I stumbled upon
this traniwreck of an article/
A/ about the recent shooting. It blamed not only Hendersons actions on the sharty but 3 other attackers in the 6 last month that are apparently apart of the “soyjak attacker video fandom” which is a group
that does not exist, and the term comes from an
even worse article. Written by two “extremism researchers” whos only actual activity I can trace is their bluesky profiles
here and
here.
The article requires an account to access so I will just repost it here.
The article is trying to force a connection between soyjak.party and terorgram and 764, hell they even tried to lump kiwifarms and WatchPeopleDie as one of them. Most of the claims about the activities of this so called “soyjak attacker video archive” has nothing to do with the activities of the sharty but rather of groups like 764.
Additionally the article claims that 3 other attackers, Rupnow, Küçükyetim and some other person who attacked a gay bar were all part of this group. Which is ridiculous as none of them even have any connection to soyjak.party or even soyjaks in general.
The article ends showing no citations for any of their claims further proving it’s garbage.
However after I read it things surrounding the article seemed off.
The article was made by two “journalists” which have no fame or any known qualifications and published on some dead website no one knows about and was only reposted by the creators of the article advertising it and some guy on xitter who didn’t even get 5 likes, so it’s not like the article was known. Yet somehow the article was referenced and used as the main source in the first article I mentioned that lead me down this rabbit hole, which then got republished multiple times across different news sources and the article was also referenced in this
article.
Between the aforementioned ADL article and the clear attempt to force this term into becoming a thing this could be the early stages of a deplatforming campaign.
Or maybe I just need to take my meds.