oh hey! my suggestions! yeah i wanted to give you a bit of variety! some cool animation some and some incredibly cringe but no less iconic stuff! and the new stuff with crecendo cuz i think ichellor is going crazy making really well done 3d homestuck animations in the year of our lord 2024! and to show the fandom hasnt like entirely died out im glad you enjoyed karkalicious, one of the homestuck masterpieces methinks. its part of a whole catalogue of karkat based homestuck parodies of popular songs at the time called by the fandom "broadway karkat", the songs are all based in a universe where on the meteor dave and karkat spend time together making music, its fucking hilarious and the kid who made them should be given a nobel peace prize re: karkat in fanfiction, if i remember fanfiction with karkat in it tended to woobify him a bit actually, so the exact opposite of making him like a cool ladykiller i think the song just thinks that karkat thinks of himself that way, which i dont think would be too out of character considering his penchant for romance stories haha homestuck fan content was undeniably cringe but at the same time it was all made with such a passion and love of the source material that even the really cringe stuff you can't help but look back at fondly, but yeah thats my spiel! glad you enjoyed!!
One interesting thing this reminded me of is how the fandom was completely obsessed with Act 5. Even really late into Homestuck, as far as the ending, the large majority of fan content was based on stuff that happened from Hivebent to Cascade. So stuff that may have seemed short-lived, like Doc Scratch, the Ancestors, Grimdark Rose, or the Trolls getting unceremoniously murdered on the Meteor, were all seen as incredibly important. The Alpha Kids and Cherubs were fairly popular, but it seemed to have been almost entirely based on their designs and personalities. The actual plot events of Act 6 didn't receive much fan focus at all. While Acts 1-4 were primarily seen as just buildup for Act 5, which is why it was surprisingly common for people to recommend skipping the first 4 Acts. Anyways, a lot of these videos are pretty nostalgic for me. I got into Homestuck when I was 13 myself. I especially remember the animatic music videos, which we called lyricstucks. The Amsterdam video is a good example, but there were a ridiculous amount of them, and a lot of them were weirdly high-quality when you consider they were mostly made by teenagers. Like, I don't think even Undertale had as many. The only fandoms I can think of that had this number of animatics were the Dream SMP and maybe some podcast fandoms like the Adventure Zone and Welcome to Night Vale, and those had the benefit of being audio-based media that naturally encouraged animatics.
I binged the rest of your series and glad to see that you're exploring the fandom too! I also can't wait to see you get into other homestuck content, particularly paradox space (it's a comic series from different authors and artists that varies from short silly stories to some nice character exploration) and friendsim (you get to befriend a bunch of new trolls, id recommended getting all of the possible endings, because they all contribute to *something*)
I’ve always loved just looking up “Homestuck animation” and getting a bunch of either absolutely terrible, cringe content or some admittedly fire stuff. It’s fun… for a little while, at least
The fan stuff of homestuck is probably the best part of the Fandom. I've spent so many hours of my life just consuming fan content. After us always sent me shivers down my spine as a youth
2:16 Grimdark Rose pops up fairly often in fan material surrounding Rose. Partially because it represents the peak of Rose persuing forbidden knowledge and being manipulated by Doc Scratch. After Grimdark, Rose turns to more constructive ways to destroy the game (well. Until the meteor where she gets drunk but) 4:16 As I mentioned in the final episode of the series proper, the person who animated this would be hired by Hussie to animate Act 7! I believe it released a little bit after the alpha kids were introduced. The music is from the Homestuck Soundtrack 13:15 I mean, Homestuck is still going and on and on. Though the fandom is definitely much smaller than it used to be, no longer the internet encapturing thing it once was. Though, there was definitely a big pause in anything official for a long time. Though, the people who have remained in the fandom seem pretty likely to continue existing. 