Around 2013-2014. I was 10 or 11 back then, reading the dang thing on my Wii U's internet browser after I stumbled onto a page of the wiki. This meant I had the opposite experience from a lot of people who read it at about that age: the Wii U's browser didn't support Flash, so all I got was gifs at best and a lot of dialogue I'd piece together what happened in the [S]es from. Ironically, I was pretty much convinced that I'd "missed Homestuck" because I wasn't there during the pre-Scratch updates, even though the comic wasn't even finished.

I'd say I probably shouldn't have been reading it at that age, but I was already mired in worse, being a child with unfettered internet access in the late 2000s. Homestuck definitely made me a better person in the long run.