Soyical Arts

The soyical arts is a set of esoteric knowledge and practices that are studied and performed by the soy community.

Main fields

The soyical arts include, but are not limited to:

• Soy duels, both against human opponents and against a computer-controlled opponent (Artificial Soyduel).
• Raiding other imageboards and websites, either by creating new soy-themed posts or by soyquoting existing posts.
• Lorekeeping for the "Soyjak Cinematic Universe", such as writing adventure threads, or keeping tabs on the Mental Asylum patients.
• Aesthetics, creating new Soyjak variants, such as Avant-Garde Soyjaks.
• Hunting (You)s, crafting bait skillfully and with opportunistic timing, sometimes after rare game like in sootbaiting.
• Literary criticism and critical theory, studying the Western and Amerimutt canons, uncovering basal cultural assumptions for devising calculated, trenchant bait.
• Survival skills for bone-chilling, genre-redefining events such as Covid-19 and the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
• Cooking, with the most iconic dishes being Soylent, Sproke and Bugs. Typically served as Breakfast For Dinner.
• Medicine, especially in the field of mental health (schizophrenia) and experimental treatments (BBC).
• Legal studies and political activism (Soyjak Rights, TND, Soylitics).
• Civil engineering, as is seen on the Soycraft server.
• Scat, scat posting, scatting (musical genre), and appreciating scat musicians such as Scatman John
• Game development (Soyjak: The Video Game, Five Nights at Cobson's)
• Bumo, a complex way to bump a thread that has intense depth.
• Linguistics in function to the building of the soyjak native tongue.