History YMMV / HomestarRunner

** Most fanart (especially on Platform/}}Tumblr}}) decipt Strong Bad (or in some cases, Strong Sad) with top surgery scars, implying that he's a trans male.

** Most fanart (especially on Platform/Tumblr) decipt Strong Bad (or in some cases, Strong Sad) with top surgery scars, implying that he's a trans male.

** Fanworks featuring the unused characters Homeschool Winner and Champeen almost always make them related to Homestar, often either his siblings or cousins. (The "Quickstart Overview" rap for the Trogdor board game makes a sly reference to this: when Strong Bad raps "You can play it by yourself or with your stepmom's kids" Homeschool Winner is seen representing "stepmom's kids")

** TROGDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOR!!

* MemeticMutation: TROGDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOR!
** Homsar himself is memetic.

* TheScrappy: Crack Stuntman, especially from fans who thought he was becoming a spotlight-stealing character from the Cheat Commandos shorts.

** Most fanart decipt Strong Bad (or in some cases, Strong Sad) with top surgery scars, implying that he's a trans male.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Has [[EnsembleDarkHorse/HomestarRunner its own page now]]

* EvilIsCool: Strong Bad was originally the antagonist in Homestar Runner, but he was loved by so many fans that he pretty much became the main character.

* Fanworks featuring the unused characters Homeschool Winner and Champeen almost always make them related to Homestar, often either his siblings or cousins. (The "Quickstart Overview" rap for the Trogdor board game makes a sly reference to this: when Strong Bad raps "You can play it by yourself or with your stepmom's kids" Homeschool Winner is seen representing "stepmom's kids")
* Most fanart decipt Strong Bad (or in some cases, Strong Sad) with top surgery scars, implying that he's a trans male.

* {{Fanon}}: Fanworks featuring the unused characters Homeschool Winner and Champeen almost always make them related to Homestar, often either his siblings or cousins. (The "Quickstart Overview" rap for the Trogdor board game makes a sly reference to this: when Strong Bad raps "You can play it by yourself or with your stepmom's kids" Homeschool Winner is seen representing "stepmom's kids")

* DiscreditedMeme: Signing your email with any variation of the word "crap" (i.e. crapfully yours, crapfully crap, filled with crap, etc.) will elicit signs of annoyance from Strong Bad, usually ignoring that part all together and saying something entirely different like "Sincerely yours".

** In sbemail #161, [[Recap/StrongBadEmailE161FourBranches ''4 branches"]], Homestar correctly recites [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coulomb%27s_law Coloumb's law]] after being asked what two plus two is. This is to demonstrate how sometimes [[Main/GeniusDitz Homestar is so stupid that he actually circles around to being smart]].

** Strong Bad getting annoyed and blowing up the theater near the end of the Strong Bad Email [[Recap/StrongBadEmailE167TheMovies "the movies"]] became this following the 2012 mass shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, CO.
** In "winter pool", one scene has Homestar wishing for an oiled-up Bill Cosby. The joke would be much less innocent after the Cosby rape allegations starting in late 2014, which ended in a conviction.

** In specially marked, a cereal is shown named “Gunshots in a Crowded Mall.” This was already an incredibly dark joke when the sbemail was released in 2008 but after so many incidents of public mass shootings in the United States in the 15 years since then, is even more so now.

** In "fan club", Strong Sad's fanfic has Strong Bad giving Homestar a deep-tissue massage. Strong Bad is horrified; Homestar? [[{{Squee}} Not so much.]]
--->'''Homestar:''' Oh, this gon' be ''good!''
** In "do-over", Strong Bad imagines Homestar falling for him while the two are trying to serenade Ali and her sister.

