Memes / Homestuck

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Wow, they have all of the memes. All of them! You're surprised Know Your Meme doesn't have an individual article just for Homestuck... OH WAIT

Please Note: This page is for memes exclusive to Homestuck. Please put memes that are universal across at least two MS Paint Adventures in the appropriate place!

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• The meme. [[labelnote:Explanation]]The explanation behind the meme, if necessary.[[/labelnote]] ^Explanation Like this.
  • Further mutations and successor memes, if any.

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• It started out with "What's In the Box, Jack?" ^Explanation In comic, Jack Noir looks into a box. A thread was created where fans created their own versions of what he found., which then launched so many spin-off threads that they all ended up condensed into one gigantic Image Manipulation thread. Then there's pretty much everything from Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff (which also has achieved memetic status within the series' own universe). Listing all the in-fandom memes would take the rest of this page... oh look, it does!
• "you can see me, right. tell me what is wrong with this picture." ^Explanation One of Homestuck's very first memes, it is in reference to this page featuring John sitting in a bathtub that Rose accidentally dropped on his stairs, whilst asking the above mentioned question. It inspired a flurry of fan redraws and even got Call Backs in the comic itself
• In universe:
  EB: how do you know about jegus? do you even know what that is?
  AG: I have no idea! It's something Terezi has 8een saying non stop for some reason.
  AG: It is weirdly infectious.
  • In-fandom responses: "TROLLS DO NOT SAY GOG" (due to a few times when the trolls, before they met the kids, said "god" and "Jesus")
• On 4chan's /co/ board, due to the massive amount of shipping and general threads, "HOMOSUCK IS SHIT" has evolved into an all-around catchphrase for anything that's too invasive or clutters up the board.
  • HOMOSUCK became canon on 6/12/13
• UPDATE ^Explanation Standard reaction to an update.
  • also POTATO ^Explanation Explained here.
  • UPDORT^Explanation A misspelling of the above
    • Homestuck could have updated RIGHT NOW. ^Explanation Homestuck updates a lot and at odd hours.
  • UPD8 ^Explanation The above by way of Vriska's typing quirk, which also conveniently saves you a whole two keystrokes.
• Turn that 0_0 into a 0u0!
  • Wait, no, that looks stupid.^Explanation A reference to Aradia Megido
• being 0kay with things ^Explanation A common response by Aradia to the events going on. Well, when she's dead, anywho.
• All of the X. All of it/them. ^Explanation A phrase referenced repeatedly by the character Vriska, beginning with "you've gained all the levels. All of them." Also said a lot by the narrator during introductions.
• Also, BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEEEEEEEEEEP ^Explanation Associated with characters driving cars, or pretending to drive cars
• Anythiiiiiiiing repeating 8 times ^Explanation Vriska's typing quirk (she's Scorpio)
  • "Be in cahoots. CAHOOOOOOOOTS!"
• OH NOOOOOOO ^Explanation A phrase commonly uttered by Jade when something bad happens
• Sloppy makeouts ^Explanation Exactly What It Says on the Tin. Also known as "sloppy interspecies makeouts"
• Shit and the handle's repeated breakups and reconciliations ^Explanation "Shit just flew off the handle" and variations thereof are a common phrase in the series.
• GET SOME LEAVES!
• Everyone is Spades Slick ^Explanation A parody of Epileptic Trees for Homestuck.
  • Everyone is Lord English, who is already here! ^Explanation A reference to the speculation over English's true identity.
    • Nepeta is Lord English! ^Explanation A further parody of the above.
    • Are there more Lord Englishes I should know about?! ^Explanation A reference to the hype over Jack Noir possibly turning into Lord English and a reference to a Spongebob Squarepants episode.
• BLUH ^Explanation Common expletive used by various characters
  • HUGE BITCH BLUH BLUH ^Explanation Used to describe Snowman and Vriska. A snowclone "BLUH BLUH HUGE WITCH" was used to describe Rose.
    • GLUB GLUB HUGE FISH ^Explanation A snowclone of the above referring to fish troll Feferi Peixes; or, now, more often, to her ancestor the Condesce.
  • DERP
• being STRONG ^Explanation A reference to Equius Zahhak, who has Super-Strength.
  • STRONGjumping, STRONGgalloping, STRONGsitting, STRONGlifting, STRONGrunning, STRONGdating, STRONGhobble etc. ^Explanation See above
• ___ double reacharound ^Explanation A phrase that appears in the comic
• complete bullshit ^Explanation Another phrase that appears in the comic, usually preceded by "This is"
• Trollsonas ^Explanation Fans making troll versions of themselves.
• Buckets counting as sex toys ^Explanation Trolls use buckets to reproduce.
  • Referring to Valentine's Day as "Pail Day" (or "Bucket Day", or "Quadrant Day", or "Matesprit Day")
  • Is that... a bucket? Augh, I can't believe someone would post that kind of smut on a worksafe site! Have you no decency?
    • SIX SOLAR SWEEPS! NOT 0KAY! ^Explanation Six solar sweeps is equivalent to 13 Earth years.
• My Little Hoofbeasts ^Explanation Trolls call horses "hoofbeasts". A reference to My Little Pony
  • NEIGH ^Explanation A reference to an Easter Egg flash
    • FUCKING NEIGH
• Basically everything in Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff. Particularly "I warned you about stairs", "flip it turnways" and SBAHJification. ^Explanation Everything is based off various lines from the comic. SBAHJification is making something like Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff.
