#hicu

The Unofficial Homestuck Collection was indeed taken down*, despite official Homestuck companies' and Homestuck creator Andrew Hussie's previous statements in support of the software, an independent desktop app that can allow the reading of Homestuck as it was originally intended before the death of Flash.

*Except not really, you can find it with enough asking around. EDIT: It is indeed still available (from the HICU, ironically enough) at https://homestuck.github.io/

The actual reason why was provided by the provocateur Gio, who after previously collaborating with Sarah Z and Lady Emily to inflate conflict with members of the What Pumpkin company, including Andrew Hussie, posted a couple of articles today that outline the circumstances leading up to him having ownership of the UHC, and subsequently the UHC being taken down by Homestuck.

I will not be linking the articles so as not to give them more attention that they have already recieved.

Gio explicitly misgenders Hussie twice in the below excerpts. I wouldn't count use of he/him pronouns on Hussie as misgendering, as they use any/all pronouns, but it is notable that Gio only uses he/him to refer to them. Along with calling them an "angry man" twice, and tying that into the thesis of his argument, makes his intent behind these lines read rather vindictive and transmisogynistic,

It's worth noting that Hussie's professional colleagues, with whom Gio has posted thousands of words worth of Discord correspondences, generally refer to them with they/them pronouns, so it's not like Gio has an excuse to not know Andrew is nonbinary. He's just misgendering her, except he's not just misgendering her, he's doing so and making that an important pillar of his argument.

Then there's this, which, yeah he changed it and 'apologized' but it seems like an almost textbook example of Schrödinger's Douchebag.

Gio's previous articles caused a massive harassment campaign against the Homestuck team(s) and caused many creatives, especially trans women, to quit from the harassment. Something he himself seems to relish in;

Also, he openly admits to these conflicts which he had with (largely trans women, wonder why) members of Homestuck teams past and present.

And yet, his primary argument is that Andrew has a singular vendetta against him and that's why the HICU is a scam.

I wonder why he has 'drama' with these three people specifically and can talk cordially with other Homestuck team members such as James Roach and Miles [no shade to those guys they're cool] (whether or not he's going to twist their words into a pretzel later).

It's almost like transparency is not Gio's motive.

[EDIT: Gio is editing the article to change the pronouns to they/them.