i feel as though I may have a completely separate perspective from a majority of people due to some of the social circles I was in, where people such as Aysha, Kate, Lalo, Sarah Zedig (who I must say did also do youtube videos and in a kinder world the sarah z homestuck video would be a collab with sarah zedig instead because itd be funnyyyyy), etc etc

and so in my eyes the harassment that the people who were working on things when the videos came out, not those old studios that closed or the breakdown of communications with TOG, but the people currently working on things who were inescapably harassed about it and had their reputations sullied after the video dropped is the bigger issue for me than what the video said about hussie in specific

and i think taking longer (and not yaknow trying to hit a 4/13 release for teh lulz) and doing more thorough research and talking to the people involved from the jump could have gone a long way in preventing a lot of frustrations, misunderstandings, anger, and so on