  • FUCK HOMESTUCK IS CREATING ALL THESE MEMES
    • IT KEEPS HAPPENING
  • I WARNED YOU ABOUT MEMES BRO. I TOLD YOU DOG.
    • IT KEEPS HAPPENING
    • where doing it man. where MAKING THIS HAPEN.
  • (in my dream) I am the X. Its me.
  • THE X RUSE WAS A...........
    • DISTACTION
  • the big man HASS the ball
    • i HAVE the car
  • dude you gotta FLIP IT, TURN-WAYS
• "YES. HELL YES. HELL. FUCKING. YES." ^Explanation A common phrase that appears in the comic
• 2X____COMBO!!! ^Explanation Another common phrase.
  • PSYCHE ^Explanation A Running Gag where just before a character does something the story switches to another character. Also used to create a fake end to Act 4.
• SWEET CATCH!!! ^Explanation Running Gag where a character catches something.
• Autistic Nepeta ^Explanation A typical abusive comment from Karkat about Nepeta led to this being a relatively common interpretation of the character.
• "Tangle buddies" ^Explanation A reference to the Squiddles
• "Lousy goddamn stupid X" ^Explanation A Running Gag in the series.
• Good dog. Best friend. ^Explanation Originates from when Jade feeds Becquerel a radioactive steak. It promptly became a snowclone phrase, "Good x. Best y."
  • Bad dog. Worst enemy. ^Explanation Kanaya applying said snowclone phrase to Bec Noir
• Doing an acrobatic fucking pirouette off the X ^Explanation A Running Gag. The X is usually a handle.
• You cannot beat X in a Y-off. He/She is simply the best there is. ^Explanation Running Gag.
• It's hard being a kid growing up. It's hard and no one understands. ^Explanation A repeated phrase in the comic.
  • It's hard being a [insert thing here]. It's hard and nobody understands. ^Explanation A snowclone of the above.
• Special mention should go to Nepeta, Equius, Feferi, Eridan, and Aradia for bringing cat, horse, fish, more fish, and frog puns into the fur-ray.
  • ribbit
  • Often leads to "I can't really control the X" following an unintentional utterance.
• THIS IS STUPID ^Explanation Usually said after a Big-Lipped Alligator Moment
• Who's this douchebag? ^Explanation Common reaction to any person a character doesn't recognize.
• Got Tiger ^Explanation On Hussie's Formspring, someone made this typo when attempting to say "god tier", and Hussie naturally couldn't let it pass without comment. "Getting the tiger" became an Unusual Euphemism for someone ascending to the god tiers.
  • Dog Tier! ^Explanation Jade got a pair of dog ears to go with her Animal Motif when she achieved her God Tier. The fandom loved it, bestowing upon her this nickname.
  • And most recently, Cod Tier. ^Explanation After a fan requested a picture of a God-Tiered Gamzee as part of Hussie's charity fundraiser for Japan after the earthquake, Hussie drew a sketch of Gamzee in his God Tier outfit which included, among other things, an enormous codpiece from Bard Quest. Naturally, the fans ran with this.
    • Now canon.
  • Duck Tier for Doomed Eridan, whose God Tier outfit's hood makes him look like a Psyduck.
• "It's not like X being real was ever a thing that stopped being true" and other verbose ways of reminding readers that something long-forgotten still has significance.
• WV IS AN IMP! ^Explanation It was initially believed WV was one of the imps John fought in the Medium. He's not.
• Worcestershire sauce ^Explanation From here.
• Homestuck is RELENTLESSLY LIGHT-HEARTED. ^Explanation See the Pot Hole.
  • The villain is a DOG WEARING SUNGLASSES. ^Explanation From Word of God.
• Everyone hates Vriska! ^Explanation The character has a habit of manipulating everyone, often to their detriment.
• Tavros is the worst troll. ^Explanation Tavros is inept at trolling.
  • Vriska is the best troll. ^Explanation Vriska was intentionally created to be the best troll, not only infuriating the characters but also the readers.
  • Hussie is the best troll. ^Explanation See the Pot Hole
• Your name is [something stupid here] ^Example Zoosmell Pooplord.
• H3Y D4V3. H3Y D4V3. 1S TH1S YOU? ^Explanation Terezi paints Dave's glasses onto various pictures. She usually misses.
  • WH4T NOW??◊
• An extreme example: on the formspring Hussie commented that "There are major characters, and there are minor ones. If you're waiting for me to fire up NEPETAQUEST 2011, don't hold your breath." Now, the fans are making it hapen. Twice.
  • In one update Karkat mentioned Nepetaquest.
    KARKAT: YOU KNOW WHAT? GIVE ME FIFTY FUCKING NEPETAS! WHY THE HELL NOT. WE'LL CALL OUR JOURNEY THROUGH BLACK ENDLESS DESPAIR "NEPETAQUEST".
• 1/18 ^Explanation It's a gay porn comic featuring Tavros, Eridan and Equius that was being spammed at 4chan's Homestuck General. It always started with a spoilered pic of the first page, and a spoilered text saying "1/18". Soon it started being parodied, including one version that had SBAHJ-style art.
• HOPE RIDES FOREVVER ALONE!◊ ^Explanation The character Eridan uses double "v"s and "w"s as his typing quirk since his sign is Aquarius. The fandom commonly characterize him as being a desperate, dateless loser. And then he was revealed to be the "Prince of Hope". Mashing him with the line "Hope Rides Alone" from The Protomen swiftly followed.
