> SLEUTH OUT EXTENSIVE LIST OF INTERNET COLLOQUIALISMS
Wow, they have all of the memes. All of them! You're surprised Know Your Meme doesn't have an individual article just for Homestuck... OH WAITPlease Note: This page is for memes exclusive to Homestuck. Please put memes that are universal across at least two MS Paint Adventures in the appropriate place!
It started out with "What's In the Box, Jack?" *
In comic, Jack Noir looks into a box. A thread was created where fans created their own versions of what he found.
, which then launched so many spin-off threads that they all ended up condensed into one gigantic Image Manipulation thread. Then there's pretty much everything from Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff (which also has achieved memetic status within the series' own universe). Listing all the in-fandom memes would take the rest of this page... oh look, it does!
In universe:
EB: how do you know about jegus? do you even know what that is?
AG: I have no idea! It's something Terezi has 8een saying non stop for some reason.
AG: It is weirdly infectious.
On 4chan's /co/ board, due to the massive amount of shipping and general threads, "HOMOSUCK IS SHIT" has evolved into an all-around catchphrase for anything that's too invasive or clutters up the board.
UPDATE Explanation Standard reaction to an update.
Common reaction to any person a character doesn't recognize.
Got Tiger Explanation
On Hussie's Formspring, someone made this typo when attempting to say "god tier", and Hussie naturally couldn't let it pass without comment. "Getting the tiger" became an Unusual Euphemism for someone ascending to the god tiers.
and her God Tier form has dog ears. And the Fandom Rejoiced, bestowing upon her this nickname.]]
And most recently, Cod Tier. Explanation
After a fan requested a picture of a God-Tiered Gamzee as part of Hussie's charity fundraiser for Japan after the earthquake, Hussie drew a sketch of Gamzee in his God Tier outfit which included, among other things, an enormous codpiece
from Bard Quest. Naturally, the fans ran with this.]]
Duck Tier for Doomed Eridan, who's God Tier outfit's hood makes him look like a Psyduck.
"It's not like X being real was ever a thing that stopped being true" andother verbose ways of reminding readers that something long-forgotten still has significance.
An extreme example: on the formspring Hussie commented that "There are major characters, and there are minor ones. If you're waiting for me to fire up NEPETAQUEST 2011, don't hold your breath." Now, the fans are making it hapen.Twice.
1/18 Explanation
It's a gay porn comic featuring Tavros, Eridan and Equius that was being spammed at 4chan's Homestuck General. It always started with a spoilered pic of the first page, and a spoilered text saying "1/18". Soon it started being parodied, including one version that had SBAHJ-style art.
The character Eridan uses double "v"s and "w"s as his typing quirk (he's Aquarius)
and is commonly characterized as being a desperate, dateless loser. And then he was revealed to be the "Prince of Hope". Mashing him with the line "Hope Rides Alone" from The Protomen swiftly followed.]]
Back in December of '10, a group of fans got together and began designing a Homestuck calender. When the topic of a crossdressing Eridan was breached, the artist designing the picture for March
decided the idea was too good to pass up, so they decided to work it into their image.]]
The outfit is also memetic, as is the picture for being ugly to many.
Another memetic mutation that eventually worked its way into the AlterniaBound album was Trollcops. It started as a thread on the forums and was your standard AU thread. The music team then answered with making the AU's radio theme, the aptly named Trollcops. It especially shows in the Radio Play version when the narrator describes the long-time officer (Terezi) and the rookie (Sollux).
Sollux's eyes flashing as a siren.
Troll terminology including Jegus and Gog (which they picked up from Dave), candlelight hate date, bone bulge, nook and seedflap.
Troll typing quirks Explanation
Each troll has their own way of typing.
Fan art depicting troll, felt and first guardian versions of various characters
Fat Vriska and Fat Feferi, aka Fatferi. Partial explanation.
Terezi facing the wrong direction in fanart Explanation
Terezi is blind.
This even extends to cosplay photoshoots, in which the various Terezis stand with their backs to the cameras, wave to the sky, or just look off in the wrong direction.
in this panel makes Karkat look as though his entire body consists of a pair of really long pants. Pantskat is the most common name for the entity, but "Karkat Pantas" is also used on occasion.]]
