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". THE SWEDE IS DEAD

Artist's interpretation of the creation of soyak

Early life

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

soyak.png

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." However, he claimed that he used the alternate spelling after it eclipsed his own.

Death

The Swede passed away on May 12th, 2022 5:12 AM (CET) after a long battle with cancer surrounded by his loved ones.