Raids

A screenshot of 4chan's /his/ board being raided by soyteens.

Raids are a spam attack organised on an imageboard and carried out by a group of people (or an autist with proxies/alt accounts). During a raid, a website or board is flooded with undesirable content. More broadly, a raid refers to an organised attempt to prank/harm other groups/people online through mass action. Raids are a common activity on The Party, which has a /raid/ board for organizing them, though many if not most raids are first posted about on /soy/.

On 4chan

4chan, particularly the /b/ board, became infamous for constantly raiding other sites as well as doing some irl raids. /b/ would sometimes recruit users from other sites such as 7chan, Encyclopedia Dramatics, Somethin Awful and YTMND in order to amass even greater raiding power. A famous example of such a raid was the December 20th, 2006 raid on conservative talk show host Hal Turner's "final" radio show, for which 4chan recruited SA, 7chan and YTMND and over 150 prank calls were submitted.

/b/'s raids landed 4chan and its owner Moot into big trouble with glowniggers, so on August 23rd, 2006, Moot made a sticky announcing that anyone posting "illegal" threads (raids and doxxing) would receive a permanent ban and possibly get handed over to the authorities, and anyone replying to them would get a two-week global ban as part of the temporary extended length global rules to fight spam and build back better. The backlash to this was enormous and caused a mass migration of users to 7chan which had a dedicated /i/- invasions board which 4chan did not (7chan's /i/ board had to be shut down on January 24th, 2007 due to it violating the host's terms of soyrvice). This event is known as /b/ day. Despite raids getting officially banned, /b/ continued conducting them in spite of the rules all the time, notable examples being the aforementioned Hal Turner raids, the project chanology raids and some of the Zelda Universe raids. /b/ has since stopped being a raiding force because it's now a wasteland of gay cuck porn and many of it's users have long since left to greener pastures.

In current times, the mods on 4chan will sometimes turn a blind eye to certain raids or people inciting them, which makes their true stance on raiding a bit difficult to gauge Here are some example of recent raids that weren't cracked down on: (Legal disclaimer: if you want to participate in or incite 4chud raids keep in mind that it's possible the mods just didn't notice these)–

• January 28th 2021 - /v/ raids a Q&A stream with the developer of a Fallout New Vegas mod with troll questions, the stream also gets DDOSed.
• 2021 - /pol/ raided tranny subreddits by making accounts called "I_Follow_Men" or "Dilate" and followed trannies en masse, at least one subreddit was locked as a result. In October /pol/ also had several threads from which they raided the southwest airlines forum, which were taken down for maintnence.
• /a/'s Dragon Ball Super threads occasionally discuss raids on other sites.

On soyjak.party

Raids are a common activity on the party and are fully allowed and even encouraged by Soot. Raids almost always involve flooding websites (usually other imageboards) with soyjaks, or stealing GETs. Below is a list of failed and successful raids the party has conducted.

Successful Raids

Soyteens won.

• Early October 2021 - The party raided 1chan, an old imageboard about trains or something. A ton of ancient threads were wiped.
• March 2021 - Operation wikisneedia, originally intended to "raid Wikimedia Commons with Creative Commons licensed soyjaks" but also grew to include adding references to sneed's feed and seed in many articles.
• November 5th 2021 - The party raided 4chan's /f/ board, the board is used mainly by 2 people and jannies never look at it so it was an instant success.
• February 4th 2021 - A raid on 4chan's /his/ - "History and Humanities" board. Arguably the party's biggest WINraid so far, 8 and a half pages were wiped from the catalog and the mods had to restore threads from the archives to repopulate the board.
• November 3rd 2021 - The infamous raid on 4chan's /lgbt/ board, during which about 4 pages of the catty were wiped by troonjak threads. The raid actually began on /qa/ when a frogposter made a thread about his troonjak threads on /lgbt/, causing others to post spam threads as well. A couple hours later, it had snowballed into a big raid and was subsequently posted about on the Party. Following this, /qa/ was frozen by the mods.
• The Party has successfully raided multiple jackbox Twitch streams.
• January 23rd 2021 - The party raided r/inceltear. This resulted in a redditor trying to DDOS the Party, (and incels.is) but the dumb shit got himself doxxed and some Party teen forced him to write an apology letter.
• November 21st 2021 - The party stole [s4s]'s 10M GET, the biggest GET the board has ever had up to that point. This made Swaglord go on one of the biggest janny seetheouts ever documented.

Failed Raids

Soyteens lost.

• November 26th 2021 - The Party tries to steal the 10M and 9999999 GETs on 4chan's /d/ but fails to score either.
• January 14th 2022 - The Party tries to steal the 24M GET on /lgbt/ but fails to do so.
• January 2022 - The Party raids a thread on 8kun's /qresearch/ board but a janny was in there so it mostly failed.
• November 10th 2021 - Operation Soyclipse, the biggest shame in Party history. This was the biggest raid the Party had ever planned, both in scope and preparation. The target was against several 4chan boards in retaliation for /qa/ getting frozen. It attracted a ton of attention and hype, but failed within seconds. Some chuds tried to rebound the next day by posting troonjaks on /lgbt/, but it was already over. While Operation Soyclipse was a massive military defeat, many valuable lessons were learned that day, including–

1. Don't plan raids days in advance on a public website that's notorious for raiding.
2. Don't shill the party on the website that we're currently planning a raid on – many people were shilling during the preparations so by the time the raid went off everybody on 4chan knew and were talking about it.
3. Don't spread our forces too thin - The raid was intended to hit 2-4 different board even though most raiders focused on /lgbt/. focus on one board instead.

• December 2nd 2021 - The party tried to steal the 44M GET on 4chan's /biz/ but fails.
• January 6th 2022 - The party tries to raid /lgbt/ but it was planned too early again and failed.
• January 12th 2022 - The party proposes a takeover of 4chan's /adv/ but everyone just gives up and talks about random stuff in the thread instead.