In light of recent events (Bluesky raid and Jarty closure), I think it's fair to say that the Sharty/soysphere is in its silver age. Like it or not, the golden age was Kuz, and THOUGH there may be lots of brimstone, there are enough gems that I can almost forget Froot is a dataminer who goons to DNB and that most soyteens are Foodist gooners.
Activity and relevancy aren't the be-all-and-end-all if the site is relevant to normies, Foodists, and Twitter users.
The trve golden age was the Soot era, that was when the soyposter population had the best balance of activity and original gems. Gemmy variants like Rabioso, Swedejak, and Cobson originated from there, the best music parodies (David Thoughie, sixthrembo) were created there, Jackbox Raiding was still done with soyjaks, /qa/ was still around for most of that period, the best adventure threads (Impjak Adventure, Good Boy Quest) were created, the stealing of the 10 million /s4s/ GET by Cobson occured, Pixelplanet raiding started there, the Captain Coal incident happened, and the amount of coal and discordtranny gayops was still very low (at least until the post/qa/ part of the Soot era).
The Kuz era (and as a early 2023 fag, I'll include the months before Froots reign even doe Kuz didn't reign at that time) can more aptly be described as the silver age. Even though there was an increase in CP spam, Discord gayops, and offsiters, many gemmy things happened like stealing the 30 million /lgbt/ GET, the creation of PPP, Smugjak, and Babyjaks, managing to get a swedejak onto r/place for a few hours, enacting Operation Soygate, the Goonclown dox, promteen posting his famous poster, the 711 raid leading to the creation of SUDE, the Five Board Plan,
this very gemmy video was made amongst other gems by one of the best jakkers in soyjak history Soytube, classical art soyjak parodies flourished, and the first major gemmy GET in /soy/ history (the Chudbob 3 million one) occured.
The current times for the soysphere can be described as the bronze age instead.