Derives from the same frame as Pantskat, "Cutnaya" comes from how the colour of Kanaya's sash is the same colour as the floor, so it appears she is lacking a midsection.
The catchphrase "Kids & Fun" and the many variations of it
Tsunamis and Secretaries Explanation
After Eridan killed Feferi and Kanaya, a huge shitstorm started on 4chan's Homestuck General. Eridan's fans were celebrating his victory and unsuccessfully trying to justify his actions. One of Eridan's fans decided to make an analogy with a tsunami, saying Eridan was doing that to avoid said tsunami.
These two related memes emerged from some of Hussie's snarky Formspring responses concerning, well, anime; Hussie doesn't care about the animes, and so gave Discworld as a snarky response. It spent most of its time as a Formspring/MSPA forum injoke, and didn't get a nod in Homestuck itself for a long time, until Jade alchemised the Dead Shuffle dress and it's remarked that in it she looks like she's "straight from the animes".
"AnD ThEn mAyBe mAkE OuT a LiTtLe ;o)" Explanation
This came from a particularly hilarious line by Gamzee where he casually (and unexpectedly) asks Tavros to make out.
"i am not a homosexual." Explanation
Right after Karkat confesses his hatecrush on John, John replies with this line. It can be found absolutely everywhere.
This image of cosplayers, with a security guard giving them a funny look in the background, is meme gold.
The caption "LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT HOMESTUCK" has become a Catch Phrase in its own right.
sequence, a lot of AU fanfic/fanart portrayed Diamonds Droog as Aradia's adoptive father, frequently with other members of the Midnight Crew or the Felt adopting other trolls (usually based on exile/troll pairings).]]
The punchline from a comic shipping Eridan and Nepeta together, itself based on a Questionable Contentmeme
, has seen more than its fair share of usage.]]
"Is she holding the gun right? Y/N" Explanation
Two characters, Jade and Eridan, use guns in-canon, leading to a lot of fanart of them with guns. Since they're both expert marksmen, it's somewhat jarring to notice how rarely they're drawn holding their gun correctly, even in otherwise-good pictures, or in canon.
A string of updates near the end of Act 5 have Karkat calming Gamzee down from his subjugglating madness by repeatedly "pap"-ing his face and shushing him.
KARKAT IS A SUBJUGGLATOR WHISPERER.
GIVVE THAT BITCH A WWHALE. BITCHES LOVVE WWHALES. !
said Seahorse Dad to Eridan. In fanon, this is generally portrayed as the extent of their knowledge of the ways of love, moreso for Eridan.
"John and Dave Play Sburb", a video mashing up audio from Two Best Friends Play with scenes from Homestuck, has become very popular. "I might NEED the blankie!" "That's textook vampire-ism." Fans have been known to declare that Matt and Pat are now their headcanon voices for John and Dave.
"anti-Homestuck" blog decreed that Dave represented Satan, the idea caught on and there was an influx of fanart for the idea.]]
This also resulted in the creation of Jesus John, Reaper Karkat, and Angel Davesprite.
Hussieruya Explanation
Shipping Hussie with Hidekaz Himaruya is a fairly common thing that happens, possibly tongue-in-cheek to poke fun at the inexplicable hatred between the Hetalia fandom and the Homestuck fandom. It was popularized by artists Tannanana and Sclez. Hussie now knows about it, thanks to user himapapaftw, who, on September 6th (now known by fans as Hussieruya Day), sent him a link to the Hussieruya blog via Twitter. This was his response.◊
When Hussie posted the EOA 5 flash on Newgrounds on the 25th of October (10/25), so many fans flocked there to see it that Newgrounds crashed. Then, when he posted a link to download it on Megaupload, the same event occurred. A livestream that was set up to play the EOA for everyone who'd missed it also crashed within minutes. Even Tumblr ended up crashing due to the sheer amount of fans posting about the flash. 10/25 has since been dubbed "the day that Homestuck broke the Internet."