• The best ship is FRIENDSHIP! ^Explanation An answer to Ship-to-Ship Combat.
• Kanaya's feet. Look at them go! ^Explanation 4chan /co/ meme originating from a gif where Kanaya moves her feet very fast. A later update was made as a homage to that meme.
• honk. HONK. ^Explanation Ax-Crazy Sober!Gamzee's Madness Mantra, which quickly became a spectacular instance of Hell Is That Noise both in-universe and out.
• MARCH MADNESS ^Explanation Back in December of '10, a group of fans got together and began designing a Homestuck calender. When the topic of a crossdressing Eridan was breached, the artist designing the picture for March decided the idea was too good to pass up, so they decided to work it into their image and came up with this as a result.
  • The outfit is also memetic, as is the picture for being ugly to many.
    • "March Eridan" is now canon, appearing in the "Ministrife" update.
• "Be the <noun>, <verb> the <noun>." ^Explanation A Running Gag
  • Be the Rainbow Drinker. Get all the ladies. ^Explanation Kanaya being a Lesbian Vampire.
• Dave's hair is a bird!
  • ...holy SHIT. ^Explanation Almost two years into the comic's run a fan who had only recently started the series caused a massive Failed a Spot Check moment for many other fans by asking in a forum if anyone else had noticed Dave Strider's hair was in the shape of a stylized bird.◊
• Shenanigans on the fora have led to two involving photoshopping Erdian: "upside-down-torso Eridan"◊ or "UDT Eridan"◊ (from this◊), and ERIDAN AMPORA, LIMBO MASTER◊ (from this◊). The logical conclusion.◊ ^Explanation They're shops of his death scene.
• Another memetic mutation that eventually worked its way into the AlterniaBound album was Trollcops. It started as a thread on the forums and was your standard AU thread. The music team then answered with making the AU's radio theme, the aptly named Trollcops. It especially shows in the Radio Play version when the narrator describes the long-time officer (Terezi) and the rookie (Sollux).
  • Sollux's eyes flashing as a siren.
• Troll terminology including Jegus and Gog (which they picked up from Dave), candlelight hate date, bone bulge, nook and seedflap.
• Troll typing quirks ^Explanation Each troll has their own way of typing.
• Fan art depicting troll, felt and first guardian versions of various characters
• Fat Vriska and Fat Feferi, aka Fatferi. ^{Partial explanation} Fat Vriska came about from a long series of trolling/counter-trolling Q&A on Hussie's formspring account about whether Feferi was fat or not that eventually degenerated into an expression of hatred & lust for fat people with Vriska as the focus. The Q&A in question can be read here.◊
• Doc Scratch as The Man Your Man Could Smell Like ^Explanation The comic revealed that Scratch likes the company of younger girls causing a Mistaken for Pedophile moment...though due to his age Scratch thinks every girl is "young"
  • Hello ladies.
  • Doc Scratch as other Memetic Molesters, such as Pedobear
• Titles following the <noun>stuck / <noun>bent naming scheme
• Homestuck versions of the Ooh Mister X meme (originally from Hark! A Vagrant).
• Terezi facing the wrong direction in fanart ^Explanation Terezi is blind.
  • This even extends to cosplay photoshoots, in which the various Terezis stand with their backs to the cameras, wave to the sky, or just look off in the wrong direction.
• Pants◊kat◊ ^Explanation An Off-Model moment caused by an unusual art choice made Karkat look as though his entire body consists of a pair of really long pants. Pantskat is the most common name for the entity, but "Karkat Pantas" is also used on occasion. The image in question can be found here.
  • Fully an Ascended Meme.
  • Missing◊ Middle◊ Kanaya◊ ^Explanation Derives from the same frame as Pantskat, "Cutnaya" comes from how the colour of Kanaya's sash is the same colour as the floor, so it appears she is lacking a midsection.
• The catchphrase "Kids & Fun" and the many variations of it
  • Tsunamis and Secretaries ^Explanation After Eridan killed Feferi and Kanaya, a huge shitstorm started on 4chan's Homestuck General. Eridan's fans were celebrating his victory and unsuccessfully trying to justify his actions. One of Eridan's fans decided to make an analogy with a tsunami, saying Eridan was doing that to avoid said tsunami.
  • Gods & Fun ^Explanation All the original human kids reach the God Tiers.
• The animes, like Disukuwarudo by Pratchett-san. ^Explanation These two related memes emerged from some of Hussie's snarky Formspring responses concerning, well, anime; Hussie doesn't care about the animes, and so gave Discworld as a snarky response. It spent most of its time as a Formspring/MSPA forum injoke, and didn't get a nod in Homestuck itself for a long time, until Jade alchemised the Dead Shuffle dress and it's remarked that in it she looks like she's "straight from the animes".
  • Homestuck: The Anime. Complete with screencaps, episode summaries, VA discussion and Sub vs. Dub flame wars.^Explanation On July 1st, 2012, Hussie was forced to take an unexpected hiatus for ComicCon and dealing with his neglected chores, while also working on the next Flash update. During this time, the fandom had so little to do that they began to create high quality 'animestuck' fanart. The results were so convincing that some people began asking where they could find it, leading more people to create more Anime-style art based on scenes from the comic, as well as creating lists of VAs, and adding subtitles to certain images.
