*pays $10k for a canon fantroll* *fantroll gets killed after one frame*

can the next episode just be tad shitting on steven universe's art style for 45 minutes it makes me feel a cathartic kind of joy

"When Homestuck was in its prime" that's a phrase I didn't know I never wanted to hear.

I started reading Homestuck around the same time it started to die out. I had a HUGE crush on this really sweet girl at the time who was an incredible artist, and she would often do warm-up doodles of some of her favorite characters. It was her favorite series at the time, and hearing how much inspiration it gave her made me want to read it as well. I had dropped the series after reading through the first two acts because of how difficult school was becoming, but earlier this year, I picked it back up and I'm about halfway through the series. Hearing you guys talk about this fucking disaster of a fandom and what happened with the game is incredible. I've only been in a few """"""""big"""""""" fandoms before, and it always seems to go to shit before too long. Never this far though. I'm sorry for all you long time fans that got duped like this, it was irresponsible of the leaders to use the money the way they did and to have so much trust in people that should have been dead giveaway scammers. If you ever wanna talk about the story or whatever other fandoms you're in, I'm always open, you two are great and I love hearing you rant about dumb shit. Please talk about how ugly Steven Universe is too, my god, I thought I was the only one who hated it

I donated to Hiveswap, and that fact haunts me every day.

Hussie definitely bears a lot of the blame for this, but honestly if I was trying to develop a game and Odd Gentlemen did the shit to me that they did to Hussie, I'd probably just kms

knowing that there's still some bitter aggravation other than myself left in the wasteland that is the homestuck fandom circa 2011 and before ...is oddly comforting in a way

Considering how much Hussie likes to mess with his fans in the comic, with all the bait and switches, it's almost obvious in retrospect that this stuff would have happened, remember all of problem sleuth? or all the bullshit stuff the characters had to do in Homestuck? Seems Hussie isn't capable of making things without some kind of bullshit, either weird puzzle bullshit, weird time bullshit, or weird crowdfunding bullshit.

i could never get into Homestuck, but hearing about this massive fuckup is really entertaining :v

HAHA just looked at the steam green light page one of the new comments -Spades Slick I feel more and more stabby as I wait for this game.

i threw a dirty look at my laptop when he said "jiffs"

If only they knew that Hiveswap would get another trailer 2 months later, on 413.

I don't even know what to say anymore, hiveswap is like an internet myth at this point.

But honestly if I'm suicidal enough to get into Homestuck where do I start? I've heard its REALLY REALLY LONG.

Woke up with a crazy allergy attack to see you guys had uploaded a video. Thank you, this's made things so much better

This reminds me, you should do a LMTYAbout that disastrous Tumblr convention that they tried to do.

If you pause the video at 0:49, you can sing the old theme to yourself before resuming.

You should have seen the Bee and Puppycat Kickstarter. THAT is a fucking garbage fire...

*wwalks into heavven*

Ah yes, Homestuck, where an author just stopped caring and started pandering. Grimdark part was the peak of the comic.

To this day, I love the comic (though my opinion on the ending is... mixed), I love the music, I think Hussie's hilarious... but I cannot stand the goddamn fans. Why. *Why*. It really is a shame what happened with the original Hiveswap developer and all though. Seems like a lot of shit went down in the background that tied everyone and everything up for a while. Everybody involved bit off way more than they could chew without realizing what they were getting into and everybody ends up paying for it in the end - literally and figuratively. It's a shame, but, it's a lesson in humility and for any few projects I guess. Hussie was always the type to do things in extremes (I mean 7 updates daily for years is insane, even with Homestuck's intentionally simplistic art style, never mind all his con activity and social media activity before the fandom drove him off), so it isn't surprising? But alas. The only saving grace now would be if Hiveswap actually turned out to be legitimately good. It will never be completely worth the wait or weight of the bullshit that happened around it, but if it's good, then at least it'll be somewhat vindicated.

the image of hussie getting on his hands and knees to kowtow to toby "sugar daddy" fox so he could get a budget for his crashing and burning game is kind of amusing. then he has to kiss toby's ring or some godfather shit like that. someone makes someone an offer they can't refuse, someone gets shot in a boat, someone wakes up with a torn off equius plush head in their bed. it's just this whole thing.

I became a fan of homestuck literally one week before it ended and after hearing about the hiveswap stuff I'm kinda glad because I didn't have to witness this whole drama with hiveswap and having to go months without updates to the game or comic.Although it is kinda sad knowing I'm apart of a dead fandom that not many people are apart of anymore

"I don't think he's gonna make a sequal" Boi were you wrong

You got me at the part where you said that most fans didn't give a shit about homestuck. Subscribed!

