Soyjak

Soyjak filled in with a solid yellow colour in front of the maple leaf on the Canadian flag. A soyjak is a wojak making a "soyface" or "nu-male mouth" expression.

Also appears as: Nu-Male Mouth or Cuckface

Soyjak is a version of a Wojak meme, often used to mock participants in niche subcultures. In far-right hate memes, soyjaks represent men that are portrayed as less masculine than they are, including “soyboys” and “white knights”. In the collection of websites, blogs, and forums promoting toxic masculinity and misogyny known as the manosphere, this often means “beta” or “omega” males, who they believe are inferior to “alpha” and “sigma” males.

Soyjaks, along with the “soy boy” stereotype they represent in web comics, are a fictitious and theoretical lower class of men. Rather than traditionally masculine tropes like “Chads,” soy boys are often negatively associated with femininity, homosexuality, and gender fluidity. In far-right online spaces the caricature is used to represent the emotional expression of men made to be emasculated. There are variations of the Soyjak meme with different facial expressions, such as variations of an open-mouthed smile known as “soy face.”

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