• "AnD ThEn mAyBe mAkE OuT a LiTtLe ;o)" ^Explanation This came from a particularly hilarious line by Gamzee where he casually (and unexpectedly) asks Tavros to make out.
• "i am not a homosexual." ^Explanation Right after Karkat confesses his hatecrush on John, John replies with this line. It can be found absolutely everywhere.
• This image of cosplayers◊, with a security guard giving them a funny look in the background, is meme gold.
  • The caption "LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT HOMESTUCK" has become a catchphrase in its own right.
  • The security guard from the original picture (nicknamed Lemmy Telya, the Peeved Passerby, or just Frank) has inspired fanart, at least one cosplay◊, and fanart of said cosplay.◊ (This fandom is the ouroboros. It's us.)
  • Slightly less famous are this pointing guy, this waitress and this befuddled businessman.
  • Now acknowledged.
• Daddy Droog is best Droog! ^Explanation After seeing Droog watch the Curb-Stomp Battle between Aradia and Vriska and how he praised her afterwards a lot of AU fanfic/fanart portrayed Diamonds Droog as Aradia's adoptive father, frequently with other members of the Midnight Crew or the Felt adopting other trolls (usually based on exile/troll pairings).
• AND THEN THEY BOTH PORKED! ^Explanation The punchline from a comic shipping Eridan and Nepeta together, itself based on a Questionable Content Webcomic meme, has seen more than its fair share of usage.
• "Is she holding the gun right? Y/N" ^Explanation Two characters, Jade and Eridan, use guns in-canon, leading to a lot of fanart of them with guns. Since they're both expert marksmen, it's somewhat jarring to notice how rarely they're drawn holding their gun correctly, even in otherwise-good pictures, or in canon.
• The Sufferer can break those cuffs.
• Aradia's horns are a meme themselves, if only because Andrew seems to not give the slightest of fucks about having them look consistent between panels. In one panel with a heavy focus on Arasia^note She was only "named" (The Handmaid) a bunch of updates later, and didn't get an actual name (Damara Megido) until act 6, he actually FORGOT her horns entirely.◊ If fanart manages to keep Aradia's horns internally consistent, people will joke that Aradia is off-model in how on-model she is.
• SHOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSHHH ^Explanation A string of updates near the end of Act 5 have Karkat calming Gamzee down from his subjugglating madness by repeatedly "pap"-ing his face and shushing him.
  • KARKAT IS A SUBJUGGLATOR WHISPERER.
• GIVVE THAT BITCH A WWHALE. BITCHES LOVVE WWHALES. ^Explanation Said Seahorse Dad to Eridan. In fanon, this is generally portrayed as the extent of their knowledge of the ways of love, moreso for Eridan.
  • its a wwhale ^Explanation The logical conclusion to the above, mixing Eridan's ideal of of the above advice with a separate meme about a whale emoticon on an iPhone.
• Kanaya is a drunk, hic! ^Explanation Sometime around June 2011 someone posted a role-play log wherein they were role-playing Kanaya as a drunk, it boomed with popularity within hours.
  • Grimdrunk Rose
    • And many other spin offs
• "John and Dave Play Sburb", a video mashing up audio from Two Best Friends Play with scenes from Homestuck, has become very popular. "I might NEED the blankie!" "That's textook vampire-ism." Fans have been known to declare that Matt and Pat are now their headcanon voices for John and Dave.
• John noping. ^Explanation This image.◊
• ssh only ______ now. ^Explanation From [1]◊ this drawing sent by Terezi to Dave.
• SHES HOT RUNWAY MODEL. (Referring to Kanaya.) ^Explanation "[S] Cascade" featured one shot in which Kanaya had an interesting pose that the fandom decided to run with. the image was drawn by fanartist Xamag
  • 2X Explanation Combo: This meme is much older than that. It pretty much launched with this, continued with this, and then threw this on for good measure. Later, the story of its conception was released.
• HI AGAIN, IDIOT. ^Explanation Karkat's first line of dialogue
• The EOA5 bar and its seemingly eternal progression to the end ^Explanation When Hussie began creating the End of Act 5 flash he made a progress bar for it on his site.
  • Merry Gristmas ^Explanation A joking reference to Christmas, using the building material from SBURB
• Who's that boy, wanna be amigo?
  • Carlito! Carlito!
• Dave as Satan, also known as Devil Dave. ^Explanation After a Stealth Parody "anti-Homestuck" blog decreed that Dave represented Satan, the idea caught on and there was an influx of fanart for the idea.The blog in question can be found here.
  • This also resulted in the creation of Jesus John, Reaper Karkat, and Angel Davesprite.
• Hussieruya ^Explanation  Shipping Hussie with Hidekaz Himaruya is a fairly common thing, it may have originally been created as a tongue-in-cheek to poke fun at the inexplicable hatred between the Hetalia fandom and the Homestuck fandom at the time. (The two Fandoms have since made up.) It was popularized by artists Tannanana and Sclez. Hussie now knows about it, thanks to a fan who sent him a link to the Hussieruya blog via Twitter. This was his response.◊
• 10/25, never forget. ^Explanation When Hussie posted the EOA 5 flash on Newgrounds on the 25th of October (10/25), so many fans flocked there to see it that Newgrounds crashed. Then, when he posted a link to download it on Megaupload, the same event occurred. A livestream that was set up to play the EOA for everyone who'd missed it also crashed within minutes. Even Tumblr ended up crashing due to the sheer amount of fans posting about the flash. 10/25 has since been dubbed "the day that Homestuck broke the Internet."
