hanari502:

Oh you sweet sweet summer child.

2011 was the beginning of the end.

Homestuck had just become popular in the beginning of 2011 and already troll cosplays were popping up at conventions. Absolutely nobody knew where it came from and it seemed to have sprung up overnight. Within the course of several months cosplayers all across the country, and the world, sprouted out from the ground. 

It was a time where the word ‘Update’ was sacred and anticipated. It was the beginning of the grey paint fiasco, before anyone even knew what armsocks were and even thought of using them. There was grey everywhere. It was like a rising tide of candy corn horns and cursing children spitting in buckets and playing ‘Spin the faygo’. It was hell and those of us lucky enough to survive it wouldn’t wish it on any of our enemies.

Following into 2012 was a nightmare. Homestuck photoshoots gathered roughly 500-600 people and lasted two and a half hours at conventions. The fandom was obnoxious and nobody knew how to seal their paint. Complaints from hotel staff about there being grey everywhere in the bathrooms at conventions and it clogging the toilets and drains were numerous. There was horn honking in the hallways and loud renditions of ‘How do I live’ every twenty minutes. Broadway Karkat was very much a thing that existed. Panel rooms for Homestuck Q&A’s spanned two entire rooms and filled up to standing room only.

Andrew Hussie visited Florida once and it was a goddamn nightmare.

The homestuck fandom you know now is tame, lax from the extended exposure and tired from the excitement of the past several years. The veteran homestucks look back at it as a time to never be repeated. The children just entering have no idea the glorious terror that the fandom once was.

What happened to the homestucks in 2011 you ask?

We don’t talk about that anymore.