(02-04-2023, 07:49 AM)kirukuni Wrote: [ -> ] (01-08-2023, 01:20 AM)PIGSAW Wrote: [ -> ]Homestuck was one of the most (if not most) significant cultural forces of the 2010's. It's impact now is highly understated as the fanbase has entirely dissolved (no one cares about Psycholonials, but they should, not for the reasons you think).
I would be very interested in longform discussion of Hussie and his role in contemporary e-society.
What are the correct reasons to? Homestuck is obviously one of the eldritch beings that spawned internet culture, but I'm not sure why anyone would care about Psycholonials.
Firstly, I would not say Homestuck "spawned internet culture" (though technically it depends on what you mean, I assume you're referring to how "alive" the fandom became, how much cultural space it occupied.. which is why it's worth discussing), it was downstream from the cultural momentum of SomethingAwful, 4chan, Newgrounds, etc. (the "dissident" pillars of web 1 & 2.0— though technically speaking, Tumblr was most specifically culturally downstream from SomethingAwful and LiveJournal, which is very important).
Hussie does however have a certain gift for being able to "predict the present" (this is a phenomenon I am particularly obsessed with and why I go to war for SUDA51, killer7— which is also a meta-narrative, and most importantly Mr. TD. 51 has "2nd sight" which I believe he acquired working as a funeral director and in the past, he was able to tap into darkness seen very rarely, expressed to severities not only worse than almost all of the most extreme things being made now, but was even comparatively more extreme than the most extreme things being made then) which remains, although deeply crippled and malformed, in Psycholonials (I haven't played it, but I have watched most of it since it's functionally a VN).
In any case, I would prefer this subject be expanded to its own thread (one I am highly qualified to respond to, but ill-equipped to write an OP for, considering I abandoned Homestuck not too long after the trolls were introduced— i.e., when Hussie began to consciously reject his better style of writing from Problem Sleuth, as it was "chudlike", to appease his newfound Tumblr-cunny fandom) as to not clog this one with heavy discussion— but the 'short & skinny' is that Psycholonials is a meta-narrative about the Floyd Riots, the 'Ronapocalypse, and the global lockdowns from the perspective of a fujoshi Homestuck/Tumblr/K-Pop MKUltra victim— who is also Hussie's lesbosona taking the form of a "juggalette" redesigned to Hussie's liking.
I'm not calling it good (as I wouldn't call Homestuck "good" either) but WTF else could be described in any way similarly to what I just said above? Although it is interesting in similar and the same ways as Homestuck, it is far stranger (from my brief overview of it and extrapolation based on Hussie's 'character')— in this way, far more "online".
The reason Homestuck exploded in popularity (I am not speaking down to you saying this, but for other observers) is due to being a contemporary (important) meta-narrative about online life, particularly those in high states of isolation ("borrowed" from Japan, though Hussie is a 'goon' so of course he hates anime— his words, not mine). It is (unintentionally) a spiritual successor to The Matrix in this regard (the trannyism present in both is also relevant) and could also be seen as a spiritual successor to Lain (Lain, ironically, being the only one of these entirely devoid of troonism).
So,
Psycholonials I find interesting because it is the "sequel" not to Homestuck— but to the flourishing of insanity online via (and more importantly, because of) "fandom" spaces. Something which the work is both highly conscious and ignorant of.
It is something worth severe autopsy, similar to that of a mass casualty event.
Though I will stop briefly to compliment the OST— particularly "Summer That Never Was" (created by some horrible "femboy" furry, and yet it is beautiful).
Sometimes I would listen to this song as I drove around the streets of Los Angeles at night in my P71.