Here's one: back when the OG Homestuck was updating, I didn't really use social media, like, at all. My Internet was all blogs and webcomics. I started reading HS at the time but didn't get further than Act 2. By the time I did read further, trollmania had long ago died down. So I was probably the one person who had heard of the famous "trolls," but didn't know what the species looked like. At all. I pictured them as hulking great stone-skinned giants, like in Tolkien or Pratchett.
"This is StuckUnderHell, nor am I out of it." - Mephistopheles