Popped in here to get the other side of the story, even if this is an unofficial reply. Happy we got that. Wish we could have gotten more. Annoyed at the mess that is this situation. For my part I feel a bit conned and mad at myself. Read Gio's article and baited myself into being emotional swept up. This was before learning about the redaction of The Gio-Ish Question which. I don't even know what to say really.

I think what this situation has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt is that a large part of this fandom is filled with people who aren't fans of homestuck as it exists right now, but as an "event" to witness the drama off so to speak. Dramatizing issues, going with the most bad faith reading of things possible and not giving anyone the benefit of the doubt. An animosity that goes beyond the general tension a fandom has with a creator but into downright parasocial insanity. I am not even sure how you could begin to fix this. All I can hope for really is better communication, which definitely is going to be difficult since we invoked legal procedures and I hope we get to see the actual full logs of the conversations had between Miles, Bamboosh and Gio. Discord logs are already fuckeasy to edit. The logs on gio's blog aren't even that, they are CSS recreations. Aught to be taken with a giant grain of salt.

Whatever happens next, I hope this doesn't hurt people as much as the first round of drama with gio did. If i see another Sarah Z video about this I am going to explode.