The Complicated Story of the Homestuck Fandom

[@aroma_tic]

challenge accepted. there are four types of romance in homestuck, called the "quadrants". they are symbolized by the different suits of cards in a deck and four different but still similar colors (we'll get to that later). red heart-- known as the red quadrant, or as feeling "red" for someone, filling this quadrants (or having a partner within this particular romance) would give you a matesprit. matespritships are pretty much our understanding of romance, not much to cover or go into. pale(or pink) diamond-- known simply as the pale quadrant, or as feeling pale for someone, filling this quadrant would give you a moirail. a moirail is something like what us humans consider best friends, except with a kind of more codependency going on. a moirail is someone you feel obligated to put before you, someone who you care immensely for and their well being. while only one of the moirails caring for the other is uncommon, this is seen as an unhealthy relationship, for the care is unbalanced. black spade-- known as the black quadrant, or as feeling black for someone, filling this quadrant would give you a kismesis. a kismesistude is basically a pair of individuals who intensely hate eachother, almost to the point of violence, but still are attracted to eachother at the same time. hate-love, if you will. here's where things get confusing... stick with me. ash(or grey) quadrant-- known as feeling ashen for a pair, filling this quadrant would either give you a auspitice or label you as an auspitice. sometimes, within in a kismesistude, the hate can get so violent that someone else may see this and feel ashen about the situation, or hatefully care about the other's well being, and step in as a kind of mediator between the two. this person who steps in is known as an auspitice. the quadrants themselves are set up in a particular fashion-- the heart being to the uppermost left, the diamond being to the uppermost right, the spade being to the lower left, and the club being to the lower right. the quadrants that are on the top are the more positive types of romance, or are a more reddish color. those bellow are a more negative type of romance, or a more blacker color. those to the left are more "romantic"(as we see it) and deal with attraction(as we see it), and thus are more rich colors. those to the right are more platonic, and thus have more faded out colors. this is still pretty long, but i LOVE ranting about the quadrants. if you have any questions, feel more than free to ask! i'll be more than happy to respond.

[@caretakercat7176]

Now do the felt twelve hell of relationshiop

[@Jay-qu2bc]

Claire Graclyn Thanks for taking the time to explain it, Clair.

[@frostywostyuwu4982]

You're much better at explaining it than I. Lol

[@aroma_tic]

@@caretakercat7176 how about instead, iiiiiiii-- ARANEA: The pro8lem is that when the su8ject of leprechaun romance is 8roached, our overly o8essive troll intellects instantly assume the most ingrati8ting posture of admir8tion imagina8le. ARANEA: Which makes it hard! Hard to give it proper academic focus I mean, 8ecause of how gr8 it is. ARANEA: 8ut we will do our 8est to understand regardless. ARANEA: Trolls have only four forms of romance. And though we consider it a complic8ted su8ject, spanning a wide range of emotions, social conventions, and implic8tions for reproduction, it is ultim8tely a superficial slice of what leprechauns consider the full 8ody of romantic experience. Our concept of romance, in spite of its capacity to fill our art and literature and to rule our individual destinies like little else, is still just that. A single, quaternary concept. A concept usually denoted 8y four sym8ols. ARANEA:

[@aroma_tic]

@@Jay-qu2bc no problem! it was my pleasure. :D

[@zaffyrr]

You neglected to mention that Snoop Dogg himself was actually a fan of the comic and retweeted Homestuck fanart of himself and a couple of the trolls.

[@deltathedummy2303]

Zaffyrr interesting

[@jetlag2293]

Hopy fuck

[@SomethingProbablyNothing]

I always thought he just found art of himself along 2 hot grey chicks and was like "Huh, neat."

[@odstarmor557]

Life sucks but when trivia like this comes around, it makes it a little bit sweeter.

[@lordcybercat4968]

Zaffyrr wait

[@Forestfreud]

I remember seeing a tumblr post that said something like “despite all its insane controversy and ridiculous oddities the most surprising thing about homestuck by far is that it is genuinely good and enjoyable to read” and that shit resonates

[@tanmaynegi3169]

The shows/games that have toxic fandoms are usually great shows/games themselves.

[@10pitate]

@@tanmaynegi3169 yeah and that goes the other way

[@radicaledward84]

Well, until the last gigapause (was it the megagigapause?) After that it looks rushed and a bit inconclusive :(

[@wildfire9280]

-Despite everything, it's still you.-

[@subekyuuke]

Yeah, I'm glad I got over my hatred of it because it's super fun to read lol

[@gore4332]

*takes long drag on a cigarette* Homestuck? I haven’t heard that name in years.

[@s-a-l-tb-o-i6727]

yeah... me neither bub... not since the wheel was invented...

[@awildpichu6289]

Actually, I never heard of it at all... *UNTIL NOW* But I still have no idea what it is.

[@awildpichu6289]

@@Louisebrady3289 um ok, I guess.

[@awildpichu6289]

@@Louisebrady3289 OK c:

[@awildpichu6289]

@@Louisebrady3289... idk... ._.

[@marshalmarshall2109]

So THIS is what homestuck is, I was wondering why they're were so many grey demons in the background of cosplay conventions.

[@guineapiggirl939]

Lmaoo how come u never heard of homestuck it was so popular an still is

[@mr.zia3233]

I came here because of a more dangerous fandom

[@souharai9805]

Guineapig Girl i HAVE NEVER heard of home stuck till like last year

[@salh3326]

sharlmao never heard of it till this month

[@Ghostinasuit]

Helluvaaa me too

[@quentaimproductions6858]

I remember seeing tumblr kids dressed as homestuck guys in middle school back when it ended, and I thought it was an LGBT movement

[@gregorysteffensen3279]

Honestly, given how many people I made friends with through the fandom at nerd conventions were some flavor of LGBTQ, it kinda was!

[@jirachiswish690]

Quentaim Productions HDGG

[@Creedio90]

so did I man... so did I

[@loravura4782]

bold of you to assume its not

[@thebiolibrary5572]

Quentaim Productions I mean, several characters are gay... your not wrong.

[@hatredmalice7273]

i kid you not, i knew literally *_nothing_* about homestuck before watching this video

[@guessmyname1246]

Me too..... How I miss those days

[@c4shguy224]

Same

[@brokenchalk1607]

Me neither.

[@queenofweebs9273]

I clicked on this video cause I need more fanfiction to fill my brain with

[@alexstilldraws]

Logan Serrant ikr bro

[@pyramidserum]

you read all of homestuck for this....youre the absolute man dude

[@PinguHakaze]

he's amazing.. i cant even finish act 2

[@clumsykurisu]

I finished it

[@pyramidserum]

Naddie Alias tbh i recommend the lets read on youtube! thats what got my ADD ass through it while establishing the characters' voices enough to leave me well off to finish it by myself. it's def worth it

[@beardpandaa]

It took me like 2 years man... of course, I was slacking

[@PinguHakaze]

@@pyramidserum thanks for suggestion :^) (is your username came from somewhere? it gives me a deja vu feeling.)

[@NikkoNeko]

so youre telling me SIX DIFFERENT WEBSITES CRASHEDin a SINGLE DAY??!?!

[@indeepjable]

Apparently

[@funkykong2776]

Due to one webcomic

[@royalcomputer3780]

Yes

[@animeworld5847]

Not six websites, 3 websites + newgrounds, megaupload and twitter.....they pretty much crashed the social part of the internet XD

[@internetuser528]

SolTheCat_0w0 Shane and Jeffree could never.

[@ConnorTheUndying]

Andrew Hussie saying "well that didn't work" describes this fandom pretty well.

[@blackfrost3581]

Wait really? (If he really say that he is right)

[@thisisamergin498]

"It just works."- Todd Howard

[@amaralundy7940]

Lol, the reason buckets are a reproductive thing is because he wanted to discourage fans from writing smut about 13 year olds. ... "well that didn't work."

[@thisisamergin498]

@@amaralundy7940 Bucket Wanks. Bucket Wanks everywhere.

[@agentfreshdasquid3568]

Oh jeez no

[@Daetcheu-nono]

"The relationship between the fandoms was complicated, seemingly hating and loving each other at the same time." My ass who was a homestuck circa 2010-2013: *Kismesis.*

[@analyticaltomato]

Dustin Sinnett fun fact,in the end love actually prevailed over the hate and many Hetalians and Homestucks became friends. After 2013 pretty much everyone considered the relationship between the two fandoms a moraillegiance, even though they did start as a kismessitude.

