i’d say the caucasian joke was the start of an intelligent thought on the default race being white in cartoon or video game characters. because when the characters take the trickster lollipop they experience extremely unnatural symptoms, whiteness being one of them.

but i don’t think andrew hussie ever took the thought further than a joke and really decided to commit to doing any sort of reversal with the fff white characters assumed races like Part Of The Story. and i dont really blame a white author for not touching something they don’t know anything about, but at the same time there is a LOT of racial subtext in homestuck (the condesce being a golliwog, dark skin denoting evil versions of the characters, dave’s obsession with black people and stuff like that) and without the author making a confident statement on what it all means within the work it’s left sort of floating in the air for any racists to co-opt with their chosen meanings.

i almost think the concept of aracial characters is more racist than just having them be 100% White Confirmed. because it just plays in the face of anyone who dares assert nonwhiteness as the “default” (the concept of defaultness is another reason why any further casting cant exactly make up for the 4 main kids being white) LOL people who try that in this fandom have just been whipped and beaten and fucking spat on for years and it will probably continue that way because when homestuck suggests we can make the characters nonwhite it’s only telling us a lie.