>>149826262

i've heard a lot of zoomers talk about how weird it is getting into it in recent years. it was weird getting into it at its peak tho too. I'd avoided it like the plague due to the reputation if the fanbase, but when the kickstarter happened i got curious to see what the whole thing was about and wound up reading it and donating. i didn't really know anyone else who was into it, so my interactions with people abt it were almost exclusivly online. i was never a big convention-going person, but went to a comic con in 2012 as Dave Strider at age 19 and had at least several people ask for my picture and hung out with a bunch of other people who were into it that day. Not long after i got into it the hiatuses started and kept happening, and it killed the momentum for a lot of people. seemed like many just never came back & finished after the gigapause or omegapause

tl;dr: it's always been weird, and you're definitely gonna have plenty of opportunity to be 'a part of it all' now or whatever now that the animation is coming