i mean i could probably explain homestuck in a cut and dry informational way but as someone who read the entirety of homestuck thinking about homestuck just makes me tired now https://twitter.com/radicalApollo/status/1249787354023370755

webcomic about four kids playing a video game that can alter reality. apocalypse happens, kids have to make a new universe in the reality altering video game. shit goes wrong and the story gets in to time travel and alternate universes and interdimensional aliens.

the story started off as an interactive forum adventure with user-submitted actions before this format was abandoned to give the author more creative control of the narrative, with fake "reader interactivity" still integrated in to the stories.

majority of the narrative is conveyed through internet chat room style text logs which cause the story to resonate with young people at the time in an unprecedented way, causing homestuck to gain a negative reputation for especially rowdy and numerous young fans

webcomic went on for like a decade and the creator burned out, regained his passion, and burned out again multiple times and you could tell this just by reading it.

keeps coming back twice a year with additional story content that examines the nature of the comic and its fandom having peaked and cratered, which is generally received as being something that absolutely nobody asked for

at one point the comic had an intermission where a bunch of playing card themed gangsters fight each other in an ridiculous train of thought nonsense world as a deliberate shoutout to homestuck's predecessor, Problem Sleuth.

it is the best part of the comic and most fans tell you to skip it.

also, this

oh and it has megalovania in it because toby fox did a lot of music for homestuck and made undertale in the author's basement

in conclusion i like homestuck and i wouldn't trade its involvement in my life for anything else but i have to say it was not fun watching something i like succumb to creator burnout in real time over the course of like five years when the entire fanbase is like like "ok end it"

homestuck fans were ready for homestuck to wrap up like five years before the first time it "ended"