• Im Sorry I Thought It Was Obvious ^Explanation Originally said by Kanaya Maryam, it is used in response to an exclamation of Fridge Brilliance about something everyone else already understood.
• HUUUUUSSSSSSSSIEEEEEEEEEEE^Explanation The standard response to discovering a new piece of hidden foreshadowing, Fridge Brilliance or other evidence connecting to an event or another is skyward screaming Andrew Hussie's name. Due to the nature of the plot this happens a lot.
• Everything about Jake English shortly after his debut.
  • HUBBA HUBBA ^Explanation His... thoughts about "women of a cerulean complexion".
  • As soon as his first Pesterlog conversation happened, fairly accurate comparisons to Nigel Thornberry ensued.
  • "Double pistols and a wink" is quickly becoming a favorite among fans.
• Prior to the appearance of Dirk Strider and Roxy Lalonde, fanartists jumped on the idea that Dirk is a ridiculous fanspeak-spewing anime lover (probably inspired by his pointy shades), and that Roxy is a Valley Girl (inspired by an offhand reference: "you and she are totally BFFSIES 4EVERZ, her words").
• There's currently a rebellion brewing on the forums against Betty Crocker. FIGHT THE BATTERWITCH. ^Explanation Betty Crocker is a villain in Homestuck
  • The revelation that she uses Subliminal Seduction has caused it to spread throughout the forum as rapidly flickering avatars. OBEY
• 13 YEAR BREAK ^Explanation On his now-defunct formspring account, Hussie responded to a question about a perceived slowdown in updates by pointing out that his overall rate hadn't changed—there were longer pauses between updates, but there were also more pages per update. Then he pointed out that at that time he had put out enough pages, quickly enough, that he could stop updating entirely for 13 years, and Homestuck would still have a higher lifetime page-per-day rate than any other webcomic currently in existence.
• Dirk Strider as a sink wearing sunglasses. ^Explanation The first pesterlog Dirk has is in fact Jake talking to his autoresponder- that is, his shades- which are shown resting on a sink.
• PEANUT BUTTER AND JELLY DEMONS FUCKING EACH OTHER◊ (link is somewhat NSFW) ^Explanation The widely used pairing name for Gamzee/Tavros is 'pbj', due to their respective blood colors. This prompted a non-Homestuck fan on tumblr to complain that after searching the 'pbj' tag he found a bunch of 'peanut butter and jelly demons fucking each other' when all he wanted was a sandwich.
• "Brobot stalking Jake while unfitting music plays": After the update in which Brobot was first revealed, many fans posted the panels to tumblr alongside hilariously unsuitable audio. Music used included the Jaws theme, Every Breath You Take, Somebody's Watching Me, Total Eclipse of the Heart, Never Gonna Give You Up, and an original composition by soselfimportant, among others.
• Trickster Mode, named after the Easter Eggs in various flashes, is an art meme where the characters are redesigned in bizarre ways, ie candy-themed and constantly cheerful. It can get very disturbing.
  • Here's where it started.
  • And here it pops up again!
  • And then Hussie simply goes all out and makes Jane into a fully canonical Trickster. The results are...unsettling, to say the least.
• "The Vast What": In reference to Jane's alleged death. The abrupt nature of the update has caused fans everywhere to respond with merely one word; "What." The amount of fans responding to the update on Tumblr led to the phenomenon being known as the Vast What, in reference to the Vast Glub/Croak/Honk/Expletive.
• And now with this update, we have eyebrows sweeping the forums.
  • Roxy mentioned "eyebrow raising funnybiz" earlier in the comic which prompted a tumblr user to make fanart of her looking at Dad's butt.
• The line Jack Noir just bees himself instead has given rise to fanart of Jack as a bee.
  • Which isn't completely unprecedented.
• "Do the [Element]y Thing!": Starting from this panel, fans have referred to something drastic done by the players, usually involving their powers, as "Doing the (Element)y Thing."
• When the God Cat was introduced, fans began drawing it as Kyubey.
  • More Magica (not to mention Durarara!!) fun was had when Dirk decapitated himself.
• "I'm glasses." ^Explanation Dirk's Auto-Responder is an artificial intelligence contained in his shades.
• Photoshopping Jane's eyes on everything.
  • And with followed updates, this too.
  • Similarly, John's "beautiful" or "anime" Hussnasty eyes from this page shopped or drawn on other representations of John. There's a sub-meme where the eye is drawn only on the right eye.^Explanation Since we've only seen the right eye on that page and [S] ==>, the meme jokingly implies that John has only a standard dot for a left eye.
• "HELLO DANTE": When it emerged that Dante Basco (whose character Rufio has had minor involvement in the story) has started reading Homestuck, Hussie slightly modified the header of the MSPA website to issue an... ominous greeting, then posted a screencap of it on Twitter and Tumblr. Some other Homestuck establishments, like the Reddit board, have since done the same.
• HONL ^Explanation When roleplaying on anonymous chat services such as Omegle or Trollmegle (a Homestuck version of Omegle), someone mispells their introduction and exits the conversation in an embarrassed manner as a result.