[@c4shguy224]

Kiss me, sis

[@cherryblossom1460]

Jesus, so that was what I did as a child

[@NebulaOldChannel]

Mr. Super Fly Cockhampton *Cursed Comment*

[@symbolcest]

k i s m e s i s

[@Diskest]

Imagine cosplaying gamzee, going on a murder spree and then testifying in court that you were staying in character

[@StargazerStrider]

THIS IS GOLD

[@feiven865]

is this a challenge?

[@Diskest]

@@feiven865 take it how you will

[@nicklastname1348]

OH NO O HNO

[@hibiscusbuds6414]

bet, see you in years when I get released

[@peachnkey]

i don’t think you understand i literally gasped with more fear than i have for a long time the second you said hetalia you’ve activated my fight or flight response

[@Ghost-iv9dd]

The worst part about hetalia is that everytime you hear it, you instantly get greeted by all the worst parts about it

[@Orionis_Delta]

Hetalia is Voldemort. But you can’t escape it because you **will** see it in history and geography tumblr posts here and there. Or even if they don’t appear there, you know they will and get a feeling of dread. But hey not all hetalians are bad. Fortunately. Although to be honest... the newer fans of the show cause more problems. Or at least I think so.

[@Kitykitycoco]

The eldrictch entity that was "Hetaliastuck"

[@adamlee4218]

as someone who was a major part of ... the thing that shall not be named fandom in 2012-2013... i got a huge addreniline rush from all of my hatred and built up spite

[@kitkatmuffin]

Hetalia is great tho I found a secret playlist of clean Hetalia vines

[@ameliazen3597]

Did you just say you binge watched the ENTIRE comic? in NINE days? Are you human?!!

[@cryptid16]

What's crazy about that is that it takes 2.1 days to read the comic if you were to read it in one sitting. fitting 49 hours to read in 9 days is quite impressive

[@vaskanut1057]

Amelia Zen lmao that’s nothing. i read homestuck in 3 days.

[@cryptid16]

@@vaskanut1057 Goddamn thats crazy

[@maxwellethoxian4085]

I took 2 weeks

[@boomymanlyman9876]

I mean he's a moogle

[@Sonnivate]

Why does everyone act like quadrants are so complicated and need to explain with paragraphs? Hearts- R omantic sexual love Diamonds- Bro, youre my world I love you platonically dawg Spades- Batman+Joker in the lego batman movie Clover- we're on the verge of spades but that would be bad for us so we'll get a hate-councelor

[@frogmonger6916]

Sonnivate accurate

[@FiSH-iSH]

well, you aren’t *wrong.*

[@symbolcest]

ur not wrong

[@Carlos-ld7cd]

I agree, quadrants itself arent quite complicated however the social implications of trolls filling each quadrants and finding partners and vacillating is a whole other story! It's actually very interesting when you think about how despite pale relationships are more on the platonic end, it's still considered Troll Romance. Making anyone whos pale for each other, still be considered in a relationship and could possibly call each other boyfriend and/or girlfriend. It's a lot more complicated socially I think

[@Sonnivate]

@@Carlos-ld7cd I dont think the trolls held the pale quadrants in nearly the same regard. Just look at equius, his flushed feelings for someone so low on the hemospectrum was such a big deal, but his morrailegiance with nepeta was so casual in comparrison.

[@awkwarddoesanart]

Homestuck^2: Exists The Homestuck Fandom: Ah shit here we go again

[@ThElOneSolDIeR1]

Once more into the breach.

[@pillsburysoyboy2078]

Way to start the new decade

[@mindeater9807]

It's horrible, but.

[@pillsburysoyboy2078]

Yinyin it’s probably one of the most entertaining things at the same time

[@mindeater9807]

@@pillsburysoyboy2078 And you're not even wrong.

[@rinmitchell6034]

Finally, finally I can share this terrible story from when I was in the Homestuck fandom So this was around four or five years ago, I was at New York Comic Con, I was cosplaying Kankri, minding my own business. This group consisting of a Terezi and a Gamzee and a third person I can’t even remember anymore turned a corner and came into view. I was standing on a line at a booth next to a Dave cosplayer I’d never met before. The Gamzee starts honking a horn SUPER LOUD and screaming cussed at the top of his lungs (this is typical of the character but like,,,,there were young kids around on top of how inappropriate it would in any public setting) and the Dave and I just looked at each other really uncomfortably as we felt visceral second-hand embarrassment. Suddenly the Terezi runs up to the Dave, grabs his face and LICKS A STRIPE UP THIS KID’S FACE FROM JAW TO TEMPLE. The Dave looked at me with such terror, such desperate pleading that I immediately knew these two had never met each other and that the Terezi was just absolutely insane My jaw was hung open, watching this teenage girl slather this poor lad in her saliva, black lipstick and paint. I ran from that situation so fast that I’m pretty sure a part of my innocence still resides in that spot to this day. I think often about that poor Dave I left. Whoever you are, I’m sorry for abandoning you bro

[@g04tz_h0rnz]

Rin Mitchell Oh my god, I hope you never have another experience like that.

[@nulllex0099]

Okay, THIS is the kind of thing I was expecting. Mental, but honestly, it could've been way worse

[@ElectricNite]

Geez like I'm all for cosplaying HS characters and doing a little bit of rp but there's a line people shouldn't cross while in a public setting and with strangers, no matter who or what they're dressed up as

[@julesseverein6831]

R/thathappened

[@zxr9291]

@@julesseverein6831 r/nothingeverhappens

[@carpedm9846]

"The buckets..." Nononono NO NO NO NO. NO. NO. THEY DIDNT. NO. "They spit in the bucket" Thank god jesus man dont scare me like that.

[@Timman96]

I had the same reaction holy shit. I was freaking out

[@Madhattersinjeans]

I thought it was going to get far far worse than that as well.

[@1straycat]

Yeah. I'm sure everybody else there was grossed out or whatever. And it is embarrassing. But. They have no idea. How much worse. *It could have been.*

[@DillonBVibin]

JEEGUS

[@aghitsaplane4262]

*NO NO NO NO*

[@wittyworm]

i cant remember who i saw this from but the absolute best way to describe the homestuck shipping quadrants would be with icarly. HEART (matesprit)- Freddie and Carly's romantic implied relationship DIAMOND (moirail)- Sam and Carly best friends and protectors of each other, soul mates SPADES (kismesis)- Sam and Freddie's implied romantic and hate relationship (love to hate you kind of situation) CLUB (auspistice)- Carly is the head figure in preventing Sam and Freddie from getting at the others throats too much. They would be chaotic without her presence. Hope that helps LMAO

[@linohugo97]

I read the pinned one and this somehow helps explain a fuckton

[@jackthedisturbed9000]

Holy shit this comment... This had to be the best way to explain it

[@nightweaver6456]

Oh I saw: ♥ = Fuck me ♠ = Fuck you ♦ = Calm the fuck down ♣ = Both of you calm the fuck down

[@shineetheworld]

god where was this analogy four years ago

[@deactivated399]

@@nightweaver6456 I think ♦ = calm down please And ♣ = you two calm the fuck down

[@lovelightstarboy]

The homestuck fandom manages to be absolutely feral, and frothing at the mouth, while also remaining as the best and most welcoming fandom I’ve ever been in. A decade later, I’m still enjoying Homestuck and the journey I’ve had along the way... To make a long, heartfelt word vomit short. Homestuck is never going to let me go and has me in the deadliest chokehold. It’s like this fandom has me at gun point.

[@PostMortemAnimations]

The fandom has us both at gun point Surprisingly i'm getting back into the fandom as of late

[@merrittanimation7721]

I've always thought of it as being in some kind of Lovecraftian mind control cult. You want to leave because it's weird and kinda freaky, but at the same time it's enjoyable, though you're not sure if it's completely of your own volition.

[@lovelightstarboy]

Merritt Animation Thats a pretty good comparison actually

[@wolfy9011]

*E*

[@Stephanie-sy9oy]

Hussie has a gun to my head

[@bucca2]

“…and Gamzee.” I mean. How else do you describe him

[@fentshaggy]

Honkbeast

[@jghifiversveiws8729]

Well how do you describe the Joker and his.. mentality.

[@truebornseeker9767]

Insane druggie clown who killed everyone.

[@pedrocastro6846]

Or a psyco path

[@sumbuddy4088]

Jevil on steroids?

[@devinthedu-ohwait587]

You binged the ENTIRETY of homestuck in A WEEK?!

[@kadcoat]

You need at least 2 weeks to read homestuck not even counting the animations

[@EFPX]

Honestly thats impressive It's 8,124 pages

[@brunettewithglasses]

Devin the du- oh wait IT TOOK ME 5 MONTHS.... *FIVE MONTHS*

[@willowism]

jeez, i did it in like 3. One week is hella short.

