what we want to do to save the soysphere
only as far as we're going to commit to the soyspace and engage it, is how far we're going to maintain it
so to directly answer your question
do what you think the soysphere needs more of
It needs more dedicated OC makers who identify with the community and feel like they are at home with their own kind on the site, IE the people that have been scared off by everything after froot.
Its been so long that its kind of hard to pin down what keeps these down but here are some of my guesses.
1. Dictatorship. The fact that the whole soysphere is a feifdom of froot, and the manipulation of the anti jarty and discord sentiment into making it taboo to organize on any site not owned by froot. Froot is not a tyrant, but the way the soysphere is completely beholden to him is extremely offputing and reminiscent of 4cuck on principle. Also the fact that he is very involved in a noncordial way and behaves like your average soyteen baiter promotes admin worship and cults of personality to gross levels. When in the presence of an admin, users will be naturally pressured to appeal to and agree with them.
2. Migrant crisis. Uninitiated twitter and youtube and whatever other shithole immigrants flooded the site and robbed the original 'teens (whose old jaks they still worship like idols) of their site. Taking over as the dominant faction relatively overnight, without the necessary initiation of being an outsider that has to adapt to the site's prexisting culture, the immigrants completely alienated the people who made all the old high effort gems from their own website.
3. Shit management. Newnigger culture was spamming low effort slop, low effort chudding up with gore and porn instead of trolling artfully, and wiping the log with threadspam, killing off any high effort good thread that can't keep up. This especially discourages projects and high effort gems, as they will only get attention if they appeal to the same retarded drama and slop interests of the spammers. Obsessed faggots, chuds, nas niggers, IAS puritans, all fighting factions with conflicting interests. Jannies would jerk one off, pissing off the others, and then switch, and then switch again ad infinitum, so innevitably no faction really felt like it was their site, and if it is not their site, there is no point in investing in it via gems and OC. I think this can explain how even with the spammer faction being so prevalent, the pph is tanking, becuase even they are realizing the site has the interests of their enemies in mind.
4. Feedback loop. The previously mentioned effects of the shit management and alienation of users makes the site look dead, which demoralizes everyone on the site, even those who aren't adherent to factions, leading them to not bother with it. This can be seen in the sweeping success of this website, as many people sick of the spam and all conversation being the same copypasted insults that have lost any of their humor, moved here to better spend their time and attention somewhere that wasn't a shithole. Things like this, combined with others, send the sharty into the downward spiral it appears to be in now.
5. Most OC has to mass appeal to everyone to get any attention or traction. This ends with the high effort gems being either boring surface level understanding brimstone that looks like some twitter artist just looked up soyjak party lore and drew what they think would be a gem, OR, its namefag drama BRIMSTONE that is viable to spend time on because namefag drama is one of the only viable ways to get high interaction on the site. You will see a million mikobowl and joel edits that could have been something actually original and gemmy if the people making them weren't obsessed and knew their efforts would not be ignored otherwise.
6. Sharty is a parasite by nature, specifically a parasite of 4chan. Newfags, who never had to deal with 4cuck, completely stripped 4cuck from the site's culture. Sharty was built off of being in a nemisis relationship with 4chan. Think, batman (4cuck) and joker (sharty). If batman goes away, or dies, joker loses his purpose and becomes a sad directionless bum on the side of the road. (I don't mean that 4chan is in any way good by comparing it to batman, the comparison is based on the rivalry codependency alone). Anyways this is the same with the sharty, it is robbed of its direction, and being a parasite, is starving for drama and conflict to the point where it begins to eat itself alive. Our new "enemy" is the abstract of gooners, troons, pedos, internet animation spergs? And on the rare occasion we aren't just throwing trying to accuse our brothers of such evils, we rally around some literal who, ritually sacrifice them, and pat our backs like we are aryan supersoldiers or whatever. Sometimes we find the right target and strike true, but most of the time its just showing up somewhere and screaming nigger before getting brushed aside by a janny on some website nobody cares about.
Alltogether I just think the shartybase has become an incoherent blob of people who want nothing to do with eachother and are all pissed off that the other groups are inbetween them and their ideal sharty. Atomized by idiotic managment, user alienation and bad immigration policy, its a souless shell of it's former self. The hole is getting deeper and deeper for the site, and pulling it out is becoming more and more hopless with every passing day.