How alex speaks kind of bugs me. He speaks with this weird forest gump pitch bending.

I remember being big into homestuck. I still like it today, not as much. Shame to hear about this.

I was going to sleep, and you just uploaded....

Personally, I enjoyed act 7 but soley because of the animation and music. I thought both were very lovely

It's supposedly coming out this year, so I guess we'll have to wait and see.

For reference, when this started i was 10, Right now Im in uni.

its supposed to come out on the 14th of this month, wonder if it will actually work out.

thanks for the quick rundown, now i too can join the club

I remember when this kickstarter was going on. One of my friends bought the like 300$ packages (or around that level) and a few others payed around 50-100$. I'm glad I didn't back this.

"Or young lesbian cat owners," In the first few sentences you had already described me.

How long until it gets delayed again

9:03 Oh god, I remember when I got harassed by a bunch of people on Instagram and TikTok for “whitestuck”. I drew a picture of the beta kids, I drew them as white people without really thinking about it. all but one of my comments on the post were just “whitestuck lmao”, “WHERE IS THEIR MELANIN 😭”, “brb gonna go headcanon the whole world as white” (all actual comments I remember). Someone on TikTok even recolored my art to make John and Jade Asian, and Dave and Rose Black (I have no problems with those headcanons, I just think the recolor was disrespectful). I get that there is racism in the world. I get that there is even racism in some parts of homestuck. But can we please not harass someone for something as small as drawing homestuck characters as white people? I don’t draw the kids white anymore. I depict John, Jade, Jane and Jake as black, and the Strilondes as Asian. But I don’t think there’s anything wrong with drawing them white, either. Being honest, most of us in this fandom are white people. Let’s not play the white savior. (Btw, I checked the accounts of the people harassing me for whitestuck. They were all white lmfao)

I didn't exceptionally enjoy undertale yet I will be buying HiveSwap, when the door fucking opens goddammit all. I do not really see the things AH did to be exactly horrible to backers, he got burned over and over for being inexperienced AND lost his father around the time TOG fucked him. To me it just seems understandable why he didn't want to constantly share bad news after bad news when that was all he could tell people. In the end he finished homestuck unlike the majority of online webcomics that get abandoned, so I had no doubt they will release the game, no idea when, but it will happen. The fact that he went out of his way for years to get the game out, without letting it be a huge pile of turd/shit, rather than drop it and run with what was left(cough actual worst kickstarters cough).

i never even knew about this. my jaw was dropped this entire fucking podcast. i started reading mid 2011 and i just forgot about the game but now i'm just torn between being amused or horrified

Oh boy oh boy oh boy :))) January 2017 is coming, but for real this time

so what did you guys end up thinking about the game once it was released?

8:05 Is there any place where a direct comparison between the old and new art is presented? I would like to see what is being described.

R.I.P. Hiveswap. No, not Rest In Peace. *REVIVAL IN PROCESSES*

I've never heard of Homestuck and Hiveswap until now, now I'm glad I've never been into it with how much crap it had occurred

September 14. S e p t e m b e r. 1 4.

Hiveswap is comming back big boy

Do y'all have a podcast where you talk about Act 7?

My friend actually donated to that kickstarter. She has yet to get that dammed tote bag.

out of curiosity, to show off the card design art or whatever, coukdbt you have used wayback machine? just a though

So youre telling me... they had to make black people in a comic... about ALIENS?!

funny story, i actually discovered homestuck through the song "midnight crew".

Man I miss you guys having a themesong. If I make you guys one will you use it? lol

I knew I had the right idea in not reading it when all my friends did.

LMAO! Why the fuck does he mention homestuck every episode? Is that like, his thing.

With all this disaster, it now lives

Shit, also wasn't the poster with all the Homestuck trolls on it also an exclusive?

I didn’t get into Homestuck or MLP until after the “cancer” of the fandom was past. I enjoyed both of these, but I might NOT have had I gotten into them when the fandom was at its peak.

I've never clicked on a video so fast

did I just hear a "quick rundown" at the beginning?

I have so much to say on this, but at the same time I'm way too apathetic to give it any real effort. Assuming you don't get the game from backer rewards (Because it was half a decade ago), will you guys pay money for the game?

Can we comment on the fact that it's already August and there's no guarantee that the game is going to be released before the end of the year? I mean, if you have a track record of not delivering when you're expected to, you probably shouldn't promise the game like a year before its actual release date with only the flimsy excuse of it "needed to be tested". Especially considering that the backers were supposed to be able to do that.

