Lost media soyjaks
Lost media soyjaks, also known as the lost 'jaks, are a theorised group of soyjaks which once existed but no longer do. A soyjak is considered lost media if it does not have a presense 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.[1]
Recovery
After realising 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."
Notable examples
To be researched: any other examples?. Can (You) help us?
Known creation events
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
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. There is no such corrosponding service for soyjak.party despite overwhelming demand from the community, meaning that 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.
UPDATE
A party archive now exists
Deletion of SoyBooru
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.
hyprobj
On January 19, 2022, a Jackbox raiding party raided the Twitch streamer hyprobj and got him to browse the 'party on air, culminating in him drawing and posting his own 'jak. Despite being a highly spectated event, there are no records of the actual file he uploaded. Soot is offering a $10,000 reward to the first person to produce the authentic hyprobj piece.
nevermind its here lol
hyprobj also made a colorjak variant, which is suspected to be lost to this day.[real]
Citations
- ↑ i made it all up
