Now he has lost it. How in hell will that even look for the archival reader? Or somebody who has never surfed the homestuck tag on tumblr?
Yeah, this is probably the biggest problem. It's like Engage Hero Mode dialed up to eleven.
I bet that, some time after Homestuck finishes, someone will release a "commentry-included" version of Homestuck for new readers.
This is my biggest problem with these turn of events. I was rereading some other sections a while ago, and there's things like Pantskat and Hussie's death scene with Vriska's face that wouldn't make any fucking sense, or at least not be nearly the jokes that they were, to somebody who wasn't reading the comic day to day at the time, and wasn't keeping up with Hussie's and fan's shenanigans in the blogoverse. This entire Trickster nonsense and the Caucasian thing is, with no apologies, the icing on the cake, as a huge meta-referenced to a self-perpetuating fanart trend stemming back to Act 1.
If Act 5 was making fun of the Internet in general, Act 6 has become Homestuck making fun of itself, and a good chunk of this shit is going to be meaningless to anyone reading this in the future, not currently in full on "addiction" mode.
An "Annotated Homestuck" would make sense, and I think is exactly what Hussie himself is doing with the book version (which now knocking on the door of the comic's end, hasn't gotten any farther than Act 2). There's some comments in the Act 1 book about Vriska, how she doesn't exist until Act 5 but takes over the story and becomes retroactively important for everything. I can't wait to hear how the man himself explains this bullshit.