Some things I kind of liked about Homestuck. But there was a lot of shit I didn't like or didn't give a shit about either way. I liked SBURB. It seemed like an interesting concept, but there wasn't a lot of focus on that (relatively speaking) and I really was kind of miffed about that. I wanted to know more about how the different classpects worked, and other things because there's a lot of stuff that happens off screen...or off panel? Because that could have made an interesting game. Obviously it wouldn't be just like Homestuck but could you imagine all the possibilities? Maybe add multiple possible endings and stuff. Make an ending where you manage to somehow prevent the Reckoning or something. When they make the universe frog thing, two doors appear, offering them the option to enter the new universe and go back home to go about their lives. Maybe make an ending where different weird shit happens. I dunno. This is the first time I thought about homestuck in quite some time. I'm not looking forward to Hiveswap. Glad I didn't put money into this.

so cause i was sheltered and dumb, i know nothing of homestuck.. is there like somewhere i can get like... a simplified plot of it?

What the frick frack click clack tic tac is home stuck.

200th comic xDD Yay !!! Good video

Just curious, what do you think is bad about SU's artsyle? I think it's pretty standard and kinda charming. (the pilot's art was pretty trash though tbh)

hey its joey This is all the good that came of Hiveswap.

One incorrect thing, megoloviana was made before homestuck, it was made for that earthbound hack, so toby has all rights to it.

I thought Undertale already had a sequel. What's it called again? Uddertale?

This is honestly very depressing to watch. Great video and content though. Keep it up.

ri p i got into homestuck 4 years late

The trailer can't be that bad. *checks trailer* Ooo, tha's bad.

i can't wait for hutshift

Boy am I glad that I never got into this fucking teenage hipster garbage. I mean at least Mighty Number Nine came out. I always used to see thread after thread about this shit back inna day. Now its fans have scattered to the four winds to assimilate into even more equally terrible fandoms who'll probably somehow be ripped of just as hard eventually.

I've never read Homestuck, but this story reminded me of Prequel....now I'm depressed -_-''

>yfw you didn't back the Kickstarter. ^_^

LMTYA sounds like ligma. Not tad and aleks, the name does

Hussie never should've worked on Hiveswap until he finished the series and was serious about this project and was gonna engage with it from beginning to end. When you rely on other people that you don't really know about on a whim, you get fucked over. At first, I felt bad because I didn't donate to Homestuck. Now I'm thankful I didn't waste my money.

- Hiveswap Act 1 has an official release date of 2017 September 14! Bet it's gonna be delayed or some shit lmao. -

I cant believe I managed to find a channel run by a person not ashamed to admit he was a part of /hsg/ Shai-Hulud to you friend

i think the su ary style is nice and charming, just my opinion

I still really enjoy homestuck, I think I got in right as hiveswap was being put on kickstarter. I don't think I'm one of the cancerous fans. I mainly just cosplay but I don't harass my friends who don't read it. I'm honestly excited for hiveswap and I'm definatly going to buy it after it's released on steam.

Homestuck!? I aint never heard of no Homestuck! probably not as good as Homestar Runner.What kinda poindexter, lightweight square gets stuck at home anyway, they got house arrest or something? Ok but really what the fuck is a homestuck

LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT... Homestuck

So we are getting Hiveswap D?

us homestuck fans will most likely never see hiveswap

There is a homestuck club at my highschool

It's Wednsday my dudes!

Hey Tav? What Gamzee? Let me tell you about a little Web comic called homestuck.

Will Undertale fans buy the game then? And why does he talk about Homestuck every fortnight?

*"What the fuck is homestuck?" well i wont be anwsering that.* Thank god.

I really do like homestuck, I think the story and the jokes and stuff are charming and cute but the fandom really ruins it for a lot of people, but there aren't many fandoms you can't say that about.

"alright lets get fired from this place and then create a fetish con" perfect 101 dont see the problem with that no siree not creepy or gross at all

Yeaaaaah. Andrew Hussie: Decent at best comic maker, HORRIBLE AS FUCKING HELL game and kickstarter designer. Also, been around for HS for a LONG WHILE, and yeah, even I can't defend a lot of this stuff. And this is even after the comic has actually ended.

I kinda miss the intro.

holy fuck, this game killed homejerk amazing

the worst comic with the worst fanbase deserved the worst kickstarter for the worst game too bad the star citizen guys beat them to that

10:00

The sad thing is that trailer was aesthetically pleasing to me. I would have played that trash.

why do you hate steven universe's art style so much