20:39 Amsterdam is known as a Lyricstuck, where fans would draw art to go along with lyrics to a song. Notably, many lyricstucks were not originally made as videos and other fans would put them into music videos. These videos would then later inspire people to make lyricstucks specifically as videos, keeping the same style of text in the images that the non-video versions started with. This selection does a good job at representing the main types of Homestuck fandom videos i think (excluding the lack the Homestuck analysis videos, which are the main Homestuck content I tend to watch (though i understand why they aren't included). I do watch a good amount of lyricstucks and some silly animations, but I end up mostly watching analysis videos. So most of these videos weren't ones I've actually seen, though half of them I've at least heard of) 28:29 The Homestuck fandom still makes plenty of fan content! Even ambitious fan projects like video games. Project Genesis is still being worked on, but there is another homestuck fan named Dragon and Fox Collective that is also making their own interpretation of SBURB (they restarted development of their game concept recently due to the Unity debacle and are making their own engine for the game now). There is Strife Project that intends to make a fighting game that is well in development. And other stuff! Many fans still attempt to make MSPFAs (or, fan adventures), which often place their own characters into SBURB (or look at an alternate path Homestuck could've followed), with Vast Error being the most well known fanventure (it even recently got an official liscence to make merch and stuff since Homestuck is trying to open up the liscence some again recently. There's hopes other fanventures will get a liscence as well). Many people make animations for Homestuck still. The youtuber Swampland makes some occasionally (they have a big preference for trolls and often include the Beforus Trolls in their animations). There is Project [S] that wants to animate most of Homestuck (they are reaching completion of Act 1). Tamajikis only started making Homestuck animations 3 years ago and still makes them. BB-panzu started making Homestuck content a little under 2 years ago, originally making Friday Night Funkin' mods, but recently just making full on animations that just put the hoemstuck characters in their own silly situations (even going into mixed media with some of the animations). And there's many more people who still make Homestuck content, some who make almost entirely Homestuck content, some that don't. There is still definitely a fandom, just not nearly as much.
OH GOD KARKALICIOUS. It's surely is a Homestuck Song. Tbh I imagine it as Karkat being forced to sing a parody and then breaking down at the end and leaving lol Mambostuck has a sequel btw! It's a bit shorter and goofier but good I think someone else here pointed it out too, but Amsterdam is a type of music video called a Lyricstuck! I /think/ they originally started as drawings posted on Tumblr with the corresponding song added at the start of the post (since Tumblr lets you upload a track and images on the same post). Honestly I used to watch a LOT of Lyricstucks years ago, alongside of Homestuck MEPs (which I think are less seen lately since they usually had a large amount of uncredited fanarts to go along with the music). If you want to watch more Lyricstucks (no pressure if you don't!), my favourites always were: "Run To You" ruclips.net/video/POIyGamReZ8/видео.html "Home" ruclips.net/video/Q4ritOFiJr4/видео.html "Light Em Up" ruclips.net/video/R6WE8QjfaFg/видео.html "Warriors" ruclips.net/video/Yf2Gg1RrHGo/видео.html "Bones" ruclips.net/video/mIXQZGRwaag/видео.html "I Am Machine" ruclips.net/video/lcpywVy5UgI/видео.html "Volatile Times" ruclips.net/video/bU31kG8TArM/видео.html "Bittersweet" ruclips.net/video/YOHlUvA2nj8/видео.html "Counting Starsigns" ruclips.net/video/2WPkztH_R04/видео.html "I Will Wait" ruclips.net/video/4cMvEto5e9w/видео.html Agaim, don't feel obliged to watch them! Just wanted to talk about my favourite lyricstucks sdkfdldf EDIT: I added one more lyricstuck I forgot until after I posted my comment, oops!
for classic stuff id definitley recomend "the baby is you" by TOBY FOX (i wrote james roach because i keep confusing their names mb) and octopimp's homestuck catalogue, but some modern homestuck content i really like is bb-panzus recent work edit: project [S] is actually endeavoring to make an animated adaptation of homestuck, theyve posted episode 1
"the baby is you" is an absolute banger. It should be banned from any rankings of Homestuck content because it would not be fair to other works; it would win by default. It's the greatest work of Toby Fox - the one that made him famous.
I in fact have reacted to the baby is you already lol. That and Rex Duodecim Angelus have their own videos in the playlist. I first heard a couple of the song in my Toby Fox music ranking videos though.
