I got into it likeee november/december last year- I was aware of it as a canonical work in tumblr culture for a while, which made it automatically on my to-read list (alongside undertale), and had several vriskas in my tumblr social sphere for a while before reading.

The reason I actually read it though was because I had a conversation with my friend where homestuck being a famoud thing we hadn't read but wanted to was mentioned, I was like "huh I should look into it and see if I can read it", and that very same day, with her on a bench beside me, started reading it unaware of the sheer scale of the story i was about to embark on XD