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LightningStrikes posted...

It also kind of in my view presents a slightly revisionist take of the response to Collide and Act 7 that is more coloured by how people think of them now. At the time people lost their minds (in a good way) over Collide but Act 7 was deeply controversial. This presents something of the opposite which is from what I saw an opinion that emerged later.

Weirdly I do remember the kind of reaction she's talking about here (or am projecting my own lol) of a kind of muted response to Collide. As in, people LIKED it on a technical level, but it didn't have the same sense of climax or resolution as Cascade and was compared unfavorably. People looked towards Act 7 for those and then got wrapped up in all that. It didn't divide so neatly along the lines of liking Collide vs not though, for that reason. But also the Homestuck fanbase is massive and you can find all types of people. Honestly if there's revisionist history I tend to see about the endings it's their divisiveness getting downplayed in the face of the post-canon.

Agreed about the bit about the Kickstarter though, it gets too much focus for how little we really concretely know about it. It's ok as a video about the fandom reaction but I think the fan perspective is where a lot of its blind spots come from, especially with regards to the post-canon which she's not interested in diving into in detail. Which, it was literally too soon to do so and it would be hard to explain anyways, but there was a lot of context smoothed over.

Props for attempting to explain Vriska, though. I've seen some retrospectives that just omit talking about her entirely because she's too controversial and it's like...Vriska IS Homestuck, you can't fully understand how it works without the controversy. That's like trying to explain Game of Thrones without bringing up Cersei Lannister or some shit. Wild.