Why homestuck is popular

I think people just feel proud to stick with it for so long, you know? Not to mention that the plot is batshit nonsensical, but amazing. How does this obsession manifest? Aside from keeping up with a 7, page long webcomic, a lot of Homestucks are really, really into cosplay. Like full body paint, expensive costumes, the works. There are conventions and etiquette to go along with these conventions. People create fan art and fan music. There are videos of fans reacting to the longer installments of Homestuck.

While there is a largely followed directive that Homestuck stays SFW, there is also a community of people who proliferate the kink meme, creating creepy sexualized fanart. Buckets are kind of an inside joke in Homestuck.

The trolls, which are a completely different species from humans, consider buckets a sexualized object. Buckets and pails have become synonymous with sex in the Homestuck fan lexicon. How do I become a Homestuck? We guess you can start with the very first comic.

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Still, the influence of Homestuck lives on in smaller ways. Anecdotally, some friends have told me that killing time waiting for updates led them to learn how to animate or make music, and some of those Homestuck fans became employees of What Pumpkin, the company Hussie started to handle merch sales, and then artists and musicians with fanbases of their own. For something so ubiquitous Homestuck now feels obscure, having faded into the niche comic its early fandom believed it was.

But apart from the juggernaut its fandom became, Homestuck the comic was actually good—overlong and in need of an editor, sure, but good in a specific way that could only have happened in the particular, less cynical way the internet operated almost a decade ago.

It was messy, exhausting and sometimes very tedious, but hey, you might like it. I loved Problem Sleuth but once that ended I read Homestuck for about two weeks before giving up on it. The A. By Gita Jackson. Why is homestuck so popular? Can I read homestuck on my phone? What is the point of homestuck? How much homestuck is there? What is the Homestuck fandom? When did homestuck end? What does mean in homestuck?

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