[@I_exist_I_guess]

I binged it in one week, I just had to not do ANYTHING else in that week

[@MrPatters]

The video that was prophesied for generations.

[@starsymcdoodle6965]

Mr.Pat You're likes are at 413 now, I'm proud of myself

[@L1qu1d-2qu1d]

Mr.Pat it has arrived!

[@shellyhamersley6366]

Dude 666 likes

[@ceanyflamingo5127]

You know he frogot project Omega

[@Opentil10]

Mr.Pat....I don't feel so good...

[@zachanikwano]

I've always wanted to learn about the candy corn horn people. But even now, I am scared.

[@yeahno-5909]

CANDY CORN LMA0-

[@niome13665]

Same, ngl, especially after that cursed af shitpost linked in the description >.>

[@merryshwepah2768]

YeahNo - the story itself is fun and entertaining tho but extremely long and kinda confusing

[@nicklastname1348]

DO IT COWARD

[@bestaround3323]

I highly recommend using the let's read homestuck by Voxus, they read in the characters' voices, they edit in music tracks, so far they have done everything up to act 6 intermission 3.

[@dashawnwilliams6920]

I'm seeing a lot on quadrants, but who can name the nine sectors of Leprechaun romance?

[@jcs6387]

Matespriteship, Lunosticonomy, Fangriftocracy, Fortunastomancy, Ecnaigellarium, Roulestritzeeism, Reclinflastocism, Glorinostricim, and Auratulence. Fuck you for making me look that up.

[@fiteclub1999]

Hussie can

[@robotbirdcat4867]

@@jcs6387 fellas we have a god here

[@jupitersgodzilla7114]

Where you find that?!

[@Kingman524]

J Cs Hussie is that you?

[@korsiff5925]

The coolest part about the whole incident with the Karkat cosplayer getting pelted with buckets was that when he bled, his blood was red. Now, that's commitment to the role! Jokes aside, what a bunch of assholes.

[@serglian8558]

Yup. Assholes. Not just like slightly excusable fictionallike incanon assholes, but also actual assholes

[@justinfromdietweeb3553]

I'm not done with the vid yet, but WTF?

[@celtymaj]

😂😂😂😂 nice joke

[@johnmcswag5980]

I had a friend who almost dyed her blood teal like an idiot

[@justinfromdietweeb3553]

@@johnmcswag5980 what the shit

[@mercury9922]

you never really know the concept of both passionately loving and hating something until you've experienced homestuck

[@birdfarts]

kismesis

[@LeGreatGabby]

As a homestuck, I always tell people "I love it and it changed my life, and also its trash"

[@KK-fr5jd]

[@CJCroen1393]

Whenever I bring up Homestuck I typically say "It's a webcomic! If you've never read it, GOOD. ESCAPE WHILE YOU STILL CAN BEFORE IT TAKES OVER YOUR LIFE."

[@merrittanimation7721]

@@CJCroen1393 I just finished it, and I agree completely.

[@deadline9888]

"The longest pause and test of loyalty lasted a year" Hunter x hunter fans knowing the dark continent arc will probably never end but still hoping: pathetic

[@thexpineapplexgod]

Hunter x Hunter fans be like: First time?

[@mattblaster2378]

venture bro fans. You mortals amuse me

[@pochita4996]

Berserk fans: Are you challenging me

[@Dekarowski25]

@@pochita4996 Berserk fans be like: "hold my boat bro"

[@InktheImpassive]

Kingdom hearts fans:

[@adisappointment6720]

the hetalia homestuck comparison gave me an aneurysm because that's exactly how I was in 2014

[@strawberrynikolas]

SAME AND I DIDNT EVEN FUCKIN KNOW XNISNZKABSOA

[@myteath]

That's literally what happened to me.

[@alucamon]

i cant believe we all lived the same life 😔

[@adamlee4218]

big... unfortunate mood

[@maxebanana6143]

GOD DAMN i remembered i was 12....in 2012......getting into homestuck as a whole hetalia fan

[@vnutri710]

First you had the Mega-Pause, then you saw the giga-pause. Now get ready for The M E N O P A U S E

[@reibean9542]

HAHAHAHHA

[@Bluetanmancan]

But Hussie hasn't gone through his transition(yet)

[@sormly500]

i must gather all the infinitypauses

[@venum0us]

wow ok

[@teslashark]

Omegapause.

[@lekorita8512]

[S] John: Reunite with your loving wife and daughter. is the best flash animation

[@__-wc5zn]

*HOW DO I GET THROUGH ONE NIGHT WITHOUT YOU*

[@abdullahhelmi7695]

*A LIFE WITHOUT YOU* *WHAT KIND OF LIFE WOULD THAT BE*

[@shad0wchateau]

random guy *OH AND I*

[@abdullahhelmi7695]

@@shad0wchateau *OH I NEED YOU IN MY ARMS* *NEED YOU TO HOLD*

[@kittycamiori]

*I'D BE LOST IF I LOST YOU*

[@q_shrimp_p8198]

I was never into Hetalia so maybe that's why I've never heard of Homestuck. I vaguely remember seeing videos of kids with grey skin and orange/yellow horns and I was so fucking confused that I just ignored it.

[@musikluv6]

same I just used to see fan art a lot and it was so weird, but yeah after all I checked it out lol

[@kittensruleforever]

i definitely had a hetalia phase but ngl it was at the point where my family didnt own a computer and i didnt have a phone, so i consider myself lucky i never interacted w other fans lmao

[@thiagosilveira5700]

nice tf2 scout profile picture bro Edit: oof he/she changed it

[@zachowon]

That is how I heard of it. A crazy chick who had a crush on me got em into Anime and mainly Hetalia and she was inton Homestuck. I tried to get into it...just couldnt

[@armageddongirl612]

you should read homestuck :)

[@starstrudel8417]

I binged Homestuck during the Gigapause, in about a week and a half. I'd spent a long time holding Homestuck and its fans in utter disdain until I read it. I completely understood what the hysteria was about; the story/universe(s) are insane and staggeringly imaginative, and though there are parts that are extremely difficult to chew through, it's a story with heart, and (in my opinion) an uncanny understanding of the way I used to behave and think during my uncertain teenage years. Waiting for that Gigapause to finish and visiting the page only to see the same old shop ads for the plushies was absolute torture. People who turn their nose up at Homestuck simply don't know what they're missing out on. But yeah, the fandom is.. weird.

[@mahariana289]

I have only recently started to read homestuck, and I can't believe I slept on it for so long. I'm kinda sad I only got into it when its already over, but its still pretty great

[@alcorian8269]

is it really that good? i tried reading it but only got to around act 4 because it confused me and didnt seem to be going anywhere at that point. but if the overarching plot is good, i might actually try again.... in 2020... wow thats gonna get me laughed at haha

[@cryptid16]

@@alcorian8269 It's honestly amazing just how many of those plot threads you think aren't going anywhere pick up when you'd least expect it. I would highly recommend you continue to give it a try. are there any other concerns you have about it i might be able to dissuade?

[@andie.3632]

@@alcorian8269 I'm just an Act later, and believe me, in the first acts, reading the "summary" o "recapitulation" Hussie gaves in his weird self-insertion moments are really helpfull to understand all this messy storyline, even if they are a little bit tedious. That is if you already haven't, of course.

[@animeworld5847]

Legit if anyone wants to get into homestuck but can't read the text walls, direct them to the readthroughs, they're actually great, I wouldn't have gotten past act 1 without them

[@dndevi5288]

I remember back in 2014 (IIRC?), I was at Sacanime and there was a group of homestuck fans calling themselves Windowstuck that went around cleaning up after the ruder Homestuck fans. There was... gray paint everywhere.

[@dm7626]

DnDevi that’s so nice of them !

[@Stupisms]

Lets paint the town ash grey

[@jasminguiza6227]

That sounds like something I would do.

[@reikenator]

theyre god teir

[@serglian8558]

@@reikenator but vriska does not die in infinity vwar.

[@nerdletter3773]

Wait, you binge-red the entire webcomic in SEVEN DAYS?! HOW IS THAT EVEN PHYSICALLY POSSIBLE?! DID YOU SLEEP?!

