i read homestuck fully for the first time in april 2023! but i've known about homestuck since i'd say 2017? at the latest, 2018. i tried to read it a couple times back then but i had friends who discouraged me due to their own experiences in the fandom while it was ongoing. i am kinda thankful, as i was rather young at the time and i think reading it at 16 was a great age to read it. it really surprises me though how many people read it so late but didnt know about it until later! it seems like such an important piece of internet culture that i genuinely was under the assumption that everybody on the internet who ever engaged in fandom spaces atleast heard of it.