The events in this post may not be 100% historically accurate and may have been sighly dramatized for entertainment.
There is really no way around it; The once 'final boss of the internet' got his ass handed to himself by no one other than the 'sharty', also known as soyjak.party.
Now, the sharty has been making the rounds over the internet for a while now, I will not claim to be an expert on the sharty, I know nothing about their culture beyond the fact they use a lot of -jak variations, and that they really like to raid other wbesites.

But what history I do know about the sharty is that the website was once a humble group within the /QA/ wars. A long time ago, before moot removed himself from his throne at the 4chan-city headquarters, he graced us /b/rothers, dra/g/ons, /x/philes, /pol/iacs, etc with one last glimmer of old-web crap: One last QnA set-up in a board dedicated for this sole purpose: The /qa/ board.
For those that do not know what 4chan was like when moot was still in charge, moot used to be a nice admin. Sure a lot of people got shitty bans, and a lot of users have always complained about moderation, but moot has truly always cared about the general populus of 4chan, remnaints from this time still existed within the site (it's offline right now) if you dared to look into the admin blog posts left there from almost (and sometimes over) 20 years ago.

I believe a lot of people see moot like some enigmatic figure nowadays, a catgirl loli with porcelain-white skin wearing nothing but a shirt and pantsu, and forget that moot grew jaded with 4chan because of the way things changed, and how fast they have changed.
Once upon a time the moderation of 4chan was made-up of the same assholes that posted on 4chan, and moot himself was no more than the asshole in charge of the shitter (and I say this with a lot of love).
You know how animations like 4chan city display a lot of Moot and WTSnacks? a lot of ancient memes and weird shits that happen? Moot running away with the server money to mootxico?
It is all built upon interactions that once took place in the chan. Can you imagine having that sort of interaction in a modern chan? In a discord chat? In some random forum?
Such things are reserved for real communities, and this is, in part what led to moot becoming jaded.

As time went on, a chasm formed between the core userbase, the moderation and moot. What was once a community degraded over the years and became no more than a bunch of strangers trolling each-other.
It took a long time for 4chan to fall to it's knees, but as the chasm grew wider, so did the jadedness within moot. This culminated in a jaded moot wanting to get rid of his once loved pet-project, and creating the QA board for one last questions and answers session before ending it all (selling 4chan and running off to mootxico).

Wel, what does any of this has to do with the sharty?
Ho-ohhoow, good thing you ask!
After the creation of QA and moot's passing, the QA board more or less got abandoned. Meaning that there was little to no moderation on the board (kinda like /trash/). This kind of board attracts a crowd, and it sure as hell did.
A few boards fought for control over QA, I wasn't there to see it personally but I believe the horsefuckers of /mlp/ (once a formidable opponent, see the brony wars), the nazsocs of /pol/ (once a formidable opponent, see the pol wars) and the shitposters of /s4s/ (I dont know shit about s4s) were a few of the 'big' factions. Funny enough, they all had to kneel when a unregulated group used guerilla tactics to hijack every thread:
The -jack posters.
What may have started with just a single wojack or a few soyjacks soon became a steady stream of spam that eventually took over the /qa/ board. In other words, /qa/ is where the sharty was born.

Just like /mlpol/, /fitlit/ and other temporary boards (Honorary mentions to reddit's /r/ holdmybeer, holdmyfeedingtube, holdmycupcakes, spacedicks, and watchpeopledie), /qa/ was eventually closed, and this left a bunch of users pissed-off due to losing their home board.
And just like mlpol and watchpeopledie, these users created a new website just for them, and this website became known as soyjack.party.

So there you have it, that's how the sharty was conceived, or at least what I know of it's story.
Now, if it's not obvious, the hack on 4chan happened for two reasons:
1. The sharty loves to raid other sites
2. Vengance

Since the sharty is more or less to the modern internet what 4chan was once to the old internet, it is just natural for this kind of things to happen, and in my opinion this was a real nice hack, we got 2hu music, dancing mikus and a bunch of janny e-mail addresses. I take my hat-off for you, sharty, you bring a smile to my wannabe-oldfag face.

Now, I don't have much to say about the hack itself, but I do like to wonder what this spells for 4chan and the sharty in the future.
On one hand the sharty has succeeded at cementing itself as 'something' on the internet (unlike wizardchan, have you ever heard of wizardchan? or the 'peaceful pill'?), which might be either good or bad for them but it sure is terrible for the mainstream internet populus to go on and try to understand (or join) the sharty.
On the other hand, 4chan has been offline for the past day or two and it is supposed to come back online in 15 to 21 days after rewriting the site's code (the source code got leaked). In my humble opinion 4chan is already way past it's expiration date, it should have ended as soon as moot stopped enjoying the website, so keeping the site offline and finally declaring it dead would be the best, everything has to come to an end, eventually.
Knowing how hiroshimoot operates, the truth is that the website will most likely either come back online or get sold to someone else that will upgrade it and bring it back online, maybe with a rebrand like 4chan 2.0, further defiling the corpse of what once was a kewl web.

What are your thoughts about 4chan and the Sharty's future?
You can write them on my guest book linking back to this post (I don't have a comments box yet)

On that note, I will leave some pros and cons of 4chan coming back online:
pros:
-Generals are back
-Remember you are here forever
-You can resume your degen activities
-Moot would be sad

cons:
-Moot would be sad
-The party has been over for over a decade
-900 second captcha or verified e-mail
-Further attempts at monetization to pay 4chan costs
-You may realize it's boring to post on 4chan nowadays