The Swede (Artist)

For the Soyjak variant, see Impish Soyak Ears.

The Swede, also known as the Unmoved Mover and the Pioneer, was a Swedish impressionist designer and professional Soyjak artist who is best known for drawing and posting the first soyjak to /int/ in late 2017. The Swede was also the originator of a number of other trends both within the Soy Community and elsewhere, such as Gigachiga, a failed Gigachad-inspired Wojak-derivitive, and the trend of adding ears to wojaks. In his later career, he became noted for his controversial views on various topics within the Soy Community. He has since retired from 4chan to browse "a certain altchan". But after the great purchase, he decided to leave soyjak.party and go back to 4chan due to dissatisfaction with the current state of the site.

Early life

The Swede originally drew Soyjak as a self-portrait. In other words, he says that and looks like that.

soyak.png

The gem that ushered in life as we know it.

On December 30th, 2017, the Swede got his big break when he created and posted a new Wojak variant of the soyboy nu-male stock character, which he named soyak.png. Various proto-soyjaks had came before, but soyak.png was the first to take off and go mainstream. Modern soyographers would later call this drawing the "classic soyjak" variant, and it remains by far the most popular variant as indexed by Booru tagging.

Despite becoming wildly popular shortly after being uploaded, and despite being hailed in modern times as the beginning of Soyical History, the post itself dropped to surprisingly little fanfare. It received only one reply from a British anon, reading "you just made this? Well done anon you want your dick sucked?"

The post has since become a pilgrimage site and has recieved over one hundred ghost replies on desuarchive.org.

Naming

The Swede favoured soyak as the combination of "soy boy" and "wojak", and this was well-recieved by /v/ posters; however, in time, the alternate spelling soyjak won out as the meme spread out of The Swede's control. On August 11th, 2021, The Swede revealed that he had chosen the name soyak because "it's a polish word, and that the "j" is supposed to be pronounced softly."

Other soyjak variants

Impish Soyak Ears.

Impish Soyak Ears

The less exaggerated "Impish Soyak", as opposed to the more exaggerated one with ears.

last year, soyjak party had a variant that was famous for being "wholesome" and "friendly". someone made an edit of the friendly soyjak where he looked more twisted and edgy. I saved it under the name "impish soyjak", and then made a more exaggerated version of it.

On or before December 20, 2020, The Swede created Impish Soyak Ears as an artistic expression on the dualistic nature of jakkers and their perception of good and bad. He finds impjak disgusting and claims to have specifically designed it with the purpose of being disgusting. Nonetheless, he still posts it regularly. the variant is associated with him and with Sweden in general.

Ishish Soyak Ears

Ishish Soyak Ears.

He probably made Ishish too.

Identification

An infographic on how to datamine The Swede.

It is vital for the safety of sharty culture that this man be identified and killed.

Filename gait

The Swede makes use of overly-detailed filenames such as "smug soyak glasses reflection ears.png". These are usually no longer than five words, and are never shorter than three. He writes "soyak" in his filenames despite making use of the the more-popular "soyjak" in his posts. He does not seem to have a comprehensive cataloguing system--most times the filenames begin with soyak or wojak, but other times they start with descriptors such as smug.

The Swede's filenames should not be confused for booru filenames such as "4920 - closed_eyes ear its_over soyjak stubble text variant impish_soyak_ears".

Stylometry

The Swede cannot be accurately ID'd through his word choice, sentence structure, syntax, or punctuation. Not enough posts have been judged beyond a reasonable doubt to have been created by the The Swede for enough data to perform a comphrensive analysis on his writing style. However, enough facts have been gleamed about The Swede's stylometry to provide a spotty but workable commentary on what is a genuine Swedepost and what is a cheap imitation:

• He usually writes in all-lowercase, but always capitalises the word "i". He has been known to use all-caps for emphasis.
• The Swede disproportionately uses the word impish. The word, meaing "mischievous", is an uncommon one. It should be noted that he does not use it often, only slightly more often than others. Excluding filenames, impish has been said only 4 times by Swedish flags on /int/.
• When it comes to soyjak variants of the impish line (impish, ishish), he is very adamant about calling them soyaks instead of soyjaks.

Posting style

The Swede's threads on /int/ routinely involve the word country or countries; this is likely an attempt to remain on topic. These threads always open with a short, banal question such as "is your country futuristic?", and are likely nothing more than excuses to post jaks.

Due to the lack of a party archive, this section can only speak for the Swede's posting style on /int/. A rare survival of a Swede thread on /soy/ was recently discovered, and is currently being researched, along with six other possible threads.

Confirmed Sightings

It is surprisingly easy to find The Swede's posts by using the search criteria above. For example, putting se in the country field and ears in the filename field on /int/'s desuarchive is enough to return a list of posts about half of which seem to be made by The Swede. To really narrow down the search to just The Swede's posts, all one has to do is add the word country to the text field; along with the above criteria, this will result in 102 confirmed sightings.

Current Whereabouts

The swedes current wherabouts are unknown, seeing as he basically disappeared around the time kuz bought the website, although atleast one unreliable source states he passed away on May 12th, 2022 5:12 AM (CET) after a long battle with cancer.