I'll be honest, I wish I could say something good about this year's 4/13, but it was just another reminder that Homestuck as a property is dead. It's just gone; the wonder of watching the community build so much out of this dumb comic has been squashed by its own creator for the sake of controlling the fandom, and for what? So Hussie can take down down Makin's Discord because... it had Bad Vibes?
(If you have any evidence that it was anything other than just Bad Vibes and Makin and the mod team not bending to Hussie's will; that there was attempts to harass people, dox them, whatever, please do tell me about it with evidence, actual photographic evidence that this kind of stuff happened.)
And then what? Is he gonna stop there? If another fan group forms that Hussie doesn't like because it's Bad, or has Bad Vibes, or they Supposedly did Something Bad, are you all just gonna stand and watch him tear it down again, and again, and again, and again? Do you know why creators don't usually exist on their own fandoms? Because it invites the need to control what the fandom is doing with your thing, what it says about you and your thing, what the fandom believes from your thing. That invites the creator to begin controlling the fandom with an iron fist. And that's when it stops being a fandom, a chaotic thing that ebbs and flows without being wrangled, to a tired weave that will be stretched and stretched and stretched thin by its maker until it severs under the pressure and breaks apart.
The worst part is that the moderators of the official Homestuck Discord, you know, the people Hussie should trust in behaving like normal folk, admitted in public that they did report Makin's server. They admitted, by fact that they said they tried, that all Makin posted on his reddit post is true. They admitted that Hussie saw what they were doing, and he did nothing. And nobody cared. They just pushed their "no external drama" (how can it be external if you brought it in yourself?) rule even further, and called it a day. Gio is still a stalker, Makin is a transphobe, Sarah Z. was mean. Years of fandom history gone, all because someone is mean.
So, happy 4/13. I hope you enjoyed something out of it.
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