Apologies for the lack of links, but this has been squeaking out all over the place. Details can be found on Kiwifarms when its up, and some were posted to 8chan.moe a couple days ago. It's a shitshow.
Soyjak was a /b/-tier shitposting site that had a massive dark side. Despite the site often raiding loli boards on other sites and communities to brand lolicons as "pedophiles", it turns out that the admins of the site were running a sophisticated and secretive grooming operation behind the scenes. They would make kid-friendly memes and offer free Robux to entice kids to the site, where the site admins themselves were spamming CP when traffic was up to desensitize the kids to it. Then some were selected and invited into a grooming Discord, where they were pressured and eventually blackmailed into producing CP and cutting themselves. At least one suicide is confirmed but people who knew about it have claimed there were many more that weren't documented. This all got out because of mod chat leaks by a disgruntled member of the pedo group matched up the admins' IP addresses to ones that were all over the logs for CP spam, and people started digging. Come to find out the owner of the site is a gay man in court for child molestation in Tennessee.
They also had raid groups that used abandoned TF2 chat servers to coordinate attacks on streamers, minor e-celebs, and anyone who threatened to expose the group. They sent CP to peoples work emails disguised as spam so it would go unnoticed, and basically "gang-stalked" targets across the Internet. They wouldn't touch the person but would attack any community the target was in whenever the person went there, to make that community become hostile to the target and isolate them. One bragged about "targeting their mental health directly" with this tactic.
There were minor rumbles about all of this back in April, but apparently enough finally got out that it blew up a few days ago and the owner pulled the plug on the site in a panic. He's trying to sell the domain now. Several people in the chan-o-sphere have been noticing a large rise in secretive IRL pedo activity across swaths of the alt-site Internet over the past year, but this is the latest and loudest exposure of it that I'm aware of. Soyjak had been raiding 8chan off and on for months prior to this, notably with some emphasis targeting the GG threads with soyface.jpg and CP spam. All the while claiming that 2D loli art was what they were protesting against.
I'm beginning to think "don't trust anyone who vocally hates anime lolis, because they're guaranteed to be a fucking pedophile" is becoming an iron law. 8chan GG did a quick tally and there's been over 500 such cases just in the last few years, with the infamous Dr. Pizza being just one tiny but well known example.
If this is true, you'll have no trouble providing some links covering some of this crap, right?
Trust, but verify.
I have a great deal of trouble providing links. The owner went into "Delete Fucking Everything" mode very fast when this got out, and the sites that were hosting the chat leaks and other definitive proof pulled them down under fake DMCAs and law enforcement threats. I was also a bit late to the party, only getting word a day after it all went down. What details exist are on Kiwifarms, but I've only been able to access it about 10% of the time and can't get archives to go through. The best I have is a bookmarked link to the discussion thread: https://sneed.today/threads/soyjak-party-the-sharty.145349/
There's also a summary on 8chan, but I covered all its points in the OP.
The material was in the last ~10 pages. Notably Josh has banned further discussion outside this thread and all links to the site, which AFAIK is a first for Kiwifarms to do.
Only in response to others (specifically one guy) going on pro-loli rants. That's a natural reaction. Most people would be disgusted by the stuff if you force them to take a side. If you're talking about people randomly bringing the topic up out of nowhere then sure.
Perhaps in this specific thread, but if we are talking about the board in general, there have been some posts over the months that aren't just made in response to that guy. I specifically remember people whining when they realized the people who want to desperately distance themselves from loli stuff as much as possible as some weird virtue signal aren't a majority on this board.
No you pedo faggots keep bringing up pro loli shit then sperging when people rightly react negatively. The posts are still there so why are you trying to lie?
I don't necessarily think they are pedos, just degenerate coomers who are in the stage of their addiction where they need a higher level of transgression to get the same feels.
But I also don't want to hear about it.
IMO the first person who brings it up in a neutral space is the pedo.
For example the OP didn't need to mention it at all and his post would convey the exact same info, yet he did mention it "offhandedly" in order to push his agenda. That makes me suspicious.
You betcha! I hate lolicon. I think it's more accurate to say people at the intersection of anti-loli and pro-trans are suspicious. Which is basically saying that pedos are pedos.