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oh hey! my suggestions!
yeah i wanted to give you a bit of variety! some cool animation some and some incredibly cringe but no less iconic stuff! and the new stuff with crecendo cuz i think ichellor is going crazy making really well done 3d homestuck animations in the year of our lord 2024! and to show the fandom hasnt like entirely died out
im glad you enjoyed karkalicious, one of the homestuck masterpieces methinks. its part of a whole catalogue of karkat based homestuck parodies of popular songs at the time called by the fandom "broadway karkat", the songs are all based in a universe where on the meteor dave and karkat spend time together making music, its fucking hilarious and the kid who made them should be given a nobel peace prize
re: karkat in fanfiction, if i remember fanfiction with karkat in it tended to woobify him a bit actually, so the exact opposite of making him like a cool ladykiller i think the song just thinks that karkat thinks of himself that way, which i dont think would be too out of character considering his penchant for romance stories haha
homestuck fan content was undeniably cringe but at the same time it was all made with such a passion and love of the source material that even the really cringe stuff you can't help but look back at fondly, but yeah thats my spiel! glad you enjoyed!!
One interesting thing this reminded me of is how the fandom was completely obsessed with Act 5. Even really late into Homestuck, as far as the ending, the large majority of fan content was based on stuff that happened from Hivebent to Cascade. So stuff that may have seemed short-lived, like Doc Scratch, the Ancestors, Grimdark Rose, or the Trolls getting unceremoniously murdered on the Meteor, were all seen as incredibly important.
The Alpha Kids and Cherubs were fairly popular, but it seemed to have been almost entirely based on their designs and personalities. The actual plot events of Act 6 didn't receive much fan focus at all. While Acts 1-4 were primarily seen as just buildup for Act 5, which is why it was surprisingly common for people to recommend skipping the first 4 Acts.
Anyways, a lot of these videos are pretty nostalgic for me. I got into Homestuck when I was 13 myself. I especially remember the animatic music videos, which we called lyricstucks. The Amsterdam video is a good example, but there were a ridiculous amount of them, and a lot of them were weirdly high-quality when you consider they were mostly made by teenagers. Like, I don't think even Undertale had as many. The only fandoms I can think of that had this number of animatics were the Dream SMP and maybe some podcast fandoms like the Adventure Zone and Welcome to Night Vale, and those had the benefit of being audio-based media that naturally encouraged animatics.
I binged the rest of your series and glad to see that you're exploring the fandom too! I also can't wait to see you get into other homestuck content, particularly paradox space (it's a comic series from different authors and artists that varies from short silly stories to some nice character exploration) and friendsim (you get to befriend a bunch of new trolls, id recommended getting all of the possible endings, because they all contribute to *something*)
I’ve always loved just looking up “Homestuck animation” and getting a bunch of either absolutely terrible, cringe content or some admittedly fire stuff. It’s fun… for a little while, at least
“John: Just Lose It” is conspicuously absent…
The fan stuff of homestuck is probably the best part of the Fandom. I've spent so many hours of my life just consuming fan content. After us always sent me shivers down my spine as a youth
2:16 Grimdark Rose pops up fairly often in fan material surrounding Rose. Partially because it represents the peak of Rose persuing forbidden knowledge and being manipulated by Doc Scratch. After Grimdark, Rose turns to more constructive ways to destroy the game (well. Until the meteor where she gets drunk but)
4:16 As I mentioned in the final episode of the series proper, the person who animated this would be hired by Hussie to animate Act 7! I believe it released a little bit after the alpha kids were introduced. The music is from the Homestuck Soundtrack
13:15 I mean, Homestuck is still going and on and on. Though the fandom is definitely much smaller than it used to be, no longer the internet encapturing thing it once was. Though, there was definitely a big pause in anything official for a long time. Though, the people who have remained in the fandom seem pretty likely to continue existing.
20:39 Amsterdam is known as a Lyricstuck, where fans would draw art to go along with lyrics to a song. Notably, many lyricstucks were not originally made as videos and other fans would put them into music videos. These videos would then later inspire people to make lyricstucks specifically as videos, keeping the same style of text in the images that the non-video versions started with.