[@faebees5793]

I'm pretty sure the fastest someone could possibly read it is three days

[@limerence1036]

Actually, according to this fourm post that I'm quoting, "Assuming you spent a measly 5 seconds to look at the pretty pictures, Homestuck has 14,913 panels. You'd spend 74,565 seconds looking at them. That's about 1242.75 minutes, or 20.7125 hours. This brings the total of how long it'd take to read Homestuck up to 3.872 days." so, RPG had the chance to read it in a measly 3 days. Of course that's not taking into account sleep, eating, and school/work. But still, you can read it and become well educated on all the events in the comic in only 3 days.

[@enthupysch3796]

I followed the comic until it's end so it took me years (sarcasm lol). But i binge-read it last week and it took about 3 days. I didnt sleep on the first night lol.

[@coiledAgent]

@L i m e r e n c e 20.7125 hours is technically one day if you never sleep like Hussie.

[@hughmanatee7626]

I remember binge reading homestuck but I actually tried to read and spot patterns and references. Took me about a week and a half with sleep, eating and hygiene. I was on Christmas break at the time. Spent the rest of it taking homestuck classpect quizzes and watching music videos or listening to the playlist. Goddamn I was a nerd. Discovered Homestuck through Undertale btw. Was just getting over Undertale when I got curious enough to search up it's inspirations. Learned I had a soul and sold it to the Huss :/

[@wvoxwvoh9980]

tysm you got me into homestuck months ago, ive had a great adventure going through the webcomic the fandom, and the games. Ive met many new friends and have had bright experiences with it. all i gotta say is, thanks man.

[@guessmyname1246]

Me too.

[@Nightnight226]

Im happy to hear that! "Bad eggs" aside, I really think Homestuck is a uniquely great experience!

[@nicklastname1348]

same bro

[@timemachines04]

publishing it on 10/25... Mr. Monger, you're diabolic

[@pyrrus2948]

@Caio Facchinetti de Almeida you get 1025 by adding 413, john's birthday, and 612, karkat's birthday in human years *flies away*

[@selinnazsur2328]

Holy crap I didn't realize today's significance lmaoo thanks for the reminder

[@foozlesprite]

@@selinnazsur2328 It's not just that either - like 413 and 612, it's an iconic Homestuck number (though not as much as the others). Cascade, Game Over, and the Credits were all posted on 10/25 on different years.

[@selinnazsur2328]

Aewin Lmao I know that xD

[@PatPatych]

*25/10

[@supershinystar5515]

Ohhh I remember homestuck cosplayers very vividly. I’m a cosplayer myself and at a convention I met some homestuck cosplayers. I told them their cosplays looked great and asked them who they were cosplaying. They were super nice to me even complementing me on my own cosplay. I asked them about homestuck and what it was since I had no idea what homestuck was at the time. They were explaining it to me when out of nowhere this troll cosplaying kid who was entirely unrelated to the people I was talking too or the conversation in general appears. He just starts shouting at me about how I’m an uncultured swine for not knowing what homestuck is and how it’s the greatest thing in the world. I quickly made an escape. Luckily I met the cosplayers later and they told me the kid was unrelated to them and that they’re very sorry for his behavior. I told them it was fine, and that I understand that every fandom has those people. But I was on edge for the rest of the day because I was kinda dreading running into that kid again. Luckily I didn’t.

[@trident042]

Last year for Halloween, I was at work, and on my lunch went to Taco Bell to pick up food. The girl at the window was unquestionably, unmistakably dressed as a troll and I was absolutely dead in the middle of re-re-rereading the whole comic to finally finish it when it ended. I was blown away at the costume - which was actually quite good - and had no idea how to express everything I needed to to the girl in the window while she handed me tacos. I managed an awkward "nice costume" and went back to work, head spinning.

[@mangopotato1803]

At the one comic con I went to, there was an army booth, and they had a tank, so naturally everyone wanted to take a picture on it, a group of people cosplaying as trolls, stayed on there for about ten minutes before anyone said anything. The one soldier there complemented the one on their costume but admitted he didn’t know where it was from and then the cosplayer went off on him, and honestly, I felt bad for him.

[@maxellaroe]

I had a horrible experience with a Homestuck fan last year at my home city's comic con. I was dressed as Gamzee and I had a pretty convincing cosplay with my face contoured to a male shape and my womanly features if you will bound up and hidden well. And this one cosplayer totally didn't know that I was a girl at first and was making very uncomfortable comments about my costume and calling me daddy and shit, it was not fun. Even after telling her that I was a girl, engaged to the guy in drag standing next to me, and didn't swing that way, she would not stop. She ended up touching me in very inappropriate ways after my fiance left when his mom called, and it got to a point where I was so upset and so embarrassed that I just left the con early and went home. I had a great day the day before and everyone I met was super nice, but that girl on Saturday gave me a glimpse of the fandom's absolute darkest side, and I knew I wanted no part of it. I do my best to avoid it altogether.

[@highlanderlk9867]

that anoying troll was karkat

[@daveprice5911]

@@maxellaroejesus h christ and here I was before all this, ACTUALLY tempted to cosplay homestuck

[@katykat5099]

Homestuck is what makes my jr. high school years something i never speak of.

[@gabbyn.3049]

I have just passed that process and I can confirm 1000%

[@ariana9618]

god 7th grade was hellish,,,,but strangely what i needed. thanks homestuck??

[@olea6104]

Preach it

[@solluxcaptor7908]

SAMEEE it was terrible

[@alexdelcastillo8837]

I'm actually quite late to the fandom (I started reading in May 2019), so I was able to enjoy it post toxicity.

[@LadyMisalein]

Welcome then ! Enjoy the ride!

[@gremlinwithstickyhands3704]

*laughs in Epilogue*

[@rb4121]

I'm actually somewhat disappointed that I discovered it only in 2020, because I'm _exactly_ one month younger than John, and it would've been quite cool to kind of grow up next to a character

[@Some-vf6kb]

Homestuck^2 ya’ll

[@shandeellido-pestano1290]

Help, I'm in act 5 and I'm beyond saving?? Pls help, I'm confused yet intrigued-

[@MindMeats]

Wow, you even read the comic and everything else for this. From how often you got requested to do this it's very much appreciated how in-depth you got into it. I was huge into the fandom myself back then and there were things in this video I never even knew about!

[@snubbe0930]

I'm seconding this opinion. Great work indeed.

[@aegisScale]

IN 7 DAYS!!!

[@perfidiousprophet]

Just enjoy something you like. Don't focus on the messy parts of the fandom, because it'll just bum you out. This is something I learned after experiencing my first major fandom (Undertale) Just like the thing you like and stay respectful towards others. If you do this, you'll have a grand old time.

[@xen0vix450]

Yup Just focus on the good stuff

[@combativeThinker]

Philippians 4:8, people. Sift through the degeneracy, poor writing, and interpersonal strife to find the good, heavenly things in a certain work.

[@memeboy8207]

u realise that many of the undertale fans are also homestuck fans due to Toby

[@7-11thuniverse]

memeboy yup that was me!

[@TestTest-zt1lx]

Why don’t you just not be part of a gay fandom

[@Urvogel7]

I know someone who worked on hiveswap. The legal problems with the odd gentlemen are bad. REALLY BAD.

[@TDLBallistic]

What exactly happened, if I may ask?

[@selinnazsur2328]

I'm really curious too. If they managed to faze Hussie, it really MUST have been bad.

[@foozlesprite]

@@TDLBallistic Highly doubting they can tell us. Legally, their friend probably shouldn't have told them. I'm sure the non-disclosure agreements for that scenario are watertight, with hefty penalties.

[@bringinthedope5929]

good call

[@ryliclour8947]

@Lil faggot yeah I still remember all the posts like it was yesterday. I don't know if they are taken down but it clearly stated tog gave terrible, terrible results after months of work (just a walk cycle if im correct) while in the same time you can watch an interview on a remastered game let's call it Xy (don't remember the name, it was a point and click adventures I think?) where tog said PROUDLY they were putting all their efforts on Xy at the point they were ignoring other "projects" (hiveswap)

[@gengarpixel3954]

Important: You're not cringe for liking homesick, Undertale, Or anything of the sort. As long as you aren't an insane fan, You're doing no harm one of the reasons why the "Bad side" Speaks louder, Is due to the attention we give them. I've met fans from these things who are wonderful.

[@FifinatorKlon]

You're not cringe for it. Just a flamboyant gaylord.

[@optimisticDuelist]

Oh hey, always nice to have more Homestuck on KZbin. I'm quite pleased you ended on an optimistic note, and entirely agree. One thing you didn't mention is that we're still waiting on the Epilogue and Hussie has partnered with Viz Media to produce it, and what it actually is is kind of a mystery. So there's more to look forward to besides Hiveswap/Hauntswitch/the Friendsims. Thanks for making this video! :) It's nice to see someone else find their way to the fandom.

