The hilarious thing is I'm not all that excited for HS2 even though I'm personal friends with multiple people on the writing team. Which is mostly a byproduct of how much I **FUCKING DESPISE** the epilogues and EVERYTHING ABOUT THEM.
The question of social media platforms is a rough one because. Well. This is the only good tweet I will ever have made.
Twitter is absolutely the most awful fucking place for fandom engagement to be, and I'm pretty sure at least some of the team are aware of it. I know Taz is. Kate, after her most recent fucking twitter debacle, has finally actually removed herself from the platform almost completely. Mercifully, for both herself and the rest of us, especially since she's been getting a concerning amount of
death threats. And I know that it's a catch-22 for other creators like Aysha and James because it's not as easy as just getting off twitter for them, because they have to get the majority of their income from other jobs, and those jobs almost require being on twitter--especially as an author, for Aysha, as much of the publishing industry is *on* twitter. James I think is in a similar spot with his music.
It doesn't stop them from maybe taking a hint and just getting a private and/or separate twitter to post all their homestuck hot takes on in a less ridiculously public way, like I know at least one or two of the other team members have done, so they don't keep saying ridiculous shit. But it's also fucking ridiculous that twitter is such a heinous hellhole that you have to have two fucking accounts just to not destroy yourself both personally and professionally! God damn, at least tumblr had sideblogs built in???
Reddit isn't an option because the main homestuck reddit and the HS discord are run by Makin, who is.....AN ASSHOLE who makes everyone on the team
extremely uncomfortable because of the amount of internet stalking he does and also because the way he moderates those spaces allows far too much straight up bigoted bullshit to run absolutely rampant. The writers, who are pretty much all queer and trans POC and whom are already receiving
death threats, don't want to have anything to do with a space that doesn't actively discourage bigotry. Both like...idealogically, and for their own health and safety. And desu I'm on their side there because, LMAO,
fuck the reddit.
Mod Edit: I know people have strong feelings regarding the reddit and people on it, but also remember that this is a strict no-beefing forum, particularly with people that are ALSO on the forums.