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Short answer: its longer than the bible

Ohh! Do you mind to read Vast Error? (Is base on Homestuck trolls!) Is actually pretty well made! It don't have a big fandom but the story is pretty cool and is cleared, Vast Error have a game that tell the story before the events of Vast Error, like 5-2 months before, and help with the story line later, the main trolls are 12! -Sova(ra) Amalie. [SA] -Dismas Mercid. [GD] -Arcjec Voorat. [AH] (Is the main) -Jentha Briati. [FF] -Ellsee Raines. [EO] -Albion Shukra. [DQ] -Serpaz Helilo. [PD] -Laivan Ferroo. [WA] -Occeus Coliad. [ME] -Taz(sia) Poemme. [PO] -Murrit Turkin. [UK] -Calder Kerian. [GS] Tose are they names, they have a wiki and all xD

i actually read through all of it. ALL of it. And ever since, i began to appreciate the first acts and their convoluted chain-reaction events, i began to actually loathe the "fans" who skip to the trolls and don't appreciate the Carapacian characters. like how many of these "fans" know that the "funny little mayor" actually almost toppled the black king of John's Sburb-Session, before any of the kids even arrived on Skaia? Yes, THE MAYOR COULD HAVE DEFEATED THE BLACK KING, if it weren't for Jack Noir, screwing everything up. Aimless Renegade is an objectively better character than all of the Dancestors, combined. And the Midnight Crew deserved far more panels! FAR MORE PANELS

i got into the homestuck community in this year, and here on act 4, it gets a lil confusing, but homestuck is better then most things i've seen

Putting this in my Watch Later but I know the answer. It's because they're weak.

dude I just finished act 4 and I started like.. A month ago and I've been reading it at fucking SCHOOL and anywhere in my freetime and I can see why one of my partners stopped at putting the arms in the cake, but I have a different partner who started last week and are ALREADY ON THE 2,000-3,000ish PAGES, YOU JUST GOTTA BE PATIENT AND PROBABALY AUTISC (last part is a fucking joke. Dw I have ADHD and possible autism lol)

Internet age collaborative art acknowledges and integrates commentary. Contemporary readers are expected to search for commentary and engage in conversation to connect all the dots. This makes for a somewhat janky latecomer experience, but the difficulty still lies in avoiding spoilers and not in finding commentary. Articles on the Magnus Archives wiki are split to pre-s4 and post-s4 halves with a spoiler ribbon and ordered strictly chronologically within each section on both sides so that you can find just the references relevant to you while minimizing the amount of spoiler hazards you have to skim.

the main thing that kept me going through the first couple of acts was that i wanted to hear the bangers in action (the soundtrack made me read it) also my sense of humor is dogshit early act 6 made me wanna quit but i got farther in and enjoyed it much more, i am now on act 6 act 6 im probably going to get crucified for this but honestly i think act 6 is my favorite act so far

How is your channel so small? This is great.

Great video! Just curious, have you read any vast error? I love homestuck and after reading it 5+ times over my teenage and now adult life, the lore feels second nature to me, but when I tried vast error I just found it painfully slow and uninteresting, and I cant tell how much of that is just homestuck with the nostalgia goggles off, Im curious if you have a take on it.

I also quit homestuck early. But when I tried again, I actually read the other mspa stories in that one page that links to them. After a week of reading problem sleuth, I stuck with homestuck much more easily

Trying to start homestuck now can confirm I only understand John sylladex or whatever right now just barely. What is the math shit going on with these other kids

you're voice was made for video essays 😊

I always found it confusing early on when reading through the early act is are they in the game or in the real world, until l i just accepted the fact its both

Luckily I didn't skip Anything when i first got into homestuck, i never found anything boring, especially the early acts! I had a great time doing so <3

actually i quite like the use of sylladii, establishes that there's shit like that that effect the real world that no ones really astonished by and later we see the same thing with the game, so things like that have probably already existed for a while now, and when it comes to how characters are unfamiliar w their sylladex and their wacky, not practical in any way whatsoever structures could be because of it being somewhat new tech, every feature and mechanic in each modus we've seen just looks like a nerd going ham on the thing they just got to making, actually jade's modii are a good example of just fucking w all the different ways you can make it, mr harley was just shitting around yo, i feel like they couldve been popularized by the generation before them or smth like that and we're getting to see just how impractical they really are by kids who aren't used to using them, that and because they are, though dirk seems quite proficient w his-and they could always just get a modus that's less ass, that's always an option out there somewhere but that'd make you a basic bitch /j