• There's a Youtube meme where people try to take the like/dislike numbers and use math to get 8. ^Explanation A number associated with Vriska Serket, also the sum of the digits of the Arc Number 413.
• MMM WHATCHA SAY ^Explanation Tumblr users post panels of the comic, usually where someone dies, with a snippet from "Hide and Seek".
  • While this did make its way into Homestuck through Tumblr, the origin of the meme stems from an SNL skit brought back into popularity by an unrelated youtube video.
  • There's now a blog dedicated to it.
• Roxy herself is pretty much a meme, what with her druknen tyspo *typos. Not to mention her dreamself has been manipped into sleepwalking in several panels.
  • There's even an app to let Roxy sleepwalk across ANY MSPA panel, and you can further extend it to your computer in general.
• FASTEST FANARTISTS IN THE WEST ^Explanation Originating on the Skaia Imageboard due to the speed of fanart relating to an update appearing online.
• When the panel revealing UU's identity came out, Hussie created a fake version◊ in an attempt to deter spoilers. The fanbase promptly responded with their own versions of said panel.
• YOU CAN'T ESCAPE THE MILES ^Explanation uu's mantra concerning Bec Noir's Red Miles finally invading the B2 timeline. He even lampshades it by saying that it's now a thing. Image manipulators made things more terrifying by adding the Red Miles to photos of real life locations.
  • Unless you're Dirk.
• HOW DO YOU EXPECT TO X WHEN I AM ALREADY Y? ^Explanation A snow clone of Lord English's lines from these two pages' top banners.
• Jokes about Hussie killing off characters, as well as predictions as to who will die in the upcoming updates, stemming from how many characters die on a regular basis. ^Explanation Answer - a lot.
• Day 23. ^Explanation And other numbers between 20 and 30, depending on what number day it was. Used during the extensive pause in August 2012 as a reply to oddball Homestuck-related posts on tumblr to show the fandom's slow descent into madness.
  • These are sometimes followed by comments such as "Day 23: Even the other fandoms are begging homestuck to update." "Day 23: Even the forum admin have begin begging." and "Day 23: Other fandoms are starting to doubt Homestuck's existence."
  • Similar versions have existed for the beginning of the Megapause (April to June 2013) and the Gigapause (from October 2013 to October 2014).
    • In particular, Uncomfortablestuck got popular during the Gigapause. ^Explanation Suggestions for Alternate Universe stories where almost everything is the same save for certain details. Also, usually a term for where someone very minorly edits a sprite, where the edited part only reveals itself with closer examination.
• WHOOPI ^Explanation Since Latula was introduced in the Act 6 Intermission 3 update, many people have made comparisons between her appearance and that of Whoopi Goldberg. On 4chan, you can barely get away with saying her name without this cry.
• Spatula ^Explanation Latula is very similar to spatula.
• Check y9ur privilege. ^Explanation Kankri, being a Take That! to tumblr, used this phrase a few times in his endless "sermon." tumblr, being tumblr, ran wild with this and turned Kankri into the patron troll of privilege-checking, as exemplified in this post.
  • Trigger Warnings ^Explanation  Kankri's obsession with triggers has caused the fandom to often characterize him as a Gun Nut.
• From the Homestuck Adventure Game Kickstarter's comments section: the Pimpkin ^Explanation A user named PumpkinAppearifier had his name mistyped creating the marvelous Pimpkin.
• KURLOZ! ^Explanation A face replace of Carlos from The Magic School Bus, subtitled "KURLOZ", after a bad joke or pun on a thread.
• NYEH! ^Explanation An exclamation that Eridan never said in the comic, which was said in one of OctoPimp's videos. Was made (sorta) Canon in part 2 of A6I3's flash game, when said by Cronus.
• X with Equius ^Explanation Started with someone making a Sims 3 family with Equius and posting it on tumblr which led to people sticking him into other things.
• Vriska pointing at her treasure maps being used as an exploitable images is pretty common.
• caw caw motherfuckers ^Explanation A quote from Davesprite. Made additionally hilarious by its adoption and abuse by the Avengers fandom (some of whom claim they created it, to much humor).
• Mituna's dandelion hair. ^Explanation Mituna shows up helmetless in the Ministrife, revealing he has an absurd mess of fluffy hair not unlike the head of a dandelion and so thick it covers his eyes completely. The tumblr HS fandom was overjoyed.
• Nepeta is dead. ^Explanation Her death has become a bit of Black Comedy in the fandom.
• FeFETAsprite/Ironcheese ^Explanation The introduction of Fefetasprite's name provoked a Hurricane of Puns from the fandom, usually involving just Feta cheese, though with the occasional observation that the combination of the elemental symbol for iron (Fe) and "Feta" makes "Ironcheese."
• Putting Karkat's face on things. ^Explanation Someone on tumblr commented that if you put Karkat's face on anything, it becomes automatically funny.
  • There's a blog just for it.
  • Also for John
• Fandomstuck (Also called Fandombound) ^Explanation  It's common knowledge that the Homestuck and Hetalia fandoms get along well these days.This spawned art of Anthropomorphic Personifications of the two fandoms in the style of Homestuck, influenced by the Hetalia fan's natural love for personifying things. Then art for other fandoms began to appear, and...well you get the idea.
• Placing chatlogs in this format has become popular, often as a way of expressing just how weird this webcomic actually is. Have an example:
  • Page 1: A boy stands in his bedroom
  • 4657 pages later: A post-apocalypse self of that boy's ectosister's grandfather kisses the decapitated head of their best friend's brother's post-apocalypse self on the lips in front of an erupting volcano.