** Strong Bad's candy being brown is not also a reason because it's chocolate, but possibly because Strong Bad went in it. [[labelnote:explanation]] When the email [[Recap/StrongBadEmailE149CandyProduct candy product]] was new, a Homestar Runner Wiki user repeatedly tried to add this comment to the email's fun facts, believing the Sblounskched Bar to be made not of chocolate, but... well, the substance that the Poopsmith shovels.[[/labelnote]]

** While Stinkoman started out as a ShallowParody of anime (as mentioned below), Homestar fans who are also anime fans tend to LOVE the 20X6 universe, especially if they're more familiar with the old school [[Main/DeadHorseTrope stereotypes and cliches of 80's and 90's anime]] that it parodies. (It helps that over time, it turned into a parody of [[Main/DeadUnicornTrope what Americans who aren't anime fans THINK all anime is like]]). Fans of ''Franchise/MegaMan'' in particular love that his game is an AffectionateParody of the classic games: many Stinkoman-centric fanfics are written as parodies of games in the franchise.

** Thanks to the frequent references and name drops to the Brothers Chaps' favorite bands and artists, it gained a following among indie rock fans and musicians. It especially helps that the Chapmans have connections to several indie rock legends. [[note]]Aside from the aforementioned collaborations with Music/TheyMightBeGiants, Strong Bad made an apperance in puppet form at an Atlanta concert by Music/TheAquabats, and Chapmans formed a band called Air-Sea Dolphin with Robert Schneider, best known for leading The Apples in Stereo and producing the famous Music/NeutralMilkHotel album ''Music/InTheAeroplaneOverTheSea''[[/note]]

** Thanks to the frequent references and name drops to the Brothers Chaps' favorite bands and artists, it gained a following among indie rock fans and musicians.

** While Stinkoman started out as a ShallowParody of anime (as mentioned below), Homestar fans who are also anime fans tend to LOVE the 20X6 universe, especially if they're more familiar with the old school [[Main/DeadHorseTrope stereotypes and cliches of 80's and 90's anime]] that it parodies. (It helps that over time, it turned into a parody of [[Main/DeadUnicornTrope what Americans who aren't anime fans THINK all anime is like). Fans of ''Franchise/MegaMan'' in particular love that his game is an AffectionateParody of the classic games: many Stinkoman-centric fanfics are written as parodies of games in the franchise.

* {{Fanon}}: Fanworks featuring the unused characters Homeschool Winner and Champeen almost always make them related to Homestar, often either his siblings or cousins.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: As of "Marzipan's Answering Machine #4", Marzipan knows that Strong Bad has been prank calling her, yet he continues to do so anyway. Does Strong Bad still prank her to keep her entertained, or is it because he has a pipe dream that she'll eventually fall for one?

* {{Fanon}}: Fanworks featuring the unused character Homeschool Winner almost always make him related to Homestar, often either his older brother or cousin.

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: Not the entire work, but there are ''definitely'' plenty of surreal moments.

** "Later That Night…", the 2016 Halloween special, features Bubs dressing up as Billy Mitchell, a famous gamer known for his achievements in scores and speedruns. In 2018, Mitchell was caught in a massive cheating scandal that resulted in almost all of his high scores and times being invalidated, perfectly fitting Bubs' persona as a con artist.

* AmericansHateTingle: The series is decently popular in its native United States. In other English-speaking countries, it's not quite as popular; in non-English-speaking countries, it has even fewer fans. The disparity can be seen by the demographics of people who send in emails — most are from the US, some are from Canada, Australia, or the UK, and only a handful are from elsewhere. The series relies heavily on references to American pop culture and wordplay specific to American English, meaning it has difficulty finding an audience outside of the US. This is joked about a few times in the series, with Strong Bad Email depicting Strong Bad as banned in the UK and running a separate show for Eastern European viewers.

** In specially marked, a cereal is shown named “Gunshots in a Crowded Mall.” This was already questionable when the sbemail was released in 2008 but after so many incidents of public mass shootings in the United States in the 15 years since then, is even more so now.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: An in-universe example occurs in "The Homestar Runner Enters the Spooky Woods" when Homestar encounters a decomposing raccoon carcass being carried around by pigeons. Narrator Strong Bad seems taken aback by this and emphasizes that the story is for children.