Honestly, the biggest thing with Homestuck is that the early Act's sense of humor is very... Specific. It's 2000's internet lolrandom humor with programming jokes strewn in. Now, if you were essentially raised among the sporks, pirates and nitroglycerin sponge catapults of the late 00's / early 10's internet, value it greatly and have nostalgia for it like me, the early Acts are like being critical hit of nostalgia. They make me feel like that one food critic in Ratatouille every time I read them. Now, if you have no attachment to that era of the internet, or just developed into / always had a different sense of humor... Yeah, I can see how you'd struggle to get past the first few Acts. Unfortunately I never developed past that terminally online 15 year old when it comes to my sense of humor.

I think the only reason I actually finished homestuck was because I read it early as it updated instead of all at once 😅 I wonder how I'd feel if i read it again now as an adult

Dude I genuinely would’ve killed to be in the fandom at that time as the age I am today, since when i most did.. I wasn’t born… like yeah when I was born it was still going but slowly slowing down ://

I actually stoped reading around act 3 I just couldn't find a reason to keep reading it.

Homestuck became bad after they introduced the trolls, it became omega bad when act 6 came. Caliborn was the only highlight.

lowest form of horror might be the dumbest thing i have heard this month. if the animatronics we're never shown and the game relied on your imagination it wouldnt turn into scott cawthons goddamn magnum opus it would be boring as fuck. when you have a game reliant on replaying over and over again that doesnt work thats why slenderman did the same thing. Its like claiming stand up comedy is the lowest form of comedy because its easier than situational comedy. Regurgitating other peoples opinions about the creative process is a surefire way to ensure you never create anything that stands out.

i'm pretty sure the sylladex is a literal physical deck of cards that exists somewhere beetween the physical world and the metatextual HUD

I started reading Homestuck when I was 20 back in 2010, when the story was in the middle of act 5 being published. I thought the jokes and references in act 1 were hilarious, but I never considered how specific these references are to people closer to the age group of millennials, which might just go over the heads of new younger audiences because Homestuck is vintage internet media now. It is interesting seeing younger people still giving Homestuck a chance and hearing their opinions on it. Also, Problem Sleuth is the true GOAT imo.

the frustration with the sylladex and being "a convoluted puzzle including breaking all your shit" due to incompetence is part of the data structures joke itself. i understand the several plays on it causing problems ending up stale if not enjoyed at all, but i personally think they have plenty of variety and charm even when the joke is completely lost, like other odd systems did in problem sleuth.

i started reading homestuck around 2013, and as an impressionable middle schooler i didn't get the vast majority of the references, nor even understand what the hell was going on in much of the story. i was just happy to be along for the ride and feel "in" with the cool older kids on tumblr. i think that social contagion was a big factor that's mostly gone now. on that subject i think there's a really interesting difference in the general depth of hs fandom engagement over the years, because back then you were just having fun with the current big thing online, but now you comparatively have to really TRY to get into it and i feel like that has led to some very high quality modern fanworks, theories, and analyses. (not to discredit the early fandom thinkers, we stand on the shoulders of giants and all that. also probably a lot of these are the same kids who are now older with fully developed brains) anyway great job on the vid

I liked early homestuck, and quit around act 5 or act 6 act 5. It just got too winded at some point...

I kept reading because of the inventory jokes. Holy Based. Absolutely peak.

I stopped reading after that fourth girl (I donut remember her name). I didn't really want to learn about trolls past what I know now.