• Mere seconds after appearing, Jake's God Tier outfit became the ultimate rage in Tumblr. Particularly a rather... ''frontal'' panel regarding its selection of leggings. Or lack thereof.
• Also from Tumblr: John didn't show up with Jade because he was stuck in the line at Starbucks. ^Explanation Originates from another Tumblr meme, "X shows up to Y fifteen minutes late with Starbucks."
  • Now referenced in comic by a cup of Starbucks next to a sleeping John, fifteen pages after A6I5 began.
• I got up at 5am and made all these goddamn pancakes. ^Explanation A comic from Tumblr involving Baby Dave waking up Dirk when he's late for school, then giving him breakfast, which Dirk refuses to eat.
• Photoshopping John's disembodied arm everywhere.^Explanation Events in-canon resulted in John's arm appearing out of portals literally all over Homestuck.
• Homestuck fans in regular clothing hearing about the first update since the mega pause, and stripping the regular clothes off to reveal homestuck clothing underneath.
• If the comments on the "Squiddles Opening" video are to be believed, pretending that the Squiddles is an actual old kid's show is popular as well (i.e. saying stuff like "I loved this show when I was little", "I watched every episode!" etc.)
• Ansrew, Andrew's evil counterpart. A typo in the forums and a troll (Not one from the Trollslum, the forum kind) resulted in the character becoming infamous in the forum community. Utterly insane, and both nightmarish and bizarrely funny.
  • Lesser know than Ansrew, there is also Abdrew. He is basically Hussie, but with a six pack and a mastery of the ways of love.
• Ding Dong the Witch is Dead ^Explanation The Wizard of Oz reference when Jade died
  • "THIS IS WHAT THE REFRANCE" ^Explanation The associated SBAHJ reference
• Murderstuck. ^Explanation A common phrase to describe the now infamous segment in Act 5 where seven out of the twelve Beta Trolls were murdered by each other.
• Homestuck is too weird for 4chan. ^Explanation During the idiotic Tumblr-4chan raids the 4channers planning the raid steered clear of threads relating to Homestuck because the comic and fandom were already so weird, sexualized, and gory. This made the fandom rather proud.
• The gigapause has been riddled with so many false alarms that it's become commonplace for fans to periodically spam tumblr with assumptions that an upd8 has occurred and refutations thereof. This may have something to do with the lack of a confirmed date for the Final Upd8's upload.
• Tavros dancing being set to music. For example: The Hamsterdance, The Safety Dance, U Can't Touch This...
• Well this has gone completely fucking pear-shaped, there's no other way out of it, you're going to have to decapitate me.^Explanation  As of [S] Collide, Dirk has been decapitated on two separate occasions, leading the fandom to jokingly speculate that he asks someone to cut his head off as a result of even the most minor inconveniences (burning toast, running out of toilet paper, literal spilt milk, etc.)
• Cronus Seatbelt Safety ^Explanation A stream of a new fan music album showed a piece of track art picturing Cronus driving a car, which many people in the stream's chat pointed out was not safe because he wasn't wearing a seatbelt. People began to make jokes about this and even drew fan art relating to it.
• The ride never ends! ^Explanation When it ended in April 2016, the News Post promised an epilogue eventually, and a few other substantial updates have been released since then. Also a callback to the Arc Fatigue, which generated similar comments. The meme has only grown more popular with the release of both the Epilogues and Homestuck 2.
  • You cannot get off Mr. Hussie's Wild Ride^Explanation A variant of the above, mashed up with the prior "Mr. Bones' Wild Ride" meme.
• This image of Vriska◊ is often inserted into posts that have nothing to do with her in order to poke fun at the fact that she abruptly appears in the comic (and often with a major role to boot) when she shouldn't.
  • In a similar vein, there's this◊ picture of Vriska sitting on random things.

• Meat or Candy? ^{Explanation (Epilogue Spoilers!)} At the end of the first three chapters of the Homestuck epilogues, John is given a choice between eating meat or candy at picnic. This actually carries quite a lot of literary weight, as the meat acts as a symbolic representation of heavy plot elements (hard to stomach, but ultimately nesscesary and filling), and the candy symbolizing lighthearted fluff (Quite sweet, but not substantial at all — initially at least).
• Spoiler-kun ^{Explanation (Epilogue Spoilers!)} A humorous way of addressing a specific character in the Epilogue, whose existence can't be avoided in discussions due to the sheer weight and presence they have in the Epilogue's story, especially in the Meat Route, and their identity itself being one of the biggest spoilers in Homestuck's history due to the shocking nature of it's reveal. So "Spoiler-kun" was devised as a convenient, yet funny way of mentioning the character without spoiling their identity.
• On tumblr, making a reference to Homestuck, no matter how subtle, will always result in the Homestuck Police showing up and calling you out on it.
  • A followup meme is calling out the Homestuck Police themselves, since how did they know it was a reference?
• June Egbert. ^Explanation The fandom-accepted name for a trans male-to-female John, a popular theory due to certain pieces of subtext within Homestuck that can be construed as a possible facet for John's character. Which received a surge of popularity in August 2019 after Hussie showed his approval for the concept.
