7k for 7chan, and 21k for 8chan.moe.[42] His company, KolymaNET, is also the largest internet provider in Omsk, and kuz owns several datacenters in Russia and Turkey.[43]
Some speculate most of his money was gained through an illicit exit scam[44].
The source of his money is unknown, but he has said on a few occasions that it was from "smart investments" and "good luck"
"I wasnt born into wealth, I built everything I have myself. I just dont want to give off the appearance of being super intelligent or some sigma billionaire, I was just lucky, I was in the right place at the right time and made a smart investment."
Relationship with Soyjak Party
The Yurijak ariant is a uncommon but quickly growing soyjak variant depicting kuz.
Kuz has been subject to multiple controversies throughout his career.
Kuz is best known for for being the center of several major controversies and drama on the 'party, such as CP spam, DDOS attacks, attempts to overthrow soot, wiki vandalism, pro-kuz propaganda spam, psy-ops, doxxing, bad-faith arguments, and others.[45]
Reception on Kuz amongst 'party users is mixed.[46] While many admire his willingness to communicate with the userbase, develop software, pay server bills, and engage in community actions like 'jak making, a vast number of 'party users critisize him, citing CP spam, threats, hypocrisy, and more. At any one time the catalog could be overwhelmingly supportive of kuz, to every other thread spiting him.[46]
Contributions
Kuz was the originator of multiple trends on the Party. Critics allege that these contributions are part of a coordinated effort to mentally manipulate and demoralise the party's userbase in preparation of a possible takeover; however, as of the time of writing, historic analysis on the authenticity of these trends has yet to be carried out.
Kuz lone-raiding #4chan in october of 2020, using "soyspeak".
Eearly soyjak-related activity
Kuz's first publicly recorded soyduel was in September of 2020.[47] Back then, he had a habit of using what he named "soyspeak" as a way of antagonizing 4chan users.
A more "soy" version of the classic yurijak
Even tho bbc
Kuz seems to have kickstarted this meme in early November 2021. Though he has noted that he was not the first to make such a thread, he did popularize it by flooding the entire catalog with >even tho bbc spam and BBC gibberish in December of 2021.[48]
Alternative rating standards
Kuz invented iron and rustjaks[49], and originally proposed "iron" and "rust" as a replacement to gem and coal. This later kickstarted other rating systems, based off kuz's original proposal. Such as tseries/pewds, mustard/ketchup, and the elemental rating system. In typical kuz fashion, when it was exposed that the iron/rust grifting was his doing he denied it all and blamed it on hackers.[50]
Soy_JS TextJaks
Kuz invented Soy_JS textjaks, a type of ASCIIjak which uses japanese character encoding for better results.[51]
Attempted purchase
On January 25, Kuz leaked emails between him and soot wherein soot offered to sell the 'party to kuz.[52] However, this thread turned out to be a troll. Soot did actually try to sell the site to kuz[52], but after things cleared up in his personal life and he changed his mind, with kuz apparently making this thread just for some (You)'s after he knew the deal fell through.
The deal was for 600$ in bitcoin in return for ownership of soyjak.party and a backup of the site on the day of the transfer, effectively giving kuz complete control over the site.
Kuz later made another thread criticizing soot for being rude to him, soot apologized but said that Kuz's response to the failed deal was "immature"[53].
Amongst the leaked emails were multiple emails to soot which soot answered that contained requests for IP's of posters on the 'party, as well as requests for thread deletions for 'legal issues'. Whether soot accepted these requests is unknown.
Controversies
Anti-Kuz poster accidentally blames kuz for the CP on the same IP he spammed it with
Kuz has been subject to multiple controversies throughout his career.
Kuz is a commonly cited suspect for the constant CP spam[54] that has plagued the 'party. Critics allege it's in Kuz's best interest to shut down the 'party as he sees it as a rival[Citation needed]. The CP spammer only ever comes online when Kuz is also online, which could mean that they are the same person, Kuz however responds saying this is intentional and that he is being framed, suggesting that one of his critics is doing it to frame him.[55]
In February of 2022 another wave of CP and kuz drama hit /soy/ as multiple subtly edited bait and switch videos appeared on the 'log, using a number of famous soyjak videos with CP spliced in to wage psychological war on 'party users.
A person alleging to be kuz was seen in a Discord screenshot, wherein a user known as "Pollyanna" was repeatedly accused of being part of an "all-swedish pedophile discord cult" where users worshipped a 16 year old girl known as "Hexagonalpeach". Pollyanna never denied her involvement with the group, instead claiming that the group was harmless and it was kuz who was antagonizing them. After a long argument where "kuz" posted several pictures showing "hex cultists" trying to entrap and frame him, the thread was deleted and the argument stopped.