Im Sorry I Thought It Was Obvious Explanation
Originally said by Kanaya Maryam, it is used in response to an exclamation of Fridge Brilliance about something everyone else already understood.
As soon as his first Pesterlog conversation happened, fairly accurate comparisons to Nigel Thornberryensued.
Double pistols and a wink is quickly becoming a favorite among fans.
Prior to the appearance of Dirk Strider and Roxy Lalonde, fanartists jumped on the idea that Dirk is a ridiculous fanspeak-spewing anime lover (probably inspired by his pointy shades), and that Roxy is a Valley Girl (inspired by an offhand reference: "you and she are totally BFFSIES 4EVERZ, her words").
There's currently a rebellion brewing on the forums against Betty Crocker. FIGHT THE BATTERWITCH. Explanation
On his now-defunct formspring account, Hussie responded to a question about a perceived slowdown in updates by pointing out that his overall rate hadn't changed—there were longer pauses between updates, but there were also more pages per update. Then he pointed out that at that time he had put out enough pages, quickly enough, that he could stop updating entirely for 13 years, and Homestuck would still have a higher lifetime page-per-day rate than any other webcomic currently in existence.
Dirk Strider as a sink wearing sunglasses. Explanation
The first pesterlog Dirk has is in fact Jake talking to his autoresponder- that is, his shades- which are shown resting on a sink.
The widely used pairing name for Gamzee/Tavros is 'pbj', due to their respective blood colors. This prompted a non-Homestuck fan on tumblr to complain that after searching the 'pbj' tag he found a bunch of 'peanut butter and jelly demons fucking each other' when all he wanted was a sandwich.
"Brobot stalking Jake while unfitting music plays": After the update in which Brobot was first revealed, many fans posted the panels to tumblr alongside hilariously unsuitable audio. Music used included the Jaws theme, Every Breath You Take, Somebody's Watching Me, Total Eclipse of the Heart, Never Gonna Give You Up, and an original composition by soselfimportant, among others.
Trickster Mode, named after the Easter Eggs in various flashes, is an art meme where the characters are redesigned in bizarre ways, ie candy-themed and constantly cheerful. It can get very disturbing.
"The Vast What": In reference to Jane's alleged death. The abrupt nature of the update has caused fans everywhere to respond with merely one word; "What." The amount of fans responding to the update on Tumblr led to the phenomenon being known as the Vast What, in reference to the Vast Glub/Croak/Honk/Expletive.
And now with this update, we have eyebrows sweeping the forums.
Roxy mentioned "eyebrow raising funnybiz" earlier in the comic which prompted a tumblr user to make fanart of her looking at Dad's butt.
"Do the [Element]y Thing!": Starting from this panel, fans have referred to something drastic done by the players, usually involving their powers, as "Doing the (Element)y Thing."
When the God Cat was introduced, fans began drawing it as Kyubey.
"I'm glasses." Explanation
Dirk's Auto-Responder is an artificial intelligence contained in his shades.
"HELLO DANTE": When it emerged that Dante Basco (whose character Rufio has had minor involvement in the story) has started reading Homestuck, Hussie slightly modified the header of the MSPA website to issue an... ominous greeting, then posted a screencap of it on Twitter and Tumblr. Some other Homestuck establishments, like the Reddit board, have since done the same.
HONL *
When roleplaying on anonymous chat services such as Omegle or Trollmegle (a Homestuck version of Omegle), someone mispells their introduction and exits the conversation in an embarrassed manner as a result.
There's a Youtube meme where people try to take the like/dislike numbers and use math to get 8. Explanation
A number associated with Vriska Serket, also the sum of the digits of the Arc Number 413.
MMM WHATCHA SAY Explanation
Tumblr users post panels of the comic, usually where someone dies, with the song "Whatcha Say".
Roxy herself is pretty much a meme, what with her druknen tyspo *typos. Not to mention her dreamself has been manipped into sleepwalking in several panels.
There's even an app to let Roxy sleepwalk across ANY MSPA panel, and you can further extend it to your computer in general.
Please Note: This page is for memes exclusive to Homestuck. Please put memes that are universal across at least two MS Paint Adventures in the appropriate place!