[@ashikjaman1940]

The epilogue is a myth :[

[@vanceriley9905]

Hey it’s Optimistic Duelist

[@vanceriley9905]

Big fan btw

[@th3pl4yl1styt8]

Oh it's you

[@kashino55archive94]

Ay, it's OD!

[@facemite]

anybody else thought it was gonna be something worse then spit in the bucket because of how he phrased the lead up.

[@SireForseti]

I thought that it's gonna be cum in the bucket.

[@serglian8558]

@@SireForseti that's basiclaly what trollspit is

[@welfarequeen1967]

it's unconfirmed whether or not it's spit in the bucket or cum in the bucket

[@Marqrk]

I thought they were going to piss, shit, and spit into the bucket then one of them would declare some poor random sap to be their queen or whatever and would dump it on them

[@ELMTree-le7nq]

And then lancer DeltaRune pushes a bucket with a spade on it to the @>"# (fun) squad.

[@riobanana5948]

Homestuck video only 40 minutes long??? Whoa cutting it short there bud

[@sefsprite]

Iron-Jawed-Unicorn YT I think a more accurate video would be a series split into 12 episodes.

[@Zephyeran]

@Ahmad and skeleton Homestuck is long and complex, so the intent was to make a joke about a video on the topic not being long like the topic. 😅

[@giaourboy7780]

@Ahmad and skeleton r/woooosh, Smart kid.

[@shadedveils]

“Homestuck would get an epilogue” welcome to 2020, where the epilogues, homestuck^2, and pesterquest have revived this fandom, bringing back Omeglestuck and other celebrations, especially this 4/13.

[@theartistswings9810]

We had almost escaped the trashcan.. almost

[@baimhakani]

HOW MANY ALTERNATE HOMESTUCK NOVELS ARE THERE I KEEP SEEING YOU GUYS DISCUSS THIS ... WHATEVER I CAN'T JUST KEEP READING THIS LIKE HARRY POTTER MAN

[@connoraugh1626]

omeglestuck??...

[@electricbluetiramisu3713]

"like with the infamous sharpie bath in 2011" HOW DO YOU EVEN

[@jgilmour96]

The... the what?

[@dophatthanh5587]

I thought he said sharky bath

[@aisore217]

I-I'm afraid to ask what happened...

[@andrew_cunningham]

@@aisore217 I tried googling "sharpie bath of 2011" and google just sort of nodded sadly and gave me a tumblr post. It's about what it sounds like.

[@justinfromdietweeb3553]

Yeah so uhm, some bitch grey sharpied herself in the bathtub and half of it was alchohol.

[@Xentrolis]

A bunch of hotels near an anime convention where I lived closed their pools every year after Homestuck cosplayers jumped into them in body paint and ruined them. People at the convention hated the fandom for years.

[@dorafuentes6813]

What....people don't think

[@haldouglas4773]

i can guarantee that they were shoved in, not jumped. making those cosplays and taking that long to paint, they wouldn't jump.

[@Xentrolis]

@@haldouglas4773 Possibly. I will note that it's jarring to get a reply to a comment I made 4 years ago haha.

[@MrSmashySmash]

It's not a bad comic. It's just that certain people got WAY too into it. This is true of many fandoms, however.

[@nootnootboi7048]

@Alex A that would be the people's fault.

[@voxicwaste]

Look at what've you done. This video has led me to the monstrosity that is the homestuck fandom. I cannot escape, as the Homestuck fandom never dies. I am stuck in this eternal loop forever. I can never leave. I wouldn't want to anyways.

[@descendingDark]

hahahahaha

[@striderboy1000]

I started reading it last night, am I not going to be able to escape if continue?

[@xsychoreese9877]

@@striderboy1000 homestuck is like a vape

[@meulware]

I love karako or whatever the fuck his name was

[@baimhakani]

Oh god oh fuck he already has an alien OC HE'S BEEN FAR GONE

[@lennykenny7851]

You gave me PTSD by saying Hetalia

[@Creedio90]

PTSD? that doesnt even touch it

[@kingjakewolf5348]

SAME

[@thepolicedepartmentunited1543]

Hentailia

[@francisashcroft4868]

Sameee

[@user-lc6pg2ul5n]

i am forever tourtured

[@AwkwardHypernerd413]

Listening to this, I'm surprised that I missed ALL OF THAT. I only heard of homestuck until I got into undertale, and wanted to know the origin of megalovania, and then once I got into the fandom, it was a husk of its formal self, joining when it ended. It's sad honestly, I feel as if I stumbled across a vault, and reading all the logs and journals of a once bustling civilization that went into chaos.

[@monckat4681]

i got into homestuck the same way, and yeah it's weird coming into it late. i've heard so many bad things about the old homestuck fandom but i can't help but wish it was back, warts and all.

[@evamarias8896]

I joined a bit before undertale (looked up megalovania and expected Vriska but saw skeleton and that’s how I found out about undertale) and I honestly liked the tranquility of the fandom. While it’s smaller and harder to find fans, once you find them it’s pretty great. And I always tell people this when they think it’s dead “no it’s not dead, its just a gremlin under the bridge. It comes out and hangs out if you call for it or offer something to it but otherwise you never really notice it’s there.” And that’s what the fandom is really. Undercover. There are more than what it seems out there (not as big as it used to but still there) you just need to mention it to folks. Like we have these “codes” they aren’t official but they are definitely “you would only know it if you were in the fandom” type of things. I was signing up for a rewards membership at my Office Depot. When I told him my email ( had 413 in it) he paused. “Does... that number mean something?” “Yep!” “...... is it a Homestuck reference?” “Yes...” “MAN I REMEMBER HOMESTUCK I MISS IT.” Like neither of us radiate Homestuck vibes but that one number gave it away. I say all of this to say that while yeah it’s pretty dormant it’s by no means completely dead. And there are people out there. They are just “undercover” as it will. :3

[@juke37024]

Yeah.... Pretty much that's what it is now.....

[@awkwardhero]

Homestuck was one of those things I loved at the beginning and slowly became embarrassed to be a part of. Act 5 changed everything. I still have fond memories of it all, though. Cascade was such a big deal, it broke the internet for a little while. By the time it ended, though with all the hiatuses and the kickstarter fiasco, I'd already lost interest completely. I finished it once I heard the news that it had ended. The ending was alright, I guess, but I think it suffered badly from all the hangups.

[@ch0p961]

I’ve never heard of homestuck until this video..

[@TheAlmightyGameGenie]

18:00 That's me as Psii with my group of friends back in early 2014! Was honestly absurdly shocked to see that picture again, let alone in a video like this! Thank you for the pleasant memories, even when used in the context of good vs bad cosplayers.

[@hemlockolympic]

You were beautiful and I’m sure you still are. 😊

[@TheAlmightyGameGenie]

@@hemlockolympic Aw, you are too sweet! Now adays, I look quite different, long hair and beard for the jesus combo haha

[@TheAlmightyGameGenie]

@some person Yep, that's her and that's how I found out about this video in the first place

[@cactusc9519]

you look good tbh!

[@justas423]

It feels like the creator writes the script while high and then just draws and animates whatever he wrote.

[@Stephanie-sy9oy]

Yes.

[@alptheclown6646]

Same energy as ZUN drawing every single character portrait in Touhou while absolutely hammered.

[@armageddongirl612]

the problem is that this is accurate AND the entire comic makes sense

[@umcaraaleatorioeggs3339]

@@alptheclown6646 Truth is, ZUN didn't create Touhou, the beer did.

[@LilSmoky92]

Real talk. You could FEEL that Hussie was growing tired of both his work and parts of his fandom, especially when he shut down the forums, but it can also be seen expressed in the series itself. This man created something which he both hated and loved deeply - and for the story this wasn't a bad thing. In my opinion, the main villian of the series - without spoilering - is a representation of his past and present frustrations, especially because how the in-comic Hussie interacts with him. In my opinion this only added to a character which would arguably otherwise have been a very uninspired arctype of a villian. But my point is: The man has given us all he could. Let it end. And I say that as someone who has read through the entire thing three times. Hiveswap Act 1 wasn't BAD, but to me the magic wasn't there anymore. Possibly because magic is fake as fuck in the first place, who knows.

[@seisoch6969]

hiveswap and the friendsims have all the magic that homestuck had in his early days when everything was innocent and playful. I mean we all already went through homestuck's carnage so we are not impressed by some death, so you have the option to kill a bunch of stuff in the friendsim (or get killed) but its still in a funny manner, Hussie's humor is what homestuck lost in the end and it was just a Train of Feels trying to reach his destination and it eventually did. Anime is real.