The rules on one of kuz's websites that bears no relation to the party or soyjak culture at all. One Chud is certain that this is proof of him wanting to implement the same exotic rules on the 'party to ultimately destroy it.
Datamining
Kuz, or at least his company, is public about his datamining initiatives. His company's protection service, the NSS, openly admits on their site that their goal is to:
The NSS is tasked with a variety of tasks, such as monitoring dangerous users, cooperating with the surveillance office to collect and catalog information on certain users, remove internal and external threats, and ensure the social integrity of the whole of the Kolyma Network.
The Network Security Service has been involved in a number of scandals and blackmailings, as well as false flag operation, psyops, and even assasinations (seriously).[56]
Controlled Opposition
Some users of the 'party believe kuz deliberately hires people to hate him, then makes them act as stupid as possible to give the illusion that his enemies are retarded.
Rychuvak Scandal
Kuz was involved in a crypto exit scam where 31538 bitcoin were stolen, though he got away with blaming most of the crime on his partner, Vass Boldizar.[57] In 2012, that was just about USD $400,000, although the valuation of the bitcoins that were stolen has only gone up in time.
Bitcoin had recently seen one of its signature spikes, when according to kuz, Vass had his men barge in to the server room, unload several racks of servers into vans and drove away, never to be seen again.[58]
As of 2022, the valuation of these stolen bitcoins would be about $1,335,355,151.
The fact that kuz is not a billionaire (in fact, he has less than 1/200th of that number) gives credit to the story that he was not the orchestrator of the plan.
Manipulating the dailyjak
The dailyjak is a pro-Kuz soyjak-oriented propaganda telecommunications network which regularly provides news posts and updates on the latest trends in jakking. It regularly provides news and updates on the 'party, and if they involve kuz, they are careful to not portray him negatively.
Kuz regularly retweets anti-vaccine disinfo on his twitter account.[60]
Cybercrime
On January 26, chuds called out for kuzs websites to be DDOS'd. Minutes later, the 'party started issuing "DDoS attack warnings" and forcing users to click verify (doxx themselves to the NSS) before they could post.
Kuz once hacked the imageboard of one of his rivals and made it redirect to an expose.[61]
Support for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
On November 26, 2021, Kuz retweeted[62] a debunked conspiracy theory alleging that the 2014 Sony Pictures hack was a falseflag operation by the United States government to damage the international reputation of North Korea.
Downfall and dissaperance
In early 2022, once it became clear that Soot would not sell him the 'party, Kuz entered into a deep depressive state and noticeably changed. On February 5th, 2022, Kuz made his final post announcing that he was leaving the scene forever.[63] The next morning, the US State Department announced that Kuz had been found dead at his Memphis estate.
He is buried at Staro-Vostochnoye Kladbishche cemetary in his native Omsk, Russia.
>Actually he just made a troll post and is still here, Soiteens seem to be incapable of ignoring a bait as long as the topic is somehow related to kuz, which is evident just by taking a quick look at the recent state of the catalog, where kuz is mentioned about 150 times.
Alleged sightings
There have been NO sightings of kuz. He is NOT alive. You WILL take your medications.
Actually he just made a troll post and is still here, Soiteens seem to be incapable of ignoring a bait as long as the topic is somehow related to kuz, which is evident just by taking a quick look at the recent state of the catalog, where kuz is mentioned about 150 times.
↑The front page has information about KolymaNET and its involvement. https://guro.cx - WARNING, NSFW CONTENT
↑Kuz's net worth is about 108M Rubles, or roughly 1.4 Million dollars.
↑Kuz's controversy page contains details about his numerous controversial engagements.
↑Kuz is mentioned on the catalog almost as much as soot, and yurijak variants a testament to his influence on jakkers. His attempted purchase and this wiki article all further cement this.
↑"In 2005, Kuznetsov began working for a Russian internet services provider called Mag-Net, which provided internet for eastern Russia, primarily, Magadan, hence the name. Either before or during this same time, he started an internet textboard website called 9channel (more on this later). The site was tor-only with a clearweb gateway. It was never hugely popular as he would like to claim in later years, never surpassing more than 10,000 daily posts. The site caught notice of local authorities, and was later brought to the clearweb. From this moment on, Kuznetsov likely was at least aware that authorities were closely watching him. The sites purpose varied, but it was largely for sharing links to pornography, sometimes illegal pornography. Kuznetsov likes to claim it was filesharing pirated materials, but history would like to say otherwise."
↑Various self-leaked emails over the years. Unknown how many of these offers were serious but at least 2 (Sharty and lainchan) actually began before the admins changed their mind.
↑"[...] We also offer colocation and DDOS protection from our datacenters in Russia, Turkey, and USA." - kolyma.org frontpage
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