This selection does a good job at representing the main types of Homestuck fandom videos i think (excluding the lack the Homestuck analysis videos, which are the main Homestuck content I tend to watch (though i understand why they aren't included). I do watch a good amount of lyricstucks and some silly animations, but I end up mostly watching analysis videos. So most of these videos weren't ones I've actually seen, though half of them I've at least heard of)
28:29 The Homestuck fandom still makes plenty of fan content! Even ambitious fan projects like video games. Project Genesis is still being worked on, but there is another homestuck fan named Dragon and Fox Collective that is also making their own interpretation of SBURB (they restarted development of their game concept recently due to the Unity debacle and are making their own engine for the game now). There is Strife Project that intends to make a fighting game that is well in development. And other stuff!
Many fans still attempt to make MSPFAs (or, fan adventures), which often place their own characters into SBURB (or look at an alternate path Homestuck could've followed), with Vast Error being the most well known fanventure (it even recently got an official liscence to make merch and stuff since Homestuck is trying to open up the liscence some again recently. There's hopes other fanventures will get a liscence as well).
Many people make animations for Homestuck still. The youtuber Swampland makes some occasionally (they have a big preference for trolls and often include the Beforus Trolls in their animations). There is Project [S] that wants to animate most of Homestuck (they are reaching completion of Act 1). Tamajikis only started making Homestuck animations 3 years ago and still makes them. BB-panzu started making Homestuck content a little under 2 years ago, originally making Friday Night Funkin' mods, but recently just making full on animations that just put the hoemstuck characters in their own silly situations (even going into mixed media with some of the animations).
And there's many more people who still make Homestuck content, some who make almost entirely Homestuck content, some that don't. There is still definitely a fandom, just not nearly as much.
OH GOD KARKALICIOUS. It's surely is a Homestuck Song. Tbh I imagine it as Karkat being forced to sing a parody and then breaking down at the end and leaving lol
Mambostuck has a sequel btw! It's a bit shorter and goofier but good
I think someone else here pointed it out too, but Amsterdam is a type of music video called a Lyricstuck! I /think/ they originally started as drawings posted on Tumblr with the corresponding song added at the start of the post (since Tumblr lets you upload a track and images on the same post).
Honestly I used to watch a LOT of Lyricstucks years ago, alongside of Homestuck MEPs (which I think are less seen lately since they usually had a large amount of uncredited fanarts to go along with the music).
If you want to watch more Lyricstucks (no pressure if you don't!), my favourites always were:
"Run To You" ruclips.net/video/POIyGamReZ8/видео.html
"Home" ruclips.net/video/Q4ritOFiJr4/видео.html
"Light Em Up" ruclips.net/video/R6WE8QjfaFg/видео.html
"Warriors" ruclips.net/video/Yf2Gg1RrHGo/видео.html
"Bones" ruclips.net/video/mIXQZGRwaag/видео.html
"I Am Machine" ruclips.net/video/lcpywVy5UgI/видео.html
"Volatile Times" ruclips.net/video/bU31kG8TArM/видео.html
"Bittersweet" ruclips.net/video/YOHlUvA2nj8/видео.html
"Counting Starsigns" ruclips.net/video/2WPkztH_R04/видео.html
"I Will Wait" ruclips.net/video/4cMvEto5e9w/видео.html
Agaim, don't feel obliged to watch them! Just wanted to talk about my favourite lyricstucks sdkfdldf
EDIT: I added one more lyricstuck I forgot until after I posted my comment, oops!
for classic stuff id definitley recomend "the baby is you" by TOBY FOX (i wrote james roach because i keep confusing their names mb) and octopimp's homestuck catalogue, but some modern homestuck content i really like is bb-panzus recent work
edit: project [S] is actually endeavoring to make an animated adaptation of homestuck, theyve posted episode 1
"the baby is you" is an absolute banger. It should be banned from any rankings of Homestuck content because it would not be fair to other works; it would win by default. It's the greatest work of Toby Fox - the one that made him famous.
I in fact have reacted to the baby is you already lol. That and Rex Duodecim Angelus have their own videos in the playlist. I first heard a couple of the song in my Toby Fox music ranking videos though.
If you're looking for more recommendations, there is "Light Em Up" (which is definitely copyrighted) and "HUSSIEQUEST" - a meme song.
fully recommend all the phemiec songs!! they're amazing!!
yo, that starting one (mambostuck) is legit insane
Hiiiiiii Guilty 🤯🤯🤯