Something I noticed in the Homestuck subreddit and with my own experience with the Homestuck fandom is the issue gatekeeping. Some of these people are okay with gatekeeping the webcomic from so called "newgens". And look, I understand wanting to keep the spirit of Homestuck or not wanting to deal with annoying fans, but in my opinion, gatekeeping isn't it. And the only types of people who should be gatekept from the fandom are assholes, bigots, and predators.
I partially talked about it in another forum, which you can read here: https://forums.serenesforest.net/topic/107375-sfs-teehee-thread-ii-desolation-of-serenes/page/4/#findComment-6156695
Let me tell you my experience with gatekeeping in the Homestuck community. It all started in a Discord server I made when somebody was talking about Homestuck. Out of curiosity, I decided to get into Homestuck myself. During some of the times where I talked about Homestuck, the person who made me get into Homestuck got upset at me because I didn't understand, and someone else had the audacity to quiz me on the webcomic. Also the former was annoyed over me shipping John and Rose (It was for a fanfic retelling of The Little Mermaid). When I was roleplaying as the characters, some of the people got upset at me because I didn't read the text carefully and analyzed the behavior of those characters, so it felt out of character, and I must admit, some of the things I did roleplay there was stupid and made people uncomfortable.
Looking back at what happened, HOLY CRAP that behavior was definitely gatekeepy, even if I was being annoying.
Do you have any experiences with gatekeeping in the Homestuck fandom? Share your experiences.
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