Unlike what others think, you CANNOT POSSIBLY try to read homestuck just like that, you first need to: 1-know what MSPA is/was 2-Read Jailbreak Adventure 3-Read Problem Sleuth 4-get The Unnoficial Homestuck Collection 5-DONT READ IT YET!, go watch some poorly homestuck review/resume that says pretty much nothing but still tells you the important stuff of Act 1 atleast 7-ok now you can start reading 8-if you feel like skipping those pesterchumlogs or whatever go ahead, you can go watch a narrated video about that part, but be warned, you cannot keep doing this past ACT 3 or 4 or else you wont understand shit. -9 ok start reading sweef bro and hella jeff por whatever that shit is called parallel to homestuck, you may know it from Henry Stickmin Congrats!!!(?) You got into Homestuck (Warning: if you got into homestuck because of the trolls this may be 200% more tedious.)

i REALLY love acts 1-4. they're very fun. the experimental feel of the early acts doesn't really carry over post act 5, snd while it's still good after that, i feel like the comic's identity shifted. it became a lot more relationship focused, and while that's still very enjoyable, i liked that stuff sprinkled in with bullshit game mechanics and dozens of pages dedicated to essentially fucking around.

I stopped some dozens of pages after cascade.

This video deserves more views, you make a really good point

I started reading homestuck a few weeks ago and now I'm on page 7000... I would say it is absurd, to a degree which destroys the reader's suspension of disbelief, but at a certain point it comes full circle in absurdity that it become immersive again! characters have legitimate reasons to do the odd things they do, strange quirks of the weird semi-game world they live in have actual narrative pay off, which makes it quite satisfying to read!

i didnt give up.

I should really finish Homestuck one of these days...

this fucking sucks

After ruin i watched the new matpat theory to see what was next. He went on to talk about the tunnels and their similarity to the tunnels in the books. Are we not gonna address that the mimic is free/dead? Cassie? Freddy? It doesn't help that Steel Wool wants to go back in time in the next games.

But We have the movies

i survived act 1 to act 4 the only thing i ever had patience with

id actually argue the entire comic derails into a jumble of convoluted text post act 3. andrew hussie is LUCKY he can write funny characters though because now im attached to his characters forever. the kids banter was always my favorite part of homestuck honestly, i wish that energy was captured with the alpha kids because theyre all such interesting characters

i’ve read homestuck 2 and a half times. this was my experience with it: -i read up to act 4 and then dropped it -came back to it a few months later and read the whole thing. it made a bit more sense reading the first few acts again. -the 2nd full read, the lore and all the storylines all came together. and i was taking notes this time 💀. i also gained an appreciation for the exiles’ storyline :] my biggest takeaway is: homestuck is whatever you make of it. it’s a goofy story if you don’t look too hard into it, but the more times you read it, the more you begin to understand wtf is going on (and thus gain even more appreciation for it). i enjoyed it during my second reread just as much as i did during my first (one and a half??) rereads of it, but for a different reason. but yeah i completely understand that it isn’t for everyone :,) i’m also a relatively new fan (i read it in early 2023), so i never got to experience the fandom at its peak. despite that, i’m still glad that homestuck exists because. homestuck.

Need more art like homestuck where you don't know what the hell is going on until everything starts clicking together and this mass of incoherency becomes a much neater but still messy spider web of details that is more of chaotic sheet web than a tidy orb web. More chaos stories :]

3:03 alright, at this point, I do take issue to the idea that a kid would be reacting to being able to do something cool with confusion instead of wanting to play with it. That's some Everyone is a Post Iron Man 2 Marvel Movie Character logic there. We don't need the characters being like "Woah are you seeing what I'm seeing?" They're kids, getting their hands on new "toys" and fumbling with them, while stuff gets heated out of their control, and they need to figure out how to survive as others going through the same process are killed around the world.

I'm a lover of early Homestuck, tickles my nerdy brain nicely

Someone told me this shit was peak and I read several hundred pages of the characters repeatedly picking up and dropping items due to their really specific "Card Carrying" ability or whatever and then I read an in-universe shitpost comic.

Because they dumb. Next question

The true way to enjoy homestuck is to read up until cascade and NEVER READ PAST IT

Can you post any links saying where you got the information about the production of the comic? That'd be great!

I stopped caring in act one, yes I've occasionally come across people who liked it and wondered if I did and when I said where I stopped they didn't seem surprised and just changed topics People want something obtuse and hard to follow and then seem disappointed when others don't want to follow