[@melonmatv9112]

Which villain are you talking about? because theres kinda three. Jack, Lord English, and the Queen.

[@CaptainSkullDemon]

Let it go, let it go, can't hold it back anymore.....

[@somewhatsomehow1491]

it's just something that a creator had to face at some point, especially if he only worked on one particular project/universe for a long time, and in a position where it is so popular they can't stop it or the fans will riot. we've seen it a lot already, one particular case that i remember was with "super meat boy" creator - that funnily enough create the binding of isaac to escape super meat boy, yet plunging himself to another one. heck, it happens a lot with manga series, when the author is basically want to end it yet the publisher won't allow it. or maybe just a youtuber who trying to create a new type of content because they're just tired of the type of content that they've been doing. sometimes you just want a blank space to start something new and fresh, just let it end for the creator's sake

[@Biglulu]

I think after everything, we're at least owed a proper ending. ACT 7 was super lame because we didn't even see the LE fight. I want the LE fight. The story has been building up to fighting LE for what, 7 years? It needs that fight to be complete.

[@haydenwhat]

is it ok to fully get into a fandom two years late EDIT: holy shit a lot of people replied to this! thanks for all the support i didn't really stick with homestuck, but i did end up getting into the arcana fandom a little too late, so this still totally works lol

[@lullafool5106]

If you’re like me, yes

[@viridiancryptid]

It started in 2009 and i got into homestuck in 2014 and had a friend fill me in on EVERYTHING and now that its 2019 and i still love it and hetalia i can confirm it doesn't matter when u get into it just enjoy it

[@matthieuleperlier251]

No, it is actually illegal. Sorry, you're too late to enjoy it now.

[@abyssalseas3944]

I. I got into this in like 2015. I regret nothing.

[@juancarpio7930]

yes

[@CallingBlueBird]

Pretty sure my comment isn't going to see the light of day but story time. So this happened at a convention in Florida. I saw someone struggle to walk in a very elaborate cosplay. I don't remember what it was, because I didn't recognize it at the time. They ended up tripping over their own cosplay on the way down the stairs, and fell pretty bad. There was a group of homestuck cosplayers laughing at the bottom saying "I warned you about them stairs bro" which is a quote from a spin off or something attached to homestuck. Meanwhile, I'm trying to rush over and help this person but I was so mad I couldn't think. Thankfully the cosplayer was okay, and so was their costume. They weren't concerned, they didn't help -- they just laughed??? I'm still upset over it 5-6 years later.

[@prismancy7182]

"Florida" _oh no_

[@cedge4536]

Tbf if they helped the person out and then dropped that line after they made sure the guy was okay, that would be pretty amusing but damn that's messed up

[@angelobarros3499]

but they told'im dog

[@Area-kf1yj]

They told him dawg!!

[@ashleywilliams10]

Oh my fucking God. That wasn't even a memorable part of the story let alone FUNNY!!

[@cecilb8287]

*Me, getting into Homestuck because of my friend:* haha, I’m in danger!

[@Some-vf6kb]

Venus's Trashcan man i feel ya there bud.

[@PostMortemAnimations]

feel ya, man

[@Denizu]

I can't believe I have never heard of Homestuck... Sure mentioned sometimes but I assumed it was an anime or drama series or something. How wrong I was.

[@leodahslayer867]

Same

[@Kunmao]

Homestuck is my favorite anime lmao

[@jacketofdiamonds]

It’s both and neither

[@animeworld5847]

Look this up : Homestuck marmelade and sugar song

[@nicklastname1348]

@@Kunmao same

[@nosorab3]

*back when the Homestuck fandom was the worst, and not just "another one"* Back before the dark times, before MLP, Voltron, Steven Universe, and Undertale. I've lived long enough to see my previous benchmarks of atrociousness be surpassed not once, but FOUR times. I'm ready to just fucking die now

[@mmoobloom]

you forgot hamilton

[@TheZenytram]

And Rick and morty, fnaf

[@alyson2748]

V O L T R O N

[@hxney_bree]

Make some room on that list, buddy *looks at MHA*

[@neksnek2032]

Can Sonic find a seat here?

[@ikemeitz5287]

Just throwing this out there, you can enjoy a thing without associating yourself with or becoming a part of the fandom. Don't avoid things just because people who like them are weird.

[@34marmarmar]

you can't tell me what to do

[@burgatoryLove]

34marmarmar alrighty fair enough

[@laurenhodges6411]

That's wonderful advice! Thank you for your input!

[@hellboundhimbo]

If you think undertale was bad, just WAIT until the time comes when you look into Hamilton. It is a DOOZY.

[@piranhasz427]

just you wait

[@kloe.com.au1]

@@piranhasz427JUST YOU, WAITTTT

[@mmoobloom]

no... not trans Thomas Jefferson

[@lulu-bx9pu]

grace hatsune miku binder Jefferson haunts my nightmares hhjkdnd

[@lulu-bx9pu]

Anonymoos you heard me, miku. binder. jefferson. (who was also wearing a shirt that said “met god. she’s black”)

[@PatPatych]

Wait. *How* did you read all oof Homestuck in 7 days? I can't believe it, this is physically impossible.

[@ruler_of_everything]

the power of wasting time

[@lolsterf4147]

Well a comment here did explain that if you only took 5 seconds for the pretty pictures, its actually possible to read the entire Homestuck story in about 3 and 4/5 days considering you only read and not do something else like sleep. So reading it all in seven days means the man literaly wasted a good portion of a week on just reading the whole thing.

[@virdamofromko-metru1161]

I actually read it in 3 days, reading all the text. AAAAAAAALL OF IT!

[@erick3003lel]

I mean i read the entire thing in 20 hours once like a year ago

[@virdamofromko-metru1161]

@@erick3003lel Was that your first time or not?

[@ProfesserQ]

Perfect timing, right on the anniversary of when Cascade[S] dropped.

[@WindSorceress32]

You forgot about DISCOURSE. Homestuck fandom discourse was terrible.... The Caucasian incident, Gamzee and Bro Strider being abusive, people stanning the dancestors and then getting told off because the dancestors are PROBLEMATIC

[@WindSorceress32]

i just had a flashback to fandomstuck

[@literallyn01imp0rtant]

V r i s c o u r s e

[@cherrybrown8486]

Vriscourse is still plaguing the fandom to this day

[@thepolicedepartmentunited1543]

Kankri agrees

[@helencashwes]

V R I S K A D I D N O T H I N G W R O N G

[@samdoezzzstuff]

So wait, there’s a Homestuck term for stopping two people in an un stable relationship from killing each other? I was an Auspitice for the majority of my life then

[@tiffany-chan1235]

*Looks at title* Oh my god....He's finally doing it!!!

[@selinnazsur2328]

I stopped playing Fusionfall Retro for this, it was THAT big of a deal for me xD

[@TheSlipperyNUwUdle]

Anyone remember when everyone hated Hetalia and Homestuck’s fandom so much we got shipped together jokingly??? Good times.

[@GlitchyPix]

40 minutes of Fandom Files? Yay!

[@selinnazsur2328]

Just the right amount of content we deserve.

[@bumbum2555]

Im literally only finding about this now, from accidentally finding two characters (karkat and sollux) and thought it was some tv show about these grey aliens, so i looked it up and found the comic. Although it did seem like it sucks from this video, i think its a cute comic and try reading it in my freetime.

[@theartistswings9810]

comics amazing 10/10. fandom has that problem where the crazy 1% are literally thousands of people. 4/10 met some life long friends and felt apart of a rich community. Comic still makes me smile even after my encounters with toxicity in the fandom. I hope it brings you as much joy as it did me!

[@kaycobb6092]

The comic is fuckin awesome, the fandom is questionable in some places but nice in others. It’s worth enjoying in my opinion

[@okayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy]

For a long time there was a fandom joke about "the Homestuck anime"/ "my favorite anime is Homestuck" , because so many people were first introduced to the series through anime-style fanart and/or general anime fandom spaces - leading them to believe that Homestuck must be some weird anime. It became such a joke that people would make fake anime screenshots or even animate entire anime openings/endings. So believe me when I say you are far from being alone.

[@mkgaca8721]

I recommend watching Let's Read Homestuck. It's a fandub on YT.

