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Yeah, that's the thing about these people, they don’t really like the media itself; rather, they hollow it out and use it as a vehicle to promote stuff they like: shipping, melodrama, LGBTQAIP++ shit, and leftist politics. Even the trolls they latched onto became mere tools for their narcissism. Instead of enjoying the actual comic, they spend more time self-inserting into the trolls or creating AUs that don’t have anything to do with Homestuck beyond having trolls as a race in them.
These are people who despise Hussie more for using the term "Octoroon" than for his handling of the Hiveswap Kickstarter, who harassed over a "caucasian" joke, who draw characters
so differently from their canonical depictions they act like you’re the one drawing them off-model for depicting them
accurately. They've even created a mod to censor "problematic language" for the UHC.
And of course, the first wave of Tumblr had an unofficial rule to skip the first four acts and start with the trolls. To this day, some still argue that the first four acts are inferior and should be skipped.
It's cliché to call anyone "not a true fan," but fujoshits & even yurifags genuinely don't appreciate Homestuck itself much.
Hussie once described Homestuck as a dialogue between the author and readers, but he abandoned his original readers for a new audience that didn't respect Homestuck or the rest of MSPA. This was particularly evident during the Caucasian incident, where Hussie backpedalled and even distanced himself from his defenders to prostrate himself before those who branded him a racist bigot over the
tamest joke imaginable .
Homestuck was the first examples of a phenomenon that has occurred countless times over the past decade: a piece of media co-opted by a group of subversives who change its direction, stripping it of the qualities that made it interesting and replacing them with shit. This process was visible in real-time with Homestuck. Initially slow in Act 6, it steadily devolved into a lame morass of tween relationship melodrama and eventually political content creeped in towards the end. There was still some cool stuff, but the section overall was tarnished.
This got worse over time, with the Epilogues and Homestuck^2, which turned most characters into hollow caricatures or completely different personas to facilitate wangsty drama. Jade is a prime example, as her character was assassinated to prop up
davekat, among other changes like giving her a
DOG DICK. The excuse for all that being it was
supposed resemble a shitty fanfic; well they succeeded, and it’s so bad, the degradation in Homestuck proper is almost unnoticeable in comparison.
After over a decade of politicians and activists bleeding money on all this shit in cinema, comics, and vidyagaems, corporations are turning away from “representation”, and by extension this means tumblrshit and the like is dying off as well.But as for Homestuck? The Tumblr influence is so deeply ingrained with it now, and unlike other franchises, they are Hussie's primary source of income at this point. As George Costanza once said: It's a perfect example of Tumblr ruining something good so thoroughly that nobody remembers its original form.
The only way to "uncuck" Homestuck would be for normal people to become a majority in the fanbase and voice disagreements with shit the Epilogues & Homestuck^2, the Toblerone retcons, any adaptations altering characters' sexualities, and tumblrshit in general. They’d need to be made aware it wasn’t always Tumblr and that tumblr invaded back in 2010. I hope Cadbrad makes a video on this.
If such an unlikely change were to occur, though, Hussie would likely capitulate, as he has done before with a newcomer influx drastically different from the then-current fanbase. He seems even less principled now than he was then.
The most realistic, though still unlikely, scenario would be the animated series getting greenlight by some corporation who notices the winds changing and gets them to make it gradually less fujoshitty throughout the produciton, which then allows it to retain enough normal people upon airing that they then have the most sway in the fanbase which prompts the studio to appeal to them more.
Honestly, it would be poetic for Tumblr to get a taste of their own medicine.