"GioCities: It's About Ethics in Gaming Homestuck Journalism"

In all seriousness though.... it's honestly embarrassing trying to make any sense of Gio's "analysis" of Psycholonials (a work which I only just read for the first time and immediately fell in love with). Like... "If you want to question Zhen at any point in the story, that work is left entirely up to you to do for yourself." Yes, Gio, that is... generally how literary analysis works. It's not like James Joyce wrote footnotes all throughout Ulysses telling you exactly how you should interpret everything throughout the book.

Seriously though, not only do I think Psycholonials is a fantastic work about isolation and how social media can only make it worse sometimes (because you present an idealized version of yourself rather than the true you most of the time), but it's also very simple to understand the themes and narrative if you know what you're looking for, which knowing anything about Hussie and her experience as the creator of Homestuck is a good start for. This is just.... it's like those Star Wars YouTube video essays that criticize the sequel trilogy for being bad without making any valid points about how they're pretty obvious nostalgia bait that wrote each new installment as a course-correction for the previous one or sidelined their Black protagonist despite originally presenting him as being the next main Jedi in the series, they just complain about how Rey is a Mary Sue and her powers and backstory make no sense. In my unprofessional opinion, I think Gio is still somewhat blinded by his own personal vendetta against Hussie and that is coloring his view of both Homestuck and Hussie's work as a whole. I don't think he's really too bad of an author and he even makes some valid points in his SUPERHOT article, I just think it might be best that he take a step back from Homestuck for a while.