[@tanyarastogi1110]

And now you're 'amporababe' :))

[@The_Skellington]

Shipping long story cut short ❤ Love Relationship ♠ Hate/Love Relationship ♦ BFs ♣ not really a relationship : more like stoping a previous ❤♠♦ from fighting (aka the third wheel)

[@ikemeitz5287]

♣ is more official than a third wheel though. The three are close enough that it can be considered a form of romance.

[@butterflytaster5553]

♣️ is mitigating a problematic kissmessitude, man

[@chocobogirl92]

back in 2012, me and my sister went to a con in ohio. we were so confused because we were practically surrounded by grey people with orange horns and zodiac shirts. we had no idea what they were, but it must have been a least half of the total cosplayers there. nothing eventful happened we were just extremely confused 😅

[@TheJiacheng123]

You're lucky I suppose, at least given the stories. Although they are the minority

[@HerbalAssailant]

Same thing happened to me and my sister. The entire time we were trying to figure out what anime they were from. 😂

[@thehillsarealivewiththesou6759]

I suggest you do the Pokemon fandom. It has a youngish fanbase leading to cosplayers and community members that are loud and obnoxious. I went to a local con when Pokemon go was at its peak. A group of Pokemon trainer cosplayers went around shouting obscene Pokemon jokes and harassing Pokemon cosplayers. Most notably one of the older cosplayers ( around age 15) went up to a young child in a Pikachu hoodie and screeched ‘I choose you Pikachu!’ It startled the young child and they started to cry. Most people in that situation would apologise profusely and comfort the child. What does this scumbag do? Laugh and jeer at this small child. I don’t know what happened after that as My attention was diverted to something else. ( by ‘young child’ I mean this kid was around 8 or 9)

[@mememologies7363]

Yeah. That id like to see. Or the South Park fandom.

[@fullmoonxxxx]

There’s more to the fandom

[@kek-senpai243]

@@mememologies7363 how is the south park fandom bad? The only "bad" things I've seen in that fandom was things that were offensive that either happened in the show or in real life.

[@kek-senpai243]

The worst in the pokemon fandom is verlisify...

[@roswell6477]

Man, now there’s the epilogues, Pesterquest, and Homestuck 2! Homestuck is going to last for a long time.

[@meechiejamerson]

100 years Homestuck

[@mkgaca8721]

*hums you can't fight the Homestuck*

[@angelbrained]

so i only joined the fandom this year and honestly? its much smaller and more comfortable than it was in 2012. its a nice little place and ill keep making fan content till hauntswitch ends. so it never ends. one could say. *IT KEEPS HAPPENING* . happy day after 10/25. good watch

[@uranium404]

hello

[@froghoodie1630]

the homestuck fandom is mostly people regretting the fabled homestuck days and the hiveswap fandom is super chill, 10/10 cozy factor, this is the time to be alive

[@coloursaur1494]

@@froghoodie1630 I was VERY into homestuck when it came out...I never finished it but i was reading it for years. I even pledged into the kickstarter for hiveswap but they never sent me my copy :')

[@japanrocksgousa]

I TOLD YOU DOG

[@JuliaTheSun]

homestuck fans in 2018 are two kinds of people 1. People who still resonate w the hs characters today and want to keep up dirk/terezi/rose etc angst. A lot of talk on lgbt characters bc all the straight homestuck fans went to like voltron or whatever. There's art of like Rose with mitski lyrics and its really good content 2. hs twitter who are VERY small. They still follow up with hiveswap and all of the new content for friendism. They interact w james roach and are trying to make contact with Hussie.

[@IapitusMcHeimer]

So its finally here. We all knew it would come eventually

[@mileshunter6978]

you explaining the whole bucket thing activated my fight or flight response. thanks

[@Prophet-tick]

Any two characters in any media: *have unconventional relationship* Homestuck Fandom: *Laugh in Quadrants*

[@HTPCYMC]

Homestuck, don’t you mean *Undertale Origins*

[@mathewricafrente5984]

Earthbound Halloween Hack is the true Undertale Origins

[@cathoodiegirl4118]

No.

[@caretakercat7176]

Earthbound halloween hack + homestuck is all what needed to become undertale and toby is the bucket.

[@asalways1504]

I believe the term you're looking for is "the pebble that caused the great fandom ripple effect"

[@taddad2641]

tyurns out the epilogue is gonna be a series that reveals that the entire time Sans has been manipulating everyone. why? so that he could convert the entire cosmos through Determination, strangling causality till it was dead.

[@vampiricdemoncutie]

18:02 Omg my husband is the psiionic cosplayer! :D We actually met thru homestuck in 2013

[@selinnazsur2328]

Daww

[@vampiricdemoncutie]

@@selinnazsur2328 yeah we were both dressed as gamzee but nowadays he isn't clean shaven, he has a full on beard :33

[@selinnazsur2328]

He should do Signless!

[@TDIdialgagirl]

Neat

[@vampiricdemoncutie]

he could! he already looks like jesus lol XD

[@melendezs.a.2225]

Oh no. You said Homestuck. *WHAT HAVE YOU DONE*

[@a.dennis4835]

Summoned the Demon of the Abyss

[@sebastiansandoval4861]

H3H3 Edit:Yeah no

[@chazzwozzio]

Hell hath been unleashed upon our hallowed kingdom you folly filled fool!

[@deeznuts-kw6yv]

THE END IS NEAR

[@Avery-of1bw]

Okay, but can we appreciate that this man read Homestuck in NINE DAYS?!?! It took me around 5 months, and I know a few people who took over a year to read it.

[@mjr_schneider]

This really was the most early 2010s thing imaginable, wasn't it

[@Audamix80]

diary of a wimpy kid

[@Camyosh]

I want to sincerely thank you for this video, being an active homestuck content creator in 2018 is not easy and I’ve seen it’s fandom as well as my own audience dwindling over time. It really comes down to how the creators can keep the fandom thriving and I’m sure this video will have impact on keeping homestuck alive!

[@KnufWons]

Camyosh I’m a fan, great to see you being more active lately.

[@AlshepType]

I've tried reading Homestuck 5 different times in my life. Can never get past the prologue.

[@Lia-vnq]

I feel ya. The prologue's the hardest to get through. I had to try like 3 times before I completed it, and even then it took a while for the story to get going.

[@BirdRaiserE]

Watch it on voxus instead That's what I did

[@mokjoy]

That happened to me too You kinda have to make yourself read it

[@Krash2o]

Yup, Voxus and then read what they haven't got through yet

[@maskedapocalypsema151]

This is it, this is where my life either changes or ends forever, I’m gonna go read homestuck from beginning to end. Pray for me, UNTIL NEXT TIME LIFE First edit: I’ve just started the 2nd act, it’s getting really good but for some reason I can’t stop reading it Second edit: just began the 3rd act and I can’t stop reading, this is getting out of hand, HELP ME Third edit: I don’t know who I am or where I am, all I know is, homestuck. Homestuck is all I know now. I haven’t left my room in days yet I don’t think I need to go outside ever again.

[@taeunaosei9107]

My condolences

[@shairmaneubaos]

F

[@lantearia]

I used to despise Homestuck, simply because of the fandom. What I'd heard, and seen, made me want nothing to do with it. But, as i watched fan animation videos of different fandom, HS vids just kept popping up. And, some of them were just so brilliant, they made me curious. I didn't much enjoy the first act. Or even the second. But, You Can't Fight the Homestuck. I wondered if it got better, as some of the videos assured me. And, it did. I became a massive Homestuck. And even today would consider myself one. I didn't contribute to the fandom, but, read each panel of the webcomic, watched loads of videos, bought merch, etc. I still love the comic. I wish I'd gotten into it sooner. But, at the end of the day, I'm simply glad I gave it the chance it deserved.

[@NecronomisIndustries]

One big reason that people hate the Homestuck fandom is because of the undeserved praise it gets. My definition of that is that when the series is looked at from a critical perspective and compared to other contemporary works you find that despite it being praised as "Deep, thoughtful, and insightful" it doesn't actually meet those descriptions compared to works that actually do. "Insightful" is reserved for works that either posit or demonstrate subjects that are complex by breaking it down into easy to digest segments that stretch out over time in order to deliver...uh...insight, into the topic. The only topic Homestuck is "insightful" in is Homestuck. Therefore, it's disqualified from that type of praise. If you'd like me to break down the rest of these points later, I will, but for now I'm going to cut off here.

[@xaldrortenderofthevats8948]

i'd like to see it broken down. want to know if my time in Magic the Gathering and Phyrexia was spent well there as opposed to Homestuck.

[@coryandrews7201]

my one friend was cosplaying as gamzee and got mono from being forced to kiss a tavros cosplayer 😭😭

[@amouramarie]

ah, youth. fucking spectacular.

