Homestuck is a phenomenon that I see at the periphery of my experience on the internet… it’s always a source of interesting reading material about internet cult

Homestuck is a phenomenon that I see at the periphery of my experience on the internet… it’s always a source of interesting reading material about internet culture even for those of us who never participate. This followup article has some interesting speculation about a key reason for the Kickstarter’s failure: https://blog.giovanh.com/blog/2021/01/14/more-on-the-hiveswap-odd-gentlemen-debacle/index.html https://blog.giovanh.com/blog/2021/01/14/more-on-the-hiveswa... > … Andrew and The Odd Gentlemen committed to a development schedule that started with a design document Andrew needed to write. However, he failed to produce that document on time, which wrecked the schedule. > … This period of limbo lasted for nearly two years of development time because Andrew wouldn’t deliver the cornerstone design document. … > Eventually, TOG decided they had wasted too much time making comic assets for Homestuck and needed to work on [King’s Quest] To me it looks like Andrew Hussie successfully created a moderately successful IP, but never developed the necessary management skills to run a business based on that IP of that scale.