  • Toblerone. ^Explanation  Originally more of a MSPA-Forum meme, spawned from Hussie's Toblerone Cave◊ picture. However, it has firmly become a Homestuck meme as well, due to the above situation. For Hussie's 40th birthday, he announced that he hid an entire box of signed toblerones at that very same cave, and it was up to the fans to find it. A user, specifically one of the users that codified the original "June Egbert" theory, found said box. After jokingly congratulated by another user on becoming "the new author of Homestuck", she jokingly replied that her first order of business is to make June Egbert real. Laughs and jokes were had until Andrew Hussie actually replied to that with his rarely used Twitter account with the above mentioned Approval of God, saying quote "You were the first to find my treasure, and so it will be done." Whether he was being serious, or just publicly expressing his approval of the theory in his signature Trolling Creator style is debatable; But Toblerone's memetic use exploded across the fandom as a result of the situation, with June Egbert art typically featuring them.
• The nature of humanity is just that every so often someone accidentally invents homestuck again. ^Explanation A quote attributed to Twitter user @milkdrinker5000 concerning an post they found that out of context sounds like a direct reference to Homestuck or its spinoffs. Eventually the joke encompassed anything, not just Twitter posts, that are sucpiciously Homestuck-esque without people realizing it.
• 720^Explanation A reference to "Bowman's Credit Score", a video in which Michael Guy Bowman goes on a 10 minute-long bizarre spiel on his credit score, which happens to be 720, but is between his buttocks (parodying this commercial). It's not uncommon to see jokes referencing this number, and some fans even jokingly treat it with the same importance as Arc Numbers such as 413 and 612.
• Vriska (Vriska). ^Explanation  An infamous post◊ added to a confession blog claimed that Eridan's character arc was actually a metaphor for Barack Obama rejecting leftist policy in favor of cozying up with conservatives. It also attempted to associate characters in the arc with political movements and demographics (Gamzee represents the middle class, Feferi represents social programs, Jade represents Reagan), but when it got to what Vriska was supposed to represent, it claimed she represented Vriska. The result became a very common Fan Nickname for Vriska, as well as a way to simply add Vriska into random discussions.
• Comic of trans ur gender^Explanation As a Long Runner with a major LGBT Fanbase, Homestuck has a lot of fans who came out as trans during its run, many of whom can trace a direct line from reading the comic to questioning their gender. But it really came to a head in April 2021, when an announcement from What Pumpkin referred to Andrew Hussie with they/them pronouns, implying that even the author themself isn't immune to this effect.
• Rorb Lalorb ^Explanation  Similar to Pantskat, this refers to an Off-Model image of Rose with her head drawn as a white orb with a cartoonish smiley face◊.
• why do all viz media homestuck flashes look like this^note When Viz Media acquired Homestuck, it replaced the flashes with YouTube videos of the flashes, which were of lower quality than the flashes and even reuploads of those flashes. Fans have responded by making videos with the title "why do all viz media homestuck flashes look like this" and making them extremely low quality to exaggerated levels.
• Vriska Universe^Explanation An ironic Steven Universe AU casting Vriska as Steven, Dirk Strider as Garnet, Asuka as Amethyst, The Onceler as Pearl, Komaeda as Rose, and so on. It spawned from a tweet that had Komaeda reciting Rose's famous "Steven, we can't both exist..." quote, with Vriska in place of Steven.

Different Contexts

The Different Contexts thread has also spawned its own set of memes:

• "Japanese fetishes are the worst." (The meme gets rolling later here.)
  • Has a few snowclones, including "Japanese game shows are the worst/the best/weird."
• "You decide this is an auspicious time to start a jazz band."
  • "You decide this is an auspicious time to off yourself."
• "Why is he getting naked at a time like this?"
• "This is the worst/best bed and breakfast you have ever been to."
• "This cosplay leaves a lot to be desired."
  • And for that matter, hilariously mistimed Halloween cosplaying.
• "[Character]: Attempt to drink [color] Kool-Aid." "It gets all over your face!"
• "That shocked you so much it teleported you back home."^Explanation Riffing off of this wisecrack.
• "This is the worst/best superpower ever."
• "That is one powerful poetry reading," and derivatives.
• "_____ won the staring contest."
• "Personal Space Invaders!"
• "This is the strangest Christmas card you've ever seen."
• Good names for rock bands.
• *User was infracted for this caption*
• "It Makes Sense in Context. I swear it does!" "Right." ^Caveat It's something of a dead meme due to overuse, though.
• "This is the worst hazing ritual you've ever been through."
• "[Character]'s attempt at juggling [set of objects] failed spectacularly." And variations.
• "It seems Kirby has taught [character] well."
• Skipping ahead from the first page to a random one (and the hilarious reactions thereto) is also becoming popular.
• "This is your [character]. This is your [character] on drugs. Any questions?" Variants can replace the word "drugs" with something more appropriate.
• Trampolines.
• "Andrew Hussie's interpretation of [famous work] was not well received."
• Karkat attempting to direct films, often with hilarity ensuing.
• "[Character] did not take the criticism of his/her postmodern artwork well."
• [Name] is the [noun]. It is him/her.
• Song lyrics.
• Reactions to weird music videos.
• The STERN FATHERLY DISAPPROVAL and STERN FATHERLY CONFUSION panels as reaction shots.
• Absurd funerals, e.g. "This is the most absurd funeral you've ever attended."
• References to juice boxes.
• "That was an absolutely absurd amount of cocaine/LSD".
• Group photos.

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