[@acuteroses9345]

you activated my fight flight response when you mentioned the sharpie bath story omg

[@graysonb7231]

I want to google it but I'm afraid lmao

[@K4ndieboi]

Witch Of Void dude I’m telling you what that fucking story

[@jetspeed500]

basically a terezi cosplayer attempted to dye her skin grey by filling a hotel bathtub with black and metallic sharpies and a bit of water, then bathing in it. In the process she covered everything in the bathroom with ink splatters. she gave herself ink poisoning and had to be removed from the hotel, the people she was rooming with didn't know her very well and it was their first impression of the homestuck fandom. she did $700 of damage to the hotel bathroom...

[@K4ndieboi]

Lunny oh no that was the sentence 😂 I was just saying that story is crazy

[@K4ndieboi]

I shoulda added a comma making it “dude I’m telling you what, that fucking story”

[@PineappleLiar]

Homestuck was my blue balls fandom: I was deeply invested with no one to talk with about it and I started reading right as the Great Hiatus started (circa 2013). I wasn’t on Tumblr, so I never saw the worst of the fandom, but I’m able to understand the depth of emotion and absolute bullshitery this story is able to upend in people. The constant struggle of being completely engulfed in something, but knowing it’s nigh impossible to sell an outsider without sounding like an insane person. On the plus side I did learn to draw doing fanart for this comic, so it wasn’t all for naught.

[@Beamo1080]

Wow you really oversold that bucket thing. The moment you said "genetic material", I assumed you meant they were cumming in the buckets. And I believed it.

[@thepolicedepartmentunited1543]

Well it is cum....alien cum

[@dexieleighyan2625]

*coughing fit*

[@NZsaltz]

I mean, that's what it's actually more like canonically, but I doubt that any human will actually do that, in a restaurant or not.

[@youngveggies6558]

@@NZsaltz I have no doubt in my mind one person did this thinking they were a comedic genius.

[@NZsaltz]

@@youngveggies6558 If they were really good, they would have gotten another person to do the same thing in that bucket, then they would have done it again with another person in a different bucket, and given the two buckets to a large robot man.

[@superequinox4185]

i'd go so far as to call homestuck as a post modern religion. it has deeply interconnected themes and symbolism and events, special terms and definitions pertaining to itself, revered personalities that go on to shape countless characters following them, acolytes that practice its teachings as accurately as possible (public bucket spitting), and encapsulates the entirety of its reality. no wonder it was so big. if things went smoothly the papal throne could've had grey smudges o it too.

[@cactusc9519]

yeah, idk if i would quite go that far, but definitely. it helps that it has a lot of actual interesting christian themes, and some from other religions. sometimes it seems to me to be one of the most effective translations of the bible, at least in terms of really portraying the early pre-constantine church in modern terms. think it actually manages to capture how interesting but basically unsettling and awkward it was back then.

[@animeworld5847]

Homestuck : The bible, written by Hirohiko Araki, in the form of a Shakespearean play

[@scramblecore9156]

@@animeworld5847 araki secretly worked on homestuck as a part timer

[@ruler_of_everything]

to an extent, homestuck is earth c's bible

[@69SalterStreet]

I've never heard ANYTHING about Homestuck except how much the fandom sucks. I had no idea it was even a comic.

[@Ambertrine]

I have attempted to read Homestuck several times and failed. I like the ideas behind it, but it was really hard for me to get into.

[@pseudophori6541]

Amber Lynn it really speeds up after i think the first act or two, if that helps

[@HexManiacQuinn]

@@pseudophori6541 That's true. If I were to compare Homestuck to Doctor Who, Act 1 of Homestuck would be like the original black and white run of Doctor Who leading up to the Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker)'s role, except that everything preceding it is actually necessary to understand the plot so EVERYONE needs to read it to know what's happening later. That being said, I think I'm in the minority of people who actually really enjoyed Act 1 and the following bits of Homestuck from even before the trolls were introduced. I enjoyed the characters and was really digging the real-life-apocalypse-Sims idea of the Sburb game.

[@prismancy7182]

It's a really fucking good one at that. Especially in the later acts.

[@comonhaze8940]

I love how this video was made before the epilogue controversy and the toblerone findings of this year. And, not only that, but P E S T E R Q U E S T! 2019 is truly a new era for the fandom.

[@kendall2291]

Naomi CatYard exactly!! because of pesterquest my gf is making me read it and im throughly enjoying it lol

[@Sirvaria]

Now i feel like i kinda missed something... what happened with the epilogue, and since when are there even epilogues wth???? 8Y

[@theFonzii]

@@Sirvaria there are epilogues available on homestuck.com that are essentially an intermission piece connecting homestuck 1 and homestuck 2. without spoiling stuff, they were written in the style of fanfiction, which is why it garnered controversy. however its all intentional and i personally liked em a lot.

[@avaph0bic]

god i got so happy when pesterquest came out it’s literally all i ever wanted. deserved to be in the video... part 2? 👀

[@evesmascara78]

Wait a second.. Does Fandom Files.. have a fandom? hmmm..

[@misterhydra7285]

HE KNOWS TOO MUCH

[@whoisezekiel2099]

This question gave me a meltdown

[@ratalamode]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/bH2zmnmrgLGamc0

[@3qms]

The prophecy

[@amziah8028]

*FBI* *IS* *REQUESTING* *YOUR* *LOCATION*

[@TheRachaelLefler]

I don't think Homestuck is a bad fandom, it was just more popular with teenagers, and teenagers sometimes go a bit too far with their fandoms in general. That's why Twilight has a reputation as having a bad fandom. It's not even teens' fault entirely they behave this way, it's because their pre-frontal cortex isn't fully developed and they lack impulse control as a result. I would stay up all night playing computer games or watching anime as a kid, no self-control. So if someone was watching the way I would talk about anime and video games, I would have seemed like a toxic fan. When you get older you gain the ability to self-regulate better.

[@chadschmaltz9790]

This comment deserves more likes. Very well said.

[@avalonazure5488]

Oh totally. People of that age try desperately to find people who feel the same they do. And when they do, they cling to them and take it too far. It's just how it is. But some great things came from the fandoms. Ups and downs, I suppose.

[@articulatelyComposed]

This video just made me so nostalgic. I joined the fandom pretty much at the end of the peak and I've been chasing that high ever since. Never again have I found a fandom with such a prolific music and voice community. There are some remnants of it here and there, and there's been a bit of a resurgence what with the friendsims, but I will forever be kicking myself for joining the homestuck singing and VA community just a tiny bit too late. Writing homestuck fanmusic is what got me into college, singing broadwaystuck parodies and PhemieC covers is what has developed my voice to where it is today, and even years after it's ended the comic is still giving me creative inspiration (eg: the 95 page 2 act live staged musical about the ancestors that I've been writing bit by bit for the past year and a half). I know the fans from six years ago have left a bad taste in many peoples' mouths, but I'm just glad there's still some people out there that can appreciate homestuck for the work of art and cultural influence that it is.

[@Biglulu]

MLP has a pretty similar vibrant and passionate creator community.

[@katnerddd6223]

I really want to know about that Ancestor musical now.... that sounds super cool.

[@articulatelyComposed]

@@katnerddd6223 Oh wow, I didn't think anyone would see this! My ancestor musical (titled Time's Apprentice, I have a growing playlist of demos on my channel) basically goes through the most important aspects of the ancestor timeline from the perspective of the handmaid. I've modified much of the plot and character names to appeal to a non-homestuck audience, so essentially Damara is the servant to the god of time (doc scratch) and is tasked to go down to earth and do his bidding messing with people's lives. The first act follows the Signless' revolution and the second follows Mindfang's journey. Damara starts out as more of a narrator, constantly breaking the fourth wall to talk to the audience, but as the story goes on she becomes very attached to the characters she's manipulating, particularly Rosa (the Dolorosa), who becomes her only real parental figure and helps her realize the abuse she's been facing from the time god her entire life. The story, in a nutshell, is about abuse, oppression, and failed revolution. It's going to be a complete and utter tragedy and I can't wait to perform it live so I can see the audience weep when the final number comes around.

[@WatercolorMush]

One of my best memories was being a Jade cosplayer at a con in 2012 and having one of the guys who did music for the comic lead a sing along for 'How Will I Live' with a massive group of Homestuck cosplayers, complete with a guitar in hand. I wish I somehow saved the recording I had of it but I have it here: in my heart....

[@v0lt4m0re]

man that sounds like a blast, i oddly wish i was able to be into homestuck at its peak like that