Some of the low effort shitposting and shill threads are already showing up here. Didn't take them two days.
I think I need to learn how the Chinese internet discourse works. I know there's a lot people can't say, but there's also a huge amount of witty and sarcastic criticism that goes on and even with all their methods of control the CCP struggles to direct it all. I know little of the details though. I think learning how average Chinese manage to communicate despite all that will have some useful lessons for the rest of us. If EFF were practical, they'd start focusing on this stuff.
Apparently /qa/ was occupied by soyjack posters, /qa/ was subsequently banned, they made this soyjack party chansite and had a grudge, and a person who posted their explanation there and appears to have been a user there took advantage of vulnerabilities of 4chan (because the website's infrastructure has basically been untouched since m00t left and it was spaghetti code even then), got full control, leaked a lot of admin/mod/janny details and logs and lot of the flaws of the site, to the point that unless they do some serious backend work it'll be trivial to take 4chan down again. This seems to be the current consensus anyway.
I'm open to other possibilities, but I would counter that the utter shithole that is twitter/x is filled with grifters of all kinds who just regurgitate whatever. Lots of charlatans looking for an audience in that sphere, I don't think the majority glow. Certainly possible though. The Sun of all places seemed to be the most accurate the day of, and hackernews (ycombinator) had some dispassionate commentary. I do absolutely believe the backend was unmaintained trash, no matter the case.
I've never even heard of 'sharty' and I only think I might have heard of a soyjack based chan but was unaware of any drama going on. How/did anyone other than their own users know that term before the takedown?